well, it's officially a week into october and i was inspired to make some halloween crafts for the apartment last night. not that we need them, we already live in a basement floor of a century old building so it's doing fairly well on the creepy factor all it's own.

i went to michael's and perused the aisles until i came up with some ideas. i knew i wanted to create a spiderweb out of yarn, but i didn't want it to come off too eerie and creepy. i like cutesy halloween, not terrifying halloween. i found a chipboard spider cutout for...wait for it...$1! it was perfect.

really, it's trial and error with this project. make an X with yarn trimmings and scotch tape. just don't make it too perfect. it looks so much better if it has imperfections like a real spider web would.

after you make your imperfect X it's time to start weaving the web. just knot a piece of yarn wherever you'd like to start and on each intersection go over and loop back around to secure it. you'll get annoyed and want to quit, but don't! it'll come out great once you step back and take a look!

and there you have it! a very effective decoration for about two dollars and fifty cents! can't beat that.

i also knew i wanted to do a little something to our tiny bar area. it's a fun area to decorate. i found some chipboard bats in the same area as i found the spider. they were also a dollar each which is awesome. i took down the mirror that is usually above the bar and hung three of the bats in a flying pattern with some tape. so easy! i was originally going to put black glitter on them, but it looked kind of gross so i washed it off and just kept them how they were. i'm pretty happy with it.

i also got some small skulls to put on the bar and elsewhere. i painted and glittered them up to make them less eerie and a tad more cutesy.