Trick or Freaks E-book Review.

The Trick or Freaks is an original Halloween experience that explores the sheer horror of NO CANDY, while revealing the true spirits of Halloween. But this book isn’t just another Halloween story it is a handmade book ( $10 ) and features a black vellum cover and recycled craft paper pages. Each cover is completed with unique orange paper swatches, which are torn from large sheets at angles to highlight the fibers and layers of the paper. The book is written and made by Tiffany Winget and illustrated by her husband, musician and songwriting partner Darin Bennett. The illustrations were done with fine line ink pen and the color was added using Photoshop. Darin also created an instrumental theme song for the story.

Just by looking at the book you can tell a whole lot of love (and family in this case) has gone into making this wonderfully illustrated captivating story. We loved it! and having the song was an extra fun bonus for the kids.

The entire project can be found at www.trickorfreaks.com .

The Trick or Freaks Etsy can be found here

Mason jars are fun to craft with, use for storage or even use to hold gifts like baking mixes or sugar scrubs. But you can make your jars even cuter — no matter what you’re using them for — by adding a bit of cross stitch to the lid.

This idea comes from Gathered, and while they are showing examples of Mason jars used for storage in the craft room, you can use these throughout the house. I’m also thinking you could do this as a way to fancy up a traditional Mason jar sewing kit, since there’s already a little batting under the piece of cross stitch you could still use it as a pincushion.

The post walks you through how to make a cross stitched Mason jar lids and a link to a PDF pattern that includes six design options.

They’re not totally for beginners because they include cross stitch, backstitch, eyelets and Rhodes stitch, but if you aren’t familiar with those techniques you can either leave them off or there’s a stitch diagram in the PDF to help you.

Either way these designs are cute and relatively quick to stitch in whatever colors you like. It’s easy to turn them into jar toppers, or you could even just use the Mason jar ring as a frame rather than using it on top of a jar (I did this with a little Christmas tree cross stitch pattern I turned into an ornament).

They’re super cute in the pastel colors shown, or work in red and green for more of a holiday look if you’re using them for gift giving.

Check out the instructions and grab the free patterns for these jar toppers at Gathered. Once you start stitching I’m sure you’ll come up with all sorts of things you want to store or gift in jars so that you can make more of them!

[Photo: Gathered]

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