Welcome to the October Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop! The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the participants of this hop (and you too) to not just pin, but to make it happen! Since it's Fall y'all, and Halloween is just around the corner, I'm sharing a Candy Corn Messy Bun Beanie I made for my daughter. I was inspired by a Pin of the Delaney Hat Pattern I found on Pinterest.
The first day of Fall is just around the corner, so I've been making Fall wreaths for the house. I recently created a Floral Candy Corn Wreath, and I had a bunch of flowers left over from that project and other candy corn inspired crafts, so I decided to use up those flowers by making another floral wreath. All the flowers for this wreath came from the Dollar Tree, so this is a Dollar Tree Craft! 😄
It's time for the Dollar Store Craft Challenge! I've joined with several of my blogging friends for the September Dollar Store Craft Challenge, and we're each creating a project using items from the Dollar Store. Since Fall is just around the corner, I decided to make a candy corn wreath using flowers from the Dollar Tree.
For my daughter's first Halloween, she was only 2 months old, and we got her a ladybug costume from some store. For my daughter's second Halloween, I decided to get crafty. So I made her a Candy Corn Fairy costume. I wanted her to be more than just a piece of candy corn. So I went to the local fabric store and bought orange, yellow, and white fabric. I dug through my fabric tub and found my Retro Mae sewing pattern, and I got to work. The Retro Mae pattern (by Jane McKinlay Cluff) only has ruffles on the back of the romper, but I decided to added ruffles to the front as well. After I completed the romper part of the costume, I visited the fabric store again to purchase a couple orange feather boas, and I went to the Dollar Tree to buy the orange fairy wings. I used my hot glue gun to glue the feather boas onto the wings. I am very pleased with this costume. Too bad children outgrow things so fast...
Several years ago, I made a wreath for my mom featuring crocheted candy corn and lots of white, orange, and yellow flowers. The wreath I made for her has always been one of my favorite wreath creations, and I finally got around to making one for myself.
For special occasions, I like to send handmade gifts to my close family and friends. So for my mother's birthday, I sent her some candy corn mug rugs. My mom likes when I make stuff for her, and I know she likes candy corn. I like making owls, so I made one shaped like an owl, and the other is shaped like candy corn.
I made a trip to JoAnn for some yellow, orange, white, and candy corn fabric. I put the fabric that I used for the mug rugs in my caddy.