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Halloween Decorating Tips to Unleash Your Spooktacular Spirit!!

Get ready to be spooked by your family’s Halloween wonderland! Transform your home into a frightfully fun haven, complete with spooky decorations inside and out. Your neighbors will be amazed by your festive spirit, and the kids’ faces light-up like jack-o’-lanterns when they see your spooky surprises.

Here are a few tips to create your Halloween haven:

  • Spiderweb Sensation: Cover your pillows and stacks of books (pages front facing) in black spiderweb lace and to create a spooky, haunted effect.
  • Drape your yard and house with loads of white webbing Place white webbing in your yard and inside for a truly creepy forest atmosphere.
  • Oversized Oddities: Look for large, oversized eye-catching decorations like a giant Halloween sign or spooky statues to make a statement.
  • Glow-in-the-Dark Witches: Witches add a magical touch to your decor, whether they’re perched in your planters, yard, or indoors.
  • Haunted Home: Display your favorite Halloween decorations, including those mercury glass pumpkins you collected over the years.
  • Mercury Magic: Add a touch of elegance with mercury glass pumpkins and other Halloween-themed decor.
  • DIY Delight: Get creative with DIY decorations like homemade ghosts, paper mache skeletons, or carved pumpkins, spray paint items in black, silver, add spray adhesive and glitter!

I recently discovered a wonderful resource online at RENT.com. Check out the FANTASTIC blogpost with even more Halloween decor tips!! You can see the post here – Halloween Decor Ideas That Would Make Tim Burton Proud

Remember, the most important thing is to have fun and let your creativity shine! With a little creativity and a lot of Halloween spirit, you can create a home that’s as spooky as it is fun. Happy haunting!! Love, Your #HOMEBFF!🧡👻🎃

Alexandra

Spectacular DIY Snapdragon Floral Arrangement

A Waterford crystal vase filled with white snapdragons, Madonna lilies, and roses. Sitting on a mirrored lazy susan surrounded by white roses and densely packed green spider mums. Want over-the-top? Add micro led string lights, preferably with green wire.

When I created this arrangement, I did not have a plan. I had an abundance of flowers and knew I wanted to create something spectacular. I did envision the roses encircling the Lazy Susan, but I wasn’t sure how to accomplish this task. I knew the flowers needed to be inserted into wet floral foam – I just love floral foam!

The photos below do a better job of explaining the step-by-step process, so I wont bore you with the details. Happy flower arranging!

Alexandra

Christmas Decor

I chose to keep things light and bright. Lots of gold and silver. The lush green cedar picks with led lit twigs were a lovely pop of color. If the decor was white with lights, it was in! The white poinsettias in gold pots were scattered throughout, as were the glass trees with gold and silver mini ornaments. Even my gift wrap was gold and silver! Almost all my decor is from HSN. I found inexpensive gold decor pillows at Ross discount stores.

Alexandra

Fall Decor

Doesn’t it make you happy to see such a bright and festive room? The mercury glass pumpkins were a Today’s Special featured on Home Shopping Network [HSN]. We also had several options for Halloween that I share in a separate post. I know the table is a bit over the top, but If you want to do an all-out tablescape like this, layer in your crystal glittered and mercury glass items, especially those that have led lights within. If you have garland that lights up, that’s a nice touch too.

Alexandra

Halloween Decor Inside & Yard

My family loves Halloween! We enjoy decorating inside and out in the yard. The festive feel is not only appreciated by us but by our neighbors too. Plus, the joy on the faces of Trick O’ Treaters when they come to the door and peek inside.

Tips, cover pillows in black spiderweb lace. Use loads of white webbing in the yard. I place some inside too. Try to find large, oversized items that can be stand-alone items. For example, I love the Halloween sign that can hang on the wall as shown below, or can be a yard sign. The black tinsel pop-up trees in both the 6′ and the 24″ tabletop versions were fun. How about those glow-face witches? I had a set in our planters outdoors, a set in the yard, and a set inside just below the Halloween-lit sign. Of course, every lit Halloween decor piece I had collected over the years, mostly from HSN, was displayed on side tables and accent tables. The mercury glass pumpkins were from HSN but were also available at Plow and Hearth. All made for a not-so-scary Halloween indeed.

Alexandra