Fun Find: Festive Homemade Halloween Wreath

Visit the Swell Life website for fun ideas and crafty inspirations. I especially love her post detailing her 24 crafts created in 24 hours. One of the projects she created was this really cute and relatively inexpensive Halloween wreath using black boas and glass and plastic ornaments.

For full details on how to create her Frightfully Funky Wreath, click here.

Homemade Halloween Decor

Check out designer Eddie Ross' website for great step-by-step instructions on making your own cute and festive Halloween decorations like centerpieces, wreaths and napkin rings. He provides detailed instructions and pictures for these spooky and cute creations: http://www.eddieross.com/eddie_ross/2009/10/fiendish-feather-wreath.html

Fun ways to decorate your pumpkin

Ways of decorating your pumpkin are as endless as your imagination. The pictures above from Martha Stewart and the Better Homes and Gardens website show new twists on the traditional idea of pumpkin carving. Try using doilies, black marker, tacks, ribbon, glitter or other spooky accessories like plastic mice to dress up your pumpkin.

Fun Find: Make your own Halloween Candy Bouquets

The Incredible Edible Crafts website gives you step-by-step instructions to create cute candy bouquets including this Halloween bouquet.

Sign up for their e-mail newsletter and they'll send two free books with detailed instructions on making candy bouquets, fruit and vegetable arrangements and edible crafts for kids.

The website provides great pictures and ideas for making crafts and gifts. Here's the link: http://ediblecraftsonline.com/index.htm