Creepy and Fascinatng Ideas

Edible EYEBALLS are always good for a Creepy Halloween thrill:

Or, go for table decor. 

 It's a kinder, gentler,but less filling -effect:

NEXT, For your more, ah, advanced DIY consideration...

...Here's a rather COMPLICATED D-I-Y from 1870,

 which came about as result of 

the plague 400 years earlier:

 Known at the time as  

"The Great Mortality", "The Black Death" and "The Great Pestilence",

 the 14th century Plague led to ... an overabundance of bones.

They had to be stored in All Saints' Chapel

 after the local monastery's graveyard began to overflow .   

40,000 skeletons;

 Frantisek Rint arranged the  bones...

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 The chandelier is made with at least one of every bone in the human body. 

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Some of the skulls are resting on the knees of trumpet-playing angels...

Doesn't that make you HUNGRY?!?

TRY THIS Crazy-Snake CHEESE CALZONE:

Okay, creepy crafting,  gross eating, now it's time for  Cranial Costuming:

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A very cool DIY Tirck or Treat costume!

~the how-to is here~

The rest is up to you.

Happy Halloween Time!

xo

Valerie

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Mason Jar Chic Decor

Country, relaxed, simple, versatile and economical . 

Trusty old mason jar review:

Too bad I found this after July 4th, but save it for another time: 

Pie in a Jar!

see Pie-in-a-Jar Recipe here

ETCETERA !

More great ideas show up all the time, of course. Arent' mason jars amazing.

Have a great day!
xo
Valerie


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Smart and Easy DIY Design Touches

This is a D-I-Y post. 

                                                                                                       

But not because I think crafts is fun.                                   

Sometimes there is a need for simple beauty...

                                                                                       Instructions for lightbulb vases here

For me, the arts and crafts world is beautiful, impressive, and often terrifying. I was never the kid whose projects got put up on a wall or won awards. W hen talking about my artistic "abilities" my mother was usually reduced to telling people that I was "imaginative", and simply needed to express myself in a different (read, messy) way. Many have tried to teach me. Alas, I will never own a sewing machine or knit for anyone...

However, these are projects that can be really wonderful interior design elements. AND, amazingly, they are easy enough for me. So I KNOW you can do these and similar projects to make your rooms cooler and lovelier.

Of course, only the Easiest D-I-Y s possible are in my collection. 

And they must actually fill a decor purpose in a room.

 I have to have a NEED. 

But these are fun, fast, hard to screw up, and 

-- Ta-Da! --

 they WILL look great in your rooms.

Sharpie on a lamp shade:

         Scrabble drink coasters:

 Use carpenter’s glue to adhere the tiles to a piece of cork. Once dry,  cut the cork pieces to size and coated the surface with two layers of Mod Podge, which helped to fill in the cracks between the letters. I used an acrylic spray to seal the coasters, and give them a bit of extra gloss.

twigs + coffee can + raffia = vase

Old chair becomes bathroom shelf:

This hearkens back to my post yesterday:

Hang a sheer fabric across the pillow area of the bed:

                                   

Are you allergic to sewing machines like me? I absolutely cannot paint a wall, although I was told that anyone can do that... I do not knit, crochet, make jewelry, scrapbook, etc. So you can imagine how special these DIY's are to me. I can actually do them. Well. And pretty quickly!


Thank goodness for all the crafting and art pinterest boards and blogs...They are wonderful  resources for clever and easy.


Have a great day!
xo
Valerie 













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