Halloween craft treats

Following is my round up of fifteen amazing Halloween crafts. 

Fifteen crafts! That's practically a book. 

I hope you enjoy Halloween and find inspiration down below.

Halloween jar lantern

Glowing spider bowl

Jack o'lantern stack

Creepy hand

Halloween umbrella

Monster door

Yarn boo ghost

Ghost witch

Funky pop pumpkin

Fireflies

Dungeon door

Bling bottle lamp

Skeleton costume

Halloween wreath

Paper roll bat

Postop Halloween

Happy Halloween!

I'm tired! You're tired! Everyone is freakin' tired.

Postop Halloween: The kids have filled their pumpkins buckets with a modest amount of candy. The streets were lined with scary things. It was a hot day, but I was a smart skeleton, and carried a water bottle to keep the family hydrated. One of the Trick or Treat households were real kind, and offered icy poles and cups of water, in addition to the candy bowl, for anyone on the Halloween march.

This year for Halloween I made a skeleton costume and a dragon cowl. Also, I altered an old Miraculous Ladybug one piece costume, which by now was actually strangling my kid since she'd grown that much.

We'll get a few extra years out of the Ladybug costume as I have cut it up into separate parts, and it became a steampunk inspired Miraculous Ladybug. How awesome is that!?

Concept: Steampunk Miraculous Ladybug

Halloween Goodies

We're a week away from All Hallow's Eve (Halloween) and I decided to share with you my pick list of neat DIY Halloween stuff, to inspire (some of the articles are mine, and some are by Cintia), and perhaps, give you a giggle. So let's get into it, shall we?

First up are simple costume ideas:

{My Poppet Makes: Chat Noir Costume}

{My Poppet Makes: DIY Koroku Mask}

{Kidspot: GITD Skeleton Costume}

{Kidspot: Superhero Costume}

And for costume ideas that are a bit more advanced... in other words let's dip our toes into the world of cosplay:

{My Poppet Makes: Linkle Cosplay}

{My Poppet Makes: Bellatrix Estrange Cosplay by Cintia}

Let's not forget the awesome Halloween decorations that you can make:

{My Poppet Makes: Pumpkin Gift Box by Cintia}

{My Poppet Makes: Upcycled Halloween Wreath}

Last, but not least:

If you're a sewing nut check out the Halloween themed sewing projects listed at Coloured Buttons.It's a smorgasbord of spooky, sewing fun.

Coffee + Pizza + Spook Town Fun

So much life has been happening. Some things you might expect and plan for. Other things... not so much. The holidays have been and gone. And while I had a mental list of things to do during that period, it all fell away when one by one kids got sick.

One small bit at a time I am picking up the pieces, and finding balance between work, creativity and rest. For now, let me catch you up on the happenings of past weeks.

Halloween is upon us, and I've got some spooky Halloween love to share. I can't help it, I think Halloween is such fun. So... Shimmer your way over to My Poppet Makes to find out how I up-cycled a spooky, yet utterly darling Halloween wreath.

I spent one glorious Crafternoon 'making stuff' with likeminded crafters, eating delicious cake and drinking Nescafé. Head on over to My Poppet Living. and get the full story and pictures from the Nescafé Crafternoon. I seriously need to do Crafternoons more often. People + food + making stuff = healthy combination.

Happiness is a baked pizza served straight out of a hot BBQ. So it was a crafty love fest for me, designing and making a pizza cushion for Kidspot. Head over to Kidspot to access my DIY 'pizza cushion' craft video.

A while back I produced a project for My Poppet Makes, showing how to transform a shoebox into a vintage trunk. In round up to this project, I created another project detailing how to create sturdy, layered shelves within the shoebox. It's the perfect way for storing all those easy to lose little pieces. Head on over to My Poppet Makes to find out how to make:

1/ Make a Vintage Trunk Storage Box

2/ DIY Storage Box Solution Small Items

DIY Legend of Zelda Cosplay

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For the average ghosty it is that time of year – Halloween! But for some it's Halloween all year round. That's right! I'm talking about cosplayers. And for all you cosplayer wannabes I've written an article tailor made just for you. So head on over to My Poppet and read about my design journey when I made a Linkle cosplay outfit.

DIY Legend of Zelda Character Costume

Plagg, Claws Out!

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Well, look at that! There's a DIY Chat Noir costume over at My Poppet. Just in time for Halloween. One of the neat things about this costume is that it can easily come together with bits and pieces from around your home.

Witchy Woman

    Ooh! How I love this illustration. To me this is what Halloween is all about.

Art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Happy Halloween

Justine Clarke - 'The Witches' Ball' Songs to Make You Smile from MaricorMaricar on Vimeo.

All Hallow Eve

According to one craft book All Hallow Eve is a celebration that dates all the way back to pre-Christianity, to the ancient Celts and the Druids. Originally on the eve of November harvest time was celebrated, whereas 1st May sowing was the theme. Then there was the solstice in June and the ripening was the new party theme.

Once Christianity overtook this earlier religion, elements of these old traditions remained, but took on new forms. In other words the party continued it was just called something else — All Hallow Eve or All Saints Day.

All Hallow Eve is now associated with carved pumpkin faces, dressing up as scary monsters and Star Wars characters (LOL), and deliciously terrifying ghost stories. My, the more things change, the more they really stay the same.