crafting is my middle name

Today {minus a miserable run-in} was quite pleasant.

Clear blue skies, crisp fall weather, and...HALLOWEEN CRAFTING!

L and I got together today to make a few halloween crafts.

{It's amazing to have a friend who not only shares my love of halloween, but also my love of crafting}

So our first project was based off of this:

{of course...found on pinterest.com}

So in order to achieve these gems we bought:

styrofoam cones (2 sizes)

yarn: yellow, burnt orange, white

and

we used a hot glue gun

It really was quite simple:

1) Mark off the boundaries for each color (we had the middle/orange part be slightly thinner than the white and yellow portions)

2) Hot glue the yarn to the styrofoam (I found that the best way to get the yarn to stay on the edges of the cone was to hot glue all the way around, but the parts glued to the middle of the cone only required a little bit of glue)

3) Wrap the yarn around and around...and around

4) Hot glue the end of the yarn at the stopping point for that color.

Mid-craft

Watch as L wraps the yarn around to finish up her candy corn!

The candies are coming along!

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My next project was also inspired by pinterest.com

Before:

After (some hot glue and some ribbons):

Love it!

And here's the whole gang of halloween crafts:

{{thanks L for your help today! It was so fun!}}