Fun Halloween Felt Pennants and a Birthday Witch!

Hello friends! Happy Halloween Week! I love this week! AND, it's also my birthday week! So I especially love this week! LOL. Saturday night we went to a fun and festive Halloween Festival and I dressed up (photos at the end of my post),  and we had the best time. Sunday we carved pumpkins all day. The house is all decorated and the front yard is REALLY decorated! (My husband goes crazy with the decorations and it's the talk of the neighborhood!)  We are Halloween ready. We have a lot of fun - setting up a table in our driveway and playing spooky music, the fog machine going...passing out candy. And especially chit chatting with the neighbors and seeing the cute costumes.

On Sunday I am turning the big SIXTY! Gosh, it's been bothering me for months. That seems like so many years. I'm not ready to be this age. In my brain I'm still about 25! No other birthday has really bothered me, but this one is. I can't stop thinking about it and obsessing about it. (Nothing I can really do though, right?) My husband has been spoiling me already and I feel loved, and blessed by so many people. I do know that I am lucky to have had so many years. In the comments, leave me your one best piece of advice for graceful aging! Wish me luck!

I have a reallllllllly fun project to share today. Maybe one of my favorite things I've ever made!! It came together exactly how I pictured in my head and I love how the color palette turned out. I made some Halloween Felt Pennants/Banners for decorations for our home! They were easy and fun to make - a cheerful project with minimum supplies...a quiet afternoon in the craft room.... The dies are from Ellen Hutson! Did you know that you can still buy EH stamps and dies on Amazon?? Well, you can! CLICK HERE!

I used the dies from Ellen Hutson (sadly I think the Halloween ones are sold out right now, but the pennant with different sayings is available) and my favorite felt (the only felt I use) in Halloween colors. The other supplies are either from Amazon or Hobby Lobby and I'll talk more about that below. Let's take a look at my finished pennants! EEK! Lots of photos ahead, because I was having too much fun actually. Aren't they the cutest thing??

 

I made two pennants but I could have made tons more - I just ran out of time!! The dies + that felt = delicious! The felt cuts like butter with those dies. Couldn't be nicer. I used orange and black of course, but then popped in some pink and peach. This is my new favorite Halloween combo.

 

 

The banners were kind of "floppy" with just the felt so I die cut a matching piece of cardstock and glued it to the back to make them look nice and finished and to stand out straight. 

Like literally who knew that I would love pink and orange together??? I used ribbons from my stash and mirrored stars as a nice small accent. I tried not to go overboard as you know I like to do....

 

 

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Here are my pretty felt colors - they are also listed in my supply links! MMMMMMM. Yummy. This felt is 100% wool and it crafts like a dream. And it comes in many many beautiful colors!!

Here are my pieces all laid out before I glued everything down.

 

I used this fabric glue to glue all my pieces together - gave me a nice hold without lumps and bumps and it did dry quickly! I bought the dowels and the little wood balls at Hobby Lobby and used this metallic paint to paint the wood balls that are on top of the dowels. 

 

I used my hot glue gun to attach the dowels to the back of the pennants and to attach the wood balls on the top. I also used hot glue for the stars...

 

Some pretty ribbons from my stash....

 

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And now for Wanda the Witch - the birthday witch! Here is my costume for the Festival! I had fun doing bright green sparkly eye shadow (hard to see because of my glasses) and a nice spider on my neck! (a temporary tattoo)....and that hat! Mark bought that for me this year!! My spider earrings and my face stickers are from the Spirit Halloween store.

 

 

And here I am at one of the antique stores on the street with the Halloween Festival. You can see I'm getting attacked by a giant spider! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!

That's it for today! Hope you have a really fun and cheerful Halloween. Don't forget to be a kid and be silly once in a while! Eat candy and have some laughter. It's good for the soul. Stay crafty and I'll see you soon - after I'm SIXTY!!! Now that is the real spook! Hahahaha. XOXOXO Wanda

 

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Comments

[Belinda]

I totally concur with the comment posted by Christine! She said it perfectly; love following you on your blog and Instagram because you are cheerful, happy, and share the beauty of life through your social media accounts! You are a light and don't need a bit of advice! Because of your stories on Insta, you have inspired me to check out northern CA; my husband and I have a camping trip coming up in a few days to Grass Valley. We are southern Californians and have never been to the middle of our very own state! Haha! Seeing the beauty through you made me really want to check it out! Any suggestions for things to do while we are there would be greatly appreciated☺️☺️☺️ Seems to be the old CA gold rush area and I love all that kind of history!! Have a very wonderful birthday!!! Thank you for all that you do to create and share!

[Anne Sturgeon]

I turned 75 this year and I don't know how it has gone by so quickly!!! My advise is to always think young, even if your body may say diferently. You know that age is a state of mind and I always think of myself as Peter Pan, never grow up. Love your halloween goodies and you look amazing all dressed up Happy Halloween dear friend.

[Mark]

You are amazing!! I love you! And you don’t look or act your age! I got the best wife ever!

[Lori Spitzer]

Happy Birthday and a Spooky Good Day to you!!! Love the costume!
Lori S in PA

[Christine Dol]

ohhhhh Wanda...Happy Birthday!!!!!! Early birthday wishes but good wishes!!!!!!!!!! Have fun on Halloween! The kiddos will love you guys!

[Christine Dol]

LOVE your banners Wanda!
Personally I do not think you need any aging advice! I think what ever you are doing you are doing right! You have fun with life and you look great! Best witch costume goes to you!
I too am turning 60 next year and that is bothering me too and my neighbour she too is turning 60 this year and she feels the same way as us! Thank-you for making your blog soooo fun to come to!!!!!