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Today’s Guest: Just A Girl

Sep302011 posted by 10 Comments

Well, hello! I’m Chris from Just a Girl, and I couldn’t be happier to be guest posting today on eighteen25! These ladies are mucho-talented, and they are a daily must-read for me. Spooktacular September! How clever is that, right?
Halloween is definitely one of my favorite holidays, so it was super easy coming up with something to make. I jumped on the yarn wreath bandwagon and made my own little version.

The supply list is quite simple, really. Here it is…

  1. A styrofoam wreath (you choose what size)
  2. Spray paint to coordinate with your yarn
  3. Some yarn
  4. Construction paper
  5. Silhouette/Cricut/scissors—whatever you have on hand
  6. Patience. A lot of it.

For all the cute yarn wreaths I’ve seen out there, everyone failed to tell me how annoying it is to wrap the yarn for them. I’m here to tell you. It was annoying. BUT…it pays off in the end. (Side note—those are paint-stained pants. Don’t judge.)

After you wrap (and wrap and wrap) the yarn around the wreath, you just cut out various size bats to adhere with a glue gun. I wanted mine to look like they were flying in a bit of a swarm, so I had them get a little smaller toward the top.

I added the thickest green ribbon I had to give a little pop of color! It turned out perfectly. I like to keep my decorations simple, but I imagine you could embellish some more if you like.

Total cost? Uhhh…I guess I should have kept track of that. $4.00 for the yarn and $3.00 for the wreath form? That sounds good. I’ll go with $7.00. And a LOT of yarn left over for other projects!

Thanks again to the eighteen25 girls for letting me join in on all this Spooktacular fun!

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i have yet to jump on the yarn wreath bandwagon, but i think i’m going to need to find me a chick flick this weekend and get busy on this one. how cute!! thanks for sharing chris!
head on over to check out all the fun at just a girl. and in case you missed her halloween clock she shared with us last year, you can find that here. 
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are you as scared as i am that today is the last day of september?

well, the fun’s not exactly over yet. we have a few more guests next week and another awesome giveaway too!
and speaking of giveaways… we have a winner for the crystal wilkerson digital paper packs…

Kirsty, New Zealand said… love the paper designs… its a little bit vintage without being over the top … fantastic banner especially as there is no sewing!

(congrats kirsty! please send your email to eighteen25@live.com within 48 hours.)
Jodie and Jen

Jodie and Jen

I'm Jen Sedillo, one of the bloggers behind Eighteen25. I love creating and crafting, reading good books, visiting new places and being with family!
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  8. Yes, wrapping the yarn around the wreath form is a chore. I just learned that myself this week. But totally worth it because the finished product is super cute!

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Today’s Guest: Just a Girl

Sep172010 posted by 19 Comments

today we are so excited to have Chris here from Just a Girl!!
we’ve been long time fans of her blog! everything she does is pretty much perfection!
and today’s project is no exception! (oops… i’m a poet and didn’t know it)
go ahead scroll down and take a look!!  🙂
you’re gonna love it!!!
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It’s Halloween Time!
Get it? It’s Halloween Time…my post is about a clock…if you put the two…ok. You get it. It’s not that funny.
It’s no secret that I love to decorate for Halloween. So when the girls at eighteen25 asked me to participate, I was all over it! Of course, the very next moment, I started to have a panic attack. What in the world was I going to make?
At that very moment, my daughter brought up this old clock and said, “”Mommy, do you still need this clock?” YES! Hand that baby over!

The supplies you need to spookify a clock?

  • Uhhhh…a clock
  • I used my Silhouette machine for the webs, but I imagine you could even draw them freehand.
  • Glitter spiders courtesy of Pier One (I know! Pier One?)
  • Spray paint
Before you do anything else, make sure to lay your clock parts out in the order that you take them off and take a picture of it. Trust me on this one. You’ll refer to it once you want to put it back together.

I spray painted the clock with some primer (since the background was so dark) and white glossy paint. I found a cool looking spider web on my Silhouette program and had it cut them in various sizes on some black vinyl.

I knew from the beginning that I wanted some dimension to it, but I had no idea where I’d find the spiders. I literally stumbled upon them in the store, and they were exactly what I was looking for. I simply hot-glued the underside and stuck it onto the clock. Tip: I marked where the original numbers were on the clock on the back, so I would know where to place each spider.

My total spent? $3.00 on the spiders. Everything else I already had on hand. It was an easy project!

The only difficulty now is figuring out where I’m going to put it! Thanks for letting me join in on the Spooktacular fun!

Jodie and Jen

Jodie and Jen

I'm Jen Sedillo, one of the bloggers behind Eighteen25. I love creating and crafting, reading good books, visiting new places and being with family!
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  13. W-O-W!!!! I love everything about this. The make-over, the spiders, the webs, the price. It's all amazing. I would adore to have something similar in my house…however my darling boy….is TERRIFIED of spiders, and I'm afraid he'd either nix the idea, or have nightmares. Sigh. I will just admire from afar!!

    Love this!

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