Category Archives: Autumn

DIY Halloween Projects

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. You must link to this post to share the linky love.
  3. 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.
  4. Or email your link to thediyshowoff@gmail.com and I will add it for you.
  5. 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!
  6. 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.

The following 4 ladies have been officially BOO’d…
  1. Blair@Craig, Blair & Turbo…her sense of humor and creativity make me smile (Turbo too)
  2. Sarah@Pewter and Sage…her style and her home inspire me.
  3. PK@Room Remix…I look forward to reading her blog everyday to see the creative ideas.
  4. 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:

Coming soon – in order to fix the feed, the DIY Show Off will soon have a new look. Unsuccessful attempts have pushed me to switch to my own domain. Thanks for your patience and sticking with it while I work out the bugs. 🙂

Fall Festival – Week #8

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Do you have a fall post to share this week? I‘d love to see it! I don’t have a fall/Halloween DIY project to share this week as I have been working on redoing our main bathroom and our German exchange student has arrived. 🙂 She’s so sweet. Today while the guys were watching football, we made a trip to the pumpkin patch. Here is a picture of her (middle) with my daughters:

Ali, Julia and Bri


Did you know Julia is pronounced “Yulia” in German?





And I picked up a few pumpkins and Indian corn…
Here are my Fall/Halloween vignettes – check out other sweet vignettes at

Funky Junk's Saturday Nite Special






Do you have a Fall/Halloween DIY project? Link up and show it off! I’d love to see it!

What is the Fall Festival?
  • A blog party on M
    ondays during the autumn season
  • Autumn/Fall inspired DIY projects

How can I join?

  • Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that you’ve done
  • Add your blog name and project to Mcklinky (example: The DIY Show off – 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)
  • You must use The DIY Show Off Fall Festival button and link back to The DIY Show Off Fall Festival post so that everyone gets to join in the fun. Here is the button or use the html code on the left side bar.
  • Grab the button/html code on the left side bar and insert into your blog post to let others know you’re joining the fun.
  • I’ll be posting The DIY Show Off Fall Festival on Mondays and try to start the party sometime on the prior Sunday evening.
  • Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. Anything autumn related and DIY is permitted.
  • Please follow all steps above or your link won’t be posted. 🙁
  • If you’ve been inspired by something you see here – show us what you did too!
  • Enjoy and be inspired!
  • If your linking – I’ll DEFINITELY be stopping by to check it out and comment. One of the fun things about a smaller party is there’s time to visit with everyone participating, right? I really enjoy seeing all of your creative ideas and inspiration and leaving you a personal note.
Here is the link to all of the Fall Festivals if you’re new to the Fall Festival: HAPPY FALL!

Coming soon – in order to fix the feed, the DIY Show Off will soon have a new look. Unsuccessful attempts have pushed me to switch to my own domain. Thanks for your patience and sticking with it while I work out the bugs. 🙂

Fall Festival – Week #7

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Time for the Fall Festival! I decorated the grape arbor for Halloween. It didn’t look spooky until I edited the pictures using the “time machine and 1839” effect. Now it’s scary! (If you click to enlarge the picture, you can see more detail.)








I wish I could capture a photo of how beautiful the arbor is at night time.
This is the best I could do. There isn’t enough light to use my camera but I took this with my cell phone.

It was also my lucky week! I won a few things and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am. I LOVE presents (who doesn’t?). Here are some of the things I won.

I won a beautiful quilt from

Sweet Jeanette

I can’t decide if I want to use it every day as a lap blanket at my desk (I’m always cold) or display it. It’s the first real quilt I’ve ever owned. I love it! THEN there were more presents in the box! I’m using the sweet snack tray as a centerpiece.



And the cutest little pumpkin – look at the stem! It’s a roofing nail. I love little treasures like this, don’t you?
Thank you so much Jeanette. They don’t call you sweetjeanette for nothing!

I also won two beautiful candles from Christy at Domestic Princess. I could smell them before I opened the box! I had them in my office for a week and the entire room smelled wonderful. One is lilac (my favorite) and the other is lavender. I decided to create a little Halloween vignette in my powder room and they’re the perfect touch, don’t you think? Thank you so much Christy! These candles are awesome! Here they are in my powder room:

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I received an email from Meaghan about her very inexpensive and super CUTE project. Here it is:

I wanted to share a really cheap Halloween craft I just completed. I don’t have a before of the plate because I lost the charger for the battery for my camera, but the plate is just a really heavy duty tin plate I picked up from the dollar store (just $1). The total cost of this was a dollar and some change. I took two plates from the dollar store and sprayed them with Rustoleum white spray paint that I already had from previous projects. Then I went the computer, googled some Halloween silhouettes that I liked, printed them out, cut them out, traced them on the plates, then used some black paint I also already had and traced them in. I think they are pretty cute and the only thing I had to buy were 2 $2 plates! I think I’m going to do a few for Christmas too!


Meaghan – your DIY Halloween plates are so cute, so easy and cheap – with awesome results. Thanks so much for sharing!

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Susan from More Thoughts from over the Rainbow made a nevermore tree!
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Do you have a Fall/Halloween DIY project? Link up and show it off!

What is the Fall Festival?
  • A bl
    og party on Mondays during the autumn season
  • Autumn/Fall inspired DIY projects

How can I join?

  • Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that you’ve done
  • Add your blog name and project to Mcklinky (example: The DIY Show off – 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)
  • You must use The DIY Show Off Fall Festival button and link back to The DIY Show Off Fall Festival post so that everyone gets to join in the fun. Here is the button or use the html code on the left side bar.
  • Grab the button/html code on the left side bar and insert into your blog post to let others know you’re joining the fun.
  • I’ll be posting The DIY Show Off Fall Festival on Mondays and try to start the party sometime on the prior Sunday evening.
  • Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. Anything autumn related and DIY is permitted.
  • Please follow all steps above or your link won’t be posted. 🙁
  • If you’ve been inspired by something you see here – show us what you did too!
  • Enjoy and be inspired!
  • If your linking – I’ll DEFINITELY be stopping by to check it out and comment. One of the fun things about a smaller party is there’s time to visit with everyone participating, right? I really enjoy seeing all of your creative ideas and inspiration and leaving you a personal note.
Here is the link to all of the Fall Festivals if you’re new to the Fall Festival: HAPPY FALL!

LOVE the Met Monday party – Check it out!

I’m also linking to:
DIY Day @ ASPTL

Coming soon – in order to fix the feed, the DIY Show Off will soon have a new look. Unsuccessful attempts have pushed me to switch to my own domain. Thanks for your patience and sticking with it while I work out the bugs. 🙂