Halloween Highlights

While googling for a haunted house craft for Halloween I came upon this incredible Monster Party from D.I.Y Louisville:

This lady made 40+ felt monsters (one for each kiddo) for this party!!!!

That's a lot of monsters....

Look at the cuteness that is that Monster Cake

and Slime Punch (lime-aide, sprite, and lime sherbert).

Check the link above for more of this party. She really went all out.


Other projects I like:

Loving this Wriggling Wreath from Martha Stewart

and these
Black Painted Cat Pumpkins from Sunset

and from CL (#8 on the slideshow) a webbed rug:

What have you been inspired by for Halloween recently????

A Marvelous Mess and Features!!!!

Welcome to my Marvelous Mess Party!!!!

Here are my faves:

Island Shrimp with Avocado from Frugal in Florida. Maybe I'm really hungry, but to me this looked delicious!!!!!

Spider Candle Holders from S.O.S. Mom.

And, the post I'm going to feature on my sidebar for a week is....

How To Paint Mercury Glass Pumpkins by Just a Little Creativity. Gorgeous!!!

Congrats to all of you!!!! If I featured you in this post, this button is yours:

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Mixed Media Halloween Decoration

I made a mixed media painting-ish type decoration for fall. What do you think???? I used a piece of plywood, twine, hay, wood glue, foam, brown felt, and paint.
I painted the back ground dark blue for the sky. Once it was dry, I smoothed out circles of wood glue and took some twine and "twined" it around the circles, giving it a vertical up-and-down feeling of the segments that show on a pumpkin. Once those were dry, I painted them various shades of orange. I added little brown felt stem to it. 

Once everything is dry, cover the ground area with wood glue and place some hay on the glue.

The moon was made out of foam, trimmed to shape and then "distressed" with something with a rounded top (for the craters) and something pointy for the smaller craters. Then I painted it with a messy hand, using gray, white, and beige in splotches.  Cool, huh???

I painted a little black witch on a broomstick in the sky. Unfortunately, I didn't get a close picture of her zipping around.

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