All Hollow's Eve is very near! Decorations on a (tiny) budget...

Oh, how I LOVE Halloween decorations more than any other! I am so lucky to be able to drool over so many awesome (or add your own very positive adjective here) blogs with so many fabulous ideas on fall decorating! I have been inspired by so many and I wish that I could list all of them, but right now, I'm going to list my top 3 fall-inspired blogs.

#1 would definitely have to be Cherry's Jubilee

#2 is Shore(house) Chic

#3 is The Cottage Gals

and there are so many more!

These girls all inspired me to get a little creative in the Halloween decor department and so...

I showed you this picture before...

and this pic of things found at Goodwill... And I started my Halloween projects weeks ago, but finally just got around to finishing, as goes most of the things around my house these days.

So, I used the wonderful $6 "glass bell jar-like thing on a pedestal" as my centerpiece with a real little white punkin' in it along with some faux berries that were on sale for $4 (and I got way more than needed...maybe I'll add some to my door decor). I painted the two .85 candlesticks black (I used a black textured spray paint) and glued the faux berries and faux punkins' onto the top (so they'll be easy to put out every year).This three tiered pillar stand was $2.25 and was a brownish color. I also spray-painted this with the black textured spray paint and glued the faux berries and punkins' on.
I bought a wonderful Halloween chip-board/paper/sticker kit from, where else, but Goodwill for $5. I thought that was a lil' high, but found that the materials go a long way! The tray was a dingy metal tray that I found at a yard sale for $1, I spray painted it with the same textured black spray paint (love the texture) and thought it would work well with a lil' vignette I had going on. I found the $1 frames from Walmart, used the aforementioned papers to make the frames into plaques, bought the wooden 3-D letters for .30 each at Ben Franklin, covered the letters with the paper and added the stickers. I inked the edges of the letters so the wood wouldn't show and glued the letters with Super Tape to the "plaques", added the real gourds and voila.Here I used the same paper as above, a frame from the $1 store (painted black), and a large white wooden "H" (painted black, of course) that I had bought long ago for .50 and didn't know what to do with. Put it all together in about 5 minutes.
Here I used a purple (painted black) tin tile frame from the $1 store and added ephemera that I bought awhile back along with the same paper and stickers.
It's just something about homemade decorations that make them so much more enjoyable to look at!Happy Halloween decorating y'all!