Halloween decorations around our house

My families favorite holiday is HALLOWEEN!!!!  I look forward to it every year. I'm very good at containing my excitement and decorate on October 1st. No sooner, no later.

Enjoy my photos of our decorations. A lot of it is DIY or custom items my amazing friend Foxy-B made for me. The two ceramic witches were painted by my mom. I have to have these out every year. <3

Questions on how I did something send me a message. I'll gladly give you some instructions. 

(I'm still loving my DIY chalk fridge.)

 

Halloween Books

I wanted to have a witches area in my entry way this year and while I was searching for decorations I saw ceramic books that said "Spells. Hexes or Curses" but they looked horrible and they were about $15, $20 dollars.

So course I made my own. For book sales look at your local library or church thrift store. I got all of these for 25 cents each.

Things you'll need:
-Books in various sizes
-Glue
-Paint (gold metallic looks awesome)
-Paint stain
-Sponge brush
-Brushes
-Hot glue

This is an easy and fun project to do. Start by hot gluing the front and back covers together. Then using a paint brush glue your pages together.

If you have a stain mix it in with the glue and paint on the pages. You can see in picture #6 the effect the glue does on the pages. Pretty cool, right?

If you can't find the right color of books all you need to do is paint them the color you want. This will usually take 2-3 coats.

I decided to burn of the pages for a cool effect. You can do this before or after gluing the book, but the glue doesn't burn as well.  If you do it after when you're gluing the pages it can make a mess because the pages flake.  I did it it both ways, because I liked both effects.

The fun part for me and the hubs was coming up with book titles. I think we came up with some good one.

Enjoy and have fun with this project.

You'll see the final project and how I set-up up my display in another post.

Halloween Photos

I bought these changing Halloween pictures from the Dollar Store and got clearance frames from Michael's. You could also get the frames from the Dollar Store but I wanted some character in mine. Both frames totaled 5 bucks. SCORE!

You can easily peel the pictures from the frames that they came with. Place into the new frames and TADA, creepy new pictures with nice looking frames.

This is where you can get creative and make these your own. You could always spray paint the frames, but I was happy with the colors they were and it gave the images an antique look and feel. I added blood to the glass on one of my images, but you could sand up the frames to make them look older add some cobwebs. Just let your imagination run wild.

Upcycle - Book art

I picked up some books from our local library sale for 25 cents each.  HOLLA!!!

I folded the pages in different ways to give a 3D look and feel.

Depending on the art project you'll need a few books, thin birch plywood, hanging hooks and a hot glue gun.

It's a pretty basic project. You'll want to part the book in the middle and cut the birch wood a little less than the book width and hot glue in the middle of the binder.

Attach the hook in the middle. You will need to use a power tool for this, so go slow.

Hot glue the front page and back page down to the actual book cover. (picture 4)

Fold anyway you would like but make sure to count and divide your pages if you are doing different sections.