Belated Description of the Thanksgiving Door Decorations

My roommate and I realized immediately that if we really wanted to decorate our door for Thanksgiving/ Fall the first thing we needed was a wreath, but neither of us had a wreath. So instead of buying one I logged on to Pinterest to brainstorm some ideas. What I found was some scarf wrapped wreaths. I just happened to find a pretty brown scarf recently and my roommate had a steering wheel cover, but no car. So if you combine those you have the wreath pictured below.

We then decided that addinig leaves would make it even more fall like. So on our way walking across campus on our way back from lunch my roommate and I collected some of our favorite leaves. These are a great idea because they are free and alllllll over my campus. Also a really fun and relaxing outdoor activity. I think it would be really fun to do with kids. After we brought the leaves back we just stuck the stem sides of the leaves into the scarf. 

Then as Thanksgiving got closer I decided that I wanted to do turkeys but I wasn't quite sure how until I found this idea on Pinterest. I'm always looking for ideas to use toilet paper rolls, because I save them thinking they are soooo useful, but sometimes have trouble finding uses and I hate to just throw them away. Just used a toilet paper roll, a paper plates, glue/tape, something to color with, and some construction paper. 

I think this also would be a super fun project to do with kids. There are so many different ways to interpret and make a turkey that when a couple of my friends made some all of our turkeys looked completely different. We wound up with 3 turkeys around our door at the end. I found that they also make really cute center pieces or even napkin holders. good luck and I hope this inspired some holiday DIY. Will be posting my decorations for Christmas as soon as I do them. I have some great ideas and I can't wait to share them. =)

Decorated Door for Halloween

So me and my roommate wanted to decorate the door. She wanted to go to the party store, but i wanted to try a more pocket friendly version. I'm in college so its very important to try and save money wherever you can. So I have a craft shoe box in my closet and two weekends back  I had bought a pack of colored construction paper, cause construction paper is an extremely useful craft supply and the whole pack of 96 sheets only cost 2 bucks.

 So asked her why don't we make decorations instead. So we did =) and these are the results. I tried to use one sheet of each color. It makes you really think outside trying to use blue, pink, and purple for Halloween. I just took 7 pages and a couple hours. So it includes a moon, some bats, a blue ghost and a white ghost, a witchs hat with a spider on it, two Frankensteins, four pumpkins, a cauldron, and a "bloody" Boo. 

Decorating my Dorm with my Roommate: A How To

                

               This tutorial comes to you, because of my awesome roommate, Cristina. Who decided to decorate the room =). She also added the saying "Dismiss whatever insults your own soul" to her side of the room using the say technique. The hands and legs you see in the pictures are hers =)

    Before               

After

(It says "Normal is just a setting on your hairdryer)

Supplies needed:

• Letter Stencils
• Magazines
• Pencil/Pen
• Scissors
• Sticky Tack

 Step 1: Find a wall you would like to decorate! =)

Step 2: Lay out all of your letter stencils, so you can easily find any letters you need

Step 3: Take out your magazines

Step 4: Lay out your letter stencils in the form of the phase you'd like to spell. Just do the first couple words to keep and neat and also because you'll run out of letters.

Step 5: Select pages that you like. Try to avoid white, if your walls are white like mine. If not try to avoid the color of your walls.

Step 6: Lay your letter on the page that you like and try to get the most interesting part of the picture.

*Try to make sure that all the letters are oriented the same way on the magazine pages.

Step 7: Trace the letter on to the magazine dark enough that you can see it when you take the letter away.

Step 8: Follow the traced line and cut out the letters.

Step 9: Lay out the letters as you go, so you can make sure you are spelling everything correctly and you're not missing any letters. Once you have all the letters you can switch the letters that are the same to make the letters look nicer together.

Step 10: Use sticky tack or tape to attach the letters to the wall in whatever configuration that you'd like.

And you're done! =)

If you do this send me pictures! @ mylifewithyarn@gmail.com and I'll share them here =)