Boo Spider Wreath

From my latest Dollar Store, Wal Mart, and Good Will adventure, I had a whole lot of Halloween inspiration and ideas floating around for cute Halloween decoration. I am not very into the gory, creepy, or dark side of Halloween, but I do love the "cute" pumpkins and ghost side. I suppose, the more child friendly decor.

What items were used from the shopping binge to make this?

The blogosphere has been teeming with Halloween wreaths, and I took a few ideas from them all to come up with my own design. I started by cutting a cardboard wreath form from an old frozen pizza box. I free formed (didn't trace a plate or anything) because I wasnt too concerned with a perfect shape knowing it would be covered up. I then wrapped it with spider webbing I nabbed from the Dollar Store.

I had multi colors of tulle fabric from my scrubbers (post for them to come), and snatched the purple, orange, and lime green strips for this project. I ruffled up a tuft from each color, and glued it onto the wreath form.

I only had wooden letters for my "BOO", and wanted them to have a little more flair and just painting them black. So I used a sharpie to color the edges...

And traced each letter onto Halloween scrap paper, then cut out the letters and got glued to the wooden base.

I hot glued two googly eyes to the base of each O, then glued the letters into place on the wreath.

Now it was time to decorate!

Glitter spiders adorned the tulle fluffs, more googly eyes were attached to ribbon,  and shiny pumpkin "convetti" were included in the mix as well. My favorite thick spider ribbon was used as a hanger, and the wreath was done!

I found a doorway at the entrance of the hallway and easily seen from the front door for this season's "haunting" location.

                     

                     

Googly eyes adorn the festive ribbons.

                               

Mummy and Spiders Vases

I picked up three square glass candle holders from my shopping binge at the Dollar Store, having some sort of idea in mind to spruce them up for Halloween. But after working with the spider webbing in my Boo Wreath, I had a great idea for the candle holders.

What items were used for the Mummy and Spiders Vases?

I started with three "sheets" (if you will) of spider webbing. 

When you first pull this stuff out of the bag it isn't pulled apart yet so it doesnt look much like webbing until then. For the Mummy, I made sure not to handle it too much to ensure it didnt get pulled apart. This made the webbing look more like bandages used on a mummy. I just took the sheet and wrapped it around the square glass vase, then tied it in a knot in the back. 

View of the knot in the back...

The bandaged look from the front.

Then I simply slipped some of the larger googly eyes right into the webbing. No glue or adhesive needed. 

I stuck with the theme of no tape or glue with the next two vases. I figured it would make these little vases more versatile for other seasons to come. 

The next two vases I used the spider webbing for it's intended purpose: to look like spider webbing. So I pulled the fibers apart but just enough to give it the soft look but without reducing it's strength. Because I didnt want to have to glue to the glass, the webbing had to be strong enough to hold itself up. I wrapped it around the glass and simply secured it in the back with a single safety pin. 

Using green and black glitter spiders, I adorned the webbing with the spiders, who had enough "grip" to them that they stuck to the webbing on their own. 

Aren't they so cute lined up together with the pumpkins?

This project took...maybe ten minutes! Quick and easy!

A Boo-tiful Cake

I picked up this little cutie at my last Goodwill Hoard (among a few more adorable fall decorations, more on those later) :

This cute serving plate just begged to be rescued from the shelf!

And because I just had to christen it into the household, a cake was made in it's honor. And for a "spooky" theme, a chocolate cake was used (closest thing to black, I guess...?). I slapped one onto the plater:

Smoothed on some cream cheese frosting (on only half of the cake, and the Boyfriend didnt wanna have cream cheese frosting - too bad!):

So ... the frosting might be on a little more than half the cake...what of it?!

I think the finished picture is a festive and tasty one. I coulda, ya know, iced some spooky letters onto there or something, but with no party being held, I just dove into the cake. Before the cute little ghost did....

Who Else Is In The Mood For Halloween?

Well, not just Halloween, but fall in general?

Fall is my favorite time of year. Leaves changing, beautiful colors, brisk lovely weather. What more could you ask for?

So, I am getting pretty excited for the endless design and craft opportunities for this season/holiday. I have been surfing around and have found some real inspirations. I thought I might share a few.

This super cute and super easy small wreath, from The Country Chic Cottage:

Another incredibly sweet and cute Halloween sign, also fast and cheap from A Pumpkin and a Princess:

A great idea, plus you could use any variation of text, color, background, whatever!

I am super in love with a couple of projects over at Alderberry Hill...

The Halloween Treat Box - so many possibilities!

The Candy Corn Sign - another MUST DO: 

and the Halloween Paint Can - I have so many various sized paint cans lying around. I see many season decorations in the future!!

Lastly, how adorable is this Boo Wreath from Craftaholics Anonymous?

I know I said "finally", but I HAVE to add these Monster Jars from Crazy Domestic:

What are some projects that spark inspiration for you?