If I was going to rank my favorite holidays, Halloween would be at the top of the list (next to 4th of July). I love the creativity the holiday invites, from amazing DIY costumes to the spookiest of yard decor. I’m still working on getting decorating our home down, but holidays like Halloween allow me to put off figuring out exactly how to stage the perfect living room (or give me a reason to stage my living room for Halloween year-round).
I came across a kit for making a wreath out of tissue paper and I couldn’t convince myself that the cost of the kit ($12) was going to save me that much time. My version cost $3.
Since receiving a Silhouette for my birthday a few months back I’ve been working on custom project requests from a local handmade crafts Facebook group. It’s fun to help make the vision of others come to use and having a craft that can pay for itself is a nice perk.
Because Drew is really incredible, for my birthday this year he gave me a Silhouette Cameo, something I’d been wanting to add to my DIY go to kit for the last several years. Silhouettes allow you to create custom die-cuts on paper, fabric, vinyl and other materials.
I’ve been a huge fan of the personalization options a Silhouette offered, but until receiving this gift I didn’t fully understand what all the machine could do. My first reaction upon opening it was to look into what tools I needed to get started, but I didn’t find anything that really explained what I needed it to.
A felted garland is a fun and easy way to personalize your decor for an upcoming event. My sister asked if she could have her college graduation party [Go Rams] at our house so I wanted to pull together some green and gold decorations to celebrate.
Any 100% wool will felt, this is why you wouldn’t want to wash a wool sweater. When wool felts, the fibers open up and merge together to become a more dense solid object. Knitters will often felt bags or slippers on purpose.
