I have two requirements when I plan out my holiday projects. 1) They must be easy. B) They must be cheap. And by cheap, I don’t mean like less than $50. I mean ideally less than $2. I want to buy one or two items at the dollar store, throw a little glitter or glue on top, and call it a night. I want my $2 bottle of wine to cost more and last longer than the project takes. I don’t want to have to open the second bottle of two buck chuck. That just triples my project cost.
Somehow, somewhere along the line, I lost my attention span. You’d think with all the projects I’m constantly doing, that I’d have a little more patience with making projects. You’d be wrong. I must have wasted all my patience on the twenty-five plus years of project-making. I’d like to claim a little ADD is responsible for this mess of a brain, but that would just be to get myself some adderall. Kidding guys….
I want my projects to be easier to complete than my mother stealing my trick-or-treating candy from me as a child. You all know the story, I’m sure your pathetic excuses for parents did the same thing to you. “Oh, Johnny! Before you eat any of that candy, I need to inspect it. You know, for razor blades and poison, things like that.” Somehow, every year without fail, all of my tootsie rolls were poisoned! Ugh the nerve of our neighbors! You’d think I grew up in the projects.
Put down your tootsie rolls for a second and let me tell you about this super simple Halloween DIY project. Buy a pillar candle from the dollar store, and a bottle of Matte Black spray paint ($.98 at Walmart). If you don’t have sticker letters at home, you’ll need a pack of those too. Stick the letters on, spray the candle black, wait for it to dry (this is about the time my patience is tested), and pull the stickers off. Yup. That easy.
Now back to the tootsie rolls.
Inexpensive DIY decor…that’s my kind of project. Thanks for sharing! Might have to make some for next year! 🙂
I feel like making these for all holidays! Cut the cost by using the spray paint more than once…Haha! 🙂
I think it was milk duds too……geez
Haha well at least you got something out of being a mother.
Hahaha, this just makes me think of all the times fashion bloggers go – splurge vs steal: all items on the “steal” list are less than $100! I’m like, less than $10 would be closer to a steal in my personal opinion! $2 crafts = the best crafts.
Right?!?! I HATE that! Whenever I see the “steals” I think, geez I wouldn’t even spend that much!
Cute! I saw you post this on Instagram the other day and then while I was going through my reader to catch up on posts I didn’t see your post! Now WordPress is asking me if I want to follow you so somehow between your pumpkin post and this one my WordPress unfollowed you? Weird!
Weird!! And I just had to approve your comment which is totally weird! Well at least you found me again! 🙂
Super cute! Very nice and so easy I love that! Great blog Sparkle glad to be here! XO!
Thanks Maureen!! Glad you visited, and enjoyed it. Typically my crafts are very simple, I don’t like too much difficulty when crafting or it loses its fun! 🙂