Author: Tim Kime

You’re gonna shiver with thrills and chills when you transform a Goodwill-found French street print by Transylvania-izing it for Halloween! For just pennies and using paints and pens, you, too, can easily turn a serene street scene into a creepy character community. 

TThis is a boo-tiful time of year with Halloween coming up soon.  There is still lots of time to transform your front door or add fun flair to your inside space by repurposing a bike wheel as a super cheerful Jack O’Lantern.  While this happy-faced pumpkin will make all who see him smile, you won’t be scared one bit because this is such an easy project.   All parts have been reused and given a new role as a unique, seasonal decorative piece.

The unofficial start of Fall is here, with students back in school, temperatures cooling, and leaves starting to change colors.  Honor Autumn by creating artsy arrangements for your home or to give as gifts.  Thrifted bud vases are matched with silk and dried flowers and accented with interesting items.  

“Leaf” no DIY parts behind!  Painted leaves, recently used as paint stamps, get transformed themselves as framed art.  It’s always fun to create something unexpected from items you might have previously discarded.  Real leaves painted silver now shimmer as original art.   

Inspired by a group art project where slices of real vegetables were used as stamps on canvases (see recent blog post), this DIY idea was brought from the garden inside to give a worn-out and weary dresser some sparkle and shine. This time, the seasonal twist was using plant leaves as stamps for a timeless transformation.