Thrift, Cheap stuff, Dollar Stores, Garage Sales, Hints of Halloween OH My!!

 I've been traveling around, with the bits of money I have here and there, keeping my peepers open for anything black, purple, or Halloweeny. I've been collecting little treasures, here and there to add to the gothy decor of my room. Purple and Black are my favorite colors and so they don my room proudly. I've gotten several compliments on my room and that makes me smile. I'll be doing a room tour video again soon. The past couple of days I've been out garage saleing, thrifting and Dollar Storing. I was THRILLED to see that Big Lots was beginning to put up their Halloween items!

I have to admit I'm totally jealous of my Instagram friends who are finding Halloween items in thrift stores already. I have yet to see any :( I must be patient. I did find a few things at Garage Sales though. One particular find that made me giddy today was these Halloween stickers that I picked up for 50 cents!!!

The Dollar Tree has a smidgen of Halloween stuff, some creepy things. I picked up a rat and a bat. I'll be editing and uploading my haul soon to my Youtube Channel.

Gothy Room Decor!

     I'm very excited and proud to say that I have now transitioned my room back to goth! Its comforting and reminds me that this dreadful summer will soon be over and I'll have my beloved fall back. *sigh* How I long for the cool, dreary, overcast days, filled with changing leaves, pumpkins, warm drinks, fall walks kicking up leaves and ah yes...Halloween sales!!! I miss Halloween so very much that I delved into some of my Halloween decorations to decorate my room. I just finished a project that can easily turn your closet doors to gothy in a snap! My room is quite small so I do what I can to make it feel bigger, by organizing it as much as I can as well as decorating it cool. (I'll post a video of my room soon).

Use Black Contact Paper to cover closet doors.

Print out some of your favorite Goth pictures. The frames are wall stickers form the Dollar Store

World Goth Day and more Gothy Crafts

                

My WGD was uneventful. There were absolutely no events around where I live and things were hectic at home so I just dressed up and went shopping. Here's my outfit.

Dress was a $1.29 Thrift Find

Corsette Belt $2          After Halloween Sales

                                        

She's Crafty

   

     I've been pretty much non-stop delving into creating things. My craft desk is always filled up with things I'm either working on, or going to work on some day. I swear I have to clean it every few days because it get's so messy with my ideas and projects!

lol Some of this stuff doesn't even belong on here!

                                               

                                     Here is what it looks like when it's clean    

         

    
     The key to coming up with great Gothy accessories is RECYCLE! RECYCLE! RECYCLE! 

I recently discovered that I can take one item of jewelry and turn it into another one. So I've been turning big earrings that I'd never wear, into necklaces. Here are 3 that I made.

 

I still exist

Yes Goth on a Budget and I, Angel Leo still exist. Just been busy doing a whole lotta something and nothing and being sick blah :(

 Happy World Goth Day (May 22)!! This is cool, and this will be my first, because I wasn't aware of it before but who on Earth had the idea to have this in Spring almost Summer with hot weather!!? That's insane, considering most goth clothing is quite warm, at least mine is but I'll come up with something not too hot hopefully.

More Craftsessories!

     So sometimes I look at other places for inspiration, mostly because I'm looking at things I'd love to buy but won't be able to afford. Bad habit. But it does inspire me to say, "Hey, maybe I can make one for myself!" I really love a lot of the accessories at Kreepville666.com. One in particular caught my attention...

Bloody Cleaver Hair bow

     It's adorable! But alas I cannot afford it. If you can go ahead and click on the link and head on over there to see all their awesome stuff! As for me, I took matters into my own hands and cheered myself up by creating my *own version for myself. I'm pretty darn happy how it turned out!

*For my own personal use NOT to be sold as the original design belongs to Kreepsville666

Keep, save and craft

     Ok, last time I said to save things for potential crafts, well here ya go!

I saved these MLP's from my Happy Meal box

cut them out and added sparkle, they will make great hair clips!

More Crafty Fun

I've had a lot of free time on my hands lately so I've been having fun creating my own accessories. The key to affordable crafting is to collect, collect, collect! By that I mean, any thing you come across that can be used to potentially create something, keep it! I can't tell you how many scraps of  ribbon I've kept for future projects. Here are some things I recently created.

Simple black headband with added gothy items

Coffin and Skull face made with Polymer clay

Used these 3D glasses to make fun fashion glasses

Bow made of Polymer Clay

 Coffin Earrings made of Polymer Clay