We got a cool snap this weekend here in Houston, it's finally feeling more like fall. According to the Weather channel it won't be around much longer, so I decided to decorate a bit for Halloween. I'm not super big into All Hallows Eve, but it's a fun thing to do with the kids so I tried to spruce things up without spending any money, at all! This is what I came up with...
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| I managed to scrounge up some left over pumpkins from last year, feather boas from my "Little Diva" baby shower supply box, a wire hanger, purple tulle from making tutu's and plumbing insulation from last winter. |
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| I molded the wire hanger into a circle and wrapped my insulation around it to give more girth to it. Next I hot glued the boa around the "wreath form", I used 4 six-foot long pieces. |
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| That's when Brooke realized I had the camera out... |
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| and had to start posing... |
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| Boy am I in trouble. Back to the project, I painted the pumpkins with a black base coat and then metallic purple. I clustered them off to the right side. Made a tulle bow to top it off, and voila! |
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| I'm thinking I will probably scale back the bow a bit... it swallows the wreath. |
We might make little ghosts to hang from the trees out front, still not sure. I guess it depends on how much time and supplies I can pull together. I hope you enjoyed my completely free wreath! Yay, I actually got something up before the day of!
3 comments:
Those pumpkins turned out soooo cute! I love your purple metallic! AND FREE! That is the best kind of creativity!
Wonderful you take me back when I would make my weaths form hangers thanks! So much fun and you don't find that creative in stores just love it! Yes and Free woohoo.
That is so cool. I would have never thought to use a piece of plumbing as part of a wreath. But then again I'm not very creative. I steal every idea I can, and then it doesn't always work out.
Thanks for the idea. May have to look to see what I have around the house too.
Rita
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