#20 Jack O'Lantern Table Cloth

Hurray for scraps! I had a lot of orange fabric left over from my halloween banner, and got inspired to find a way to cover up our fugly ikea table for the living room.

Here are the results of a whim sewing adventure:

And a close-up!


Yup, I made a jack o'lantern tablecloth. :) Or it could hand on the wall. It's versatile. +1!

#19 Spooky Candy Jar Display

More Halloween crafts! I really want to have a party this year, and the craft bug is helping me get inspired to have a spooky-ish home, haha. The skull now resides with some pumpkin lanterns on the tv stand! Anywho, this craft is for candy storage!

I finally made use of some old jars that I was saving for just such an occassion...actually, I have a compulsion to keep jars and Will ~hates~ it, haha. I made 3 labels/jars to hold spooky candies in.


Jar 1: Filled with candycorn and labelled as "Tears of Rainbow Brite".
Jar 2: Filled with black/orange gummy worms labelled as "Nightcrawlers".
Jar 3: Filled with chocolate eyeballs labelled as "Pickled eyeballs".

They're going to live on the kitchen table. I want to make that the main attraction of our place if we do have people over for Halloween. Also coming up, a Hitchcock wall display! It's not quite done yet.

#18 Skull Candle Holder

Still on Halloween crafts! I was inspired by a recent craftzine post where they showed how to make flour dough and bake your own clay, so I decided to make a candle holder. I'm really going all out this year with the decorations. :D


Tadaaa!
Pardon the crappy photo, it's my work space!

I've also made an Alfred Hitchcock silhouette for the kitchen wall (thanks Meg from Decor-it-yourself for the great idea!), which I'll post when I get a decent picture of it.

#17 Halloween Banner

Happy Rocktober everyone! This is pretty much my favourite month of the year. It's got "eat a lot of food" day for us Canadians (aka Thanksgiving), Will's birthday, and the almight Halloween! It's my absolute favourite holiday! You get to dress up, eat a lot of candy AND watch scary movies shamelessly/force friends to watch it with you in the spirit of halloween! Aaaaah it's the best. :D

Anywho, so I had the day off yesterday and went to fabricland. I found some wicked cheap Halloween fabric. The downside was that it was glittery, so I still have glitter all over me from handling the stuff. To kick off my halloween crafting, I made a banner to hang up on the wall! I'm pretty happy with it, so here are the pictures:

The triangles! It's the sheer glittery fabric on top of orange broadcloth, with bias tape as the "rope". I was inspired by Meg's mother's day banner in the Decor It Yourself segment of threadbanger. :D

In action! It's really hard to get decent action shots of it when it's above a huge ass window. So during the day it's way to bright to get a decent picture, and at night it also sucks, lol.

Yay! I hope to make many more halloween crafts...to Will's dismay probably, haha.