Valentine's Day Garland

Happy February! My favorite month, not only because I made my debut into this world on a sweet February 22nd day, but also because it is the month of love! I love decorating for any holiday, but Valentine's is one of my faves! I mean it is  just so cute and fun and who doesn't love hearts, red & pink, and sparkly things! 

To start off the month I decided to make some festive garland. I had most of the materials and the 2 things I didn't I got from the dollar store, so it was a super easy and cheap lil project.

Materials:
Cord String
Large Needle 
Pom Poms (just used 1 bag from the dollar store)
Loose Hearts Table Decor (got these from the dollar store, pretty much just thin foam core sparkly hearts)


After I had all my materials I just strung them all together using the large needle. Wah lah, easy peazy and a super cute result! 

Hope you all had a fun Super Bowl Sunday & Happy Love Month!

 xoxo, Jess

Painted Pumpkins

This weekend was my time to get our place all Halloween-y! I originally planned on carving pumpkins, but our neighbor advised me to wait since it was still in the 90's and they would probably rot. Welp after my quick heart crushing moment I decided on still getting crafty with my pumps and painting them.  And of course painting, turned into glitter bombing, because everything should be covered with glitter. Duh. 

 I think they turned out pretty cute. I am still determined to carve a few pumps, but will just have to wait till probably Hallo-eve! 

xoxo, Jess

Sparkle Pumpkins

I have held out long enough, but now that it is October, and the temp as dropped to under 100 I can officially start FALL & HALLOWEEN decorating! This fall I plan to do some legit decorating, because this is the first year that we live in a single family home rather than an apartment complex for the season...and I am so so so excited to get my craft on for it! 

Fall Decorating Phase 1: Pumpkins Sparkle Pumpkins
I usually do some sort of Sparkle Pumpkins around this time of year, and this year I am starting with some small ones for indoor, but plan on doing some larger ones for the front porch area. 

In the past I have used loose glitter to decorate the small pumpkins, but that gets real messy, even for this glitter lover...I draw the line when it is all up in my throat and eyeballs. This year...sequins! I initially started out hot gluing the sequins on, but that did not work well with the pumpkins waxy surface, so I quickly switched to Elmer's Craft Bond clear dual tip glue pen, which worked great.

I had picked up some roses from Trader Joe's and arranged them into clear vases, added the pumps and a couple gourds and wha lah...sparkly fall centerpiece. Oooohh how I love fall! 

And if you want to add a Halloween-y touch, throw in some skulls...or spiders...or zombie eyeballs....or blood sucking vamp fangs....what ever tickles your halloweeny! 

Happy October & decorating to all! 

xo, Jess