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Budget-Smart Halloween Costumes and Treats
Halloween doesn't have to scare the daylights out of your budget. Have a happy Halloween with these cost-saving tips for costumes and treats. [more…]
Ten Budget Halloween Decorating Ideas
Halloween decorations can look fabulous, even if you're on a budget. Create a stunning Halloween display with these money-saving decorating tips, whether you're using only a few intricately carved jack-o’-lanterns [more…]
Halloween Budget Tip: Carve Pumpkins with Household Tools
Why buy a pumpkin-carving kit when you already have the tools at home? Use household tools to carve Halloween pumpkins if you're on a budget; you'll get the same great results. If you don't have something [more…]
How to Carve a Pumpkin for Halloween
Carving a pumpkin is a fun and inexpensive Halloween tradition. For your jack-o’-lantern, carve a Halloween image that's funny, scary, or pretty into pumpkins that are green, white, pale orange, or even [more…]
Ten Budget Halloween Decorating Ideas
Halloween decorations can look fabulous, even if you're on a budget. Create a stunning Halloween display with these money-saving decorating tips, whether you're using only a few intricately carved jack-o’-lanterns [more…]
How to Carve a Pumpkin for Halloween
Carving a pumpkin is a fun and inexpensive Halloween tradition. For your jack-o’-lantern, carve a Halloween image that's funny, scary, or pretty into pumpkins that are green, white, pale orange, or even [more…]
Halloween Budget Tip: Carve Pumpkins with Household Tools
Why buy a pumpkin-carving kit when you already have the tools at home? Use household tools to carve Halloween pumpkins if you're on a budget; you'll get the same great results. If you don't have something [more…]
Holiday Decorating: Preserve Flowers with Silica Gel
For long-lasting holiday floral arrangements, use flowers that you've preserved with silica gel. Preserved flowers make inexpensive holiday decorations. With silica gel, most flowers in full bloom can [more…]
How to Make Custom-Sewn Place Mats
Sew your own place mats to create an inexpensive but custom look for your table. Custom-sewn place mats carry out holiday themes and color. Thanksgiving mats, for example, can feature autumn colors or [more…]
How to Make a Christmas Wreath
Wreaths are the perfect Christmas decoration: You can hang wreaths indoors or out, and you can make them on a budget. Make your Christmas wreath from greenery, moss, flowers, faux berries, or dried leaves [more…]
How to Make a Christmas Garland
Garland is an inexpensive Christmas decoration that's easy to make. Your homemade garland can be simple or fancy, depending on what you use. It's a fun craft project for the whole family to work on, and [more…]
How to Make a Beautiful Floral Bow
Make your own floral bows (florist bows) to save money and to add a custom look to Christmas wreaths, garlands, and gifts. Tying floral bows isn’t difficult; if you can make loops, you can make beautiful [more…]
How to Sew Christmas Place Mats
Making place mats is an inexpensive way to decorate your Christmas table. Sewing holiday place mats means you can customize them with your theme colors or use traditional colors like red and green or silver [more…]
How to Make a Flat, Tailored Bow
Make flat, tailored bows to give your holiday decorations a clean, modern look. You can make flat bows with ribbon that’s hard to knot or gather. Use them on packages, floral arrangements, and napkins. [more…]
How to Create Pillow Covers for Christmas Decorating
Making your own pillow covers is an easy way to decorate your home for Christmas. Choose colors and prints that suit your holiday decorating theme if the traditional red and green don’t suit you. [more…]
Fun Paper Crafts and Decorations for Christmas
If you like the idea of crafting Christmas items from paper, or if you just like to embellish the paper goods you already have, then invest in a good paper-crafting stash of items and create any of the [more…]
How to Wrap Gifts Like a Pro
A beautifully wrapped gift is a gift in itself; it takes time and is an artful expression of the giver. Knowing how to wrap gifts like a pro requires patience, skill, and plenty of space. [more…]
How to Make Your Own Wrapping Paper
Wrapping Christmas gifts doesn’t have to be expensive. Brown craft paper and white butcher paper are cost-effective alternatives to sometimes high-priced wrapping paper. [more…]
How to Make a Pop-Up Christmas Tree Card
Making your own Christmas cards is a great way to save money. This simple pop-up card is a great craft project for older children. Using a single sheet of card and no glue at all, you can make simple but [more…]
How to Make a 3-D Découpage Christmas Card
Save money this Christmas by making your own découpage Christmas cards with a 3-D effect. These découpage holiday cards are fun to make and easy for children to do. People enjoy getting homemade cards [more…]
How to Make a Multilayered Pop-Up Christmas Card
Homemade pop-up Christmas cards don’t have to look like amateur work. You can create a beautiful, multilayered pop-up Christmas card by using magazine photos, your own photos, or old cut up Christmas cards [more…]
Give Old Christmas Ornaments a New Look
Paint and embellish old Christmas ornaments to change the whole look of your Christmas tree without investing in all new ones. Liven up old ornaments and give them a fresh new personality with these money-saving [more…]
Christmas Crafts for Kids: Shoebox Diorama with Peephole
A shoebox diorama is a great budget craft project to keep children busy during the holidays. To make the diorama, use images from old Christmas cards. You'll end up with a charming decoration that family [more…]
How to Make Dog Biscuits
Homemade dog biscuits are a special gift for the dogs and dog lovers on your Christmas list. Grains, milk powder, and molasses make a nourishing cookie. [more…]
Making Soap with Layered Colors and Scents
Homemade soaps of layered colors and scents make wonderful gifts — especially if they've been custom-designed for the recipient. In a layered soap, you alternate colors and scents, all in the same bar. [more…]
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