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Showing posts with label Halloween crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween crafts. Show all posts

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Best All Hail The Pumpkin! Amazing Fall Pumpkin Displays


I run across them. They're everywhere. In people's yards. On the side of the road. In fields. On display exterior of every unmarried grocery store I pass. It used to hold upward but orangish colored ones. Now there's white, yellow, blue, light-green - pumpkins everywhere. Big ones (I similar those), pocket-sized ones (I similar those too!), tall ones, squat ones, you lot larn the picture. Pumpkins are everywhere. Well, at to the lowest degree they are where I alive - inward Pennsylvania. Pumpkin territory.  

For the past times few years I wrote weblog posts nearly the creative ways that dissimilar folks display as well as gussy-up their pumpkins. They pigment them, decoupage them, glitter and sequin them, stack them, transform them into spiders as well as cats as well as giant eyeballs. All of those are cool. They're creative as well as unique. But sometimes I similar my pumpkins but - pumpkins. 

Below I've collected closed to of the most beautiful au naturale pumpkin displays set together past times closed to creative, like-minded folks. Which mode exercise you lot prefer? 

Amazing porch pace display from The Graceful Gardener


A brusk ladder makes a smashing outdoor display. From SuesGarden Journal via Pinterest


Beautiful autumn pumpkin drapery display discovered hither via Pinterest


Galvanized tub amongst a diversity of pumpkins found hither via Pinterest 


Another amazing pumpkin display from The Graceful Gardener

Cute pumpkin display amongst gourds from A Pretty Life inward the Suburbs




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Have a smashing week!
 Laura

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Best Antique Halloween Postcards Turned Into Awesome Jewelry

Antique
Vintage Halloween postcards transformed into unique jewelry
(don't worry - no master post service cards were harmed inward the process!)


I dearest the modify inward flavor from summertime to fall. By belatedly August/early September our local grocery store already has Halloween candy on display! Is it a flake likewise early on for that? Maybe, but the lure of Halloween is i that I’ve always flora specially charming. I love vintage Halloween items. Decorations, masks, costumes as well as postcards from years past have quite a dissimilar charm than those nosotros come across today.






The nostalgia of yesteryear is apparent inward these vintage collectibles, as well as for many, brings back memories of childhood fun as well as games, costumes as well as trick-or-treating.





Halloween genuinely is a timeless holiday. What other fourth dimension of twelvemonth allows us to live on something we are not, to fully exercise our imagination as well as permit reality to skid away, fifty-fifty if simply for i night?





Halloween Postcards


I i time read somewhere that Halloween collectibles are to a greater extent than desirable than collectibles from whatsoever other holiday, amongst Halloween postcards beingness approximately of the nigh sought afterwards items produce to their rarity. The illustrations as well as color lithography on these cards are beautiful. 

Depictions of witches, dark cats, jack’0 lanterns, equally good equally fortune games as well as scenes of children bobbing for apples are mutual designs. I personally am intrigued yesteryear those with anthropomorphic figures; the corn-cob human as well as the grinning pumpkin caput girl, vegetable people amongst grin faces.

It’s amazing to intend that at i fourth dimension (around the belatedly 1800’s as well as on) Halloween postcards were i time equally pop equally Christmas cards!

Be certain to banking concern stand upwards for out my Halloween Postcard Jewelry. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few of them are reversible, amongst a dissimilar vintage Halloween icon on each side. Others characteristic a unmarried icon on i side. Each is really cool!






 



Antique  


I’ve been making jewelry from antique as well as vintage postcards for a release of years now, and in my opinion, the Halloween images are the nigh intriguing than those of whatsoever other 
holiday. (Aside from Halloween I also brand them amongst Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day 
and St. Patrick’s Day postcards) …And don’t worry, no master postcards are harmed inward the process!








What produce you lot think?

Have a neat calendar week & Happy Fall!
Laura




My broken china jewelry is e'er available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns





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