Cardboard Haunted House

 Morning Blogland. I have returned with a Halloween decoration that is easy as all get out to create. All you need is some cardboard & a can of spray paint.

 The cardboard is very forgiving if you are spray painting over it as you will see in the pic below. Draw your pattern on the cardboard & if you make a booboo, not to worry as you will be painting over the bad stuff.

Here I have my pattern drawn out

My mistakes are circled but once the pattern is cut out & painted.....nobody but us has to know!

The sun is glaring on it a bit but this turned out pretty awesome. It is going to work to be put up in the window so I painted both sides.

(The close up shot again)

Have fun with your cardboard people! 

Nest I will show you how to create faux wood on your cardboard......so stay tuned.

Sneak peak:

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The Hubs Went Dumpster Diving

Hey Blogland! The Hubs went dumpster diving the other day. He came out a bit smelly but carrying these sconces & small mirrors. (what is up with Blogger these days? crazy stuff happening)

Anywho, I decided these would go along quite nicely with my Mrs. Lovett paper doll framed thingy but they needed a makeover first!

So I took them apart. The mirrors seemed to have quite a few years of dust & grime on them.

This is a riveting shot of me removing the hanging apparatus from the back of one of the mirrors! Thought you all would love seeing a shot of the action.

Being spray painted black!














Painting complete & ready for super cleaned up mirrors!









One of the glass candle holders was filled with a melted candle. I just soaked the thing in hot water until the wax was pliable & I flattened it out & it fell right out of the holder.

Small mirrors done!

Stay tuned to see these bad boys teamed up with Mrs. Lovett!







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Shoe Redo Be Do Be Do

 Yesterday.....I did not have to go to work! I am so happy. So I pretty much didn't do anything. But I did finally redo a pair of shoes. Got the idea from all the shoes I have seen redone here in Blogland. A friend of mine gave me a pair of shoes a few years ago & they have been sitting in a box in my closet cause they are white. Yup. I do not do white shoes unless they are a pair of these:

 which you can wear with jeans, shorts or a cute summery skirt.

 I know you have all heard the fashion rule of not wearing white after Labor Day. Well in my book, even the day before Labor Day still comes after Labor Day of the year before. So....no wearing white shoes! (ever for me)

The shoes in question here were not new so I could not return them to the store or anything & they were kinda scuffed a bit. They looked exactly like this:

And the reason they look exactly like this is because this is the offending pair of shoes.

I mean I did not think anything was whiter than my legs right now but these most definitely are!

So I taped & stuffed as I have seen others do before me. But before spraying them the color I wanted them, I primed them first.

When the Hubs came out & saw me spraying the shoes this color, he just looked at me & raised his brow. I told him "No" that was not the color they will be when finished. That is the color of my primer paint. (he can be such a twit)

Next came two good coats with the black spray paint. They are just shiny like that cause the paint was just applied. I let them dry & boy did I get lucky. It had been over cast all day & as soon as I brought the shoes inside, the rain came. Not a lot but enough.

Now I have a pair of shoes I can wear with whatever & not be embarrassed out of my skull.

Look it.

Only a bit of the black spray paint managed to sneak its way in under the stuffing & tape. I love these shoes now & will be wearing them with many different items.

So I just want to send a big Thank You out to those in Blogland who inspired me to do this instead of  tossing the white shoes in the garbage.

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