DIY Hogwarts Trunk
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you may have heard this year’s Halloween Open House is getting a new room. The School House may be bijou, but it does have a Cupboard Under the Stairs! And what else would be in Harry Potter’s first bedroom at 4 Privet Drive...
Easiest DIY Halloween sign EVER with free download
Wotchya witches. Remember me? I know, I know! What with making Curious Creations for my Etsy store, Code Orange UK only went and arrived in mid-July! I repeat. Halloween arrived to UK shelves in JULY!!! So, I’ve been a little pre-occupied, as you can imagine. As...
A Halloween Shadowbox made FROM JUNK
This past week marked some very important milestones. We welcomed the Aries moon of new beginnings (yes please!) and (hopefully!) saw the end of lockdown in England. (Now THAT's a new beginning we all need.) But more importantly than all of that, we moved another zero...
Upcycled Witchy Book Nook
Can you guess how this mini magical scene started life? I started writing a whole tutorial on this project, but it became SO long I thought… Nah! You ain’t gonna read that! So instead, here are the pertinent highlights and the story of my upcycled Witchy Book Nook. I...
Valoween Gift Ideas
Beloved isn’t a fan of Yuleoween, Springoween, or Summerween. He remains stubbonly steadfast in his opinion that just because you add a suffix, doesn’t make it so. Au contraire mon ami. Au contraire! If it means injecting a little bit of Halloween into every season,...
DIY Snowball Topiaries
Happy Saturnalia and the start of the 32 Days of Yuletide. Yep! Forget the 12 days of Christmas. Turns out Yule actually lasts 32! According to "Have A Cool Yule: How to survive (and enjoy) the Mid-Winter Festival" Yuletide starts on 17 December - the first day of the...
DIY Halloween This Way Sign with free printable
When you’re organising a Halloween Party or, in my case, a walk-through Halloween Open House, you might want to give your guests a little direction and this quick and easy DIY Halloween This Way sign might be just what you need. Luckily, turning an ordinary...
Aged Jack O’Lantern with DIY Stem
From Sleepy Hollow to The House with a Clock in its Walls, creepy pumpkins have become something of a Halloween staple. Indeed, the brilliant DIY below is one that regularly appears on my Pinterest feed and a project I return to year after year with the intention of...
Faux Halloween Spell Book Prop
Hello, my name is Sue and I’m a hoarder! (Not the first time I’ve said those words!) And never is my problem more apparent than when we’re moving house. I can’t help it! The thing is, practically everything is in the firing line for The Witch at OneandSeventy...
Victorian Gothic Glam Pumpkin
As you’ll no doubt be painfully aware by now, my style is somewhat eclectic. But if I was to lean towards one particular aesthetic, especially for Halloween, it would have to be moody Gothic. And what better way to celebrate the season than with a Victorian Gothic...
Handmade Victorian Folding Photo Frame
This Victorian Folding Photo Frame was inspired by Gothic TV show, The Frankenstein Chronicles. At least I *think* it was, it might easily have been any number of period dramas. Because I may have a little fixation with Victoriana. The likes of Dickensian,...
Apothecary Book
You may have gathered by now I’m rather fond of an apothecary. Indeed, no witch worth her salt would be without one, be it a full-on cabinet stocked with potion bottles or a miniature display version, purpose-made to sit inside said cabinet. Well now, there’s a new...
Beltane, Walpurgisnacht and the Second Halloween
It’s Bank Holiday season, yay! And hot on the heels of Easter and its unusually glorious weather is Beltane. Also known as May Day, Beltane is a Celtic Fire Festival that falls on 1st May. It heralds the beginning of summer and honours the joining of the Goddess and...
Mixed Media Eggs for Easter and Beyond
The skies are blue and the sun is shining. Surely it can’t possibly be a Bank Holiday? And yet, here it is. Easter has arrived and to celebrate, I’ve made a couple of Mixed Media Eggs to add to my growing collection. Why is Easter late this year? Making it to the...
Victorian Cameos with a dark twist
The gallery wall in the OneandSeventy Dining Room has new additions. Do you see them? They may be small, but they are no less mighty! Not to mention, SO easy to make. My Victorian Cameos have a skullalicious dark twist and were inspired by frames I found languishing...
Creepy Crying Mask
When my Dressing Table mirror fell off the bedroom wall in the wee hours giving me a bloody heart attack, my first thought was “Great! I could just use 7 years' bad luck.” But as fate would have it luck was on my side, as it gave me a stylishly creeptacular mask idea....
DIY Taxidermy Butterfly Box
Last summer, I discovered several dead butterflies in an outside room. Tragically, they’d found their way in, but didn’t make it back out. Most were closed, but there was one that was still open and fully intact. I try not to think what a horrific death that must have...
Mother’s Day Mixed Media Canvas
In many countries, Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May but here in the UK, Mother’s Day falls in March which this year, is next weekend. However, like many extraneous seasonal events, I won’t be celebrating. Although this time, it’s not because I...
