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Set the Table
Gone Batty: Black, White & Purple Halloween Table
Spooky purple Halloween table bat theme extends to the decorated chandy and bat napkin fold. Features spooky painted glasses and pumpkins,
Paint Glasses
DIY Spooky Dollar Tree Painted Halloween Glasses
Learn how to transform smoky black Dollar Tree stemware into painted Halloween glasses, with a spooky tree and moonlight bats for party table favors.
Marble Pumpkins
Easily Marble Pumpkins for Fall & Table Decor
See how to easily marble pumpkins using nail polish as paint. Includes helpful tips, illustrations, and mistakes to avoid.
Bee Grateful
DIY Fall Decor: Grapevine Cornucopia Wreath
Learn how to make a cornucopia wreath in 5 easy steps, using a grapevine form with unique horn of plenty basket. Perfect for fall decor!
Fall Favorites
Pick Apples
Fall Harvest Table & Apple Napkin Fold
Have a seat at an early fall harvest table, decorated with apples, pears and grapes. See leaf-decorated dishes, twig flatware, and napkins folded in the shape of an apple!
Recycle Wine Corks
Wine Cork Wreath DIY Tutorial
Learn how to craft a beautiful wine cork wreath, by following the 7 easy steps detailed in this well-illustrated project tutorial.
Make Pumpkins
Easy to Make Fall Decor: Sweater Pumpkin
Tour a fall sock and sweater pumpkin patch, and learn how to make your own for home decor and vignettes, or to create a unique Thanksgiving centerpiece.
Honor Veterans
A Salute to a WWII POW Veteran
Read a tribute to my father-in-law, a WWII Army veteran captured during the Battle of the Bulge, who later escaped from a German POW camp.
Halloween Posts
Craft Decor
DIY Eerie, Elegant Black Pumpkin Decor
Hauntingly beautiful Halloween black pumpkin decor. Recreate masquerade and black widow designs, or change colors and accents to craft your own look.
Make a Wreath
DIY Sunken Shipwreck Pirate Wreath
Craft a unique pirate wreath, featuring a shipwreck and skeleton. Welcome trick or treaters on Halloween, or decorate for a birthday party.
Rattle Bones
Silly Skeleton Poses on Elegant Halloween Table
See Stella, a silly skeleton who, bedecked in diamonds and pearls, strikes 7 diva poses in the midst of a gothic glam Halloween table.
Entertain Guests
Halloween Gothic Glam Table & Skeleton Napkin Fold
Join a spooky skeleton soiree and have a seat at an eerie but elegant gothic glam table. Don’t miss the skeleton mummy Halloween napkin fold.