Table Center Piece, Halloween

Have I been having fun?! That is meant to be more rhetorical rather than a question because, I have been having a BLAST creating Halloween Decorations!! The excellent part is that I have not had to purchase much of anything to complete these projects! Most of what I used I had in my crafting stash or in my yard! Yes, I said yard. Take a looky at this picture and you will understand what I mean.

Three sticks from my yard, two bags of craft colored shredded paper (dollar store) and a roll of festive ribbon (dollar store), Stampin Up! Halloween paper, SU silver cording and my trusty computer...that's all it took. And, I am so proud of my ingenuity.

Have you been to your local Dollar store lately? OMG! $ Stores are not what they used to be...of course, it depends on the $store!! Matt and I found one near by that is like a Walmart! Why oh Why did I ever pay full price for craft ribbons? The selection is crazy good!
I did a little search on my computer for "free Halloween images" and found the bats...I simply hand cut around the batty image, poked a hole to thread the chord and "wha-La" - a Batty Center piece!

Now, I'm sure you crafty people that have children already knew that there are TONS of FREE pumpkin carving images you can print off your computer! I on the other had, who just recently learned HOW to cave cool images on my pumpkin (thanks to Connie) have just figured all this out! Why isn't anyone sharing this info with me?? LOL.