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DIY Halloween Tombstones

Make cheap tombstones out of Insulfoam, paint, and optional stone spray paint. The stone spray paint can drastically change the look of anything (you can also buy granite spray paint) - I used it on cheap looking gargoyles and was really happy with the final look. 

Your Daily Batty Dose: Craft Edition!!

Create a night sky with this splatter bat project (be careful, this might get a little messy) Instructions below the cut.

Submit your finished projects to @daily-batty-dose, if you’d like :)

PAINT IDEAS: Stencil an Accent Wall

A bold pattern on just one wall can anchor focal-point furniture.

A lot of people love the way wallpaper can warm up a bedroom but balk at the thought of installing it. In giving this space a boost, interior designers Paige Sumblin Schnell and Anna Kay Porch decided to use a stencil instead, and to balance the lively pattern by leaving three walls white. “We wanted to bring in more color and pattern, but without overwhelming the room,” Schnell says. Her design, which plays off the bed linens, is a loose takeoff on the quatrefoil—a rose-like design whose popularity spread from Oriental rugs and Gothic tracery to contemporary tile. The designers reinforced the color scheme with orangey-red and clean white paint. Pale-neutral accessories, a pickled-pine ceiling, and a rustic bench add an earthy counterpoint, while the slightly ragged edges of the loops and lines reinforce the handcrafted nature of decorative painting.

To produce the stencil, Schnell turned to Chad Martin, a designer near Birmingham, Alabama, who cut it out of Mylar (available by special order here.) —Deborah Baldwin