Okio B Designs

First let me say I have not started decorating for Halloween. =) I am busy making pieces and playing around with how I will display them later this month/early October. This is a Pinterest-inspired project. Lucky me, I had everything I needed!

I have a ton of these wood candlesticks. I had painted and used them for other projects. When I tire of them, I simply give them a fresh coat of paint. This trio was perfect for this project.

I gave them all a few coats of black paint. The jar is from a project I posted a week or so ago. It's an old dressing jar that I also painted black. I used E6000 glue to adhere it to the smaller of the candlesticks.

Then I got busy on the fun part: covering them with candle wax. I just lit a candle and let the wax drip in random spots on the jar and the taller candlesticks.

Super easy, right? And so perfect for Halloween. I'm thinking of displaying them on a stack of black books I picked up from a local thrift store, and using one of the flashcards I made last week.

Right now they are holding some of my French script candles, but I'm sure I'll be adding some Halloween-appropriate ones down the road.

Jeanine

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Have you seen the great Halloween banners my sister, Kathy from Creative Home Expressions has in her Etsy shop? She had some last year that I loved but they sold out quickly. Rats! (She has since added more!) So, over the summer I picked up a canvas banner from Hobby Lobby so I could copycat a Halloween banner for fall.

I purchased the skull images from Graphique (my fave digital download shop!) on Etsy, and used TAP paper to iron them on my canvas.

Then I had to hunt down a stick from the garage. Found one the kids used for roasting marshmallows last year (sssssh!). It was pretty clean but I have to have my hubby cut the stick down to size. I used twine for my "hanger."

I also added some orange and black tea-stained seam binding like Kathy did. I feel like it's missing some wording or another image so I may add something to the upper right corner. Overall, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Thanks to my sister for the Halloween inspiration!

Jeanine

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Even thought it was a sweltering 90 degrees here yesterday, I started putting out some autumn touches. The kids went back to school and I just couldn't help myself during some work down time.

An autumn flash card to dress up one of my vintage typewriters.

And pumpkins galore!

I didn't realize I had so many.

They are on vintage scales, under cloches and in peat pots.

Some I made and some I've bought through the years.

I also added this great autumn printable found on Pinterest to my little vintage desk. Yes, I'm ready for autumn!

Jeanine

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I couldn't find any vintage Halloween-ish flash cards on Etsy or eBay that I liked. Some were too expensive. Others didn't have the exact words I was looking for. So I made my own.

I did a search for vintage flash card fonts and came upon this one called UglyQua. I downloaded it to my computer and started using it in a simple word document.

Of course, I examined some vintage cards first to get the wording and numbers just right.

I printed them out onto beige cardstock and cut them to the size I wanted. I distressed the edges to give them a more vintage feel.

Originally I wanted to do them to have something creepy displayed on my vintage typewriters, but now I'm thinking they'd work well for a nice Halloween banner. What do you think?!

Jeanine

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I bought this little clothes hanger from a garage sale a few weeks ago. It needed a few coats of fresh paint...

And a Frenchy touch.

I used some of the chalk paint I got at Michael's - again not loving the paint but I refuse to throw it out.

I used the Omni Gel method to adhere the French crowns. Boy were they tricky. They are so tiny - I had to use wallet size in order to get them to fit!

I'm going to be hanging this in the tea room.

Jeanine