I decided to stop by the semi-new Rod Works store that openend up here about 5 months ago.  I've been intentionally avoiding it...some temptations are simply better to just leave alone.  Sometimes I buy stuff at home decor stores, but not usually. Usually, I walk around the store playing undercover craft detective.  At Rod Works there are signs everywhere saying not to take photographs of their cute things...that made my job a little harder.  I snooped around pretending to be interested in buying something even though I had already decided firmly against that.  Really, I was just figuring out how to make their stuff.  Arrest me.  I came away with a kazillion ideas! 

Some of their cutest stuff is SO simple, like why haven't I already done that simple?

I came home, gathered stuff from around the house, and went to work.  In about one hour's time I had some new festive Fall fun without buying anything new.  Hear that Honey?  I didn't buy a thing!!

First up, our favorite Halloween line from "5 Little Pumpkins" in a frame:

  Funny how you can stick anything in a frame and it all of the sudden looks important.  Make it say anything you want.  I chose this line because our kids love this Halloween poem.  Probably because it's the only Halloween songy thing I know, so we sing it 117 times every October.  It's also a good reminder for the family to beware of the witch that sometimes flies through this house.  **cackle cackle**