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Boo and Joy Banner tutorial

Remember our sneak peek for this month's Craft Night?

I only had the one side done, and it was mostly just to give our attendee's a picture.

Well this is how mine ended up turning out:

Eek! I love my new version! For some reason the witch legs just seemed like they were more "eek" than "boo." And it's only three letters... Anyway, it gives you another option, right?

Here's tags I made to dress it up a little. I used scraps of leftover paper and rhinestones to jazz up what I already had. Plus stamps, glitter, and embossing powder. But you guys are crafter, you know.

So here's a tutorial for this fun banner! First off, let me tell you that this craft gets a little intense if you're doing it for a group. I used cheap cedar fencing, 1"x6" x 6' and cut 18 triangles out of each board. That kind of wood is only around 4 or 5 dollars apiece. Pretty good for 6 banners, right?

Then I used a 3/8 drill bit to cut a hole in each corner, just eyeballing it. (By the way, using a drill bit like this will kind of make you feel ULTRA capable and superwoman-esque.)

This bit cuts cleanly through this cheap wood on one side,

but it will tear up the other side:

So here's my tip you only cut through until the tip barely cuts through like this:

Then you flip the board over, and drill through the other side:

Which will make another clean hole:

Then I painted the edges black:

And modge-podged Halloween paper onto one side:

And Christmas paper on the other side:

We then added the letters for "BOO" and "JOY" and rhinestones to embellish them.

I also used the black paint to kind of distress the edges of the paper. And here's a couple more tags:

So here's my spooky final version:

And here's the Christmas side hiding out through the witch legs.

I was inspired by Lil Luna's project here and these crazy cute witch legs by Design Dazzle here.

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Ding Dong the Witch is Dead! (or smooshed witched legs on my front porch for Halloween!)

My front porch is officially looking pretty spooky! Eek! Is that a ghost??!!

Okay, okay, I know I'm a dork and I had a little too much fun with the editing this morning! But I do want to show you the "Wicked Witch of the East" legs and sign I made for my Halloween porch decorations.

It all started with a bit of inspiration. First of all, the movie, duh. But mostly the ubiquity of cute witch leg crafts I started seeing last fall and have lasted through many a Wizard of Oz themed party blog post. Like this one:

credit: Diary of a Crafty Lady

And then I heard Krylon had this new amazing glitter spray and I had to try it! (It's that compulsive craft addiction! Do they have rehab for this???)

I had a pair of pointy patent leather black heels that were getting too hammered to keep wearing so they found a new use:

disclaimer: patent leather is NOT a good vehicle for this spray. It works, but it bubbles and slips and looks very amateurish. Good enough for one side to show on my porch, mostly in dusky light. I would choose spray adhesive and straight up glitter next time if I was using patent leather.

Then I stuffed striped tights (children's from after Halloween clearance last year) with polyfill and hot-glued the feet into the heels. And I used glue dots to shove the top of the tights into the wedge of patio/wall. We'll see how well that holds through the season...

There they are on the right side! I wanted you to see the full effect minus the special effects:

I made this sign to hang with it on picnik:

If you want to use it, you can. I just saved the image onto my computer, then inserted it into a word document and printed it on scrapbook paper so I wouldn't use up tons of ink:

I was putting the legs near my doorbell and thought I just could not pass up the pun!

Here they are again: I love them!!!

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Halloween Advent Calendar

Oh friends, can you believe it's taken us half of September for the HOLIDAY SNOBS to do a Halloween post? Well, I can tell you that Halloween has been pretty much been in the back of my mind for about a month! The only thing that gets me through the end of pool season is thinking about getting ready for it! It's time to start projects and shopping to be ready to decorate!

I saw a cute Christmas advent idea on pinterest that was originally from Katherine Marie Photography. (Her image is copyrighted so you really need to head over to her blog to see it!) But I thought Halloween really warranted this idea as well! I had a few books already but needed a few more to even have 12 for a countdown. I found more at a used bookstore, and I'm sure there's still some at thrift stores. So hopefully this post is in time for you to score some at a deal!

I wrapped each Halloween book in wrapping paper and a bow. I made tags for each present with numbers 1 thru 12.

Another cute idea to start prepping for now? Head here to see it!

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September Craft Night Sneak Peek

For all our local friends, here's a quick look at our project for September's Craft Night.

It's a wood pennant banner that says "BOO" on one side and "JOY" on the other. I made mine for another project and painted it orange before I decided to use it for this! So the one for craft night will probably white so that it goes with both Halloween and Christmas themed papers. We'll post a full tutorial later, and we've got some good tips! For one, this wood is SO light and SO cheap...

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