Door Decor Craft Time {6} - Halloween....ish

With my growing belly comes a lack of energy or motivation. Thus the thought for such an easy door decor. It was my hope to have this up by the end of September but I'm not that far off - and with that, I didn't want this to be so overly Halloween this year. I know that once Halloween has past, this wreath will likely remain until I have energy to create something else. I'm thinking we'll do something for Mini Mr. Owen but we shall see. Any ideas for that are welcome because I have no clue at this moment what I'd do.

Supplies:
* felt - in whatever colors you'd like - I chose lime green, purple and orange
* one grapevine wreath
* scissors
* yarn for hanging
* glue gun/glue sticks

How-to:
1. Cut out random-sized circles of felt - I went rather un-random as you can see below:

2. Cut little spirals for each circle and create a little flower. Hot glue the end to keep it all together. (Sorry, no photo of this part...)

3. Hot glue your little adorable flowers to the wreath.

4. Using the yarn, hang up the wreath!

 Happy Halloween-ish!

Door Decor Craft Time {5} - Back to School!

Going back to school was ALWAYS something I looked forward to. I loved buying new supplies and having everything be fresh and clean. I loved getting back to a routine and yes, I even loved having homework again.

Go ahead and say it - I was a nerd.

Needless to say, this door decor has been on my radar for awhile. This particular decor, no. I actually had something else in mind but that'll come another time. I decided to go with something a little cuter and so much easier than my original plan and boy that made my day. From start to finish, it probably took only 30 minutes. Craft time in an half hour? Yes, please!

 This may even be my most favorite door decor to date!


Supplies:
* 1 large quilt hoop
* 1 small quilt hoop
* 2 packs of crayons
* ribbon
* glue gun/glue sticks

How-to:
1. Line up the quilt hoops so the small hoop is in the middle of the large hoop.
2. Lay out your crayons in the order you want them placed.
3. For each crayon, place one spot of glue on the small hoop and one on the large hoop. Then place crayon.
4. Have all crayon bottoms touch and leave space near the tips. This will create a little sunburst.
5. Leave room for a ribbon so you can hang it up.

 

Done!

Door Decor Craft Time {4} - Fourth of July!

After a few wreaths that took forever to make, I decided it was time to make one that was quick and super easy. This one fit the bill and it may even be my most favorite wreath so far!

I had a buddy make this with me (actually, the youngest big sis of the cutest little boy I nanny, Rose). She's a bit quirky and fun like myself and I knew if I bought some extra materials that she would likely join me in making one while Jack Attack was napping. Besides running out of ribbon, the project was super simple.

I'm sure Gary would like me to note that it was HIS idea to have the wreath hanging with the blue slightly tilted. Smarty pants. And he was so kind to go outside and take that last photo. See Peach in the window? His absolute favorite spot to be!

Door Decor Craft Time {4} - the one that never was

Some of you may be wondering what happened after my last door decor post.....


Let me tell you.


I had every intention of creating something really awesome and spring-like for my Springtime Door Decor. Think GUMBALLS!

The pink ones are soooo good!

It was coming along really well but I was taking my sweet time completing it. I happened to make a ton of progress on it one day but forgot to take a picture to commemorate it. Not even an hour passed before Gary went beaming through the dining room/office and the craft toppled to the ground, splitting and breaking every which way. Gary freaked out that Peach was going to eat one of the gumballs and started raising his voice. I just giggled - it was way too funny to be at all upset. Here are some of the pretty pictures I took before it was demolished in one fell swoop. And no, I did not have the motivation to re-create it. Sorry folks!

Door Decor Craft Time {3} - St. Patrick's Day 2013

Here's my door decor for St. Patrick's Day. It was a lot of fun and only took about 2 hours from start to finish.

 I started with 5 fat quarters of fabric plus extras from a past project. 

 I just out a 6"x21" piece from each and then cut those into 1x6" pieces. 

From there, I took a white wire hanger and shaped into a circle. Lastly, I tied each fabric piece to the hanger.

 It came out great!

Door Decor Craft Time! {2} - Valentine's Day 2013

I told Gary that I wanted to have a door decor budget of $10 per craft. His response? "That's too much!" and "It can come out of your own budget."

Well, mister, how about it cost less than $7 and it comes out of YOUR budget? Hmmm.

Giggles.

Door Decor Craft Time! {2} - VALENTINE'S DAY!!

 

Door Decor {1} - Halloween Crafts!

I have Gary to thank for this post. He mentioned to me the other day that Halloween was coming up. Thanks for the reminder, Gspice, but I already knew that. Silly boy. No, the real reason he brought it up was that he was really concerned the kiddos wouldn't know that we had candy unless we decorated our porch.

So that is what I did.

Click HERE for the tutorial I followed.

Now ALL the kids will know we have candy. And lots of it!