Halloween Horrors!

Halloween is my FAVORITE holiday! As such, I decided that I should really decorate to the fullest extent of my abilites and checkbook:) Now I don't really have any natural crafty ability, so I have to turn to the internet and magazines for inspiration.....and this pretty much means copying everything that Martha Stewart has ever done! Yay!

So this is what I found, liked, and tried to duplicate:

This one failed miserably.
I spent 3 days layering paper-mache onto a carefully sculpted balloon. After drying fully, per the directions, I pop the balloon and watch as my creation shrivels up into a unrecognizeable lump. LAME!!! I am now looking for a different way to make my lighted skull....


I took Christmas flowers and spray painted them black and gray. They look pretty creepy and awesome.


I've been collecting bottles for the last year and printed out creepy labels for them. These in the picture are specifically for drink bottles, but my labels are for things like petrified butterflies and snake serum.


I used an old Heber J. Grant book to make my witch's spell book. Ryan thought that it might be a small sin to use a church book like that. Ha ha!


Made a few window covering like this....

Stole a mirror from a lady's cart at the D.I. and then painted it black. Still waiting for Ryan to bring me a few screws from work so I can hang it in our front room.

And finally I printed off Halloween related words or pictures ("Dracula," "13," "The Witching Hour," etc) and put them up in all our personal picture frames.

I'm so excited to be almost ready for Halloween! There are still a few things that I want to do, but I feel pretty good about what I have accomplished so far!

Now I just need ya'll to stop by to visit and see all my decorations!