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I am a BIG FAN of decorating the outside of the house for any holiday. Christmas decorations are competitive though, so you’ve gotta be willing to put in a lot of time and effort. This is especially true if you don’t want to buy all of your decorations. I LOVE making things, and I LOVE showing them off! I made a ton of stuff for Halloween (my diy tombstones and my diy lighted ghosts) – and I can genuinely say it was worth it! Items that you make are of better quality, UNIQUE, and you can really be proud of them.

I do plan on making some lawn decorations for Christmas, and will absolutely share how I made them with all of you! For now, check out these tutorials that I found online. They look really fun! Click on the photo to get the tutorial.

Looking for more Christmas tutorials? Simply check out my blog archive for Christmas!

Contents:

• Yard Accent Tutorials
• Lighted Yard Accent Tutorials
• Stuff to Do With Snow

Yard Accent Tutorials:

Snowman Yard Accent: Lowes

Wrapped Holiday Presents: GP

Holiday Tree Yard Accent: GP

Sleigh Yard Accent: GP

Making Holiday Yard Art: Lowes

Vintage Christmas Yard Decoration Project: AC

Three Carolers Christmas Display: The Wood Crafter

Building Santa's Sleigh: Rona

Lighted Tutorials:

Holiday Light Ball: Born2Haunt

Santa and Reindeer Display: Do It 101

Happy Lighted Snowman: Better Homes and Gardens

Stuff To Do With Snow:

Outdoor Snow Table: Martha Stewart

Make It - A Snowman Kit: Make It Do

Snowman Kits: Poppies at Play

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Spoon gets all of his work shirts dry cleaned every couple of weeks, and when we get them back, there’s a white wire hanger on each one. We have accumulated more wire hangers than the clothes we have, so I started thinking about what could be done with them.

So far, all we’ve done with them involved cutting them and bending them to make stakes to hold down our Halloween decorations into the ground. They worked really well and none of our stuff blew away. Yay!

But hey – I still have a TON left, and more are coming. I did my homework – here are some fun and awesome things that you can make or do with your wire hangers. Yay!

Click on the photo to go to the tutorial.

Contents:

• Home Decor Tutorials
• Hanger Cover Tutorials
• Mobile Tutorials
• Toy Tutorials
• Baby Shower Tutorials
• Valentine’s Day Tutorials
• Easter Tutorials
• Halloween Tutorials
• Christmas Tutorials

Home Decor Tutorials:

iPod Dock from a Metal Hanger: Instructables

Hanger Lamp: Instructables

Make your own vintage Wire Basket out of Coat Hangers: Associated Content

Tissue Box Hanger: Instructables

Tissue Paper Butterfly: San Diego Zoo

Wire Hanger Lamps: Cut out and Keep

Coat Hanger Wine Rack: Guardian.co.uk

Wire Coat Hanger Toilet Roll Holder: Instructables

Lion Face: San Diego Zoo

Wine Glass Dryer from Coat Hanger: Instructables

Simple Book Light: Instructables

Ergonomic Laptop Stand Made from a Coat Hanger: Instructables

Dream Catcher: San Diego Zoo

Multi-Purpose Clothespin Hanger: Instructables

Make Your Own Razor and Shaving Brush Stand: Instructables

Recycled Wire Hanger Yarn Dog: Thrifty Fun

Denim Jeans Windsock: Craftbits

Wire Hanger Book Rack: Someday Crafts

Hanger Cover Tutorials:

Handsome Hangers: Family Fun

Stylish Cardboard Clothes Hangers: Instructables

Coat Hanger Cover: Craftbits

Personalized Wire Hanger for Baby Clothes: Instructables

Mobile Tutorials:

DIY High Contrast Baby Mobile: Instructables

How to make a stable Airplane Mobile: How Stuff Works

Pac Man Paper Mobile: Instructables

Butterfly Mobile: Craftbits

Toy Tutorials:

Make a Whirligig in a Box: ThinkingFountain

Baby Shower Tutorials:

Baby Shower Room Wreath: Craftbits

Baby Shower Announcement Wreath: CraftBits

Baby Shower Baby Towel Pram: Craftbits

Valentine’s Day Tutorials:

Wire Hanger Fabric Wreath: San Diego Zoo

Key to My Heart Hangup: Craftbits

Easter Tutorials:

Baby Bunny Baby Basket: Craftbits

Halloween Tutorials:

Making Halloween Corpse Hands: WetCanvas

LED Spiders: Instructables

Wire Hanger Pumpkin: San Diego Zoo

Ghost Halloween Decoration: Cut Out and Keep

Recycled T-Shirt Door Witch: Craftbits

Fall Scarecrow Decoration: Family Crafts

Bat Mobile: Family Fun

Butterfly Wings: Cut out and Keep

Halloween Fairy Wings: Knitting

Fairy Wings: Cut Out and Keep

Fairy Wings: Cut Out and Keep

More Fairy Wings: Cut out and Keep

Bat Wings: Cut out and Keep

Wire Hanger Bow: Instructables

Christmas Tutorials:

Wire Hanger Christmas Ornament Wreath: eddieross

Glow Ball Ornament: Instructables

Recycled Coat Hanger Christmas Tree: All Free Crafts

Coat Hanger Christmas Tree: Kaboose

Christmas Card Mobile: How Stuff Works

How to make a Christmas Coat Hanger Wreath: Do It Yourself

Make a Christmas Wreath: Little House in the Suburbs

Wreath from Recycled Bags: Craftbits

Wreath from Fabric Scraps: Craftbits

Coat Hanger Christmas Wreath: All Free Crafts

Candy Wreath: Family Crafts

Pine Cone Wreath: Family Crafts

Wire Santa Mini Wreath: Family Crafts

I <3 the vintage wire basket. I must try it!

And, OMG – the corpse hand is genius. I mean.. how freaking creative! I will definitely mess around with that project for next Halloween

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. As I’ve said above, I have hangers coming into the house every week, so I need to keep up with them in crafts – thanks!

Photo Credit: SilverFuture on flickr

OMG! I SO wish I had all of these resources sooner! Here are some amazing hair and makeup tutorial links that I’ve been collecting. They are so much fun! Almost as fun as making your own costumes! Enjoy!

Hair Tutorials:

• Easy 80′s Big Hair Tutorial on Youtube from PurseBuzz
• Ava’s Halloween Hair Tutorial: Beauty Choice
• Halloween Party Sexy Hair Tutorial on YouTube from I Love Gerardo
• Pin-up Snow White Hair Tutorial on YouTube from I Love Gerardo
• Sweeny Todd’s Mrs. Lovett Hair Tutorial: DeathToll1912

How to Make Pippi Longstocking Braids: CraftZine

Beehive Hair: Martha Stewart

Medusa Hair How To: Martha Stewart

Makeup Tutorials:

• Fake Blood Recipes: Halloween Web
• David Bowie Makeup Tutorial: Bella Sugar
• Check out Kandee Johnson’s YouTube page for excellent tips for applying Halloween makeup for many different costumes! The videos are entertaining and fun to watch. Just go to it! She has tutorials for the following:

Barbie Costume Makeup
Oompa Loompa Attack! Makeup
Twilight Twist Vampire: Special FX
Edward Scissorhands Costume Makeup
Cruella De Vil Costume Makeup
Tinkerbell Fairy Costume Makeup
Pretty Fun Geisha Costume Makeup
Cyndi Lauper (80′s Rocker) Costume Makeup
Jem (80′s Cartoon) Costume Makeup
Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman – Batman) Costume Makeup
Cleopatra Costume Makeup
Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland Costume Makeup
Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) Costume Makeup
Jessica Rabbit Costume Hair and Makeup
Pin-Up Hairdo

She’s planning on posting these soon, too!

Marie Antoinette
Betty Boop
Jasmine
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Cheshire Cat
KISS
Alice from Alice in Wonderland
Sexy Vampire

L.E.D. Eyelashes Costume: Fashioning Tech

Theater Effects: Lacerations: Instructables

I GOTTA try some of these out! I wish I had a kid solely to experiment with makeup and hair styles on them, hahaha.

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Photo Credit: Katie Cowden on flickr