A Warm Welcome- Salt Dough Tiles

After finally taking down my Halloween wreath, my bare door screamed for adornment. I decided to forgo another wreath until December so after pulling out the salt and AP flour, I made tiles out of salt dough.

I used the recipe from Allrecipes.com:
4 cups AP flour
1 cup Salt
1.5 cups warm water

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. Mix flour and salt well. Gradually add water, stirring with a large spoon. Finish mixing with hands. Knead until soft and pliable.
3. Roll out on floured surface about 1/8 inch thick. Cut shapes with cookie cutters. Place on cookie sheets.

And that was where I stopped following directions. Instead of poking holes, I stuck paperclips into opposing sides. The instructions say to make these around an hour, but I started them at 200 degrees for an hour and then bumped up the heat to keep them from getting too puffy. Overall, I ended up baking them around 2 hours. Suffice it to say, one side of the tiles got a bit brown, but I actually love that look. That's why I chose the brown side for the lettering (that's not brown paint!). Letters where hand written with pencil and painted over with acrylic. Tiles were attached with small loops of twine and red ribbon is at the top.
You may be looking at this lovely decor and thinking "That's awfully long. It has to swing all over the place." You'd be right. For the first half hour, it did. After that I grabbed 2 small picture nails and tacked them above the C and last E and now the swinging and non-existent.

Music to craft to- Tristan Prettyman radio

Thrifty Halloween: Black and Orange Wreath

With the majority of my Autumn and Halloween decorations in storage at my parents' house right now, I decided I needed a way to start decorating- on the cheap. I found a plastic black and orange striped table cloth at Target for $3 (and ultimately used one and 1/5ish) and an old wire hanger in the deepest depths of my closet. After a few hours of tying strips to the now circular hanger, I had the wreath. Then, after a few days of looking at the plain wreath, I decided to add a jack-o-lantern, which I made with a scrap of orange craft foam and Martha Stewart glitter in the color "Fire Opal".

Happy Hallowen!

Music to craft to- Spooky