These DIY skeleton place card holders are perfect for Halloween entertaining, but they also look right at home in a spooky display! It starts in August, you know. That’s when one of our many local Dollar Tree stores brings in its first load of Halloween goodies fresh off the slow boat from China. August! Most Americans are busy swimming and…
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These free printable Halloween garlands are perfect to hang above your creepy displays, across your cobwebbed windows or over your haunted mirrors! So. As you know, Handan has a new antiqued panel mirror. Of course, when I say “new,” I mean that in the sense that the mirror is newly in her possession. We did not buy that mirror—perish the…
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Learn how to grow garlic and discover a world of flavor you didn’t know you were missing! Growing garlic is easy, fun, and your harvest can last all year! When I first started gardening in the summer of 2014, I felt a lot like Ferdinand Magellan must have felt in 1521 as he drove his ships into uncharted waters in…
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Hanging ghosts are a cheap & easy dollar store Halloween DIY that look awesome without breaking the bank. Add some lights, and they’re even better! So my wife has been acting like a ghost lately. Not the Dickens-style apparition with dragging chains and ominous warnings. Neither the Poltergeist type that floats and snarls and startles. Nor is she partially see-through, prone…
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These DIY Halloween Candles are made with our free printable designs, and we think they look so much better than their Pottery Barn inspiration! As you might imagine, Handan’s project list stretches To Infinity…and Beyond! While this virtually assures that Yours Truly will be kept busy until his dying day (and Beyond!), it also means that many projects get back-burnered…
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DIY witch legs are a super easy Halloween prop that will add some whimsical fun to your front porch for a fraction of their Grandin Road inspiration! This is Handan’s favorite time of year. No, let me clarify. This is Handan’s favorite third of the year – the days and weeks from September through December. From the first maple leaf…
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This DIY antiqued mirror was made with mirror panels we antiqued ourselves using the simple technique we recently showed. So Handan’s been yammering on about this Pottery Barn panel mirror for months. This one, right here: She showed it to me. I looked at it. It had a name: Eagan. Why does a mirror need a name? I yawned. Then…
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Tattoo Pumpkins are an easy and fun DIY, and they look amazing! You can use our free printable tattoo designs on dollar store pumpkins, ceramic pumpkins and even real ones! After we finished making our DIY Dollar Store Blue & White “Porcelain” Pumpkins, Handan’s brain kicked into overdrive, as she thought of all the possible tattoos she could make and…
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These DIY Pom Pom Ghosts are a simple and fun Halloween project for all ages! Hang them on a garland or let them stand on their own! I was doddering around my craft room the other day, just editing some photos and minding my own business when I heard the most peculiar thing. I worried that the acoustics of the…
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