![]() ![]() Here are some other posts you might enjoy. Thanks for being here! I hope today’s post made you smile. If you make a broom of your own, please tag me on Instagram or Facebook or leave me a comment here. I hope you enjoyed my Halloween Mantel and DIY Witch’s Broom. Makes you darn happy for your microwave, doesn’t it? Our dining room fireplace would have been where meals were cooked when this home was built in the late 1700s.Īll. Our table is behind me in all of these photos. If you’re saying, “Wait? This is a dining room?” Yes. ![]() I’ll stick with the paper bats and the DIY witch’s broom in our rustic dining room. That’s TOO authentic if you know what I mean. ![]() However, I don’t really like to be up in our attic because I know mice also like to be up there. The main character would open her book of spells and she’d use it to cast out all the evil troubling the town. Make this adorable no-sew witch tutu and broom stick to complete your little witchs costume this year You may even have most of the supplies already at. If I really wanted to make my Halloween decor look authentic, I wouldn’t use paper bats I’d stage a photo in our attic.įrom the first moment I saw this house, my overactive imagination just knew a movie needed to be filmed up there during a thunderstorm. This year’s Halloween mantel is all in good fun. You know, because of the architecture in our dining room…not for any personal reasons. That means I need to really savor the unique decorating opportunities this house serves up to me on a platter.įor instance, don’t you think we have a great house for all things witch decor related? Speaking of my future plans, I have no idea how many years we will live in this Colonial Farmhouse. ![]() Then I will gleefully send them back to their parents with an innocent look on my face. I plan on spoiling my future (hopefully, very future) grandchildren with all sorts of Halloween candy. I hope they appreciate them or it will be all tricks, no treats! In fact, I’ll probably hang them up for my grandchildren someday. As long as they bring me joy you can bet that I’ll be using them every chance I get. Cut bottoms of string cheese sticks to resemble broom sticks. It took me forever to cut those bats out. little Halloween fun with these spooky and easy to make Sargento Cheese broomsticks. I don’t care how overdone this decorating trick is. I cut all the bats you see in these photos out of black card stock a few years ago. Now that I had a witch’s broom, I might as well put some bats on the mantel too. I’ll then glue twine or decorative ribbon around the bristles to make it look more finished. Some people rubberband them to the handle. I prefer to hot glue my “bristles” to the broom handle. Wrap the yarn around a surface and tie it up using a knot. This is the perfect project for those who would like a more colorful or traditional witch-style broom All you need is a scissor, a needle, and thick yarn. I used a stick for the handle and twigs for the bristles. This DIY broom is so simple to make and looks great hanging in any room. You need something to make a handle, something for the broom head or bristles, and a way to bind it all together. That stick needed to be turned into a broom handle for a witch’s broom.Ī DIY witch’s broom can be made in any number of ways, but it only takes three key elements. I guess he’s used to my need to save all sorts of weird things. It really takes the fun out of things when he doesn’t even question why I might need to rescue a crooked stick from the woodchip pile. Let me back up my broomstick and let you hop on for a ride.Ī few weeks ago Handy Husband was trimming brush and tossed the coolest-looking stick in the pile to be woodchipped. That sentence didn’t make any sense, did it? I wasn’t going to do any Halloween decorating because I just wasn’t feeling it, but then Handy Husband tossed some proverbial inspiration in the wood chip pile and I dove in right after it. My goats continued to bellow in the background while I was making quick work of all the cutting and trimming.Hello you gorgeous ghouls and goblins! Let’s dish on all things Halloween mantel and DIY Witch’s Broom related.ĭo you have a mantel decorated for Halloween this year? I cut down tall grass, found a limb from some tree trimming we did, and grabbed some other random dried weeds. So I grabbed my tree trimmers and I went to work. With so much going on, I was busy thinking about how I was going to decorate my Halloween mantel and I realized I can make a witches broom out of all these weeds! But this was one of those moments I was relieved I still had some dead tall grass at the back of our lot. I am often overwhelmed by all the stuff that I have to do in my yard. This morning while was out feeding my goats, I was looking over all the weeds I have in my backyard I knew that there was something I could use them for. I want to show you how easy it is to make a handmade witches broom. Tomorrow I will be revealing am most witchy Halloween mantel, but before I do I wanted to show you the star of the show and how I made it. ![]()
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