Spooky Skeleton Hands

I recently saw on a reel or a tiktok, a diy where spooky hands were coming out of a wall, and holding a candle.  I decided to try make something similar, but put my own spin on it. 

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I only needed a few items to make these spooky hands.  I used 2 skeleton hands from the Dollar Tree, 2 small white canvases also from the Dollar Tree, left over white fabric from my light up ghost diy, and some duct tape.  The mini pumpkins are from Walmart for 99 cents each. 

I cut a small slit in the canvas and placed the bottom of the skeleton hand through it. I secured it in place with a lot of hot glue, and duct tape. I taped both the front and the back to make sure the hand would stay in place. 

I hung the canvas on the wall with Velcro photo hangers also from the Dollar Tree.  

Once on the wall, I wrapped the canvas with the white fabric so it looked like the hand was coming out of a sleeve. Since I like fun and quirky diys more than scary ones, I added the small pumpkin so it looked like the hand was trick or treating. 

 I placed the second one next to the first one, and added another pumpkin.  I LOVE how this diy turned out. Not only was it easy to make, it was also very inexpensive.  

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Halloween Party Tiered Basket Display

 

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If you would like to make easy Halloween themed party  basket trays for your Halloween party, I am going to share how I made these trays two different ways, using only items from the Dollar Tree.

The first type of tiered basket I made with the one that took three plastic spider web baskets, and two sets of skeleton tongs.  I have to admit while I love the look with the skeleton arms, this way is not that easy to put together.  Place one of the arms through the two bottom basket tiers and attach with either hot glue or a zip tie. Repeat with the other three arms, trying to get them as straight as you can.  The top basket will be placed onto the fingers. 

We used the purple basket pictured above at a current market, and it worked great to hold my sugar cookies.  I learned the hard way though, not to leave them in the car on a really hot day.  I had brought them to our September market, and had to leave them in the car while I was at work, because the market was right after I got off work. It was over 90 degrees that day.  When I got to the market both baskets fell apart because it got so hot in my car that it melted all of the hot glue.  I had to remake them for the October market. 

Recently I heard the skeleton goblets made great tray dividers as well.  I decided to try it, and not only is it easier, but the tray is a bit sturdier.   I made a few of these to use for Halloween and for next year's markets.  

Both types of basket trays would be great for a Halloween party, it will just depend on the look you prefer.  

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It's Time to Dare to Share!

It is Friday night, and you know what that means...

It is time to Dare to Share! 

I did finish a couple of new DIYs that I will be sharing in the next couple of days. I did not have the chance to post them yet, because we participated in another market this week. Every evening after working at the daycare, we made sweet treats for the market.  This was the first market we had all year with great weather!  I entertained the kids at the market with my alien suit that I bought at Aldi a couple of weeks ago.  I got lots of smiles, waves and a few blown kisses from little ones.  

The cookies I made for this market were Jack Skellington, an alien, and a pink ghost. 

I displayed my cookies in my tiered tray made with Dollar Tree baskets and skeleton hands. 

We made these mummy pretzels that are not only cute, but easy to make. 

The cupcakes were chocolate with buttercream frosting.  I was able to taste one after the market, they tasted so good! 

We also had some light up ghosts and ghost portraits on hand.  My favorite is the ghost family portrait in the middle.  I have decided to keep it. I will have a better picture of it soon. I have not unpacked my market items yet, but when I do I will be adding it to my decor.  

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Lets's Dare to Share!

Now that it is October are you ready for Halloween? I have been slowly decorating, wearing my Halloween themed clothes, and attending fun fall activities.  

We recently decided to get passes to Kings Island that are good through next year.  We don't live real far from the park, and the passes include the Halloween Haunts and Christmas lights.  Tonight we decided to go to the Halloween Haunt.  :) We did not have enough time to see everything, so we will be going back again in the next few weeks. 

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Another fun thing I did this week was get the Alien onesie from Aldi.  It is super comfortable, and cute as well.  I surprised D the other day when he got home from work and saw me looking like this. LOL!  I plan on using for a few more things in the coming weeks. The best part is it is only $14.99.  

As promised I finally got my Halloween ghost dog DIY posted.  They have been sitting on our front porch the last week, and always make me smile when I get home.  This weekend I am having a project day, and will be finishing several more DIYs.  

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DIY a Halloween Ghost Dog

My assistant Brittany was very excited to help make her look-a-like ghost dog.  To make a ghost dog you will need a tomato cage, a rubber or Styrofoam ball, a cardboard tube, craft foam, and either a  white sheet or shower curtain.  I found a white plastic shower curtain at Dollar Tree for $1.25.  I decided to use that since the ghost dogs will be on our front porch.  

In this photo I show how a bit on what to do, and what not to do. I first placed a rubber ball on the very top of the tomato cage, but that made the dog taller than I wanted to be.  Also if you plan to light up your dog it's not the best idea to use a red ball. (I will show you why later in the post.  :) I decided that I had to adjust the size of the tomato cage.

I could not find my picture of what the tomato cage and ball should look like when I was making the dogs, so I took a picture under my finished dog today.   D helped me fold down the top part of the tomato cage.  When we are done with Halloween, the cage can be used again.  After doing this, the ball fit snuggly on the top of the tomato cage.  I used a combination of hot glue and duct tape to attach the cardboard tube to the ball to make the snout.  

I covered the tomato cage with the white shower curtain. I then made eyes and noses out of craft foam.  My golden's ears are made with tan craft foam, my black lab has black felt ears.  

I found some white trick or treat pumpkins at Walmart the other day, and thought they would look cute with the dogs.  I plan place tea lights in them so they light up at night. 

Remember when I said it is not the best idea to use a red ball.  When the dogs are lit up at night, my lab's brains glow red.  LOL!   Oh well, I think it looks kind of cute, like she is a zombie ghost dog. 

Watch for more easy and fun Halloween decor ideas to be posted soon.  

 

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It's Party Time! Let's Dare to Share!

It's Saturday morning, and you know what that means..

It is time to Dare to Share!

I am hoping everyone living in the south is safe from Hurricane Helene.  While I am not  in the direct path, we did feel some of the after effects where I live in Ohio.  Yesterday we have heavy rain, and lot of large wind gusts.  The drive home from work was kind of scary, and many people in my area are out of power.  While we were lucky not to lose power at our house, but the weather was still a distraction last night.  I realized in the middle of the night, that I forgot to post the Dare to Share Party.  Oops!  We are a little bit late to get started, but better late than never. 

I am in the process of adding a new post, but the storm affected that too.  I need add a couple of last minute touches, but I will be posting how I made my ghost dogs with Dollar Tree items very soon.  I also still need to add the skeleton hand tiered trays this week as well.  

Instead of waiting any longer, let's get this party started.  Link up and HAVE FUN!! 

 

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It's Time to Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means..

It is time to Dare to Share!  

This past Wednesday, my friend and I were part of a vendor market.  Unfortunately, it has been extremely hot for days and days.  It was originally supposed to be a high of 82 that day, but the forecast changed so it was closer to 90. Definitely a warm day for a market.  I made two of these skeleton tiered baskets to use to hold some our baked goods.  Since the market was really close to where I work, and started an hour after I got off work, the baskets and some of the ghosts I made were in my car while I was at work.   The ghosts were fine, but it got so hot in my car, it melted all the hot glue on my tiered baskets and they fell apart.   I was still able to use the baskets  individually, but it was a bit of a bummer the tiers fell apart.  I am going to make them again for our October market which should be a lot cooler.   

 Another craft I started, but was not able to finish yet are these stacking pumpkins from the Dollar Tree.  The three days before the market last week, we were making cookies and baked goods. Our next market is in three weeks, so I hope to get finished by then. 

I have already been wearing my Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein  T shirts I made using Dollar Tree wood pieces and bleach.  They are super easy to make, and fun to wear.  

I recently took a sugar decorating class and made these Halloween cookies. If you have ever tried to use royal icing, it takes a little bit of practice. They turned out pretty well for my first batch.  I really liked making them so I am going to continue to try lots of different cookies and techniques.  

Well now that you know what I have been up to this week, I would love to see what you have been up too.  Link Up and HAVE FUN! 

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Let's Dare to Share!

 

It is Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is time to Dare to Share! 

I did not have time to start Halloween crafting yet this week, but I will be crafting this weekend. Yea!  Tomorrow I am going to try to make a few new crafts, and Sunday I am working with my friend making things for an upcoming market.  I am including a photo of one of my favorite crafts I made last year, Halloween Pool Noodle Candles.  All you need is a pool noodle, some tea lights, and some black flowers from the Dollar Tree.  You can also use the same directions to make Christmas candles with different color pool noodles.  

Tonight D and I made a trip to Target after dinner.  They have some of the cutest Halloween items.  I will be adding many of the items we saw  in my LTK store this weekend.  I saw so many things I wanted to buy.  

Well it looks like it is time to get this party started, so link up and HAVE FUN! 

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It's Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is Time to Share! 

    I mentioned during last week's party that we were going to our high school reunion over the weekend.  We met last Saturday at a lake house.  While the group was smaller than we were expecting, a fun time was had by all.  Hopefully it wont be another five years before I see some of these friends again. It was a rough year for our class, we lost six classmates in the last year.  It made us realize how important it is to keep in touch with one another. 

Another big thing that happened this week was we got a new car. We really needed one. Between the two of us, we have almost 600,000 miles on our two cars. His Honda has a whopping 365,000 miles on it. Mine has 230,000, His car still runs pretty good, but does need some work.  We also wanted a safer, newer car if we have special cargo in it. :)  Speaking of special cargo, the new grandbaby is doing well. She had some firsts this week.  She went to her first pediatrician appointment, and then out to eat with mom and dad. It's still hard to believe she is finally here.  

I have been starting to get into the Halloween spirit with the opening of Beetle Juice this weekend.  We have not seen the movie yet, but I have been checking out all the great Halloween finds in the store and online.  I also shared a post of some of my easy pumpkin pail crafts this week on the blog, that I created for our front porch last year.  I am starting to add a lot of what I been finding in both my Amazon Storefront, and my LTK store.  I have several more things to add in the upcoming days, so please follow to see when they are posted.  I would be broke if I bought everything I have seen so far that I have on my wish list.

Now that you know what I have been up to this week, I would love to see what you have been doing.  Link up and HAVE FUN!  

 

 

 

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Easy Plastic Pumpkin Pail Crafts

 

Now that Spooky Season is here, plastic pumpkins are available for not only Trick or Treating, but also for crafting. 

 

I bought four plastic pumpkin pails, and used them in different ways to decorate our front porch. 

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The first pumpkin craft I made was the sitting pumpkin witch. I found the supplies I needed from the Dollar Tree. You will need two sets of witch legs, and a witch hat.  I found everything for $1.25 each.  

One set of the witch legs will be used for the pumpkin's legs. I filled them with a plastic bag to give them a little bit of dimension. 

Since they do not sell witch arms, I had to alter the second set of witch legs.  I cut out the shape of mitten out of the felt shoes, so it looked like the picture above. 

I also filled the arms with plastic bags to give them dimension as well. I attached both the arms and legs to the pumpkin with hot glue.  

 The last step was to remove the plastic handle and glue on the witch hat. I only glued it about 2/3 of the way around though, because you want some space to add a tea light or push light. Both types of lights are available the Dollar Tree. 

A very simple way to add some Halloween fun to your porch is by making a Halloween lantern.  Dollar Tree has planter chains near their floral section for $1.25.  I am not sure if they are available all year or if they are seasonal.

We hung this pumpkin on the front of our porch and added a Dollar Tree Strobe light that changes colors.

I don't have a good picture of pumpkin we placed around the light fixture on our porch. First we cut off the handle, then cut down the back of the pumpkin.  Depending on the size if the light fixture you will need to remove the bottom of the pumpkin and some of the back so that it fits around your light fixture. 

The last pumpkin craft that I made is to make a pumpkin head candlestick.  I found a black pillar candlestick  at the Dollar Tree and glue it to the bottom of the pumpkin.  I also added a gem spider from the Halloween party section. 

If you order from DollarTree.com, they are offering Free Shipping up to $50 through Sept 7th with the code FREESHIP.   If available you can also have items shipped free to your local store!

Happy Crafting! 

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