Spooky cupcake decorating and clothing swap

Got together with friends and did a clothing swap plus decorated some amazing homemade cupcakes. We had a blast and I hope to do something fun like this again soon. I went and got a ton of cool decorations at the after halloween sales at Joannes Fabrics. It was so inexpensive and easy to do.

Pumpkin Carving

Halloween is coming up so I wanted to share my pictures from last year. We did some pumpkin carving with friends last year and had a very good time. I started off my decorating with beautiful fall leaves that we collected from the ground and tying them to twine, then we places them up on our mantle of our fireplace in an ombre style.

Gothic wedding table holder DIY!

For my wedding I wanted movie style table holders with gothic frames for my Tim Burton themed reception. I know they have a lot of fun items on etsy but they can cost a fortune and I didn't see any table holders that were to my liking nor did I find many gothic table holders so like always the resourceful goth I decided to do it myself. I wanted to post  a small tutorial of how I did these. They were simple and relatively inexpensive. First I tried to find the most economically reasonable frames. I went with some gothic baroque looking holders that I found on Amazon for about 4 dollars each. They were already black so I was delighted that I didn't have to paint them myself. It really saved me some time. Next I went and found my favorite pictures of his films and measured out the size I needed for the frames. I printed them out on glossy (not matte) photo paper. If you want to capture the movie/cinema fancy poster look of movies go with the glossy but to save money you can also do matte if you want. I fitted them in the frame an voila! I purchased cheap black long stemmed roses to compliment the table holders and then had my caterer and decorator put together a few rose displays. They did it themselves and placed the roses in pretty vases and also had floating candles. You can save a bundle doing things yourself. Some places you can get flowers arranged for free and just get some used vases or ones for less money at a place like IKEA like we did.  Just check around. My table holders were a hit at the reception and I'm even keeping them for future use at gothic parties and get togethers. I would love to hear about some of your diy projects!!