Halloween Vignettes-Part 2

My challenge every Halloween is to make my decorations look "real."  I like my Halloween decorations to look like they belong there, they aren't just some orange paper cheap party decorations that I picked up from the supermarket or Walmart and threw onto the tables next to my regular stuff.  I want the regular stuff out and the Halloween stuff to look like it has been there all along.  The last post showed my  Halloween mantle and here are some other little vignettes sprinkled through the house.

This black table sits in my living room and usually holds family pictures and board games on the shelf underneath.  During October it holds apothecary jars filled with glittered spiders (dollar store), candy corn and whatever black and orange candy my kids are craving this year.  I use this cloche all year long just changing what goes underneath it.  Halloween finds a creepy styrofoam skull on a silver tray beneath it.  There is a black and orange glittered spider on the table as well.  The black chair next to it holds a handmade felt pillow that a lady at my church made for the festival last year.

This table usually holds our Bible and a candle with a cross.  Right now it has a wooden Halloween child's puzzle that I found years ago at Tuesday Morning, and a creepy little graveyard that I found at a garage sale.  What I like the best is the framed scaredy cat that I made.  Do you remember these party decorations from the late1960's-1970's?  I remember them decorating every hallway at school.  They were very popular and manufactured by Beistle.  I found one at a garage sale among a bunch of old Halloween decorations.  I remembered seeing them everywhere when I was a kid and had to have it.  They charged me .25 for the cat, a witch and two owls.  I added in a black frame from the same garage sale for .75 and with a little green scrapbook paper, my favorite framed piece was born!!  Between our kitchen and living room sits an antique desk that belonged to my grandmother (and probably hers).  I like to add some touches of fall there, too. I especially love the cinnamon Born in a Barn jar candle hand made in my SIL's barn on her property in Indiana.

The kitchen table is a good place to show off some stuff!  Every little shelf holds some other Halloween treat. The cable box/dvd player shelf above the tv is filled with little pumpkins that I painted years ago.  Every year I try to move the decorations around or make something that will add to the creepiness of my home.  I try to make at least one project every Halloween,  this year I am working on a t-shirt that says pumpkin queen.  Stay tuned.........