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Much like my blog, I woefully neglected my Etsy shop this summer. Now that my boys are back at school, I have a bit more time to devote to both.

I whipped up some cute silhouette tags earlier this week.

I really adore making tags. It's how I started my crafting endeavors years ago.

Don't kill me, but yes, I've started making Christmas items. It may be too early in the blog world, but in the Etsy world, you've got to be a few months ahead.

I really love how these Santa postcards came out.

Best of all, I had everything I needed already on hand. And it felt good to get the creative juices flowing again.

Jeanine

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I bought these paper mache houses last year for Christmas. They were a little larger than I had expected, but I still decided to make them work by painting them black and adding tea lights for the holiday season.

This year, I decided to give them a Halloween makeover. I bought black and orange glitter, and kept the black paint. I wasn't sure which glitter to use at first. I really like Pottery Barn's version of Halloween houses - which use black glitter. Still I was drawn to the orange.

So I did the first two in orange. I'm not a huge fan of glitter - mainly because of the mess it leaves behind. So this was an outside job in between rain storms this weekend.

I see a few spots that I missed, so I'll try and fill them in today. The last house, which is also the largest, will get the black glitter just to break up all of the orange.

Wish me luck!

Jeanine

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According to my calculations, there are 53 days until Halloween. Yay!

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling a little rushed this year. Looking back at some old blog posts, I usually have a ton of Halloween items made by now. Eek!

So last night, I broke out some glass ornaments that were sitting in my craft room since last year, and decided to turn them into Halloween ornaments. For this one, I used some faux moss, a creepy skull image (from the Graphics Fairy) and black & orange tea-stained seam binding.

For this one I used an image I bought on Etsy last year. I spray painted some faux reeds black and added them to the bottom. Topped this one off with some purple & black tea-stained seam binding.

I have one more in the works.

Jeanine

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Hope your holiday weekend is off to a great start! I've been relaxing after a long work week, which didn't leave any time for real crafting.

I did manage to arrange a basket o' pumpkins for my porch. The basket is a garage sale find that I painted Paris Grey (Annie Sloan Chalk Paint).

I also framed some autumn printables I found on Pinterest. After that, I decided to reward myself with a little retail therapy.

Found this cute Ouija cheese plate and Halloween-inspired candles at Marshall's this morning.

I hit Target yesterday with my boys and that's where I scored this adorable pumpkin pillow. There were only two left! So you better hurry to your local Target before they are gone, if you want one!

I also picked up two Chevron pumpkins from their DollarSpot.

And this pretty landed earlier in the week from Pottery Barn. It's patiently waiting for its debut for Halloween. I'd like to get another one, but I only shop PB when I have a coupon these days. Hopefully, they'll send me another coupon code before they sell out.

Jeanine

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My boys go back to school tomorrow. As you can imagine, we've been busy doing last minute summer activities with them and running school-related errands. I did find some time over the weekend to put out the first of my autumn touches.

White dollar store pumpkins and faux greens.

My favorite corner to decorate in the kitchen.

Neutrals on the bookcase.

Fabric pumpkins and scarecrows.

Jeanine

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I am obsessed with doing the laundry. Seriously, my husband is not allowed to go near the washing machine or dryer. And when my boys are older, they will be banned too. With that said, how excited was I when the folks at Selestial Soap sent me their MyGreenFills laundry detergent to try?!

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Jeanine

Note: I was provided free samples of the products mentioned in this blog post, however all opinions, comments, experiences and text is my own.