Trick out Home For Halloween

This year's theme

Skeletons!

A 30 minute craft. Spray paint a wreath, once dry, glue skull and snakes onto the wreath 

And hang,

(I got my  snakes and Skull door knocker from the Dollar Store.)

Give me a hand will you!

Hangman's noose!

Creepy Crawlies.

It's Just a bunch of 

HOCUS POCUS.

Must have yummy Halloween Treats.

Red Velvet Cupcakes, Pumpkin spice cupcakes, topped with cream cheese frosting

And Halloween toppings!

Simply 

WICKED

Red Velvet Cake, frosted with Cream Cheese Marshmallow, with marshmallow spiderweb wrapped around it, and a drizzling of Blood Red Gel Icing!

Again, quick wreath, Spray it black, wrap some tulle or anything old around it.

Glue on some dollar store bought Skeletons and ribbon.

The skull and crossbones I already had.

Witchy Profile!

Jack O Lanterns!

My chalk art!

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Halloween Chalk Art 2014

Finally, I Hocus Pocused myself into Halloween mode.

These are the chalk art I have done for this year.

I found all om my chalk art from good old, Google.

There are tons to choose from, so have a wicked time choosing one to do!!!

I simply outline the letters with a stick of  white chalk, 

Then, go over that using Chalkpaint markers.

Click HERE to see how I made the Jack O Lantern string garland.

An easy Witch chalkart profile and some sweet  Halloween  Tangerines.

Just take a permanent marker and draw some spooky faces on to the tangerines. 

Even the little kiddies can help to make a Halloween masterpiece on their orange :)

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Chalk Art

I have had this large picture frame for many years.

It was a deep shade of gold, it looked like this other frame I had (below)

All I did was buy a primer and paint combined in an off white.

Gave it a couple of coats and let it dry.

I also gave the glass inserts three coats of black chalkboard paint

 And let that dry in between each coat

Then, I have a friend who is doing a creative writing course along with me

We often bounce ideas off each other to help with our writing process

And one day the topic was Water.

Read his writing HERE

I loved the words he wrote, so I decided I knew exactly where I wanted to

Showcase these thought provoking words.

I quickly drew out a sketch of the words and how I wanted them to look.

Then, with my frame and newly painted chalkboard paint dried. 

I set to sketching out the words on the chalkpaint.

All done!

And I love how it looks.

There is something magical about water.

If you're having trouble figuring out what it says here you go:

Water is magical, especially old water

In overgrown lakes... 

They collect time, history, myths... 

Expectations & Dreams.

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Easter Chalk Art

Hip, Hop, Hippity Hop, 

Easter is on its way!

And I've been quite the busy bunny!

So here is the 1st of my Easter posts - more to follow :)

I have come to love, did I say LOVE my chalk boards. 

Even before the next holiday is over, I'm thinking what can I chalk, for the next holiday or if there's not one coming up soon - just a regular saying or two.

I ask Seren & Carys, "Where's the bunnies?"

And they run over and point to all the Chalk Bunnies and say, "Here he is."

Hand a Burlap & Rag Garland below, for a more

 'Bunnyful feature'

The girls love how the eggs are all 'pretty' & 'bright.'

 Or, how about hanging some Eggs from under

A cabinet.

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Picture Frame Makeover

An easy makeover for an old picture frame that I picked up from the thrift store, for 50c.

Using left over paint and a little bit of elbow grease, the whole thing cost $1.50

This is how it looked before

Cute kid!!

I pulled off the backing and you can see, it left some on there, so I took some warm water and a sponge,

And soaked the card, until I could scrap it off.

But it still had some sticky gunk left from the adhesive that was used. Use Goo Gone - it does a great job of getting gunk off stuff. Once all off, I gave it a wipe down with warm soapy water and left it too dry.

Left over Valspar tester paint called Columbus White. I gave the frame 3 light coats.

Pop in some cardstock chalk art, I did the night before. Add some cast iron handles and you have a usable tray. Although for now mine is on display, rather than being used. But you never know, maybe It will be used on Valentines day!!

Here is where it sits, looking all pretty sitting on top of another picture frame turned into a tray, which I made last year.  Click Here to see that post. 

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My Valentines Chalk Art

Here is my stab at  Chalk Art for Valentines 2014.

I hope to do a lot better next year :)

This one hangs in my bathroom, When I painted over the green color, I tried the Petroleum Jelly applied first before spray painting, then wiping it off once the paint is dry.....BUT..the more I look at it...I will most likely paint it again so it doesn't look like a red spotted Dalmatian dog :/

I used a mixture of both chalk and Chalk markers for these two - it's fun trying our the colored chalk markers, although the purple one..was a little devil. It wanted to leave big blobs or not work at all, talk about temperamental!! Well, sounds a little like me! LOL

I Love the simplicity of this Picture Tray frame. For this one I chose not to paint Chalkpaint on the glass, but instead I painted the back cover, this way I can wipe off little grubby finger marks as the glass is protecting the wording.

Although just by looking at it you'd think I'd used Chalkpaint, but NO.....I used black scrapbook cardstock cut down to size, then used a Chalkpaint marker to write the words. And what's more I can re-use every year and change it out for every holiday just by using cardstock - plus I won't have to wipe it off each time , just store in a folder till next year....so that makes it cheap and reusable :)

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