(Tiny) Halloween 2017

Happy Halloween! We have an appropriately festive post for you today. But lest you think this is a really last minute Halloween post, let us remind you that we already did our Halloween 2016 craft post last fall:

We’re sure you all bookmarked it and now have some MCM pumpkins and DIY-mason-jar-pom-pom-wreaths decorating your stoops as we speak.  You’re welcome!

Since we already took care of 2016, today’s post is in anticipation of Halloween 2017.  If we’ve learned one thing from the blogosphere, it’s that you can never be too early with holiday decorating!  But we actually thought we’d let the tiny bloggers take a turn this year, so we’re going to turn it over to them! Before we do, just a reminder of our standard disclosure:

This is part of our Tiny House, Tiny Bloggers series, in which we turn over Plaster & Disaster to some VERY tiny bloggers to tell their own story of transforming an ugly, old (doll)house into a fresh and modern (doll)home.  Follow it from the beginning here.

Disclaimer:  Inclusion on this blog is not an endorsement by Plaster & Disaster of the tiny blogger’s methods or design decisions.  Plaster & Disaster cannot be held responsible for your terrible decor choices after reading one of their tutorials.  All opinions are their own.

Well hello, and Happy Halloween! We’re so excited to be here sharing a few fun and festive craft projects we whipped up to decorate our new house. Even though you might think it’s crazy that we dedicated even a moment to making Halloween decor when our house is such a construction zone [Editors’ Note: or dedicating even a moment to making Halloween decor for your construction-zone dollhouse when your houses are such construction zones…], it’s our first holiday in the house and we wanted to celebrate!

Of course, WE bookmarked Naomi & Sage’s brilliant Halloween 2016 post from last year, and we’ve been just dying (haha!  get it? dying is creepy and so is Halloween!) to try out some of the projects.  However, one of our common problems as tiny decorators is that the usual decor items (like pumpkins) don’t always come in our size.  So we had to improvise if we wanted to recreate Naomi & Sage’s distressed turquoise chevron chalk-paint pumpkin.

We started with some modeling clay (incidentally, the same stuff that they used to make some absolutely adorable little ring dishes with incredibly trendy animals on them) and rolled it into a ball.

We then formed this into tiny appropriately sized pumpkins.

Of course, we all know that pumpkins are supposed to be orange with rough brown stems, so we painted them.

However, we read blogs, so we know that orange is a very un-trendy color for a pumpkin.  I mean, no one has orange pumpkins these days!  So, as soon as the orange paint dried, we immediately set out to paint them white like all the big bloggers do.

Doesn’t that look better?  White is a much more appropriate color for a pumpkin, don’t you think?

We could then go ahead and decorate them with things that totally capture our unique personalities, like a mini-tribute to Naomi & Sage’s chevron pumpkin and a fox.

We were so excited to decorate with these!  They’re super chic and we really think they send a message to the neighborhood (i.e., Sage’s spare room) that we’re really tasteful and are totally going to fix up this ugly (doll)house.

We put together a few more projects that we think strike that perfect balance of spooky and chic for the front porch:

We made a special Halloween garland. So fun!

We also made a wreath that we decorated with bats. Who doesn’t love bats?

Of course we couldn’t resist a little decorating inside either, with a super long garland.

Doesn’t the kitchen look so fun and festive? Maybe it would look even better if we’d channeled all this energy into renovations, but we made garlands instead.

Last but not least, of course we needed some on-trend Halloween costumes. I decided to go as a donut!

The sprinkles are real, I hope no dog finds us! But seriously, that would be incredibly dangerous for bloggers of our size.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by our Halloween house tour! We hope you saw something here today that will inspire you for next Halloween!

Now, tell us the truth: you’d stop at this house to trick-or-treat, right?  Totally welcoming and not at all crazy?