Crafting Season Has Started In Our Home - Prepping Halloween Crafts!

Everything on one table, more to come!

We love to craft!

For the past two years, I've managed to share a series of Christmas crafts and I plan on doing so again this year. It's a shame that I had to donate/sell most of my crafting supplies that I collected over the years because it was quite easy to pull something from my supplies and start creating with so much material out there. One emigration later, I need to build my collection from scratch and I've been trying to do so over the past month or so. I love how my daughter enjoys this crafting time together so I'm trying to think of crafts suitable for her as well while I focus on the crafting content to publish on Hive.

Halloween arrived early!

This year, I've actually managed to do what I wanted to do every year: start prepping early! I can even say that my daughter's Halloween dress is already here for some weeks and all I need to do now is add some accessories to the outfit. When I started the search for her Halloween dress and ideas for accessories, I also started to collect crafting ideas and think of the needed supplies. I find that incredibly hard sometimes because often I think of ideas while I'm creating something else to then realize that I miss a few supplies to follow up on that idea. But I like to think that this early prepping of Halloween crafts this year will help me to fulfill all the crafts I want to this year because I still have plenty of time to order things online and later to find them in the few supply stores nearby.

There will be paint as well!

A hidden Googly monster!

A lot of supplies like felt, foam and all sorts of other decorations

I pick my crafts carefully

I browse over the net for days and days sometimes weeks to get ideas and then make it my own. I see how things are made and often think of a way to improve that design and let it all sink in until I eventually have my own design worked out and start collecting the material for that design. It doesn't end there though, what I also want again is to have a few matching templates to present the craft in the header of the post on Hive so that you can quickly see if this is a craft you'd like to try yourself. The process part of the post speaks for itself of course, but I don't want to rush the header design so this year I will first create several designs and take pictures to play around designing a few matching templates that will be recognizable for my content.

1 Craft a day in October

It's my aim to publish one craft every day in October and I'm now trying to make sure that I have most crafts ready when October starts. I have no clue if I will make it as I'm still waiting for several deliveries with supplies and also still looking for some supplies at this moment, while the list of needed supplies probably keeps growing every time I sit down for a craft, but I think it's safe to say that I can at least manage to have the content for the first two weeks ready before October starts. Every day added is a bonus! The sooner the better though because immediately after, the Christmas series will need my attention!

Jewelry making supplies

Learning a new skill: felting

Possibly selling Halloween accessories

If all goes well, and I find time to create plenty of items, I will offer them for sale online to see if there is interest for those handmade accessories, this goes for both the Halloween and Christmas series. I used to have my own web shop in these handmade items and the past years it has been itching to start this again at some point. I probably would not want to do this year-round anymore but only focus on holiday themes as well as special occasions. The Spanish love to dress up their children and I can see how this will be received well here, so although I don't want to think too far ahead, I can really see how this could work out here. That's for later concern though, first, I'm focusing on the crafts and content of the crafts, the rest comes later.

Now it's time to start planning the crafts and content. To be continues very soon!

Thanks for reading!