Spooky Vignette

I’m getting ready to host a couple Halloween Parties next week…it’s getting pretty spooky!  Like I said, I am not going all out like last year but I am adding a few fun focal points.  Here is one of my haunted vignettes.

I absolutely LOVE Gina’s mantel and it inspired my crooked shutters.  If you haven’t seen her mantel she said a couple weeks ago, head over to The Shabby Creek Cottage and check it out…you won’t be disappointed! 

Once I had my shutters up (which I just hung diagonally on a single nail) I draped my torn gauzy piece haphazardly down them.  Add in some roses with moss and webs, a few dollar store skulls,  and some mice trapped in a lantern.

   

To finish it up I stuck up my Martha Stewart bats and I was finished.   Now on to planning some food!  Are you hosting any parties this year?

Linking up!

 

Outdoor Halloween

 Last year I went all out for Halloween (which I love to do) but this year I toned it down a bit.  For my front porch I kept my Fall Wreath up and just added in little black crows from the dollar store to give a haunting feel.   I also brought out my Dead & Breakfast sign I made last year with help from BH&G.  You can find more details about it HERE.

My girls love to help with Halloween so will be adding in our pumpkins and maybe some ‘webs’.

It’s been crazy busy around here…all good stuff though!  I hope you are enjoying the wonderful season of Fall!

Quick {inexpensive} Halloween Touches

Are you feeling like you just decorated for fall and the thought of going all out for Halloween seems to much?  By simply adding in these dollar store black crows to my Fall Wreath, Mantel, and Centerpiece I have given my home a spooky Halloween flair.  You could use bats or spiders & simple webs as well. 

In no time at all my home went from fall to Halloween.  Then when October is over all you have to do is remove your creepy friends and your fall decor will take you right through the Thanksgiving season!

FREE Shipping For Fall

 

In hopes that I will be wearing sweaters & cooking chili this week…I am offering FREE shipping in my Etsy shop to you all!  {maybe that will help;)}

Just enter FREEFALL at check out.

Is it crisp aired and fall like where you are?

Autumn Centerpiece

I’ve been putting some more Autumn Touches around my house. 

I brought out this little antique urn I bought at an auction right before I got married…I think it was the first antique I ever purchased!  Anyway I love it.  I love it’s dents and dings, it’s marks, scratches and flaws.  It’s charm.

I bought these wonderfully fall-ish pumpkin guys on clearance {either last year or the year before} for little of nothing.  Aren’t they cute?  I stuck one atop the urn and the other two on either side. 

For another layer and texture I put the urn on this ‘mat’  I made out of old wood from my grandpa’s greenhouse.

 

A little touch of fall that was inexpensive & uncomplicated…exactly what I’m liking these days:)

P.S.  So, I tried to not say ‘simple’ once in this post…it was hard! ;)

Linking up…

Hooked on Houses Fall Decorating Party

Autumn’s Bounty {Handmade Wreath}

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.- George Eliot

  

Happy Fall Friends!

 

{Simple} Fall Mantel

    

Can you tell I am all about simple these days?  Ha ha, I think because my life has been so crazy this past year I just want simplicity, calm and serenity.  Easier said than done, but I do feel it in my fall mantel.

I used the garland from last year and my garage sale dried gourds.  {I love them.}  I kept the books I already had up there and that was it! I hung my dried magnolia leaf wreath with burlap ribbon on the fireplace screen like I did last year in my front room.  A few acorns on the side table and that was it! 

A few small touches of fall give my family room a warm harvest feel.  I changed up the look from last year a bit just my moving some things around from different rooms and using what I already had. Simple as that! ;)

Gettin’ all Linky….

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