Trick or Treat Halloween Home Decor

Halloween IS my favorite holiday. I love all the witches, monsters and fairy's that come out in October. Everywhere you look you see awesome Halloween decorations. I think I have more Halloween decorations then I do Christmas ones. I was so excited to be apart of the 30 days of Halloween Series that Allison Miller from Cupcake Diaries is holding. Come back everyday to check out what awesome Halloween Treat you will get from a different Blogger everyday. There's bound to be something that tickles your fancy.

I decided to post about my fun "Trick or Treat" wood block decoration. I had a lot of fun painting and decorating these. Each piece of wood started off with a base coat of black, purple or orange paint. Then on the trick blocks I added a layer of black & purple scrapbook paper, then another layer over that using drywall tape painted black, the or is purple and then the treat was covered in cheese cloth and then dabbed with a black ink pad. then to finish them off I added little bling stones on each letter.

When using them in your home you could display them a couple different way.

•  My photo's show me using orange Easter grass placed around the base of the letters
• You could use a cupcake stand and place each word on a different tier and then drape: cheese cloth, Easter grass, streamers, etc. around the words and up and down the stand
• You could hang them on the wall with that white tacky stuff.
• You could glue them to the front of a door wreath.

there are lots of possibilities with wood projects. Think outside the box.

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

Carrie

Fun Glowing Halloween Eyes!!!

Well, I was suppose to come up with a fun Halloween "Kid" Craft, but it turned out to be just a Halloween Craft......But my Owlets Love it. Any Hoo......I came up with

Glowing Halloween Eyes.

 I was walking in the dollar store looking for fun items to use in my craft and came across these fun eyeballs. Once I let the idea fester in my brain a day I concluded what I wanted to do.

You Need:

1~ Halloween Eyeballs  OR Ping Pong Balls( paint them yourself or your kids)

2~ Battery Operated Candles......you can get those at the dollar store too

3~ Hot Glue.....optional, but I am using the candle just for this project

4~ Dremmel or drill to put hole in eyeball UNLESS you use a Ping Pong Ball and they are softer and you can bust a X into them with scissors. These Eyeballs were rock hard plastic.

 I let my husband have fun with the Dremmel and punch the holes in the Eyeballs. Placement is important. You need to put your hole at a slight angle so it does not cover up all the veins to the eye. 

There is a project I will post tomorrow that you need to place the hole directly in the back, but that is not THIS project.

Kyle had to extend the hole a little bit to get it big enough to fit over the flame part of the candle.

The first Eyeball has a hole at an angle and the second Eyeball is directly in the back. You want the Eye looking at you!!!! These particular battery operated candles flicker and give it a cool effect. Plus the on/off switch and battery access are on the bottom. Once you are satisfied with the position...use your hot glue gun and do a few dots of glue underneath eyeball hole and let set.

Have fun with where you put your Glowing Eyeballs. On a shelf, in the corner of the dark room, peaking out of the closet door, Under your bed or on the window sill. What will YOU do with them?

Cami is taking a set to show n tell tomorrow since the letter is E.....Eyeball!!!

Hoot Hoot!!!!

Stay tuned for my next post using these fun Glowing Eyeballs in the kids Homemade Trick Or Treat bags!!!!