Inspiration: Moroccan Lanterns

This DIY project is from Design Sponge

I just loved how adorable these lanterns were and how easy they are to make. 

Click here to see how Katie did it!

Inspiration: Quote Wall Art & Flower Headband

I stumbled across these amazing D.I.Y from A Beautiful Mess blog. 

The adorable quote/song lyric wall art. 

Click here to see how she did it!

It is so creative and really simple. 

I definitely want to make one for my apartment or as a gift for a friend.

Also, I LOVE this headband!! Also, provided by A Beautiful Mess blog

I will be making this first as soon as I decide on how to make it unique for me :)

Check out how Elisa Flannigan did it!

Again, REALLY REALLY easy. 

I think I'm going to pick flowers that are turquoise, white, and pink. So keep checking up for my rendition.

Cute Picture Frame Birthday Card

Yeah yeah so you can go to the store and buy a card and slap your name on it .... ORRR you can do it yourself!

It really is the thought that counts and if you make a special birthday card that is personalized it will mean a lot more and won't get shoved in a drawer. 

This is one version of a personalized birthday card poster? 

Tools:

Scrapbook paper

Glue (preferably with a hot glue gun)

To personalize you can print off your computer or

Draw by hand - we did a mixture of both

I made this for our friend Lindsay and she is super cute so we had to pick super cute paper too. 

We folded the paper each into smaller and smaller pieces and glued them on top of each other. I think it looks like a picture frame. 

Time to personalize it!! 

Write a message to your friend - just like a birthday card :)

Fold it as well and glue it right on!

Since I was thinking it looked like a picture frame I added ....... a picture.

& Then we both signed it by hand. 

We wanted to keep it simple but cute. 

Halloween Cemetery

I just love Halloween :) The fall weather and all the spooky stuff puts me in a great mood, weird? haha.

I helped my mom transform a section of her yard into a cemetery. 

When is comes to decorating for the season it is always best to buy your decorations right after the holiday is over. 

My mom and I bought all the decorations last year practically 85% off. 

Things to consider buying:

Pumpkins of course, spider web material, foam tombstones, hanging ghosts, plastic bones, zombies.

Bails of hay are also pretty inexpensive and they are good for November too, or if you want to make a scarecrow. The list could go on.

  

One of the cheapest things you can buy are those styrofoam tombstones and they are awesome! They only thing is that it is so hard to use the small plastic pieces they give you to stick into the ground. 

  

So we decided to use some wire hangers (we have all some in the back of our closet!) & some wire cutters were needed too. 

    

Start adding your tombstones!

Place them all over!

Add your spider webs, a bail of hay, some pumpkins, bones, zombies, etc. 

Whatever floats your spooky boat!

& at night a fog machine and strobe light make it amazzzzing!