Happy Labor Day weekend everyone. It is time to close up shop for the weekend. Out from behind my desk and out to enjoy the holiday weekend.
Before I take off though – this just came across my desk – well actually in the mail from the lovely folks at Lark Books. It is a 128 page book filled with 31 Frightfully Elegant projects for Halloween entitled Artful Halloween by Susan Wasinger.
Here are a few of my favorites projects – Thread Wrapped Pumpkins, Eye Magnets, and Treat Buckets. There are dozens of additional projects to decorate both the inside and outside of your house. Many your kids can do, too. Every project has a step-by-step photo tutorial to go with it.
This GIVEAWAY IS OVER
Now I am off to enjoy the weekend – I hope it will be a fun and festive one for you.
I would love this book!!!!
Pick me… PLEASE! Intrigued by the pumpkin with the nail heads…
I have already been looking for a bit of Halloween inspiration. This book woul be a great addition! Thanks for offering !
Just found your blog through the 3-way window treatment post, I’m hooked!
I would LOVE this book, as I am preparing for my first and only Halloween party, and I need help decorating my apartment to make it fun and crafty, but still classy. :)
Thanks for the chance!! <3 Anna
Please tell me you cleaned up your desk and staged it for that pic. Is it always that clean and pretty? I’m jealous!
I would love a Halloween decorating book and this one looks fantastic!
I am so excited for Halloween, this book looks amazing!
This book would be great for our 4-H group…
Two of my kids have birthdays in late October and we always do Halloween crafts as part of the fun! Always nice to see new ideas! Thanks for the opportunity for a free copy! I am truly enjoying your site!
Oh…..That book …I need ,I want!
Oooh this book looks amazing! My kids and I love halloween! I have already started planning their diy costumes. I’ll have to pick up this book for some fun ideas!
Looks like a great book!
I love your desk! I really enjoy you site and always look forward to your posts. The Halloween Book looks like fun!!!
Ooh, that book looks right up my alley! I prefer elegant, spooky Halloween decor over cutesy or gory. I’d love to get my hands on a copy!
This is my first ever blog comment – WooHoo! It is now my time for Halloween. We have had the cutsie cutsie when the kids were tiny Halloween, the not too scarey Hallowwen in the early elementary years, the gross gorey Halloween during the middle-school and teen years and now it is time for Our Halloween… The Artsy Halloween would be an ideal jumping off point and a good description of what I am ready for!
This book would be perfect for me! Halloween is my favorite time of the year to decorate and craft!
I would love to have this book to do some crafts with my daughter. It looks like it has some great ideas. I love your website!
Would love to win a copy! Hope you had a wonderful weekend!
Would love love love to win a copy…
Mary
I absolutely LOVE the threaded pumpkins! I’ve never seen anything like that, and I think they’re beautiful.
Thank you for this wonderful website, by the way. You are my decorating on a dime inspiration!
Love your website……please enter me. Thanks!
What a fun book! I love Halloween.
Hello!
Just came across your site as I love finding fun diy blogs. win or lose the halloween book, I’ll be back!
Xoxo!
Erin
I’ve already started to gather ideas for my front porch/front yard Halloween theme! Artful Halloween would help me tap into my DIY side and knock my neighbours socks off this year!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful site Diane, have a fabulous looong weekend!
Jennifer
LOVE the banner idea, ooo and the hands under glass domes! This would be so great, my kids have decided to throw a Halloween party at our house this year. We have been looking for fun ideas to make the house spooky :)
Hello from West Virginia,
I also follow your blog via email and would enjoy trying some new fun ideas for Halloween! All the best.
Thank you ever so very much,
Just had a Crafter Noon(A group of ladies of all ages from our church
meet once a month to do crafts ) and we decided that doing different designs for pumpkins would be the project for next month. I loved the pumpkin decorated with the medalions. Would love to have this book to share with the ladies.
New to your blog – love it! Thanks for the opportunity to win this fun Halloween book!
I follow your blog via email and I would love to win the book and try some of those ideas!
Halloween is my favorite holiday! Always looking for new ideas!
I would love to win the Halloween book. I have quite a library of Halloween books, it is my favorite holiday.Thank you.
What fun creative Halloween ideas! Looking forward to getting started on what we’ve seen so far!
This book looks lovely! we love halloween, it’s the best for creative decorating!
Thanks for showing the newer craft books. It’s so refreshing to see a new book with updated decorating ideas!
WOW…Halloween is my Favorite Holiday!
Hope your Labor Day weekend is all you need and want it to be.
Thanks for the contest…
Katherine
I’ve never been much of a Halloween lover, but I think this book could change that!!!!
I’ve never been much of a Halloween lover but i think this book could change that!
What a wonderful book!
Wow! What an incredibly cool book. I like the fact that there are not just ‘spooky’ projects to do but I the idea of “frightfully elegant” projects to do, too. I love to read and pour over craft and decor books and blogs, so the idea to be able to add this book to my small collection would be a real…hmm, what’s the right word, oh yeah, treat!
Take care and have an awesome weekend.
Hi Diane. I would love to win this awesome book. I hope you enjoy your holiday weekend. I am just finishing up my decoupage dresser using yours as my inspiration. Except for a few wrinkles in the wrapping paper it is turning out really nice. Thanks for your blog. I visit often!
Diane,
I have to say, I can never wait for summer to arrive, but after a while, I’m itching for Fall, and I’m so glad its here once again. I’m excited to start dressing w/ layers and to bring out my fall decorations – the warm colors, nothing compares. I just recently came across your website and it’s now one of my favorites. I’m attempting to make the Restoration Hardware fire columns and on Fri I watched the CoverGirl smokey eye tutorial and had to go out and buy everything to recreate it on myself. It turned out perfect.
Thank you!
Jane
What a wonderful book, love the pictures. Halloween is a great holiday to dress up and be someone you are not. I am a Girl Scout leader and our troop loves to decorate and get new ideas for their Halloween party. My kids love to set up a grave yard in the front yard for everyone to see. They love the idea of making things scary.
April
Looks like a lot of fun!
I adore Halloween. It is my favorite holiday. I love the nip in the air, all the adorable costumes and most of all decorating for it! This year I’m in an apartment and have to improvise a little. This book would be fantastic to have! Thank you for having this contest!
I love your blog and would enjoy winning that Halloween decorating book!
Thanks, Diane, for getting me in the Halloween frame of mind. With the rest of my weekend, I’ll finish the spooky wreath I started last year! Would love to get a look at the projects in this book; thanks for the giveaway.
Looks like a great Halloween books….very spooky!!!
I would love to win a copy. Our neighborhood has several fall/Halloween gatherings for families, kids and adults and new ideas are always welcome.
Hi Beach Girl NC – Random.org chose # 139 from the comments for the Artful Halloween Book Giveaway. That is you – You Won! Please send me your mailing address and I will get the book in the mail to you. Congratulations!
This looks like a really fun book! Next to Christmas- Halloween
is my next favorite! Thanks for the giveaway!
Happy weekend!
Sounds very cool.
What a fun book! I gotta throw my name in the hat for this giveaway!
Halloween is a favorite family holiday! All my girls help decorate and new ideas would be wonderful.
Would love the chance to have this book!
Thanks for the chance to win! Fun book.
That looks amazing! We tend to have a lot of parties in the fall and I’m always struggling to make the house look good. :)
That looks like a really fun book! I hope you have a great weekend.
Looks like a fun book…I love Halloween.
I just found you blog a bit ago and have enjoyed checking it out. I happened upon it while I was googling DIY blogs, and imagine my surprise when I was reading some of your post and saw my beautiful city of Burlington mentioned. You have some great ideas and I love many of your projects.
What a fun looking book! Thank you for the giveaway!
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Enjoy your week-end :D
Halloween is my daughter’s favorite holiday. I would LOVE to win this for her. It looks like such fun. Wishing you a lovely labor-less Labor Day!
Great ideas! Especially the eyes. Would love to do some for my younger grandchildren…besides Tuesday is my 78th birthday!
Looks like this book is full of fun ideas! Love Fall!
I love Halloween! What a great book. Thanks.
I need some Halloween decorating inspiration and this book looks like it is filled with great projects!!
love,love,love fall and halloween, wish it lasted longer. cannot wait to head to the orchard and get apples and pumpkins, love to make it special for my children so they love it as much as i do.
I was so happy to open up your email and see the book. I have been all over Memphis looking for ideas for my 3 Halloween parties coming up. They will be my first in my home. Would love to win the book, decorate and share it with my guests. Thank you for the opportunity.
I am so ready to start Fall! My most favorite time of the yr.
My husband loves decorating for Halloween! We move into a our first house next week and we are already thinking of how we will decorate!
These ideas are great! I think Halloween is my favorite holiday to decorate for–love it!
This Halloween Book has alot of neat ideas, I would love to win a copy of this! Thank you for awesome giveaway! Good luck to everyone who has entered!
Hello! I am one of your UK followers and love your blog. We don’t celebrate Halloween as much as you do in the USA but that’s such a pity.I’d love to have this book to help me get some ideas of how to make it a fantastic event. Thanks!!
I am hosting BUNKO in October and would love to be inspired with a new book. The girls can’t wait to see what spoooooky thing I have lurking around the corner. I love decorating for Halloween as it is the kick off to the Holiday Season. Thank you for offering such a great book. Happy Weekend.
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I’d love to win!
Halloween is my favorite holiday to decorate for. Love your innovative ideas!
I Love the fall and decorating for the holidays. This time of year always brings thankfulness to my mind for all of the harvest and our blessings in living the dream. Any ideas are welcome and I would love to recieve you book. Thanks
Stumbled onto your site and love it!
What a fun book – I’d love to win it!
I person could get in trouble with this fun book! Lots of creative ideas to pull off.
Wow, the book looks great. I love halloween, don’t you? Hope you have a great holiday weekend.
Hope I win. i am the least creative.person I know and I need all the help i can get.
Looks like a great book for Halloween! My girls would luv to make some stuff from it! Thanks for offering this giveaway – hope I win!!
l just love this time of year, with Halloween approaching and with the cooler air approaching and the trees turning those gorgeous assortment of fall colours ,makes me want to create my house for Halloween even more! Having this book would give me more new and fresh ideas to create and decorate. l am always open to learn more. Diane, l would just love it, if you picked me! Thank-you for this great give away and your most beautiful and helpful site!
This looks like so much fun. Thanks for the awesome giveaway :)
Renee
fattybumpkins at yahoo dot com
This book looks like so much fun! I am getting married soon and can’t wait decorate my own house for the holidays!
Some awesome new Halloween decorating ideas!
Thanks!!!
The book looks like a “fun time” to enjoy with my grandkids!
Halloween is my favorite holiday! With 5 grand kids this book woulD be such a blessing of inspiration. Thanks !
Halloween is my favorite Holiday for decorating! Everything scary to whimsical witches! Would love some new ideas! Thanks for the post!
Halloween is my most favorite holiday and I would love to have this book for new ideas.
Looks like a great book… i could use some inspiration, my husband threw out my hay bale and cornstalks!
Halloween is my favorite! That book looks like lots of fun.
Hello Diane, I dont miss reading and trying your latest creations. You are the bomb. I keep meaning to send you pictures of everything i have made (thanks to your perfect instructions) from your project gallery. I want to make so many more things but am afraid I will do it wrong….like the pleated stool. love it. I am afraid I wont do the pleats correctly. I will do it at some point. No need to include me in the book drawing, someone with small children will have more fun with it than I. Thanks for always sharing.
I live next to a busy country highway. I like to intrigue passersby with porch decorations for each season. This book looks like it would include some eye catching decor, for both outdoors AND in! Thank you for offering this opportunity.
I looooove Halloween would love to win this book- It looks chock full of great ideas!
What an awesome book! I love the Fall… it gets my creative juices flowing! I’m ready to tackle some creative projects!! Thanks for an opportunity to win!! Be especially blessed, Kathy
What an awesome book! I would love to win a copy so we could really add some new items to our annual Halloween party!!!! I think it’s great that you take time for yourself – we all need to do more of that – have a great holiday!
Discovered your blog recently. I LOVE it! I have gone over the entire thing numerous times and love when I see a new post in my email. Keep up the great work!
Great blog, I’m getting ready to re-do our bedroom chest. It will be black and since the rest of the bedroom is already black and white, you know i will be trying to “paper napkin the hardware” !
My husband and I grew up in families that did not celebrate in Halloween, but the past few years our children have dressed up and we have started a tiny bit of decorating. This book looks so beautiful and I can see several projects that our family would love to make together. Have a wonderful weekend!
Have a great Holiday Diane (and Family!). If I won this, I would wrap it up and give it to my Husband for his birthday 9/24. He loves all things Halloween!
What wonderous spookology does it contain?? I love Halloween…just a big kid at heart. :) This will be a very special Halloween as I can share my excitement with my 2 year old grandson. I can hardly wait!!
With Summer coming to an end, and a long Northeast winter ahead of me I was feeling blue….until yesterday when I picked my first pumpkin from my garden and realized that decorating for Halloween is right around the corner!!! I absolutely LOVE decorating for Halloween and try to add new and different things each year!
Hoping that you are enjoying the beautiful holiday weekend and looking forward to your return!!
Holloween is my favortie holiday. I would absolutely die if I won this book. Well, not really but I might swoon.
My girls and I love Halloween! We are having my daughters first Halloween party this year and cannot wait to decorate! This book looks awesome! I hope we win!
Jenny
Already anticipating Halloween – one of my favorite holidays to decorate for. This book looks like a real gem and I would be tickled to win it.
First and foremost let me say I love your blog and constantly follow your posts!
The book looks like a fun addition to my collection of different holiday craft ideas. I am with my boyfriend this year who is one of the ones that you have a hard time convincing to decorate for holloween I have slowly convinced him that it is not all “scarey” it can be tactful. I think this would convince him of this.
Thank you for offering this opportunity and PLEASE continue the great work (posts) I love them! Have a great holiday weekend.
The book looks fab. I would love to try some of the projects. Thanks for the offer.
Love the book and Halloween!!!! Already getting antsy to start my Halloween projects. Winning this book would be GREAT !!
Hi, I am an Art teacher, always looking for inspiration and new projects. This book would be great! Thanks for the giveaways!
I love Halloween, it’s my birthday eve :-) And I never had a Halloween project book, how fun.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Hi Diane, I have been following you for a small bit of time now; I absolutely love your ideas. I am silently making a goal to be more creative in my home. The best holidays are yet to come to put this goal into action! Thanks for sharing all that you do!
I’d love to win…thanks for such a great giveaway.
I always do these kinds of things with my grandkids they always come for my birthday and we go to the apple orchard and then decorate the farm for halloween and we are always looking for new ideas!
I’d love a copy. Thanks
When I was growing up, Halloween was safe and we didn’t have to wait until we got home to eat sweet treats from our bags….However, everyone decorated their homes all the same – pumpkins with triangle eyes, nose and a smily shaped mouth with a tooth or two! What fun it would be to have a chance to try some updated decorating projects. It’s all good and so much fun to decorate for the fall. Thank you for sharing a sneak peak at this book.
Have a great weekend! That book looks awesome. I’m always looking for new inspiration.
PS…how do you keep your desk so neat? ;-)
Nice! My daughter has a party every year and this would give me some new ideas.
Oh Diane, I have been looking at this book on amazon and trying to justify buying it when all my money has been going toward textbooks fo dear daughter. I decided to forgo the purchase. I just adore Halloween decorating . Maybe if I cross my fingers and wish really hard I can win it. thanks for the generous give away opportunity.
Have a happy weekend, Pam
I’ve generally given up on entering giveaways, but I think I may need this book. I am HORRIBLE at decorating for fall/Halloween!
Looks like a great book! I always do little touches of Halloween around my house, but I have a daughter-in-law who goes all out! Would gift this book to her if I was the lucky winner. Have a wonderful long weekend.
What a wonderfully creative looking book. I just found your site a few days ago while looking for inspiration on organizing my basement! You really have me thinking about the possibilities.
I have grown children but live next door to 5 of the most charming and engaging children I have ever known. We tried planting pumpkins in my front yard this spring as a “science” project, but the bugs and heat killed them all…..I would love to have craft times with my little pals this fall before Halloween. I could give their mom a well deserved break and have a blast all at the same time!
I’d love to win a copy! My daughter and I are always looking for a fun project.
Our weekend plans include a lot of rain but we don’t care…..we haven’t had rain in St. Louis for months and months and months!
The books seems amazingly interesting… I already imagine tons of crafts with my students…. Pick me!!!!!!!!! Plllllllleeeease! Pllllllleeeease!
The books seems amazingly interesting… I already imagine tons of crafts with my students…. Pick me!!!!!!!!! Plllllllleeeease!
Halloween did you say Halloween?!?! Pick Me!
That book looks so great – sometimes I wish I’d gotten that creativity gene, but I’m glad someone did!
Would love to win. Halloween a favorite of mine!
I would love to win this book…the pictures look amazing and I am in need of some new Halloween decorating inspiration! Thanks
The books looks awesome with some really cute ideas!!
I’m already planning our family’s costumes!! I would love to win the book to get great spooky ideas about decorating!!
Would love to win this book. Thanks for the opportunity!
I love Halloween! It’s my favorite holiday. I decorate the outside of our house every year and have become known as the halloween house around town. I would love to have this book! Thanks for the chance.
Looks like a great book! I need new ideas for my new house! Thanks for the chance!
What a wonderful book! Can’t wait to see more projects.
I LUV crafting, and I would LUV to have this book! Thanks for the giveaway!!!
What a neat book! Hope I win it!
This book looks like one that would really get your “creative juices” flowing! Have a good weekend.
Hope I win – I love to decorate for Halloween!
I love Halloween and I am always in need of inspiration. Great giveaway.
I love the book and need new ideas for Halloween.
Thanks so much for a chance to win this neat book. Halloween and Christmas are my two favorite times to decorate my house. Would love so more creative ideas.
Thanks for the chance to win such a fabulous book. I LOVE Halloween and decorating for it is so much fun! Have a great holiday weekend! Ahhhh, the last day’s of summer…..
The spirit of Halloween has been fading from my neighborhood. My kids and I have always had fun decorating but during the past few years, our Halloween stuff has been stolen (skeleton, cauldron, gypsie fortune teller that speaks, and a female skeleton dressed all in black with a red rose). I became very angry that i no longer wanted to decorate but my kids made me realize that Halloween is for all kids of all ages and I shouldn’t deprive my neightborhood kids from a fun halloween or at least as fun as i can make it just because of a few bad apples. So I would love a chance for you to choose me for this book. Thank you for sharing this information and enjoy your weekend.
Looks like a fun book! Thanks for your fantabulous blog!
I’m bound and determined to get a leg up (not severed though) on Halloween. Looks like this book would be a real HOOOOOOt.
What a great book! Thanks for giving us all the chance to win.
Thank you for offering such a fun book as a prize. Have a wonderful weekend!
This book looks just “bootiful”. Would love to win a copy.
this looks like a wicked awesome book!!! would love to win a copy ;0)
Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I love to decorate for it! I just ordered some “Skeleton Hand Servers” from Pottery Barn. I’m hoping to instigate a Halloween pot luck at work so I can use them….lol.
I sure love your site, and would love to win this book!
xo Linda
Love looking @ the cover and the pages of this book! Would love to win it so I can use it!
Love Halloween!!! The eye magnets are great.
omigosh! i LOVE halloween! i was wondering if august was too early to start decorating. i’d love to win this book! thank you for the chance to win! i do love you site.
I love Halloween and would love to win this book! Thanks so much for the wonderful giveaway :)
I am already getting my Halloween decorations ready!
This book looks fun!
S.
Never too early for Halloween. I’m in the mood for a special project with the kids this year. Thanks for all the great posts, Diane!
Looks like a fun book! Would love to have a copy.
I enjoy your blog!
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! Always need new ideas.
I am a halloween freak-a-zoid, sure would love that book!!! Keep it Kreepy!!!
Love idea of crafts for Halloween with my kids. But, truly more excited about this long weekend!!
Glad you are making time to enjoy Labor Day Weekend! I am too inspired by your posts to put my projects on hold this weekend. With the extra day I should be able to accomplish a few things on my list. This book reminds me that fall is coming. Bringing with it lots if fun new projects!
I love to plan parties , this book is perfect for my Halloween themes !!
Halloween is my favorite for decorating…..would love to win this book! Thanks
Eye Magnets?? Cool!! Halloween is so fun to decorate. Thanks for the chance to win this book!
I would love to win!
This book sounds exactly like my kind of crafts!
Wow…looks like a great book! I love Halloween and it looks like it has some new and unique ideas!!!!
oh yes=we LOVE halloween at our house! thanks.
Count me in. Looks like a great book. Have a great weekend!
Looks like a book full of great ideas! I would love to stoke my students out with cool Halloween decorations!
I just came across your blog. Love it so far! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Looks like a great book. I know i’d like to try some of the ideas, before I get to hang Green. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy the holiday weekend. Lenora
Fall is my favorite time of year, decorating for Halloween makes me feel like a kid again!
Eye magnets- too cool!
I have a eight year old daughter who hates “Scary Halloween” decor. So far, I’ve decorated with “cutey Halloween” decor but, she is getting older now and it is starting to look childish. I would love this book to help transit my decorating to a more elegant style.
Fall is so much fun to decorate!
I love Halloween!
It’s almost fall and I’m so excited!!! Have a great one!
This looks like an amazing book! I am an art teacher and can tell that there are several projects I could do with my students in here!
Halloween decorating is the most fun!
I love all things Halloween and Fall! Thanks!!!
Halloween is my favorite time of the year – I usually have a big party for my grandkids. The book looks like it has a lot of awesome ideas. Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for the chance….
Halloween is my FAVORITE holiday. I decorate and would love more ideas and projects to work with! The book looks fantastic! Thank you for the chance.
I love to decorate for Halloween – this book looks like great fun!
I love the pictures, especially the eye magnets. Looks like it would be great to do with the grandkids! Just spooky enough to have a great time!
The book looks like so much fun! Have a great holiday weekend! :)