Halloween is, without a doubt, my favorite time of the year. I love the fall and everything about it. I love the way Texas' 102 degree summer days give way to the "cooler" 88 degree days and I love the pumpkins. I love the way the trees start to drop their leaves and the way the squirrels go around hiding pecans and such for the winter. I love apples, pears and apple cider. I love pumpkin bread and Halloween candy. October 1 through the 31st is my absolute favorite month, even more than my birthday month, March. One of my favorite things to do in October is to decorate for Halloween. The mantle (which is just a shelf) over my fireplace offers the best spot to dress up for Halloween. I change everything, even the picture over the fireplace. I replace that with 4 framed Halloween icons that I made myself. I purchased the plain black wooden frames during a sale at Michaels. I used a scrapbook tool that tears paper neatly and made layers of white and black scrapbook paper. I printed out the pictures (these came from the Martha Stewart website) , traced them and cut them out. Then I glued them to the layers of paper and stuck them in the frame. Probably cost $20.00 (the frames were the biggest expense). If I were doing this again, I would definitely use my cricut to cut out the pics, but at the time I made these I didn' have one. The rest of the mantle is made from stuff I found. I already had the wooden witch statue and the black books it's standing on. I just went to my husband's book shelf and took the covers off a few books until I found some thin black ones. The crystal ball looking thing was confiscated from my mom and dad's house years ago. I did purchase the three glass cylinders from the dollar store, they are vases I think. I cut three pieces of vellum out and placed them inside the cylinders. The BOO I cut out from my cricut. The cylinders are sitting on a metal tray that I found at a garage sale and spray painted black. The black decorative picture frame was 50% off at Hobby Lobby and I printed out a quote from PSYCHO to go into it. The small black urn was a hand me down from my SIL, it actually used to have a Christmasy silk amaryllis bulb in it. I popped out the silk amaryllis and added a piece of styrofoam and stuck the sticks in. I think I found the sticks outside in the backyard. I spray painted them black and added the moss. To finish the mantle off, I added a bunch of sparkly tulle that comes on a ribbon spool. (50% off at Hobby Lobby) The whole thing was soo simple and cost me less than $40.00. Next post I will show some other vignettes that I put out around the house.
Halloween is, without a doubt, my favorite time of the year. I love the fall and everything about it. I love the way Texas' 102 degree summer days give way to the "cooler" 88 degree days and I love the pumpkins. I love the way the trees start to drop their leaves and the way the squirrels go around hiding pecans and such for the winter. I love apples, pears and apple cider. I love pumpkin bread and Halloween candy. October 1 through the 31st is my absolute favorite month, even more than my birthday month, March. One of my favorite things to do in October is to decorate for Halloween. The mantle (which is just a shelf) over my fireplace offers the best spot to dress up for Halloween. I change everything, even the picture over the fireplace. I replace that with 4 framed Halloween icons that I made myself. I purchased the plain black wooden frames during a sale at Michaels. I used a scrapbook tool that tears paper neatly and made layers of white and black scrapbook paper. I printed out the pictures (these came from the Martha Stewart website) , traced them and cut them out. Then I glued them to the layers of paper and stuck them in the frame. Probably cost $20.00 (the frames were the biggest expense). If I were doing this again, I would definitely use my cricut to cut out the pics, but at the time I made these I didn' have one. The rest of the mantle is made from stuff I found. I already had the wooden witch statue and the black books it's standing on. I just went to my husband's book shelf and took the covers off a few books until I found some thin black ones. The crystal ball looking thing was confiscated from my mom and dad's house years ago. I did purchase the three glass cylinders from the dollar store, they are vases I think. I cut three pieces of vellum out and placed them inside the cylinders. The BOO I cut out from my cricut. The cylinders are sitting on a metal tray that I found at a garage sale and spray painted black. The black decorative picture frame was 50% off at Hobby Lobby and I printed out a quote from PSYCHO to go into it. The small black urn was a hand me down from my SIL, it actually used to have a Christmasy silk amaryllis bulb in it. I popped out the silk amaryllis and added a piece of styrofoam and stuck the sticks in. I think I found the sticks outside in the backyard. I spray painted them black and added the moss. To finish the mantle off, I added a bunch of sparkly tulle that comes on a ribbon spool. (50% off at Hobby Lobby) The whole thing was soo simple and cost me less than $40.00. Next post I will show some other vignettes that I put out around the house.
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