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Seven Halloween crafts for a spooky holiday

Now's the time to start thinking about crafting your Halloween decorations. Here are some of our favorites from Martha Stewart online.

Zigzagz Paper Edgers create multiple scissors in one

Want to stretch your dollar? Zigzagz Paper Edgers allow you to use six scrapbooking edges interchangeably for a variety of looks and styles.

Simply switch the easy to handle composite blade edges for different decorative cuts These colorful new ZigZagz Paper Edgers are fun and easy to use.

Blade patterns include: Deckle, Mini Pinking,Jumbo Scallop, Eagle, Regal and Doily. Perfect for customizing stationary, photographs, rubber stampprojects, stencil and other paper crafting projects.Cushioned handles and plastic blades ensure safe,comfortable cutting. Suitable for ages 4 and up.Comes complete with it's own carrying case!

Feature Friday: Titanium Bonded Kitchen Snips

We're going to go out on a limb and saying that kitchen snips are the most under appreciated kitchen tools around. These tools are so amazingly versatile and truly deliver when you're in a bind.

Product Details:
The Clauss Titanium bonded kitchen snips combine the high performance of Titanium bonded™ blades that stay sharp longer, are corrosion resistant, and have a serrated blade to provide you with the perfect combination of features for a kitchen snip. The Titanium bonded™ blades are lightweight, triple the strength of ordinary stainless steel and highly resistant to rust and corrosion-dishwasher safe.

• 3 times stronger than stainless steel
• Long lasting cutting edge
• One serrated blade
• Great for use as Trauma Shears

DIY Halloween decorations for a spooky holiday

Where do we turn for fun and freaky DIY projects for Halloween? Kaboose, of course. The ideas are kid-friendly. Check out some of our favorites that will add some spook to your decor.

Coffee filter bats:

   Supplies:

• 1 basket type coffee filter
• Purple and black watercolor paints
• Paintbrush
• 1 miniature wooden clothespin
• Black or purple acrylic paint
• 2 small wiggle eyes
• White scrap of paper
• Scissors
• White craft glue

Directions:

1. Paint the clothespin either black or purple acrylic paint and set aside to dry.
2. Cut coffee filter in half.
3. Paint one half of the filter with black watercolor paint and the other half with purple watercolor paint. Let dry.
4. When filters are dry, place the purple half on top of the black half so that they line up. Pinch the filter with your fingers, gathering the paper in the center of the straight edge.
5. Open the clothespin and clamp the gathered end of the filter inside the clothespin. Add a dab of white glue in the clamp.
6. Use scissors to cut half circles from the rounded wings to resemble a bat’s wings. Use the color differentiation between the black and purple sides of the coffee filter as a guide.
7. Cut jagged edges along the circular side of the half circle to further define the shape of the bat wings.
8. Glue two wiggle eyes to the front of the clothespin.
9. Cut two small triangular fangs from white paper and glue to the clothespin “jaws”.

While you're at it, check out this cute pumpkin kitty!

Diy Halloween Decorations for the Yard

Feature Friday: Heavy Duty By-Pass Pruner

A heavy-duty pruning tool for fantastic florists and serious hobbyists alike.

7" Heavy Duty By-Pass Pruner:

• By-pass blade action provides clean, sharp cut for pruning.
• Ratchet action for extra cutting power for thick branches.
• Heavy duty ratchet opens wider than 7” pruner.
• Professional grade florist tool.

Manufacturer: Clauss

Spotlight on: Specialty Shears

Check out our huge selection of specialty shears to give you an upper hand on the job or at home.

• Kevlar Shears - For trimming DuPont Kevlar Aramid fibers

• Electrician's Scissors - Double-plated chrome over nickel for multi-purpose service tools

• Paramedic Bandage Shears - Manufactured with XL lower handle and have an EXTRA strong safety flat lower tip

• Aviation Snips (right cut) - Bite through sheet metal quickly and easily.Long-lasting edges. Blades serrated to prevent slipout. 

For a  complete list of specialty shears click here