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10/25

DIY Pumpkin Succulent Planter

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Our love for succulents has never faded. We love them, year-round! So, recently when we took a trip to find pumpkins at a garden center and saw pumpkin planters with succulents, we were head-over-heels in love. We made our own versions of the pumpkin planter {we bought the one with the skeleton}. This no-carve Halloween arrangement can be made for friends and family this Halloween and Thanksgiving season, and when pumpkin season is over, transfer the arrangement to a more festive winter holiday base.

Materials:

Mini pumpkins, faux or real
Succulents, mini
Hot glue
Skulls and other fairy-size decorations
Moss, Spanish Moss
Glitter hairspray

Directions:

Step 1: Gather supplies.

Step 2: Glue a handful Spanish Moss to the top of the pumpkin.

Step 3: Insert the small succulents into the moss. Use a little hot glue if you have to keep them in place.

Step 4: Add any other types of moss and mini stems to the top of the pumpkin. Finally, glue a skull or fairy-garden accessory on top.

Step 5: Spray hair glitter on the arrangement. This can be wiped off later, but the sparkle is so cute!

You’re done. To keep the succulents alive, spray them with water.

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10/24

DIY Trolls Halloween Costume

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Can’t Stop This Feeling by Justin Timberlake is a song that’s been on repeat in our home all summer. Now with the anticipation of the movie Trolls {in theaters November 4), the song is being played even louder while simultaneously having a dance party! We’re so excited about the movie. Jessica’s kids wanted to be Poppy and Branch, two characters from the movie Trolls. Today she’s telling us how she made one Poppy costume and two Branch no-sew DIY Halloween costumes. You still have one week to make this costume before Halloween – you can do it!

Materials:

Felt, 23 green sheets {about .25 cents each), 1 light green sheet, 3 white sheets
White acrylic paint, Plaid Crafts
Peel-n-Stick permanent fabric fuse tape {this worked well for me, but Hello Wonderful made amazing felt costumes with a hot glue gun, so that’s an option, too}
khaki pants, cut like shorts
Turquoise sweatshirt, Wal-Mart
Pink pants and long sleeve shirt, Wal-Mart
Pink glitter boots, The Children’s Place
Grey long underwear, Costco
Troll wigs, Wal-Mart or Amazon
Black spray paint
Vests, Carters
Velcro
Faux flowers
Scissors {good for fabric}

Directions:

Branch Costume

Cut out felt leaves. I used a leaf cut out as my template, and then I cut, cut and cut some more.

Add Peel-n-Stick to the back of the leaves, and begin to layer the leaves on the vest, from the bottom-up.

Cut the khaki pants to be shorts.

Cut green felt squares and rectangles to place on shorts to look like patches.

For Branch, I needed a black wig, but couldn’t find one, so I spray painted a purple wig black.

The grey clothes underneath not only keep the kids warm, but it’s the color of the Trolls skin. Win-win!

Poppy Costume

Cut the sleeves off a turquoise sweatshirt. I used the Peel-n-Stick tape to ‘hem’ the cut seams.

Cut petals with white felt. I used a cut-out petal, similar to the leaf vest process. Add Peel-n-Stick to the back of the petals and add the petals to the bottom of the dress to match Poppy’s design.

Paint the bottom of Poppy’s dress to look like the real thing. I free-handed the design on the bottom.

Use scraps from the sweatshirt sleeves to make Poppy’s headband. I used the Peel-n-Stick tape to make the headband edges more seamless.

Paint faux flowers turquoise and hot glue them to the headband. Cut small felt petals to glue behind the flowers.

Poppy’s dress has a little wrap around the neck, so I used the hood of the sweatshirt to wrap around the neck. To keep it in place, I added a small strip of velcro to the hood and sweatshirt.

GIMME’ MORE!
Check out all these other amazing no-sew costumes!

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Filed Under: holiday, holiday, lifestyle, party Tagged: branch, costume, diy, felt, halloween, holiday, kids, leaves, party, poppy, trolls

10/06

DIY Halloween Costume Contest Award

And the best costume goes to……{insert drum roll}

The best Halloween costume award is always a big deal. The friendly competition among our kids and their peers is something they look forward to every year. The best costume, the cutest costume, the scariest costume, the funniest costume and the most original costume are awarded to kids in every grade. To properly reward them, they receive a small gift or acknowledgement. The DIY Halloween award that we are sharing today is not only affordable and adorable, but it is an edible {who doesn’t love a giant Hershey’s chocolate bar} medal that can be worn with pride, it can be customized with names and any costume category, plus it’s a favor bag so gift cards and notes can be easily inserted.

We can’t take full credit for this idea. Jessica’s friend Atlanta introduced us to this idea last year, and we loved it so much, we decided to make our own version. Thanks, girl.

Materials:

Caution tape, Oriental Trading
Hershey’s Chocolate Bar, giant
Masking tape
Scissors
Double-sided tape
Bat cut-outs, we used our Silhouette electronic cutting machine
Black card stock {we used Astrobrights Papers} and gold spray paint if you want the bat to be gold
Chalkboard favor bag, Target $1 and $3 section
Chalkboard marker

Directions:

Step 1: Gather materials.

Step 2: Use Silhouette software to design the bat, and then use the machine to cut out the bat, or use a template online. Spray paint the bottom of the bat {optional}.

Step 3: Write the award on the envelope with a chalkboard marker.

Step 4: Use the double-sided tape to tape the bat to the envelope {above the text}.

Step 5: Cut the caution tape to the size you want.

Step 6: Flip the chocolate bar face down. Line up the caution tape evenly on each side. Use masking tape to tape the caution tape to the chocolate bar. We used two strips on each bar.

Step 7: Insert a gift card to a favorite local spot for kids {optional}. Get a panel of judges, and once all the votes have been tallied, reward the best dressed with their DIY giant chocolate bar medal.

Note: When no one is home but kids during the day, and a project must get done, the kid becomes the photographer. These last two photos are property of Jessica’s youngest, Jackson {age 4}. He loved every second playing ‘photographer’ of the day. And, since no one is around or organized enough to have an actual costume ready, the plaid shirt totally plays off as the best lumberjack ever, right?!

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09/21

DIY Halloween Lights

We really don’t like spiders. We scream when we see them in our homes, and fear them crawling on us. We have recurring nightmares after a villa experience in Tuscany {which was amazing, and we would do it all over again}. Along with the wonderful grapes, vines, greenery, olive trees and an old villa came spiders…big ones! To this day, we still dream that spiders are crawling on us, or people next to us, and although we seem to be ‘awake’ and we think we really see them, they are just a bad dream.

Despite our fears, spiders crawled their way onto our DIY Halloween balloons, and now they are shining bright for our DIY Halloween lights. The creepy spider tattoos from Oriental Trading were our source of inspiration, once again. Tis the season of Halloween.

Materials:

Spider tattoos, Oriental Trading
Ping pong balls {table tennis balls}, Oriental Trading
Sponge with water
Knife
String lights, clear on a white wire

Directions:

Step 1: Gather ping-pong balls. Remove the piece of plastic from the tattoo and cut the spider tattoos into individuals spiders.

Step 2: Place the spider tattoo face down onto the ping-pong ball, press down and apply water all over the back of the tattoos with a wet sponge or wash cloth. Apply it just the way you would on skin.

Step 3: Insert a sharp knife into the back-side of the ping-pong ball {opposite of the spider}. Make an X or a T with the knife.

Step 4: Insert the light into each ping-pong balls.

Step 5: Find the closest outlet, and let the spiders hang.

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09/14

DIY No-Carve Pumpkin with Customized Jean Pocket

We can hardly believe the watermelons and pool bags are being replaced with pumpkins and scarves. But, the fall season is upon us, so we dove right in with a good ‘ole DIY country pumpkin. Maybe it’s our Colorado roots, but there is something nostalgic about farms this time of year for us. The beautiful changing leaves, campfires, pumpkin patches with the kids, corn fields, bales of hay, rustic farm houses and apple picking.

As we were going through our kids closets, we found old jeans with holes in the front. So, why not upcycle an old pair of jeans for a DIY pumpkin with a customized jean pocket? And, wait, the best part was that it didn’t entail any cutting or gut removal of the pumpkin. We’ll do that closer to Halloween, but for now this no-carve pumpkin was stress and mess free, which made us happy.

We tried our new Silhouette CAMEO 3 for this project, and we are so in love with the capabilities of it. This is just a blimp on its cutting radar. But, it’s a cute blimp, and a great way to welcome fall, that’s for sure!

This customized jean pocket pumpkin is so easy, you can do it within 30 minutes. If you really get into it, add a belt through the belt loops.

Materials:

White pumpkin, faux {use a fake pumpkin for this, so you can re-use it year after year}
Silhouette Heat Transfer, yellow
Old pair of jeans
Scissors
Hot glue and glue gun
Bandana
Silhouette CAMEO 3 electronic cutting machine

Directions:

Step 1: Cut the pockets and belt loops from an old pair of jeans, or the kids jeans.

Step 2: Design a fall phrase on your Silhouette software. We bought the adorable Happy Fall Y’all for a whopping .99 cents. Cut the design according to Heat Transfer instructions on the packaging. Remove the yellow ’empty space’ from one side of the heat transfer material.

Step 3: Press the design onto the jean pocket.

Step 4: Place a cloth over the pocket with the design, and use an iron to set it. We counted to 30, and then peeled up just a corner of the design to make sure it was set onto the pocket before removing the plastic entirely. Once the design is set, remove the plastic.

Step 5: Use a hot glue gun to glue the pocket onto the pumpkin. Glue the belt loops, too.

Step 6: Insert a bandana, wheat, cotton or whatever ‘accessory’ you want into the pocket.

Step 7: Use the Silhouette CAMEO 3 to cut colorful leaves you can stick to the wall. Dust off your cowboy boots, and a hat, and you have a lovely country fall scene.

Happy Fall Y’all!

Thanks to Silhouette America for making this post possible. We loved Silhouette America since the inception of our blog, and would love them even if we didn’t receive product from them. All opinions expressed are our own. Thanks for supporting the companies that support j. sorelle.

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Filed Under: diy, holiday, lifestyle Tagged: cowboy, diy, fall, halloween, holiday, jeans, pumpkin, silhouette america, upcycle

DIY Pumpkin Succulent Planter

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