Been a Little Busy

Hey Everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts, I've been putting together a Baby shower. I want to post the neat decorations I've been doing...but the person I'm throwing the shower for reads my blog. So my lips are zipped until after the shower. And then I promise I'll have some neat things for all of you.

WINNER!

Anitha S. R. !!! Congrats! 2 Pairs of Earrings coming your way!

Easy last minuet costumes

We have been posting a lot of the costumes that we have been working on this year. Although they are SUPER AWESOME, sometimes you need an easy costume, or cheap/free costume, or a costume that you can throw together in 10 mins. We can do that too. In fact growing up, those are the only kind of costumes we ever really did. (Mom doesn't think costumes are as FUN as we do :) )

PIRATE COSTUME:

Almost EVEYONE has what they need to put together a pirate costume. Bandana for your head, you can do a button up shirt, a solid T or a stripped T. If you have an old T that is to big the the intended Pirate that would be best. Then you can cut it up a bit, make it look ragged. The the bottom and the sleeves like this:  VVVVVVVVV. Throw on a vest if you have one, and an adult belt over the shoulder is a nice touch. You can use regular pants or find some old shorts or sweat pants and cut them like the shirt. Tie a scarf or sash around the waist if you have one and BOOM you have a pirate. 

This is one I did when I was 12. Trick or treating was 10 minuets away and I had NO costume. Mom helped me put this together. 

BABY

 Baby footie PJ's stuffed with paper (or what ever you have on hand) A baby blanket pined around the back of my neck, and the baby "body" pinned to the blanket. We pinned the hands together and stuck a bottle in there. With one hand I held the baby up so it was sitting on something and not just dangling  and with the other hand I held out the diaper bag for my candy. This one got some GOOD laughs. :)

Any kind of Animal is SO easy. You don't have to buy a costume. I made little ears out of felt. (you can use Construction paper, craft foam or scraps of fabric too)

I cut out the shape and used my hot glue gun (tape, staples, or glue would also work) 

And I glued a little loop to go over a head band. 

 Add spots with colored duct tape, felt, craft foam, fabric, or draw on it the clothes with a sharpie. You can sew, glue, tape or pin the spots on.

 Lighten McQueen

I put this together for my 2 year old last year who LOVED Lightening, but didn't like costumes. I cut out the lightening bolt out of felt and sewed it on a red jacket. He still wears it. :)

Did we get your wheels turning?

Giveaway!

Hey DIY Project Crazy fans! We love doing costumes, but we want to hear from you! What kind of costumes are you needing help with. What would you like to see turned into a costume? Comment on this post with a costume idea you'd like to see and enter for your chance to win 2 pairs of handmade earrings. 14k gold plated or sterling silver backs. This giveaway is for non pierced ears too. You get to pick out of the earrings I have made and decide if you'd like clip on's or pierced. These make great gifts and aren't sold anywhere. I started making earrings because I couldn't find any cheap enough that I liked. Like everything else on this blog it was a DIY project. So get those comments flowing and enter for your chance to win 2 pairs of fantastic earrings! Those who follow the blog will get an extra two entries! Entries will end tomorrow morning at 11am. (valid for US residents only) ****Sorry for the mix up. I entered in the wrong ending day for Rafflecoptr. Im trying to fix it now and because of the mix up we will leave the contest open till tomorrow. wednesday)
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Splatted Witch

Hilarious halloween decoration for your front yard. Start with 4 sticks of wood. Make 2 black for the arms, and paint 2 stripped for socks. You're going to need some long screws or nails to keep them sturdy on your tree. Then to keep it an all weather witch, use a black trash bag for the cape, and foam sheets for shoes and hair. Cut your shoes out and hair out. Just make the hair pointy so it sticks out of the bottom of your hat. Screw the shoes to the leg sticks and after your cape is up, nail your hair to the tree and the hat over top. A pair of rubber washing gloves stuffed with walmart sacks finish it off. And for that special touch, don't forget your stick witch broom. After the broom is made it takes a total of 3 minutes to put on your tree. If it's really windy tack down your hat, hair and cape so it covers your witch.

Homemade Witches Broom

A witches broom made from sticks in your backyard.

It's fall, that means windy days. Most of you probably have branches in your yard that have blown off your tree. So annoying to have so many branches in your yard. But I found a way to use those branches for halloween decorations. You'll need some sticks from your yard, and some floral wire, and hot glue wouldn't hurt either.

Break your branch into the same size pieces. Make two piles, one for smaller filler sticks, and one for the larger ones. Start with a wider straightish stick. Take some floral wire and wrap it around the end of one of you sticks from pile 2. Then attach to the bottom of your straight stick, and repeat. I must say this is VERY time consuming. But, it's a virtually free decoration. Once you have all your large sticks wrapped around, stick your smaller ones in as fillers. Then take a bendable twig (one that was fresh off the tree, or soaking wet works best) and wrap it around the sweeping part of your broom to give it the finishing touch. Hot glue wiggly pieces down and then set your broom where you will to give your house that spooky touch.

Also works great for a splatted tree witch.

Glove pattern

So I was going to make some cool gloves for the Darth Vader costume, that extend up the arm and have that little flare thing going on like Vader's gloves. I found this glove pattern on Google Image Search, and all I had to do differently was add the extended portion. 

So I cut them out this morning and then as I was starting to zig zag around the edges so the fabric I got wouldn't fray I remembered something. I HATE sewing TINY details. And to make these for a 3 year old, they are quite small...so I stopped  I'm going to opt for $.97 black knit gloves from Wal Mart. . But I thought I'd share the pattern any way. 

Remember the trick of saving the image to your computer, then zoom in or out till you get the size you want, then trace it off the screen.