Tonight my little guy and I decided to make our annual Halloween decorations. But this year besides our usual Jack-O-Lantern carving and pumpkin seed roasting, we decided to decorate our mantle as well. I wanted to use only things that I already had around the house. I started several weeks ago by getting some branches off our willow tree. I forgot left them outside to dry a bit and then I simply spray painted them with black paint. I used the same Rustoleum Black Hammered paint I had left over from the patio table project I'd done over the summer. I then took my new favorite metal bucket that I found at this cool, little, downtown antique shop (which I blogged about here. ) I also found the three medicine bottles during that bargain shopping excursion. I decided to make some spooky labels and remembered that I had seen some pre-made! Yippee for me! All I did was resize them to fit my bottles. It would have been so much easier, I think, if I had printed them on labe...
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