Last year, while I was gathering Halloween crafting ideas, I scoured the Martha Stewart site. Love her or hate her, the woman's got some good stuff. (Even if her site does take eleventy billion hours to load.)
So I ran across this: http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/outdoor-decorations-for-halloween#slide_27 . Simple and cute enough... just use a dollar store chalkboard, hang with a length of chain.
But I can't just leave ideas alone. Nope.
Last year, my dad cut me some arrow shaped pieces of scrap wood. What for?
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A directional sign, pointing to all the different elf workshops and whathaveyou, of course.
Except I never got around to painting it. So I have some arrow shaped pieces of wood that were just begging for attention.
I started with some acrylic paint in a spooky green, and painted up the edges of my sign, then added 3 coats of chalkboard paint to the front face of the sign. Add a bit of hot glue, with some orange buttons shaped conspicuously like a pumpkin... a length of ribbon stapled to the back...
and you have a directional Trick or Treat sign!
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Mine will be hanging in my front window, facing the trick or treaters... as soon as it's socially acceptable to have the exterior of my house decorated for Halloween ;)
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1 comments:
Very cute! I may have to make a few of these for all my holidays. ;)
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