Do You Ever Make Your Own...  |
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 .....Halloween decorations? Tonight I finally decided to get off my butt and not be glued to the computer all day and night and start decorating my apartment for Halloween. I still need to decorate the outside of the door and plan to do that either tomorrow or the next day. So after I came home from both doing a bit of grocery shopping and stopping by to visit a friend I got cracking at decorating.
Now naturally I have quite a lot of store bought decorations that I've collected over the years, but then I've done some rather cute homemade decorations. One of the simplest I do is to make "ghosties" out of either tissues, paper towels (Bounty works best), and even medium and/or kitchen sized garbage bags. What I do say for the tissues, is take one tissue, then another and cut it in half and crumple it and stuff the center of the other tissue with the crumpled up one..then gather at the top and tie it with either black or orange yarn..then use a marker to make the eyes, nose and mouth.
Well I tonight I wanted to hang one of my larger ghosties on my wall, but thought, nuts white and white just would look kind of weird, so wanted a black ghostie for a change, but didn't have any black garbage bags...then I remembered I had some small sized black grocery bags (the kind one often gets at a dollar store when buying there)--so grabbed two of the bags and started stuffing the top for the head part....but then something new struck me. The way the bag was shaped it lend itself for "ears", yes "ears" at least that's how it looked to me...not only that but the way the head part came out, it looked like a cat's head...so decided, hey I just designed a new thing...a cat ghost! I grabbed my orange acrylic paint, painted cat-shaped eyes a nose, and a grin...tied it up at the "neck" part with orange yarn and presto..like I said a cat ghostie. I plan to make more when I decorate the door.
So have you not only made your own Halloween decorations (or any holiday themed decorations) but made them out of really insanely easy materials that you had on hand??
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1.  tamarafireheart (12556) | 3 months ago |  Hi pye,
What a clever person you are, I could never make anything and not only that, I live with hubby and he don't like any decos round the house, the such a misery, but I do have small couldrons and pumpkins hanging, alos my big witch doll I have standing near the door, I also have another witch that cackles and her eyes lightsup and then she takes a leap, so I think its good enough, well so the hubby says.
Bright Blessings.
Tamara
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 hornswaggled (1954) | 3 months ago |  That's a terrific idea!
I love all that is Halloween. I don't prescribe to the idea that it's a part of evil.
I am Catholic as you are aware of so it gives me great pleasure in being able to enjoy it without looks from anyone in my parish.....
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| hornswaggled (1954) | 2 months ago | Thanks for the best response in this discussion Pye....and thanks for the great Halloween ideas too! | |
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| pyewacket (11625) | 2 months ago | Is your daughter planning to trick o'trick this year too? Which did she like better last time, getting the candy or money...LOL | |
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5.  codris (412) | 3 months ago |  sure, when i was young, about 13-14 years old i maked a big halloween pumpkin, and skeletons to hang in my room and other halloween things. But here in italy we don't have halloween, so it's difficult to find decorations or other halloween otside. But in the last years there are more halloween festivals here, there is one party in a big restourant this years, i'll go there dressed as a mad mad doctor, my girlfriend will dress herself as a nurse*ç* .
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| pyewacket (11625) | 2 months ago | Sounds like you'll have fun at the party at that restaurant..LOL | |
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| 6. BarBaraPrz (3415) | 3 months ago |  I don't really decorate for occasions, but I do hang up a cross-stitch banner on my door window. I have a nice one of a witch sitting atop a huge jacko'lantern, hoping all your hallowe'en wishes come true.
I should put it up.
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| pyewacket (11625) | 2 months ago | Well I finished decorating my apt with Halloween things, now just have to move my butt and decorate the door...maybe tomorrow?? | |
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| 7. jillhill (11710) | 3 months ago |  The kids and I used to do alot of decorations for Halloween.....since they are no longer here I sometimes have a hard time digging out my decorations.....My granddaughter is coming today to bake cut out cookies.....but that might be it. I do have to tell you though when my son was little and needed a costume for Halloween I used a big garbage bag...used duck tape on the inside to gather it up and made him into a California raisin.....he won first prize!
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| pyewacket (11625) | 2 months ago | Wow that was really inventive of you for your son's costume...and won first prize to boot...have any pics?? | |
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| pyewacket (11625) | 2 months ago | Is there some kind of equivalent celebration there?? | |
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| thea09 (4543) | 2 months ago |  Nothing at all like Halloween, that's an American thing. We celebrate national holidays relating back to events in history. Oh, we do have Clean Monday in the spring which is 'kite flying day', one can see thousands of kites flying everywhere and villages do big communal feasts. Ours is done a few kilometres up in the hills.
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| 9. Lakota12 (17111) | 3 months ago |  No never ever thought about it.
I do have to put teh scarecrows back together ever year as the straw falls out
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| pyewacket (11625) | 2 months ago | I have to keep making new ghosties every year since they get a bit ripped when I take them down...least it's a cheapie decoration..LOL | |
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| 10. irishmist (2388) | 3 months ago |  I usually make Halloween decorations with my grandkids. We collect as many possible things in the house that can be used for the decorations, then I just let them go to town with thier imaginations and let them create whatever comes to mind! They really have a ball doing this, as it does not always have to be a structured craft that they are making.
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| pyewacket (11625) | 2 months ago | I bet they do have fun making decorations and maybe proud of themselves for making them? | |
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