Happy Halloween ~ DIY Fall Festival linky party and Halloween Highlights

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Roeshel

Happy Halloween, DIY friends! It’s a day when I miss when my girls were little and I was sewing Halloween costumes and getting the two of them set to head out to trick-or-treating. Now they’re grown up and we live in a location with ZERO trick-or-treat’ers coming to the door…so just another Wed. evening around here {and actually it’s been postponed until Saturday due to rain and heavy winds} but it doesn’t stop me from taking time out to appreciate your Halloween craftiness!

I LOVE the entire Halloween mantel over at Days of Chalk and Chocolate but especially her Halloween glam wreath:

Lynda from Focal Point Styling always does an amazing job at well, “styling’ and seasonal is no exception. Her harvest entry is so warm and welcoming…

and the spooky Halloween entryway inside is enough to chase me right back out…

She has some more awesome Halloween decorating ideas you’ll want to check out too and I LOVE her steampunk Halloween collection.

Courtney from A Diamond in the Stuff has a GREAT idea for all of that left over Halloween candy (or in my case since we don’t get trick-or-treaters…clearanced Halloween candy!)…Halloween Candy Bark. YUM!

Got something AUTUMN/FALL/HALLOWEEN related to share? Time to show off!

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Next week will be the last DIY Fall Festival of the season. Thanks so much for linking up and sharing your autumn DIY projects. The week before Thanksgiving, the DIY Holiday Highlights party starts…I can’t believe the countdown to Christmas is on!

Reminder: Today’s the last day for the Silhouette America Halloween deals! Use promotional code “SHOWOFF” to take advantage of the specials!

Halloween Crafts from Lilacs & Longhorns

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Roeshel

Hi everyone, my name is Julie and I write a little ol’ blog called, ”

I am so excited to be guest posting here for Roeshel at the DIY Showoff!

Thanks to my kiddos, I’ve got Halloween on the brain, so today I’m going to show you how to decorate for Halloween the DIY and thrifty way.

Here are my super simple projects:

Quick Craft #1 – Spooky Skulls

We love crafting at our house so I like to get my kids involved whenever I can. We made the cute little paper mache skulls you see on the cake plate above. They were so easy and inexpensive!

I bought little brown paper mache skulls from Michaels for about 99 cents each.

Then we used white, grey and black craft paint here and there all over the skull – we painted rather sloppily to create an old and aged look. I don’t have pictures of the actual technique, but trust me, there isn’t much of one — my kids did this!!

If we were to do it over again I would probably add a little brown or yellow to make it look even more aged and not so white, but they still look good, I think.

When we were done, they looked like this. This only took us less than 20 minutes and it was easy and fun for my kids.

When they dried, I put them on this glass cake stand surrounded by spooky rats, crows, plastic spiders and spider webs all purchased at the Dollar Tree.

My kids love it!

Quick Craft #2 – Poison Bottle

This craft is even easier and it only takes a few minutes.

I found this cute little for free (I am in love with free printables!)

I feel almost silly telling you how to do this it’s so easy! I printed the label from The Graphics Fairy, cut it out and used Mod Podge to glue it to an old wine bottle I saved. The end.

I think it looks so great and fun!

Quick Craft #3:

Finally, my other easy peasy project is another printable. If you’ve been browsing blogs for awhile, you’ll know there are a lot of great freebies out there. I found this one last year at The Diary of Dave’s Wife.

I printed the sign out in high resolution and then put it into a frame I already had. Easy and free!

(Probably can’t call this last one a “craft”…”project” maybe?!)

By the way, she’s got another cute printable available this year…isn’t it fun?!

Really, there are so many great resources on the web that you can find just about anything that suits
your tastes. I personally love free printables and am currently compiling a big list of them to be
posted on my blog soon.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my quick and fun little Halloween projects today. It’s been fun being a guest DIY Show Off and I’m grateful you’ve taken the time to read my post!

Please stop by and see me sometime at Lilacs
and Longhorns — I love new visitors!

Thanks so much to Julie for sharing her fun Halloween DIY! Super cute! Head over to Lilacs & Longhorns to see more awesome projects from Julie and check out her Fall Favorites Friday feature (so inspiring!).

DIY Fall Festival and Halloween Highlights

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Roeshel

The past week sure has flown by! Sorry for the late start today to the DIY Fall Festival (2 posts today!), but have you seen the awesome HUGE giveaways this week? WOW! You’re not going to want to miss them! {see side bar for links}. NOW, it’s time to share more fall DIY! Since it’s creeping up on Halloween, I chose to share a few awesome Halloween DIY from some pretty talented blog friends who shared by linking up last week {decorating with natural elements for Fall}.

I love {chills} this spooky skull Halloween mantel over at Anthingology. Frightening fabulousness – my favorite part is the skulls and skeletons in costume jewelry. It’d lure me in…then the skeletons and ravens would get me! YIPES!

You’re in for a {trick-or} treat over at Dixie Delights with one super awesome Halloween home tour…mice & ravens! ::scream!:: (She also shares a sweet “Nevermore” printable.)

I jump a mile high every time someone catches me off guard with a “BOO!”. Am I the only one? I prefer the subtle fun of Courtney’s BOO pumpkins at A Diamond in the Stuff…

I have a confession. I have not read the Harry Potter series or watched the movies. I know, where have I been? Another confession: I’ve been collecting the books from thrift shops and plan to start reading while on vacation next week! Gina from The Shabby Creek Cottage decorated an amazing Harry Potter Halloween mantel…just for her daughters and their love of Harry Potter…

Halloween isn’t my favorite time of year…seriously, I’m a huge chicken. You won’t find me touring a haunted house. Being chased through corn mazes in the dark freaks me out. I CRY when I’m scared. And of course those ghouls and zombies LOVE to target the scaredy cats. I much prefer watching Halloween from a distance.

Got something AUTUMN related to share? Time to show off!

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Please link back to this party in some way.
By linking up you give permission to be a favorite fall DIY feature {with a link back your site}.
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All Hallow’s Eve Nevermore Craft

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Roeshel

Once upon a mid-day dreary, a Halloween “Nevermore” tree served as a lonely focal point in a spooky Victorian vignette but nevermore thanks to the rare and radiant craft maiden, Martha Stewart Crafts!

Now, there’s an eerie glow with the addition of candlelight.

It felt more like Christmas than Halloween when a stash of Martha Stewart Crafts supplies arrived at my door…

This is my kind of trick or treat goodies!

I chose to accessorize glass candle holders with an Edgar Allan Poe/Victorian Halloween vibe with black lace accents {love Halloween that’s not so “Halloween-y” and can be re-used all year round}…

Materials:

glass candle holders, jars, vases (with a smooth surface)
squeegee
Martha Stewart adhesive silkscreens (lace doilies)
Martha Stewart metallic glass paint (black nickel)
Martha Stewart adhesive stencils (small holiday collection)

Tutorial:
1. Prep: Cut apart adhesive silkscreens. Peel away the backing of your adhesive silkscreen. Clean glass with rubbing alcohol.2. Place adhesive silkscreen onto glass and smooth into place with a squeegee. They are re-position-able so if it looks crooked, just peel it away and replace. You may also want to tape the side to further secure into place but I didn’t find it necessary until after several washings.
>3. Apply a small amount of glass paint to the outer edge. Using the squeegee, pull the paint vertically, then horizontally, filling in the pattern. Up and down, left to right, down and up and right to left…the silkscreen dance.
4. Carefully peel away the adhesive silkscreen.
5. Immediately wash the adhesive silkscreen with water (I just ran mine under the faucet and used my fingers to help clean away the wet paint). Set aside to dry (and replace on original backing to store).< 6. Let glass dry. Glass paint air cures in 21 days or you can speed up the curing process in the oven (follow instructions).

I love the metallic shimmer of the Black Nickel glass paint...

So pretty and the perfect accent to complete a Victorian Halloween vignette, don’t you think?
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I also used the adhesive stencils (the crow) for a smaller glass votive holder…
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And now the Raven tree is accessorized all the more.
The adhesive silkscreens and adhesive stencils are so fun … you’ll want to go crazy with them! I can’t wait to try it on fabric. Bri tested the adhesive stencils on painted/distressed wood scraps. So cute!

See more Martha Stewart Halloween craft ideas…

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I received product and payment for my participation via The Blueprint Social for this post, however experience and opinions are 100% my own.

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October’fest of Fun – craft highlights

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Roeshel

Yesterday’s theme was “fall/Halloween” crafts (party is open for a week!). Did you link up? Here are some fun crafts from my fellow October’fest of Fun hostesses:

Kristin from My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia shared her bath salt pumpkins…

and bling pumpkin…

Debbie from DebbieDoo’s shared her adorable DIY fall sign…

Shannon from Fox Hollow Cottage has a great tutorial for painted distressed glass vases…

The fun continues today!

Shannon from Fox Hollow Cottage is hosting the “fall/Halloween” mantel event. I love her spooky Gothic haunted Halloween mantel. Need some mantel decorating ideas? Check out the festive links!

October’fest of Fun! {Theme: Fall Crafts}

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Roeshel

Welcome, DIY friends! In lieu of the regularly scheduled DIY Fall Festival this week, I’m super excited to be kicking off and hosting the October’fest of Fun with some of my blog friends! Today’s theme is “crafts”. All fall crafts, including spooky!

I decorate one area for Halloween every year, one small fun Halloween vignette. This year, I’m bringing back my “nevermore” tree that I made a few years ago. I swapped out the container, added a few more crows. Here are some tips on how I made mine for making your own:

Materials:

Vase, container, urn. I used glass this time but any container for holding small branches works. A few years ago, I used an old thrift store vase and spray painted it black…

Small branch (desired size that fits your container). Choose one that has several branch-offs to look more like a tree.
Black spray paint
Styrofoam cone
Handful of dry moss. Other options: shredded newspaper, crinkled paper
Dollar Store accessories: faux crows, plastic spiders, cotton spider webbing, ribbon
Optional: low temp hot glue

Tutorial:

1. I started by spraying my branch black and adding a touch of black to my dried moss and let them dry.
2. Because I used a glass container, I lined it with a scrap piece of dropcloth.

3. Paper, newspaper, moss would also work.
4. Using the bottom of my tree branch, I poked a hole into the circular side of my cone. Insert the Styrofoam cone into container with the circular side/hole facing up. You can secure your foam to the container. I didn’t.
5. Insert the branch into the Styrofoam hole. Secure with hot glue if needed.
6. Cover styrofoam with dried moss, crinkled paper or shredded paper. Glue into place if desired.
7. 8. 9. ACCESSORIZE: I strung more dried moss and spider webs to my branches (drag the spider webbing). Attach crows. I used black twist ties to attach some of my crows, others are just propped on branches. I did use hot glue to attach a few plastic spiders and added a couple of snips of sheer ribbon here and there for a little added whimsy.

Stand back and admire!

Do you decorate for Halloween? Any fun fall crafts to share?

Note: Today’s theme is “crafts” – Fall or Halloween crafts only please {ALL FALL DIY FALL FESTIVAL resumes next Wed.}
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Don’t forget to visit these blog friends this week:
Thursday: Link up your fall mantels with Shannon @ Fox Hollow Cottage

Friday: Share your fall tablescapes with Kristin @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

Saturday: Debbie @ Debbiedoo’s - share your fall home tour!

DIY Fall Festival and Autumn Highlights

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Roeshel

Welcome back to the week DIY Fall Festival! You’re invited to share your fall craftiness and autumn decorating or browse the links to visit our festive blog friends already all decked out for fall! There were so many great links last week. Here are a few fall favorites:

5 Minute Fall Crafts

Super cute canning lid pumpkin tutorial at Simply Klassic Home.

canning lid pumpkin tutorial

Looking for an easy autumn decorating or fall gift idea? Check out the cute vintage Halloween (or any season) candle tutorial over at Confessions of a Plate Addict.

Fall plates craft by Dear Emmeline.

Last week I shared my DIY yarn pumpkins, a super easy and quick fall project:

how to make yarn pumpkins

Fall Mantels

The fabulous fall mantel at Mom4Real has the perfect combination of texture, fall colors and a fun pop of whimsy in that polka dotted pitcher.

Remodelando la Casa has a fall mantel full of DIY goodies. Love the burlap fall blocks and her awesome painted tree with falling flying leaves is perfect for the autumn season!

DIY Show Off Fall Festival Party

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Please link back to this party in some way.
By linking up you give permission to be a favorite fall DIY feature {with a link back your site}.
I will share links to your post on Facebook, Twitter, G+ and Pinterest. Feel free to do the same! Thanks!

This week, I’ll be working on some fall decorating {finally!}. In the meantime, here is our fall decorated dining room last year…

Halloween Vignette and The DIY Fall Festival

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Roeshel

The DIY Fall Festival is one day early this week!

This week, since I moved the wingback chairs out of our ‘mudroom/sitting room/whatever-I-want-it-to-be-this-week-room”, I got to rearrange things again (see yesterday’s post to see the transformation of this room). We don’t decorate much for Halloween but I took what I had and decorated this room just a little. It’s not quite where I want it to be but it takes me a few days of rearranging to settle down and walk away satisfied plus I’m on the hunt for a settee of some sort for in here. In the meantime…

vocabulary cards are a garage sale find

This room gets a lot of morning and afternoon sun (when there is sun shining), so it’s a great spot for our plants. Sun = happy plants. Normally and very fitting for Halloween, I have a black thumb but I’ve managed not to kill a few!

Nevermore Tree Tutorial, Obelisk is a .50 garage sale find.

Stenciled Pumpkins

When we bought our house:

Today:

Do you decorate for Halloween or Fall? Do you have something DIY and fall and/or Halloween related to share? Link up and show off or browse the links for some inspiration.

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Linking up to: Halloween at Lisa’s Creative Designs.

DIY Fall Festival and 31 Days of Spooktacular

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Roeshel

Hi friends! I’m Coley over at What You Make It and am thrilled to be joining you for the DIY Fall Festival. What better day to be a guest poster? After all, fall is my favorite time of year! Who doesn’t like vibrant colored leaves, pumpkin pie lattes, and cozy sweaters?

At the start of September I begin covering every inch of my home, interior and exterior, with autumn decor. The aroma of pumpkins, apples, and squash fill my home and my open-toed shoes are put into storage. By October, my party menu is finalized and I’m jumping for joy with anticipation for our Halloween party.

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Because of the fact that I am so neurotic about this holiday and that there are endless creative Halloween-related projects out there, I started a 31 Day Spooktacular Series on my blog. That’s right, 31 posts about Halloween and the best season ever! Recipes, tutorials, guest posts, and costume ideas… anything to get you in the spirit.

So far, I have posted a few DIY projects like these specimen jars…

these free Halloween printables (that look amazing in vintage frames)…

super-easy pumpkin candle holders…

adorable acorn bites…

and yummy 3 Ingredient Pumpkin Cookies.

There are a ton of posts coming up (23 more to be exact) that will give you even more inspiration. I would LOVE for you to join me!

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Thanks for letting me share with you today!

I can’t wait to sit down with a hot cup of cinnamon tea, wrap myself in a fuzzy blanky, and look over your DIY Fall Festival link-ups. Everyday I’m amazed at the creativity out there on blog-land

Rules:

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•Please add the DIY button or link to the party in your post to share the party with your readers.

•Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. It just must be your project. Please only link up same project once to one party.

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• By adding your link, you give the DIY Show Off permission to highlight your project in a future post. Enjoy and be inspired!

Thank you, Coley for guest blogging today! :) Coley is the creative and talented blog author at

Don’t forget to check out Coley’s 31 Days of Spooktacular event for some amazing Halloween fun!

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Happy Halloween!

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Roeshel

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DIY Fall Festival – Last Minute Halloween!

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Roeshel

It’s that time of week – time to show off your DIY Fall related projects!

I was blown away by this awesome iPhone costume made by Heather at Decor4Poor! Visit her here to see the details. Wow, huh? First place costume winner for sure!

This beautiful pumpkin is up for grabs at Frou-FruGal (enter here). She also typed up an easy tutorial and it’s super cheap so you can DIY!

Still plenty of time to create a beautiful fall wreath. Check out this great tutorial from Susan at Hometown Girl. Inspiration: Pottery Barn. Cost: $6.50!

It’s All Hallow’s Eve at Something Sweet Design!

Beautiful Halloween “Curious” banner with a great tutorial and free printable download at Violet Cottage.

Thanksgiving to Halloween (or reverse that for the U.S.!) decorating at Echoes of Laughter:

Let’s see your DIY fall ideas! Show off!

Rules:

Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that you’ve done
Add your project title to Mcklinky (example: House # Pumpkins)
Type in the permalink address, not your basic blog address. A permalink is the address that links directly to your specific post. (example: http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/house-number-pumpkins)
Please use the DIY button or link to this post to share the party with your readers.
Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. Anything DIY – autumn related is permitted.
Please follow all steps above or your link will be deleted. If you notice that you’re link disappeared, please make the correction according to the rules above and re-link!
Enjoy and be inspired!

Thanks for the comments about the fall photo shoot with my girls last week – I loved the encouragement! As soon as I get a free minute (how and when still to be determined – I’m giving the place below a shot. Have you tried putting one of your photos on a canvas? I’d love to hear about your experience!)

DIY Show Off Fall Festival

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Roeshel

I‘m working on non-Fall related projects but there are so many great Fall related DIY projects from last week, I thought I’d share a few but make sure you check all of the links to get inspired!

Beautiful autumn mantel shelf decor at Decor Chick:

Cutest butternut squash ghosts at Just for Love:

LOVE this fall mantel at Finding Home. Perfectly rustic and festive.
Easy (and cute!) Halloween decor at The Thriftress:

Free Printable Halloween Cupcake Wrappers! From Frugal Life Project!

There are SOOOO many great ideas. Click HERE to see all Fall Festivals for lots of creative DIY ideas!

Let’s see your DIY fall ideas! Show off!

Rules:

Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that you’ve done
Add your project title to Mcklinky (example: House # Pumpkins)
Type in the permalink address, not your basic blog address. A permalink is the address that links directly to your specific post. (example: http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/house-number-pumpkins)
Please use the DIY button or link to this post to share the party with your readers.
Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. Anything DIY – autumn related is permitted.
Please follow all steps above or your link will be deleted. If you notice that you’re link disappeared, please make the correction according to the rules above and re-link!
Enjoy and be inspired!

Win a Moen Mirrorscape – super easy DIY solution to a frame your bathroom mirror. Giving away 2! Enter HERE! Giveaway ends Saturday!

DIY Project Parade and a Halloween Vignette

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Roeshel

Do you decorate for Halloween? I decorate for fall but for Halloween, I do one fun vignette. Last year I made a “never more” tree using twigs from the yard, an old urn, moss and crows from Michaels…

This year, I moved the vignette to the dining room near my plate display…

Click here to see my tutorial for the framed quotes from Edgar Alan Poe’s The Raven.

Check out my stenciled pumpkin tutorial at the DIY Club.

We already had the other decor. Old books, a black/white print from a thrift shop, candle and mason jar, cake plate and doilies.

What do you think? Not too bad for little effort.

I’m sharing here:

Let’s see what you’ve been up to!

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DIY Halloween Projects

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Roeshel

Last minute ideas! I received an email from Caitlin at Savers saying “Savers/Value Village thrift stores joined forces with the crafty Blair Stocker to create some adorable DIY projects for Halloween using inexpensive goods found at our thrift stores. They are an affordable and fun way for people to decorate their homes for Halloween. Just thought this might be of interest to you and your readers!” It sure is! Lots of cool DIY Halloween projects with tutorials made with thrift store items.

You can see all of the projects here: http://www.savers.com/Perfect-Halloween-Party.aspx.

and I love this new-to-me blog: Wise Craft

Check these out:

My favorites are the Festive & Funky T-Shirt Wreath, the Spooky Story Placemats and the Peculiar Picture Frames. What about you?

While we’re at it…I know we have the Fall Festival, but since we’re counting down the days how about a DIY Halloween Surprise Party! Link up, show and tell your DIY Halloween projects!

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If you’d like to link YOUR DIY Halloween post to the party:

It’s always a surprise with a different theme and no specific date planned…just pops up out of the blue when the inbox is full of great DIY projects.
You must link to this post to share the linky love.
Add your permalink (not your blog url, but your Show & Tell post url). Feel free to link a Past Post, just invite your readers in a current post with a quick note.
Or email your link to thediyshowoff@gmail.com and I will add it for you.
The party will run for a few days…so showing up fashionably late is acceptable. I will probably take tomorrow off from blogging so keep checking back for more links!
Have fun!

Here’s our Halloween Show & Tell. We carved pumpkins tonight.
The German one is in the middle. AWESOME for first jack-o-lantern carving, huh?

BOO!

You Have Been BOO’d!

The air is cool, the season is fall,

Soon Halloween will come to all.

Ghosts and goblins, spooks galore…

Tricky witches at your door.

The spooks are after things to do,

In fact, a spook brought this “BOO” to you.

The excitement comes when friends like you,

Copy this note and make it two.

We’ll all have smiles on our faces,

When we see who Boo’d who’s places.

I was Boo’d by ALVN at Whisperwood Cottage. Now…

n style="font-family:Times,'Times New Roman',serif;">The following 4 ladies have been officially BOO’d…

Blair@Craig, Blair & Turbo…her sense of humor and creativity make me smile (Turbo too)
Sarah@Pewter and Sage…her style and her home inspire me.
PK@Room Remix…I look forward to reading her blog everyday to see the creative ideas.
Cheri@It’s So Very Cheri…I enjoy her blog parties, she’s so kind and helpful and I just recently won in her awesome giveaway!

This BOO party was started by Toni@The Tattered Cottage. Please keep the fun going by following these instructions.

1. You have 24 hours to work your spell

2. Copy and post the Halloween Boo Poem with the instructions for playing.

3. Pick 4 blogs you enjoying visiting and tell why you enjoy visiting them, with a link to
their blog and remember to link back to me.

4. Go to the original BOO Party post at the Tattered Cottage and add your MckLinky.

5. Let’s see how fast and far this spreads between now and Halloween.

I’m linking to:

DIY Show Off ™ – DIY Decorating and Home Improvement Blog

Budget Friendly Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement and Decorating blog

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Happy Halloween!

DIY Fall Festival – Last Minute Halloween!

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Free Printable Halloween Cupcake Wrappers! From Frugal Life Project!

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