Do You Ever Make Your Own...

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.....Halloween decorations? Tonight I finally decided to get off my butt and not be glued to the computer all day and night and start decorating my apartment for Halloween. I still need to decorate the outside of the door and plan to do that either tomorrow or the next day. So after I came home from both doing a bit of grocery shopping and stopping by to visit a friend I got cracking at decorating. Now naturally I have quite a lot of store bought decorations that I've collected over the years, but then I've done some rather cute homemade decorations. One of the simplest I do is to make "ghosties" out of either tissues, paper towels (Bounty works best), and even medium and/or kitchen sized garbage bags. What I do say for the tissues, is take one tissue, then another and cut it in half and crumple it and stuff the center of the other tissue with the crumpled up one..then gather at the top and tie it with either black or orange yarn..then use a marker to make the eyes, nose and mouth. Well I tonight I wanted to hang one of my larger ghosties on my wall, but thought, nuts white and white just would look kind of weird, so wanted a black ghostie for a change, but didn't have any black garbage bags...then I remembered I had some small sized black grocery bags (the kind one often gets at a dollar store when buying there)--so grabbed two of the bags and started stuffing the top for the head part....but then something new struck me. The way the bag was shaped it lend itself for "ears", yes "ears" at least that's how it looked to me...not only that but the way the head part came out, it looked like a cat's head...so decided, hey I just designed a new thing...a cat ghost! I grabbed my orange acrylic paint, painted cat-shaped eyes a nose, and a grin...tied it up at the "neck" part with orange yarn and presto..like I said a cat ghostie. I plan to make more when I decorate the door. So have you not only made your own Halloween decorations (or any holiday themed decorations) but made them out of really insanely easy materials that you had on hand??