Halloween Candleabra

Hi and happy Monday to you all. You will remember at the end of last week I promised to show you my Halloween wreath, unfortunately the weekend turned out busier than anticipated with Mexican supers, last minute back to school purchases and Ben Nevis of the ironing world. So my Halloween wreath is still not finished, however a wreath will not be the only decoration in the Hobbs house this October 31st. Halloween gets bigger and bigger every year in our house and I just love making decorations for it. Anyway whilst shopping at the weekend I saw some black Candelabra's in the 99p shop and thought they would be perfect decorated up, so a few skulls here and some black net there voila!

Now they look super spooky on the hearth, but you can't see the real effect, so here they are with a lighter background

Not bad for £1.20 each and they will look fab, although I will not actually light them due to the net and plastic being flammable.

Hope you like them, and just goes to show a glue gun is one of the best things you can have in your craft room! I love mine.

Thanks for stopping by

Hx

Wicked Wreaths

Ok my plan has come together and here is the finished article:

I have made it with the stair post in mind so that it can be seen as we open the front door. I have joined them all with some ribbon and added the spiders to tie them all together. The small metal skull was a pendant to a fancy dress necklace that broke and I held on to, to make use of it. The wreaths are quite time consuming to make, however the rings are cheap enough and I probably only used about 4 or 5 sheets of 12x12 paper, the glue gun on the other hand takes quite a battering lol! But worth it all in the end.

Before I go I would like to say Happy Birthday to Sandy, one of my Crazy Crafters, we did have wine and cake on Wednesday when we met up, but her actual birthday is today, so I hope she is having a nice one. We are not together again until my annual Stampin Up Party on 7th November, which seems ages away, but with it only being 9 days until my birthday I will be a demo again in just over a week, so I need to make a SU shopping List how exciting!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully see you again soon
Hx

AWicked Wreath & The Mummies

I really love wreaths and there is just an array of inspiration on pinterest. I decided I wanted to make a Halloween one, but wasn't sure in what style, I was in the £1 shop the other day and stumbled upon a gorgeous WICKED plaque, which I thought I could adapt into the centre piece, so last night I set about experimenting with paper, ribbon and bows, but in the end decided on curled paper (frightful night). Here is how is looks so far.

I say so far, this ring is actually complete, but I hope (fingers crossed) to make three attached to a long ribbon, watch this space for updates on whether that works.

I thought I might also update you with the mummy family as well, I have now filled them with goodies and think they look fab (I know I am a big kid, you should see my outfit lol), they look good and are more interesting then the normal sweetie bowl.

I hope you like my projects, thanks for stopping by

Hx

Googly Ghoul Goodies

Today I have had a lovely quiet day to myself crafting. I picked up my halloween stampin up goodies last week, but I have been too busy to even get them out of their packets. Gary had bought me the new stamp set as an early birthday present and my lovely friend Sarah had put the matching accessories pack in the bag with it, as an early birthday gift from her (thanks again Sarah). Halloween just gets bigger and bigger in our house each year, it all stems from growing so many pumpkins and having something to do with them all. We will have all the family coming over and we are becoming one of the big destinations for all the local children, so I need to make sure I have enough goodies prepared, ( I ran out the last 2 years), so here is what I have been making:

These are little toppers for some long marshmallows

You can just see they fit perfectly in my largest mummy head, which I previously posted.

These are the little bags that come in the accesories pack, they are so cute I think SU should stock them separately.

I love these jars, they are from ikea and come in packs of four. I use them to store carfting bits and pieces, but I always have spare to pop sweeties in as little gifts. Thanks to my lovely Mother-in-law who brings stocks over the water when she comes to stay (we don't have an ikea on the island), so thanks Jenny.

These will only be given to the children in my family as they are far to nice to give to trick or treaters.

And one of the little decorations I have made to go on my spooky tree, I have previously posted others here.

I love Halloween, (almost as much as Christmas and I really love Christmas).SU have surpased themselves this year as the halloween sets in the new Catalogues are sooooo gorgeous. I hope you like what I have made, if you would like to order the Googly Ghouls stamp set then hop over to Sarah, who will be happy to help and she also has a link of the complete new catalogue, which launched on the 1st.

Thanks for stopping by

Hayley