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Mason Jar Pumpkin Candle Holders

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Yah Halloween! One of my favorite times of the year! Halloween is such a big event in my life, that in my “younger” days, I used to stay up till like 3am in the morning working on my costume during the weeks before Halloween!

Now, x-amount of years later, with two little ones, I have to divvy up my time a little differently…

Being a new blogger, I recently realized that I don’t have any Halloween posts… a HUGE fail! So last week I managed to find a little time to do a little Halloween crafting.

My good friend Lindsey, made the cutest little wine glass Halloween candle holders a couple of weeks ago, and they were SO cute, that I decided to try and create my own version to blog about!17

Crafty has two meanings in my books… 1. Being super creative in an artsy way, and 2. Being super creative in a money-saving way! Therefore, I decided to head out to one of my favorite stores to gather my supplies – The Dollar Store!

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After checking out the wine glass section of the dollar store, I decided that these gorgeous mason jar wine glasses would make really cute pumpkins! I actually liked them so much, I almost chickened out of painting them… but then remembered that they came from the dollar store, and at that price, I can always buy some more!

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I already had some acrylic orange paint at home so I decided to use it, but if you don’t have any, the dollar store also sells this too!

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For some reason, I have this really weird obsession, where I have to mix my own paint colors for everything… even my dining room and office wall colors! Once I made the color that I was happy with, I started applying a base coat to all of my mason jar glasses.

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I actually ended up applying a total of four coats to my glasses… (Tip: use a soft bristle brush to apply additional coats of paint, and wait until each coat is fully dry before applying another when painting on glass.)

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After my mason jar pumpkin glasses were all dry, I pulled out my magical Sharpie! Ok, well not really magical, but pretty darn close! And guess what – you can also get Sharpies from the dollar store!

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I then started turning my pumpkins into Jack-O-Lanterns! I colored on eyes, noses and mouths! I made all of my pumpkin faces a little different, but you can totally make them all of the same if you want!

 

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See my new little helper, here?! Miss Soffia Rose, just ten days old! Such a sweetie, and what a great little helper!

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Although my candle holders were looking pretty cute at this point, I decided that I wanted to add just a little more detail…

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On the weekend my dad found some bittersweet for me out behind my aunt and uncle’s house… (Hi Aunt Maribeth! Did you wonder what I was doing lurking in the bushes behind your house?! LOL)

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Anyways, I have been dying to do something with this beautiful bittersweet, so I thought why not add it to my mason jar lids and shape it into little, cutesy pumpkin stems!

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I then added a pretty little, gold bow! (Ribbon is also available at the dollar store!)

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And well, here they are!

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The nice thing about these is that you can leave the lid off if you want to use real candles or tea-lights…

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Or, if you want to leave the pretty lid on, you can buy flameless candles from the dollar store!

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Ugly-Pillow Make-Over! – (in less than 15 Minutes!)

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This is my ugly pillow… Pretty ugly, eh?!

I’ve been dreaming of a burlap pillow with the silhouette of a deer head for quite awhile now, but wasn’t exactly sure of how to go about it… so, after a lot of contemplating (and a lot of procrastinating!), this is what I came up with:

The first thing that I did was measure and cut out the pillow on a piece of burlap. Since I don’t know how to sew, (did I mention my mother is a professional seamstress by trade? — A trait I definitely did not inherit!), I left about a 1 inch border of material to go all the way around the pillow so that I could hot-glue it later on.

Next, I found the perfect deer silhouette image online and printed it out. I then cut it out and traced it on to my burlap, and then colored it in with a black sharpie. (Remember to place a piece of paper or cardboard under the burlap so it doesn’t bleed through!)

Since I folded my burlap in half, I only needed to hot-glue 3 sides. During the hot-glue process I used a piece of card board to press the burlap edges together, so that the hot-glue didn’t burn my fingers!

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This Ugly-Pillow Make-Over literally, took me less than 15 minutes! And I must admit, I’m pretty pleased with the results and cannot wait to make more! 🙂

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Toilet Paper Snowman!

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OK… Today I decided to become a super-creative-genius! My husband doesn’t necessarily agree, ha — but come on…. this little guy is pretty-darn cute! Even better, he took like 5 seconds to make! (Ok, maybe like 5 minutes, but you get the point!)

All you need:

3 Toilet Paper Rolls

Black & Orange Markers

Mr. Potato’s Hat (Yes, that’s right… I stole my kids Mr. Potato hat — Genius!)

All I did was color on my snowman’s eyes, mouth, nose, buttons, arms and shoes… stuck a hat on top, and Viola! I hope that you enjoyed this super-simple, super-cute, super-fast, way to “Christmas-Up” the guest bathroom!