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Dollar Store Spooky House

October 10, 2012 By Colleen Jorgenson Leave a Comment

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Last month when I went on a buying rampage bought a few things at the dollar store, I picked up a felt haunted house. With absolutely no idea what I was gonna do with it.

But, hey, it was only a dollar.

You hear me, don’t you.

(I was totally gonna say ‘you feel me’ but I’ve been trying to act my age. Ha. That’s a joke. I’ll never act my age.)

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Just a plain ol’ piece of black felt. I thought I might use it for a Countdown Calendar but it wasn’t big enough.

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Since the windows were already cut out, maybe some yellow tissue paper to make it look like the lights are on?

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Also, because it was only a piece of felt and it only cost a buck, I didn’t want to spend a lot of time, or effort, making . . . whatever it was I was making.

At this point I had no idea.

Maybe I could cut out some black silhouette shapes for the windows? Itsy bitsy shapes. Huh-uh.

Too much time.

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This bottomless bag of dollar store foam stickers I used on the black pumpkins and the pumpkin tote bag is perfect.

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Aw yeah. These’ll work.

I thought about waiting for Santino later this week so he could put the stickers on – *Kids Craft Alert* – but I kinda got caught up in the moment.

And did I mention that the felt house was only a buck? I’ll buy him his own to decorate.

But it needed something besides stickers. *fingers drumming

Glitter! No. Glitter paint!

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Ok. Glitter paint, but where? I grabbed a white pencil (chalk would work too), and played around a bit.

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A little door, shutter, some rooflines here and there.

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And some bricks on the chimney. That oughta do it.

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Did I mention googily eyes? Or is it googly. Or googley.

Them eye thingies.

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I already had the glitter paint in my stash. It’s by Martha Stewart and I love it. For a lot of reasons but in this case because I can screw on this pour spout thingie and have a paint writer. (Puffy paint would work too.)

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A few squiggles here and there.

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Outline the roof. Some cockeyed shutters.

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The door.

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And my favorite – a spiderweb with a dangling spider.

 

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Which totally inspired yet another dollar store project. But that one is still drying so I’ll post that later.

But it’s cute.

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Is it as cute as a dollar store felt house with foam stickers, googley eyes and glitter paint?

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I’ll let you be the judge.

I’m just a happy li’l camper with my dollar store decorations. There’s something so . . . so, what? Freeing? Relaxed? I dunno, but playing around with stuff that only costs a dollar is really, really fun.

C’mon, you know you wanna try some stuff, don’t you? Or have you been playing already? Tell me. Tell me! Inquiring minds . . .

Colleen

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