Holiday Banner (festive easy way to decorate)

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I love holiday banners, they are such a fun, easy, inexpensive way to decorate, I found this banner last year at Target and I love it, even if it was the only thing we put up in our house it would feel festive so I thought I’d share an easy way to be festive without taking a lot of time putting up decorations or spending a lot of money. A banner can go anywhere, on a wall. over a fire place, hanging from a Bannister, etc. so here’s a way to add a little Halloween or fall cheer simply, and if your kids are like mine they love to be festive so you’ll be the coolest mom when pull out one of these cute festive banners. Check Target they always have cute stuff like this, I haven’t looked this year but they may have something like the one you see here. I also looked on Amazon and found a bunch of inexpensive cute ones that got good reviews, here, here, here, here, here, here, and, here. Not all of these say Happy Halloween, some of them are just fall colors or have a fall theme so you could keep them up through Thanksgiving.

Miss Fiona’s Stupendous Pumpkin Pies (Our favorite Halloween book and tradition)

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This is one of our FAVORITE books and it is a part of a very fun Halloween tradition. My sister in law Jenny told us about this book years ago and we bought it and have loved it ever since (Thank you Jen!). Every year when we get out our Halloween decorations this is one of the first things my kids look for when digging through the decoration boxes, they love it. The story is as you can guess about a Witch named Miss Fiona, she is quite the lady and it is a sweet story with a cute moral that looks are not always a good judge of character. I don’t want to give away all the fun to the story so I’ll stop there, but you’ll love it. Each October we like to get this book out, read it and and make Pie, not all my kids are a fan of straight pumpkin pie so sometimes we do 1 pumpkin and then another flavor. This year we made a pumpkin cheesecake (which everyone loved) and a Huckleberry cheesecake, if you aren’t into making pies you can just buy one (we’ve done that too:). I love fun traditions that my kids look forward too and that bring us closer together as a family. Here’s a link to where you can get the book and I am sure they sell it at book stores as well. This link is for the soft cover, the hard cover on amazon was expensive but the soft cover was a great deal. It’s been quite a few years since we bought it, if you want the hard cover you can check bookstores around you or maybe buy it used on amazon.

*This is a great Family Home Evening activity for the month of October if you do Family Home Evening at your house.

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Painting Furniture (DIY project lifesaver, one tiny little roller)

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All these projects I painted myself using this amazing tiny little roller. Seriously the best little painting buddy when doing a DIY painting project. After you use this little roller you’ll never go back to using anything else. I started painting my piano with a brush and has so much trouble, in my efforts to look for something that would give me a better finish I stumbled across this little roller and have used it for every project since. I am just finishing up my kitchen table refinish project and i’ll post a picture of that when I am done.

DIY roller

Here’s a step by step of what I do for prepping and painting a DIY furniture paint project.

  1. If the surface needs roughing up I use Liquid sandpaper to do the job (so much easier than sanding, here is a link but you can buy it at any home improvement store).
  2. I paint the whole thing with my tiny roller (picture shown above, I got mine at home depot here is a similar one on Amazon but I can’t see it super close up so I don’t know if they are exactly the same, they are the same size and look very similar, but I know you can find the one in the picture, that I used, at Home Depot).
  3. As I am painting if I cant reach a corner or tight spot with the roller (I seriously can paint 97% of everything I paint with the roller) I use a foam brush like this.
  4. If needed I add a second coat… and I am finished. The best and easiest way to paint a DIY project.
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