Halloween Decorating

September 16, 2010

Halloween Decorating

Yesterday afternoon I decoupaged my candle pumpkin holders to save them from tearing and looking crappy.

I haven't used them for years because they are all curled and the tissue paper is fragile.

To save them and be able to use them I make a glue/water mix and applied it with a paint brush.

The pumpkin faces smoothed out nicely.

The glue mixture wrinkled the tissue paper and now when they are lit they have a marbleized look.

Most of my day today was spent obsessively cleaning and Halloween decorating my living room.

Now that my mantle is properly Halloweeny I can take photos of all the banners I am selling on Etsy.

Trick or Treaters

I found the vintage cat pail at an antique store in Astoria, Oregon where we vacationed last October.

They had several old, old paper mache pumpkin pails that I fell in love with but they were very expensive. ($175).

The plastic cat pail was cheap. ($8)

The mantle .... at night!

I stuffed a bunch of sticks into a cement urn and made a Halloween tree for the first time.

I used floral foam to arrange and hold the branches.

This Halloween postcard is post marked 16 October 1909.
It was a gift from a favorite girlfriend.

I tried several ways to string the lights on my mantel but it made it way too busy.

When I went to finish vacuuming I laid the lights across the fireplace screen to have them out of the way and found the perfect solution for using them.

Freya has been having a difficult time getting into a homework groove so she and I made a school corner where she can keep all her books and supplies.

She is really excited about it and spent most of the evening in her 'book nook'.

There was a bit of an argument explaining to her that she couldn't build a bed and sleep in her 'book nook' tonight. Maybe this weekend.

Cheers!