Boo! Halloween Decor

I finally got around to putting some Halloween decorations together.  I had been a total slacker, mostly because it just doesn't feel like fall around these parts, but I decided this weekend something had to go up, or I would miss it. And I didn't want to miss Halloween. 

I took a straw wreath I already had (which was wrapped with yarn) and wrapped it in strips of this black and white striped fabric I had gotten at a garage sale a while back.

Let me tell you, I am NEVER EVER wrapping a wreath in YARN ever again!  Wrapping in fabric is SOOOO much easier, and I think it looks just as cute. 

It took me about FIVE minutes to cut the fabric in 4-5 inch strips and wrap it around the wreath. I simply secured it with two straight pins, so it will be easy to unwrap and wrap again with different fabric.

I used more fabric strips (in orange) to make the messy bow.

I'm convinced fabric wrapped wreaths are the new yarn wrapped wreaths, what do you think?

A simple "Boo!" banner was made by cutting bunting triangles out of construction paper, gluing on letters cut by my cricut, and stringing on some jute.

I love the way it turned out!

Now go and make yourselves some fabric wrapped wreaths and then go crazy over how much time you spent yarn wrappin last year :)

Happy Halloween!!!

Looking back...at what Jeff built: Front Yard Fence

Jeff was making magic long before I started blogging, so I want to feature something he built back in the day (meaning over a year ago) every so often.  Today I'm sharing one of our first and proudest projects (ignore the grammar there): our front yard fence.  We designed and built it together from scratch and we are still so happy with the results. 

This is what the fence looked like before.  We have a nice big and flat front yard, so it just made sense to keep it fenced in. The original fence looks nice enough in this picture, but in reality sections of it were falling down and it was just really beat up.  Not to mention, it wasn't really our style. 

We wanted something different and modern and had seen a few homes in our old neighborhood that had horizontal fencing.  We decided to go with it, and this is the result.

 Although, Jeff did all the heavy lifting, he did enlist my help in assembling the fence slats.  And I became a pro with the nail gun. {A word about my work attire...I figure if I have to work in the hot sun, I might as well try to get a tan.  Anyone with me on that?} 

 Jeff designed the fence with a cap on top and then drilled little holes in it to put these solar powered lights in the fence.  They are the kind that you are suppose to stick in the ground.  Jeff just broke the stake portion off and stuck the little knob into the pre-drilled hole.  Its definitely MacGyvered (or should I just say MacJeffed? ...I'm laughing at my own bad joke right now), but its been holding up well over the last two years.