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October 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Want to have some fun and decorate your home with creepy, eerie decorations sure to get oooowwhhs, aaawwhhhs and screams?
Here are 7 fun ideas that will do just that.
1. Creepy little shrunken heads in a jar. This will creep out your guests with a collection of severed heads. These little skulls are actually just peeled and cleverly carved out apples in a jar full of white vinegar. After carving out the eye sockets and nostrils, fill them in with black gel icing from the cake-decorating aisle at your favorite craft store so these features will stand out. Create several jars of these gruesome little heads. Label each jar with gruesome creative names such as Hannibal Lector victim or the Donner party leftovers.
2. Specimens Framed. Go thru your kid’s toys for plastic spiders, snakes or black bugs and frame them under glass, use vintage specimen frames or new shadow boxes. Spruce up the frame with a coat of black paint and add a new paper background, such as beige to show off the bugs more clearly. Hot-glue the specimen of choose to the paper background to your liking. perhaps 3 of different sizes shown vertically in the center of the page.  Finding ugly, ghostly skeleton leaves can be fun to frame as well. Maybe small ugly skeleton heads or black rats of different size.
3. Ghostly rocks. This is a fun project for adults and kids. Using fine-tip black gel pens,  the gel pens which are found with scrap-booking supplies because they have such intense inks, draw or trace the skeleton and skull faces of different sizes and shapes to flat white river rocks. The kids can collect these for you or you can find the very flat smooth ones in craft stores or with the accessories you can buy for plants. You can then fill a shallow dish with them, or hot-glue magnets to the back of the rocks and stack them on the refrigerator door.
4. Shocking Lab containers. Select an arrangement of glass canisters, vases, and goblets of your choosing, fill them with the imaginative ingredients of a witch’s brew. Purchase a bag of cotton from a fabric store or craft store to fill a couple of the containers with to look like smoke, or scary spider webs. Use plastic spiders to mix in. Have fun using seed pods, twigs, shells, black plastic snakes and eerie looking bugs to place in the containers. Create you own labels or find some on-line to download. Get creative with these labels, things like Warlock Root, Petrified body parts, you can use gummy body part candies for these containers also. Toy rats, or eyeballs work for potions. Red food coloring works for drips of blood on the container or labels.
5. Bold Skulls. Make a papier-mache skull, purchase the supplies at your favorite craft store. Make it look recently unearthed from a grave by painting it with cream-colored acrylic paint. Give it the look of age with a light wash of burnt-sienna pigment from the craft store. Use a dark grey color for around the eye sockets.
6. Screamin spiders. Dangle spiders on the fridge or magnetic bulletin board, pin it in place with decorated rocks turned into magnets.  There are some pretty spooky looking ones out there. Many spooky enough to get a few screams out of your guests, especially if the room is a bit dark.
7. Mumified bones.This is very easy to do yet effective. Find some long twigs, peel off all the bark to look like human leg or arm bones, then, with hot-glue, pick out some funky looking rocks to act as the bone tips, pick out two for each bone tip.  Glue them to the tops of each twig, one on each side. When they have dried, wrap the bones as you would if it were a mummy, round and round with narrow long strips of white muslin or sheeting. Dab on wet tea to stain the bone wrappings. Create some fun labels to describe them. Something like bones of my former boss, Norm or my husband caught cheating.

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The #1 Spooky, Affordable and Fun Halloween Décor

October 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

We may all have different images when we think about Halloween (perhaps thinking scary, spooky, candy

ß my favorite yummy image, costumes, etc.); however those that enjoy Halloween can wrap up a description that consists of 3 letters:F.U.N!

Remember the phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”! Just like one décor may make a person shriek in fear (eeeewwww looking pillow), another may feel that it is perfect for them (ahhhhh zzzzz pillow).

There is one Halloween “economical” décor that is a true classic. Want to guess what is? I will give you a few seconds to guess.

Okay, time is up Рit is synthetic spider webbings! The following is why they are a FANTASTICALLY FUN Halloween d̩cor and one of my favorite Halloween interior decorating economical secrets:

one small bag can decorate about 4 rooms since the material easily stretches if you are not fond of spiders, keep the webbing and leave the plastic spiders out (this also keeps people in suusssspense not seeing where the spiders are) most variety “dollar” stores actually carry them in October (yep, just for about $0.99!); you may even find these at your local pharmacy stores (CVS, Rite Aide, etc.) you can place then in unexpected places (surprise you friends and family when they come over, and if you forget where you placed them, then you will end up surprising yourself) it is reusable, so you can use your investment (approx. $0.99) next year!

So, get out of your pajamas and decorate with FUN this Halloween (have fun throughout the month of October!). If you are worrying about the economy, stop and splurge $1.00 to have FUN with the spider webs!

Make sure that youkeep the webs away from: the reach of children (they may just enjoy pulling the web waaaay too much, plus even mistake them for cotton candy), heated areas including light bulbs (to avoid fire hazard), and movable furniture/furnishings (to avoid having to detangle).Some fun places to place spider webs are:

mirror corners entryways doors ceiling on artificial plants candlesticks (perfect for spooky centerpieces) computer screen (a small amount can give you a smile every time you see it)

So if you want a FUN, economical Halloween décor that is simple yet SPOOKY, then spiderwebsare just what the Halloween witch doctor recommends . If you want to add more then spiderwebs to your decor or to simply look at some other cool decor, then check out Pier 1 store that carry unique fun Halloween items.

Have a Happy Halloween!

 

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Ada Gonzalez is the creative director of Ada’s Interior Design, Inc. in New York. She designs solutions that provide comfort & function with a BIG SPLASH of style without having to spend hi-end prices on furniture & furnishings. Her designs have appeared in the Life & Style section of The Journal News and the Lohub Blog of Westchester County. In April 2007 she won a design competition called “Interior Motives”. She was an Interior Decorating subject specialist for DETC (Distant Education Training Council) spring 2007. Her weekly newsletter called “Smart Decorating! E-News” is her way of reaching out and sharing decorating tips to people across the United States. To get more information go to www.adasdecoratingsolutions.com

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