DIY Wood Pumpkins

What you will need:

4-1x4 blocks cut to 6 inches

4-1x4 blocks cut into 7 inches

4-1x4 blocks cut into 8 inches

1 inch blocks

Brown paint

Orange paint

Hot glue

Sand paper (optional)

Step 1: Cut out all of your wood blocks and lightly sand the sides. Sanding is just an option. 

Step 2: Get all of your 6 inch blocks and glue them together. Paint the outside and top. I didn't paint the backs of mine. Some spots I had to go over a couple of times with paint, but mainly I did 2 coats of paint. 

Step 3: Take two 7 inch and two 8 inch boards. Start with a 7 inch board then put the two 8 inch in the middle, and end with a 7 inch board. So it should be 7 inch 8 inch 8 inch 7 inch.  Try to center your 7 inch boards on your 8 inch boards and glue those together . It does not have to be perfect! Paint those a couple of times, going over some spots more if needed.

Step 4: Repeat step 3 again with the last 7 inch and 8 inch boards. 

Step 5: Take 2 blocks and glue them together then glue one in the center. I did that twice and then just glued two together. Tried to change it up a little! Paint those brown, like with the pumpkins I did not paint the backs. They wont be seen where I am going to put them. 

Step 6: Take your 6 Inch pumpkin and glue one of the three blocks on top in the center. Again it doesn't have to be perfect! Take one of the 7 inch and 8 inch ones and lay it on its side. Glue the last 3 block topper in the center. Take the last pumpkin and glue the 2 blocks  on the top in the center. You can do the three block combo on all of them. I was just changing it up a little bit. 

DIY Halloween fabric wreath

I made myself one of these wreaths last year and when I got my fabric, I got too much. So I thought I would make another wreath this year and try to sell it. Why not right! Funny thing is I ran out of one of the fabrics and they did not have the same one again this year! So I bought a similar one and just added the new fabric around the wreath to help blend it in. This project took me about two days. Your fingers will start to hurt from putting the fabric though the wreath and tying it but it is so worth it. 

Things you will need:

12" wire wreath (you can go bigger but you

 will need a little more fabric)

Floral wire (I used 16 gauge and that was a little too thick 

so I would say 20- 26 gauge will be fine)

Wood letters

Scissors

Hot glue

Green paint

Glitter paint

3-5 different fabric choices (Depending on how many different 

fabrics you choose will determine how much fabric you need.

 If you only find 3 that you like then get half of a yard to make

 sure you have enough. If you find 4 or 5 

different fabrics you could use less.)

Step 1: What I did was cut my fabric into about 5 inch long strips then cut 1 inch strips out of those. It doesn't have to be perfect. 

Step 2: Weave a strip of fabric through one of the sections on the wire wreath and double knot it. So that way it shouldn't unravel.

(Step 1 and 2 take a while so I watched tv while I did those!!)

Step 3: Paint your wood letters green. I did about two coats on mine. When they are completely dry, do several coats of the glitter. I like this stuff because it doesn't fall off! 

Step 4: Place your letters on your wreath to see where you need to glue the wire. Cut your wire to 5 to 7 inch long. Give or take. Bend the wire to make it kinda flat in the middle and hot glue that to your wood letter. I did 2 sets of wire for each letter. 

Step 5: Once the glue is dry, wiggle your wire through the fabrics and twist your wire to attach it to the wreath. Cut any extra wire off the ends. I took some pliers and bent the wire down so it would not poke anyone. 

* I couldn't wiggle the wire and take pictures!

* It's hard to see but if you look closely you can see the green wire.

Oh The Places You'll Go

This is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books. I love to travel and explore this huge world we live in. I haven't gone many places, but I cherish all those trips I have been able to go on so far. I want to visit every state in the US at least once. I want to go to so many more places that it would take forever to name. I am so excited to see this project grow and watch the map fill up with tiny pins. 

What you will need:

Frame 

(mine is a poster frame from Michael's. 

It was on clearance for 6 dollars. It's cheap. 

I don't recommend it!!)

Cork Sheet (Michael's $15)

Map 

Elmer's Glue

Hot glue

Step 1. Take your picture frame apart and get rid of the glass piece or in my case plastic piece. 

Step 2. My frame is a little bigger than my map so I took the "picture" that they put in in frames and glued my map to that. Now it has a black boarder around it. I used a glue stick because that doesn't wrinkle as bad as the liquid Elmer's glue does.

Step 3. Measure and cut your cork to fit the back piece of your frame. Trim if necessary. I put the back piece in the frame and marked where the inside corners met the board. You want to make sure that when you glue your cork to the back piece, you can still get in in the frame. I glued the cork piece down with the hot glue.

Step 4. Glue your map to the cork. Check the back of the frame to see where the hook are. You don't want to glue it upside down! I used Elmer's glue just around the side. Elmer's glue tends to wrinkle the paper when it dries so I did it just on the black trying to hide it.

6. Put your map back in the frame and secure the back pieces to make sure it wont come out of the frame. Pin all the places you have been. Hang on the wall and enjoy!