Bunting and Balls and Pedestals, OH MY!

I am super excited about how this little gem turned out, I can hardly contain myself!

I HAD to make the DIY cloche from Thrifty Decor Chick. It looked too easy for too little dollars and produced too fabulous of a piece for me NOT to try it! And, in her words, I LURVE it!!!

So, I started with this candlestick and this cheeseplate:

The candlestick was a goodwill find for $1.51 and the cheeseplate was $4.95, you can see where I found this little beauty here in my Fabulous Thrift Shop finds post.

I had to use wire cutters to take off those metal thingys sticking up out of the candleholder, and I used a pair of pliers to pry off the feet of the cheeseplate.

I then sprayed a few coats of paint

And ended up with this:

Oh, the beauty!

So, next I needed something to go under the glass dome... so of course, I decided to make it instead of buy it cause we're doin the Dave thing too. So once again to browse Thrifty Decor Chick for a DIY and lookie what I found... Jute Balls!

Here's the how to...

Materials

Styrofoam Balls - any size

Scissors

Jute rope or twine

scissors

Elmer's Glue

(and yes, those are black eyed peas... more on that later)

Step One:
Poke a small hole into the ball where you are going to start your twine. This is so that the end goes down in somewhere and as you're rolling it around with your sticky glue fingers, you don't keep catching the end and pulling it up!

Continue to wrap around the ball from center to end. This is much, much easier than trying to start and roll out from the center/top.

Then, once you get one side done, start again at the middle and work your way back to the top on the other side, and TA DA!

So now for the Halloween Bunting!

This was fun, and added a little sophistication to my Halloween decor!

I figured out how to do the bunting from the paper flower tutorial, and you can see that full post here.

Materials:

Scrapbook Paper - I used a solid orange and a striped one with black, gray and white

Circle cutter

Hot glue gun

Small hole punch

Scissors or Xacto knife

Directions

Cut out circles with circle cutter - or just trace something small and cut them out.

Cut circles in half and punch holes at either side of the straight side of your half circle. (These will be used to string the banner together)

Cut a small strip of paper (approx. 1/4" to 3/8" wide and about 6" long) and fold back and forth in an accordian.

Bend the ends of the accordian strip together and glue into the shape of a half circle.

Glue accordian half circle to flat half circle and then string ribbon through the holes.

I alternated going behind and in front of the circles with the ribbon.