DIY bat cave

Although Cameron and I rent three rooms in a house, there is no excuse for not getting into the Halloween spirit! Not only do I love autumn, I love showing my appreciation and passion for different occasions. It also gives someone who is artistically inclined a creative outlet for their talents.

Today we’re making felt and paper bat Halloween décor to turn our office room into a bat cave. I originally found the idea off of Pinterest and the bat pattern is from Country Living. I’m using the felt bats I made last year combined with a new batch of paper bats to create a huge amount of bats. Cameron and I love Batman, so I thought I would make us a “Bat Cave”.

YOU CAN FIND DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THE BATS, HERE.

DIY Halloween garland

Although Cameron and I rent three rooms in a house, there is no excuse for not getting into the Halloween spirit! Not only do I love autumn, I love showing my appreciation and passion for different occasions. It also gives someone who is artistically inclined a creative outlet for their talents.

Today we’re making a Halloween garland to start theming out our office room into a bat cave. I’m using the felt bats I made last year combined with a new batch of paper bats to create a huge amount of bats, but more about bats on Monday, for now let’s work on setting the mood with lighting.

Let’s talk about supplies:

• I’ve purchased a twenty foot light strand to drape around the room with purple bulbs and black cords to fit with the theme of the room and Halloween. 
• To cover the exposed wiring in between each bulb I’ve purchased a yard and a half each of three different Halloween inspired fabrics. 
• To cut the fabric into strips, I borrowed a rotary cutter from my craftacular Mom. If you are cutting fabric this way, make sure to also use a cutting mat of some sort so you don’t damage your tables/floors. You can also use fabric scissors instead.

Cut each fabric into strips about 9 inches long by 1 to 2 inches wide.

Lay out the light strand and begin tying the fabric strips in knots on the exposed wiring between each bulb. You can do this any way you want, I like alternating fabrics.

Hang and enjoy!

Halloween costume plans

It’s that time of year to start thinking about Halloween costumes and to get started creating mine!

I am going indulge my nostalgic childhood delight and be Wish Bear of the Care Bears.

Once I've figured out all the details I will write up the instructions and post them here!

What are you all going to be for Halloween?

The bat colony

I feel the need to decorate Cameron and I’s first place festively according to what season it is. Not only do I love autumn, I love showing my appreciation and passion for the different holidays. It also gives someone who is artistically inclined a creative outlet for their talents.

Today we’re making felt bats for the Halloween décor. I originally found this idea on Pinterest, but the bat pattern is from Country Living.

Visit Country Living and print out the bat pattern.
Purchase stiffened felt or black card stock. I am using stiffened felt that I bought at Michael’s Craft Store. They only had two 8 X10 sheets of solid black left so I mixed it up a bit and bought a black felt with glitter in it.


Cut out the pattern. First test the size against your felt/cardstock. Fold the material in half and old it in front of the bat pattern. If you notice the wingtip poking out above the material, take a pencil and draw a line where the material ends. Trace a smaller outline within the original, with the wingtip ending where you drew the pencil line. And cut it out. Trace the pattern one more time on another sheet of plain white paper and cut them out. You should now have a total of two patterns.

Fold a sheet of felt in half and pin the three patterns to it. Cut out each bat. Unpin the pattern and unfold the bat. Repeat this as many times as you like.


Attach the bats to your wall. You can use an adhesive of your choice to attach the bats to the wall.