Halloween Jack O’Lantern Dinner Pockets
An easy to make dinner recipe that is as delicious as it is fun. Halloween Jack O’Lantern dinner pockets are always a big hit.
Holidays
Crafts, ideas, recipes and printables to help you celebrate holidays and festive events.
Halloween Luminaries
Originally published October 16, 2013. Updated July 11, 2019. Halloween luminaries can easily be made from upcycled plastic bottles and jars. This is a great kids’ craft. It costs only pennies to make and requires only beginner’s level crafting skills. The first thing you need to know about me is that I hate to…
Special Effects 31 – Fake Wound from Household Ingredients
A simple tutorial to make a special effects wound from simple household ingredients. Perfect for Halloween costumes and imaginative play.
Easy Crocheted Candy Corn Halloween Basket
Nothing says Halloween more than candy corn. I just love those happy bright colors. I was looking at my yarn stash and wondering what I could make when I noticed that I had white, yellow and orange yarn. Bingo! The candy corn crochet basket was born. With 3 children, I find myself sitting, waiting at…
Special Effects 31 – DIY Blood from Household Ingredients
A simple tutorial to make special effects blood from common household ingredients. Perfect for Halloween costumes and imaginative play
Upcycled Bottles for Halloween Decorations
You know how some people window shop for shoes or clothes or books? I’ve developed the habit of “window shopping” at the Graphics Fairy. I can and have spent hours drooling over the great graphics Karen has on her blog and the amazing projects she features with her graphics. Take a minute an hour to drop…
All-American Upcycled Can
I’m a huge fan of repurposing and upcycling. In other words, I hate to throw anything away and I’m a bit of a tree hugger. I love to look at food packaging that would otherwise be recycled and figure out a way to repurpose it. I shared this project a couple of weeks ago when I…
Meet the Dumpty Family Easter Eggs
My husband loves to dye Easter eggs and he’s quite creative in his designs. He’s passed his his skills down to our children. We all have a grand time dyeing eggs and admiring each other’s designs each Easter. Last year my youngest daughter created the entire Dumpty Family. Meet Mr. Humpty Dumpty, his wife,…
Sweater Sleeve Easter Cups
I must have an addiction to repurposing sweater sleeves. It could be worse, I guess, but it is making me wonder. Remember my repurposed Sweater Sleeve Mittens? How about Repurposed Sweater Sleeve Gift Bags? Or the more recent Sweater Sleeve Travel Shoe Bag? Well, now I have a new sweater sleeve project to add…
St. Patrick’s Day Treat Boxes
Do you remember the cute fabric baskets I made last week? I sat and admired them for about 2 days, before I realized that I could use two of them for St. Patrick’s Day. How lucky (little St. Patrick’s Day pun) that I’d used green fabrics! I’ve been planning on sending 2 college care packages out…