I absolutely loved how my Halloween 2x4s turned out, so I decided to make some for fall/Thanksgiving. I love having something on the door step to great people when they come! I also made some for Christmas too. This is how I made it: 1) I took a 2×4 and cut it into four pieces….
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Halloween and Fall Decorations
Here’s the what I made last year for Halloween and fall.
Whatever Wednesday: Ruffle Pumpkin Pillow
For the pillow case for Thanksgiving/fall, I have been wanting to make a pillow with a pumpkin for a long time. I love pumpkins! You can decorate with them for Halloween and then keep them until Thanksgiving! I went back and forth on how I was going to make it, then I finally settled on…
Tutorial Tuesday: Candy Corn Wreath
I saw this idea on How Does She? last year and have wanted to do it all year!! I finally did it and I’m so glad that I did! This is what you will need: -wreath -candy corn -glue gun -electrical tape -acrylic glaze This is how I made it: 1) I wrapped electrical tape…
Turkey Paver
I am now off of maternity leave. First off, I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that helped me out and did a tutorial for me. There were a ton of great ideas, you all are so talented. November has just flown by. The past couple weeks, my focus has been on…
Whatever Wednesday: Paver Pumpkin
When I saw this idea, I immediately knew that I wanted to do it!! So simple and easy but so cute!! I had one problem though, our hardware store in town didn’t have the pavers that I needed. Luckily, I found some at a garage sale, I was so excited!! I immediately painted one that…
Tutorial Tuesday: Dryer Duct Pumpkin
I was so excited when I saw this idea a couple weeks back. I was excited because it is super cute and we had just replaced out dryer duct, so I had some left over and didn’t have to go out a buy one!! So this past weekend I decided that it would be a…
Tutorial Tuesday: Fall Decoration
Fall has been here for a couple of weeks, but in Kansas we are finally getting the cooler weather! I’m so glad because being 8 months pregnant in 90+ weather is not fun!!! So here is another part of my fall decoration I have in on my piano. I switch the blocks and what is…
Whatever Wednesday: Paper Pumpkin
I saw this cute idea here and had to make one! Instead of using 6 inch strips, I used 24 1″x12″ strips to make mine. I punched a holed in each strip and connected them on with a brad on the top and the bottom. Then I added a paper stem and some raffia. Super…
Tutorial Tuesday: Autumn Blocks
Do you remember this post? Well I finally made my autumn/winter blocks!! This is how I made them: 1) I took a 2×6 and 2×4 and cut them into various sizes and then painted them white 2) I then cut out scrapbook paper to fit each block 3) I then cut out the letters to…
Tutorial Tuesday: Super Easy and Cute Pumpkin
This week is the beginning of fall! I’m so excited for fall. I love the weather (especially now that I don’t live in Wyoming and it doesn’t snow) and the changing of the leaves. It’s just a fun season. So I actually like to decorate for it. This is a super cute and easy pumpkin…