Center Piece

Today is my final craft, my center piece!!! This is actually the first thing I have to get me in the mood to start decorating again!!!!  Ok now if you are a longaberger basket  purist please leave my blog now...  If you are a longaberger basket lover and don't mind them being altered then stay with me, if you have no idea what longaberger is then you are safe!!!  LOL  I started collecting baskets years ago, like lots and lots of years ago!!!anyway for a long time they just sat on top of my cabinets collecting dust, and whatever else decided to go up there, then during the preparations for the move they went into a box because clutter, even after we moved here they didn't come out of their box because this rental house has nowhere for me to use them....  soooooooooo I decided to use them for a centerpiece....  that being said this centerpiece involves hot glue, now you know why you need to leave if you are a purist.   Yes I did it, I hot glued longaberger baskets together to make a flower centerpiece!!!  Here it is, i will have more pictures on the final showing soon!!

you can barely see the third basket in the middle because of all the flowers but it is there, 3 longaberger baskets hot glued together with dollar store flowers and pumpkins!!!  Hey at least they are being used!!!! 

Wreaths and flower arrangements for outside

Yep, the title says it all, I have made a new wreath with the same things I used to make the garland and then I got some of the foam pumpkins, the smallest was from Michael's with a coupon of course, and the other two were from Walmart and still cost less than the one I got with the coupon!!  Oh well, they all worked out...  and Believe it or not all of the flowers came from the dollar store!!!

Here is the wreath, I  added some grapevine pumpkins to it to give it a little interest!  I will have a final post to show you where I put everything and how it looks all decorated in a few days! 

this is the wreath when I first thought I was finished with it!

this is the finished wreath that hangs on my door now!  

Now on to the flower arrangement in pumpkins!  I have 3 different sizes of them, you will see all three when I have the final showing!

Day 15..... Glowing Flowers

Wow!  Can you believe it's the 15th already!!!  I am stoked cause that means Halloween is closer, but bummed because, well that means Halloween is closer!!!  Yeah, I know I confuse myself sometimes!!  Anyway, today I am arranging flowers! I don't know how many of you saw my Practical Magic post, but if you did then you know that I have my mantle decorated already.  Well there was one element I left off of that post until now.  Actually I took the vase that was on the mantle and added to it!  I just arranged some silk flowers into it, yep even some black roses!  The good thing is when I have to take down Halloween, I can just pull the roses out and I am all ready for Thanksgiving!!!  So I printed out some Bombshell Muertos Doll digital stamps then cut them out and added them to teeny tiny dowel rods, then just placed them in with the flowers. 

Oh and did I mention that they glow orange, well the vase does, at night?  Well they do!  I think the orange will go perfectly with my candles on the mantle!

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C-YA tomorrow!

Pumpkin Pot Centerpiece

Hello everyone and welcome back or to 31 Days of Halloween! I want to thank everyone for their lovely comments on my posts. It makes me happy that you like my projects. I hope you enjoyed our embossing challenge from yesterday and I can't wait to see what you create.

Today I decided I finially needed to start on my inside decorations so I painted this cute little pot to look like a jack-o-lantern and then added flowers. He will be going on the buffet table with candles and other little things around the bottom. I think he turned out very cute and after Halloween I can just turn him around and then he's just a painted pumpkin for fall!!!

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