A lil Halloween 2010

 Here's last years enterance. The wreath is grapevine (20 years old), covered with "close out" priced raffia ($.39 each), and one boa, that was a $1.00 at the Dollar Tree.And...drumroll please....the stand in the left of the picture was a Goodwill splurge...$35.00 BUT I had my 20% off card so it was all of $28.00!!!!YEA!!! It's an old outside menu stand. Lift up the top and put in a downloaded message for that partictcular holiday!!

 I just cut out these bats with construction paper and hung them with fishing line (great idea...til spring comes, and your oh so supportive husband, can't find his line...oooppppsss!)

 Love her! Yea, bought her back in the good ole days, before I discovered Goodwill...the black frame with the pumkin in it, is really a piece of art work from my son Craig back when he was in second grade...He's a dad himself now...

 Breakfast nook,WallyWorld "happy halloween"sign, and on the shelf is old halloween pictures of the kids.

 I really loved the effects of this big single crow, landing ...

 Our butler...with "what was I thinking purple table covering?" wow...

 These french doors lead into dining room, from this side, it's a walk around enclosed porch. Note in the following posts, that I used these lights again, just in a differenat room....

 Displays...the ghost is from when my son Clark was four, and the witch dress is the first (and last) costume I made for my daughter...The simplest things, I think make great decorating displays..

 This is other end of enclosed porch.That's just tissue paper,left over from the year before, and just laid over some string.

 Other end of porch, with another set of french doors.The SPOOKY sign is right there to the left of doors.

And I bought this old church hymn sign years ago...I didn't know what I was going to do with it when I bought it, but it found a home in the dining room ...These are just old vintage postcards downloaded, and embellished  with glitter. At Christmas and Easter, I put in old photos of my grandmother, mother, and me~

Here's some more 2011 halloween

He's our resident butler(below)...I added thr cape (Goodwill), mask (Goodwill-  pushed up on his forehead), and spray painted another floral arrangement Goodwill)black. He greets you, in the game room.

I saw a picture of the legs(below) sticking out of an urn last yearin a magazine. She is made with plastic bones, cement (its what I had..lol), and a Goodwill cauldron, shoes, and socks! Less then $5.00! The witch and moon in the background is from a local young artist, Cjones. She painted me exactly what I wanted. I sanded her, and aged her with watered down brown  stain, that I had left over from an earlier project....LOVE HER!  I think people should use  the talent  of the young artist's that they have in their area. This incredable  artist is still in high school, but she was thrilled with the money I paid her, and I was TICKLED with my new "old" witch...I've still got to get her to sign and date the project though!!

 This is our bathroom on the  main floor.On this wall (above) I just downloaded some Halloween sayings and embellished them a little. The feather wreath was on the front door last year...Remember to recycle!
 Again, really cute at night. I made the "garland" from Goodwill clothes and tablecloths, that I collected all through the year (you MUST ALWAYS be thinking ahead!)

 This is the same "garland" I have in the bathroom you just saw. I wanted to carry the theme out, and that bathroom, is right off this room.

Thanks for looking...I think I'm thanking myself...lol...I don't think anyone else is going to see this......

2011 Halloween

This mantle looks really cute at night! The lights I found at  a garage sale for $1.00! I spray painted them, because they were pink and green! I made the  BOO sign with leftover scrapes of paper, and ribbon.

The picture above is the dining room. You can't tell, but that's black tulle with bats,below the chandelier. The orange tulle was a HUGE find! Rummage sale..all 20 yards for $2.00! Yes! My kind of shopping!

The walls in our game room,(below) are covered with pictures of the kids. This section, though, I rotate different pictures for different holidays : Halloween pictures, Santa pictures, Easter bunny..well you get the idea!

I made the cat, witch,and moon (which you can't see..sorry!) Some clay, leftover paints, boxes, and my FAVORITE tool..spray paint!!

All the end tables have cobwebs on them. I spray painted an old fake flower arrangement black..and we can see the bright pink I missed!  Oh well!

ummmm....there is a reoccuring theme with spray paint....maybe my blog should be the SPRAY PAINTED JOHNNYCAKE ROAD JUNK blog!!!

Halloween 2010....

This was a little on the scary side for our 2 year old grandson, Jackson last year, and he was not happy about the decorations! The labels, I just printed out (I  can't remember where I found them)....I had the bones for years, skulls, and crows, the dollar tree.

And...this year....

I really liked last years arrangement, but I couldn't have it the same....Besides with a three old grandson, would prefer nothing scary!!!

And here it is again...

And this year I just brought it inside, to the breakfast nook....sorry, I'll try and get better with the pictures!

Redo and Reuse

This is last years front door. I try VERY hard not to do the same layout every year. In fact, this was hanging at our old house, outside the year before this...