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Easy DIY Halloween Trash Bag Decorations

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Today’s 5 for Friday is going to help get you in the mood for Halloween. These are low-cost, quick DIY Halloween decorations. The main supply for all of these decorations is a black plastic trash bag. You can easily make these Halloween decorations in just a few minutes.

5 Halloween Trash Bag Decorations
5 Halloween Trash Bag Decorations

1. Halloween Trash Bag Wreath
Add googly eyes or spiderweb to add some extra spookiness to this decoration.

2. Halloween Spiderweb Decoration
Just trash bag, scissors, and tape. Easy!

3. Trash Bag Curtain
You could cut long strips to make a door garland or add a few more bags to make a thicker Halloween Door Garland.

4. The Not-So-Itsy Halloween Spider Decoration
This also doubles as a way to clean up all those fallen leaves in your yard…or your neighbor’s yard. You could also use crumpled up newspaper to fill the bags.

5. Cover a Spooky Door
This article uses black fake fur to cover the door. But you could get a similar, though not as creepy,  result by using black plastic yard bag.

Extra Halloween Freebies

Want some free Disney pumpkin carving stencils? Or class things up with these 12 Free Halloween Printables.

One Of The Hardest Decisions

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one of the hardest decisions quotes
One of the hardest decisions

One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

Whether it is regarding a relationship, a career, or some other obligation we definitely have to make this decision. Walk away or try harder.
You can make a pro and con list.
You can ask advice from people you trust.
You can listen to your heart.
You can listen to your brain.

This is a time when you have to make a jump.
Take a leap of faith.
It’s what life is all about, right?

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5 Amazing Fonts You’re Not Using Yet

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Spend any time on the internet and you start to recognize the same fonts…taking over the internet.

Today’s 5 for Friday list helps to take care of this.

These would be great to use on creative printables or website images.

5 Free Fonts for Creative Projects
5 Free Fonts for Creative Projects

Why These Free Creative Fonts

These fonts have a “handwritten” look to them. They have also just recently been uploaded to DaFont.com (October 23, 2016). The graphic image shows all of the fonts at Size 72. Please take a look at the download link for license information.

Where to Find the Free Creative Fonts

Thinking of Betty | Letra Hipster | Bikinis | Lemon Tuesday | Chatelain des Radis

~Rebecca

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Love me without restriction – Inspirational quote

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Love me without restriction quote

Love me without restriction, trust me without fear, want me without demand and accept me for who I am.

Don’t we all want this kind of love?
This is the kind of love that lasts.
It makes you stronger.
It makes you feel like you are enough – just as you are.
It doesn’t make you sad.
It doesn’t hurt you.

~Rebecca

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Monthly Challenges to Inspire Creativity

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Monthly Creative Challenges at thiscreativeidea.comThese writing challenges are great because you can usually get them done in just a few minutes. So that’s a quick way to get some creativity in your day. Grab a notebook so you can keep all of your completed challenges together. Afterwards, you can flip through and be proud of the work you did.

You can start with one challenge or go all gung ho and participate in all six. I don’t want you to feel overwhelmed but that would probably be stepping up the challenge!

Grab Your Paper

How do these challenges work

It’s pretty easy.
View the challenge by clicking on the link -> Write the word or quote or whatever for the day -> Take a photo -> Post it to Instagram -> Link to the appropriate people + use the required hashtags to participate.

These are just a few of the challenges I have heard of and have decided to participate in. If you want to see a list of even more lettering challenges, just follow @letteringchallenges on Instagram.

Doodle Challenges

Do you know of any other monthly challenges? Let me know and I’ll add them to the list!

~Rebecca

Knitting Fails Sometimes and We Have To Frog It

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When Knitting Fails we just have to frog it
It’s happened to the best of us. Our knitting fails us. There can be any number of reasons this happens. For me, I’ve experienced knitting fails in a few different ways.

Just a few of my Knitting Fails!

  • I washed a non-superwash yarn project. Two different projects. They both became felted cat toys. I don’t want to talk about it!
  • Gauge will get you every time. One of my first projects I didn’t check gauge because it was a scarf. It didn’t need to “fit”. Well, my scarf became a serious choking hazard at almost 12-feet long! I wore it to the airport and I was scared it would get stuck in any number of the escalators.
  • Ever try to create a project using a different color than your usual go-to color? My favorite color for clothing is gray-black. Once, I decided to be adventurous. I chose a bright AKA “not me” color of yarn for a project. Me in bright aqua? No…just no!
  • I chose the wrong fiber for a project. Did you know cotton stretches? This could make a garment 375,291 times bigger than you need it.
  • The time I tried to knit socks for my son. His feet grew and he couldn’t fit them by the time I was done.
  • Anybody else try to knit with beautiful skeined up variegated yarn and it just looks bad. But you keep trying to convince yourself it’s not really that bad so you keep knitting. Then you convince yourself you’ve spent too much time knitting to give up. Yeah, that’s a knitting fail.
  • How about the sweater I made of scratchy yarn. I thought I’d just wear a shirt under it but then it was still scratchy on my neck. So unbeknownst to me I walked around with red splotches on my neck. All day. Thinking I was looking so awesome in my scratchy sweater!

The point – We all have failed

I hope that we all experience a knitting fail a time or two. Well, I don’t hope you do but I hope it’s happened to other people and I’m not the only one. But, the wonderful thing about knitting – you can frog it and make something else completely new. Except for when you felt something. If you felt it then it’s just done. But then you pretend you purposely made a small hat-shaped cat toy. Did I mention I did this twice?

Frog it!

I say frog it or get rid of it. Just don’t keep holding on to the bad memories. I mean, you could also write a blog post about it. But mostly you should just find a way to turn that knitting fail into some sort of lesson. Or a cat toy.

What’s one of your memorable knitting fails? Did you frog it or did it meet some other unfortunate end?

~Rebecca

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