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Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:10:53 +0000

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By: Jerome

Jerome — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 08:00:36 +0000

My wife loves new necklace, it has the whole family on it

By: When Hinges Creak… 5 Halloween Wall Decoration Tutorials for $5 Friday

When Hinges Creak… 5 Halloween Wall Decoration Tutorials for $5 Friday — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:55:56 +0000

[…] Last week we posted about my Haunted Mansion inspired wall: And this week for $5 Friday we are going to share how we made 5 of the items from the wall for less than $5. So let’s get started. The very first thing I made for my wall was my two old crows picture: I had this weird old picture of two bath tubs…like I said weird… So I pulled the mat and pictures out of the frame: That’s when I discovered the tubs were glued to the mat. Oh well, that didn’t really bother me. I still went to town painting. I used Americana brand acrylic paint that I bought at JoAnn and used several coats of Ivory to paint over the tubs and Black to paint over the rose colored mat: After the paint dried I popped the empty pictures and mat back into the frame and then using hot glue glued some kooky dollar store crows into the white space. And I was done. Super easy and super cheap! I used supplies I already had on hand (the wacky frame and last years crows) and with just a few new supplies (paint and hot glue) I had a new Halloween decoration! ***** This next project is the brain child of Grace: A few weeks ago we went to the dollar store where she found the worlds UGLIEST, green, plastic, Dracula door knocker thingy…and she was convinced it was “just like at Jack’s house” (during the holiday’s The Haunted Mansion is decorated with A Nightmare Before Christmas theme and so she calls it “Jack’s house”). I wasn’t as sold on the thing but one day while she was at school I started messing around with it: The first thing I did was paint almost the entire beast black…I did leave a little of that crazy green peeking through in spots: Then I took some white paint (both the black and white paint I used was left over from the crow picture project) and did a dry brush technique over the top of the raised portions of Dracula’s face: When the paint had dried I brushed on a very light coat of Americana brand gloss: And finally I glued Dracula onto some upholstery fabric that I had purchased at JoAnn and had placed over the top of an existing picture in a black frame. (When I am done I can just remove the fabric with the plastic door knocker attached and have both my family picture back and save my little vampire to be used again next year.) As it turns out I really like this piece. And again it cost next to nothing to create. I used a frame I already had and the crazy Dracula from the dollar store. Then I just used the same supplies from the crow project (the paint and the hot glue). The only new supplies I purchased were the fabric (on the clearance aisle at JoAnn) and the gloss. ***** This is one of my favorite pieces on the entire wall and it was by far the easiest to make: I tacked this handmade awesomeness (purchased at an estate sale) to a piece of that upholstery fabric from JoAnn (used for the Dracula doorknocker) and then inserted it into a frame on top of another picture. This is another project that I can remove from the frame, get my picture back and save the project to use again next year. Love it. ***** This piece happened by accident. I had removed the photo and backing from this frame my husband made and loved how the wire on the back looked hanging there inside the frame. Luckily Elizabeth happened to have this cool set of keys…which she let me borrow and wah-lah! This project was done. But I don’t have any keys like that you say? Well you could always hang up a dried rose or something similar in it’s place…or I even think it’s pretty cool just left empty… ***** The fifth and final project that we are sharing today is by far my kids favorite part of the wall: In Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion there is wall paper that has eyes…it used to fascinate me as a little girl so I knew I wanted to make something for the wall that was a nod to that great wall paper. And that is how I ended up with the framed Damask fabric with googly eyes. Easiest project ever…take some damask fabric (again, from JoAnn), stick it in a frame and hot glue on some googly eyes in strategic places. Done. ***** I really am a Disneyland Haunted Mansion nut, always have been…so I love this wall. I wanted it to be a modern take on the feel of that iconicly spooky ride…but I also didn’t have a lot of money to spend….and I really didn’t spend a lot. I just purchased a few key supplies: paint, fabric, and glue and then used those helpful supplies to spruce up items that I already had around the house. Now that it is finished I am already thinking of how to add on to it again next year…I think I’ve created a monster…. -liZ PS—Yes, this was the world’s longest post…but there is still one more to come where I finish the rest of the how-to’s from the wall. PS—Linked here: Tatertots and Jello […]

By: $5 Friday: Spooky Dry Ice Experiments for Halloween Part 1

$5 Friday: Spooky Dry Ice Experiments for Halloween Part 1 — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:34:02 +0000

[…] Today’s project comes from an afternoon at Simon’s “Man Science Club”. It was one of the boys favorites and I liked it to…it was cool and required almost no preparation and the clean up was minimal. And although we did these experiments in the summer they would be perfect to do this time of year…especially at a Halloween party! Here’s what you’ll need: *dry ice (can be purchased at most Wal-Mart’s or local grocery stores) *a regular ice cube *2 plates *2 napkins or paper towels *A cylinder or water pitcher *liquid dish soap Here’s what we did: On this day we were talking about dry ice. So we set up an experiment to see the similarities and differences between dry ice and regular ice. We set out two plates. On each plate we put a napkin. Then on one plate we put a piece of dry ice and on the other a regular ice cube. Then we left them alone while we did some other setting up. When time had passed we checked the ice plates to see what was happening. On the dry ice plate we could see that the chunk had gotten smaller but the paper towel was dry. On the other plate we could see that the ice cube had gotten smaller but that the paper towel was wet. After observing this we talked about how ice cubes are made of frozen water and how dry ice is mainly composed of frozen carbon dioxide. We also discussed the temperature at which each kind of ice freezes and where the ice goes and the changes it goes through as it melts. (And as boring as that may sound…it wasn’t…all of those 8 year old boys were super into hypothesizing and talking about it.) After that it was time to play. First we took a glass cylinder (actually I used a flower vase but it looks like an oversized cylinder and worked perfectly for this project) filled it with luke warm water, and dropped in a chunk of dry ice. We watched it bubble and smoke. And talked about the carbon dioxide turning from a solid into a gas and then pushing its way up through the liquid and out into the air. And that was fun. But not as fun as what we did next. When all the dry ice has dissolved we again put some warmish water in our cylinder and added a chunk of dry ice but this time we also dropped into the water a few drops of Dawn dish soap. And here is what happened: The cool thing about adding the dish soap to the mix is that when the carbon dioxide is trying to escape from the water and it reaches the surface the carbon dioxide becomes trapped in the dish soap and forms an amazing amount of bubbles. Which would be cool by itself but these bubbles aren’t just ordinary bubbles…these bubbles are filled with smoke! Which means if you scoop up the bubbles and pop them they turn into a cloud of smoke! It’s a trick that never gets old. Trust me. And it doesn’t matter how old or how cool you are…you won’t be able to help yourself…you’ll have to get in on the fun. (Everyone at our house was playing with the smoke bubbles that afternoon…from my husband to baby Ruth…everyone got in on the action.) Now, I should at this point say that dry ice is not a toy and should, in fact, be handled with caution. My husband handled all the dry ice while wearing gloves and we talked about safety with dry ice before ever beginning with our dry ice experiments. We did several other experiments before Man Science club ended that day but you’ll have to wait until next week before I share those. Until then enjoy your Friday and your weekend! -liZPS—Linked Here: Tatertots and Jello […]

By: When hinges creak in doorless chambers….{Haunted Mansion Inspired Halloween Wall}

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:02:13 +0000

[…] “When hinges creak in doorless chambers, and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls. Whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still. That is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight!” ~The Haunted Mansion Ride I grew up going to Disneyland every summer with my parents, grandparents, siblings, and cousins. Some of my fondest childhood memories have Disneyland as their backdrop. Like sitting on the stone fence outside of the Haunted Mansion as a little girl and eating snacks with my grandpa who always offered to sit off the ride with me because I was too afraid to go inside. Or as a tween waiting until dark to ride the Haunted Mansion with my cousins…only to get off the ride and race around to get in line for another trip! Or (one of my favorite recent memories) a trip to Disneyland with my adult siblings where we stayed too late, laughed to loud, ran too much, and chose the Haunted Mansion as our last ride of the night. I love that ride…my family thinks it’s because I’m a closet Goth…but there is just something about it. When I was young I marveled at the magic…the atmosphere…the imagery. Now that I am an adult I still marvel at imagery but also at the ambiance that has been created by the attention to detail and design of artists and craftsman. So when Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store approached us about creating a spooky space for Halloween the first thing that of course came to mind was my favorite spooky space: However, as I brainstormed ideas I decided that I didn’t want to try to copy a room or attempt to duplicate any portion of The Haunted Mansion. Instead I wanted to create a Halloween space that was inspired by it. So I drew from the color palate, the style, and feeling of the Haunted Mansion to make a Halloween-scape in my house. And I knew just where I wanted to create it: It was a lot of fun to make. I gathered together items I already had in my home and then after taking inventory (and a quick trip to Jo-Ann) I started putting things together…adding something here…painting something there…antiquing this frame…gluing down that doily…until I had everything just the way I wanted it. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing tutorials on how we made, altered, or put together items for this wall. Most of my favorite things here only took a few minutes and required minimal supplies. Here is a “map’ of the wall. Everywhere that you see a * that is a project that we used supplies from Jo-Ann and that we will be sharing a tutorial for. The supplies that we used included: acrylic paint, gloss, spray paint, doilies, embroidery floss, upholstery fabric, duck cloth, googly eyes, muslin, and hot glue. I had so much fun making, putting together, or gathering each item… The only hard part was photographing it! Would you believe these pictures were taken at night? We didn’t intend on an evening photo shoot but our attempts to just change one little thing before we got started lead to one disaster after another… And by the time we got around to taking photographs we had broken 2 panes of glass, destroyed a pair of shoes, had become stranded on a ledge, and then there was that little episode of me exclaiming curse words while leaping down the stairs with my hands in the air desperately trying to catch an air born cake stand. (I’m telling you it’s Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory every time Elizabeth and I get together…but at least this time I wasn’t running Elizabeth over with my mini van.) But I digress…. As I was saying, I suppose it only seems fitting that the pictures were taken at night…because after all, that is the best time to experience The Haunted Mansion. Now before I sign off for the day I wanted to let you know about a new website that Jo-Ann just launched that is all about decorating for the holidays. It’s lots of fun and full of tutorials! So head over THERE and check it out! And after you check it out here’s a coupon to use just in case you are feeling inspired! -liZ PS: As the tutorials posted over the next few weeks we will add the links to those posts here: Here are the tutorials for 5 of the Halloween Wall Hangings that can be made for $5 or less! PS: This review is part of the Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores® Celebrate the Season campaign. I received compensation for this review; however, this is my personal, honest opinion based on my experience. PS: This post is linked here: SNAP and here Tatertots and Jello […]

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:05:58 +0000

I love the capture life necklace!

By: Juliana

Juliana — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 03:17:42 +0000

What a great giveaway this week! Love her handmade jewelry…especially the piece that says “I love you more.” My husband and I are always trying to “out do” each other when we say “I love you” and this is one of the things we say!

By: Michelle Janes

Michelle Janes — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:14:25 +0000

I think my favorite one is the necklace that says “Faith not Fear” and has a cross with it. Love LOVE it.

By: Fall box centerpiece

Fall box centerpiece — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:31:54 +0000

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By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:31:40 +0000

Mother’s Day Hand Stamped Jewelry Double Stacked And Hammered A lot Of Love Necklace in lowercase font is my favorite and I also love the I love you more necklace!