Halloween is one of those few times people can feel free to be a bit freaky, spooky or just plain weird. Tablescaper's feel the very same way. It's nice to slip out of your comfort zone and place a dead man's skull on your dinner table isn't it? When I was lucky enough to come across a gaggle of small orange votives for cheap, I let them jump in my cart and come home with me. Bringing out the orange for Halloween seems too easy for me but I got to use my Orange Fire King. Which I trade in a heartbeat for the blue but I digress!   I also came across some skulls for about 2 dollars a piece so those just followed the trail I left and followed me home too. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.   I'm all setup with Reese's cups for trick or treaters. Should they not show up, I however, am fully prepared to throw myself on the proverbial sword and eat them all. Happy Halloween! ...

Halloween Party Ideas | Holiday Entertaining for Halloween |  With Oingo Boingo's song playing in my earbuds I am really getting in the Halloween Spirit. This is one of my all time favorite songs and if you could see my playlists in ITunes you'd know it wasn't a trick. I don't know what it is with the song "Dead Man's Party", but after hearing it? I want to go buy 100 plastic snakes and make a medusa style headband and just wear it. Every. Single. Day.  That'd be fun wouldn't it?  Can you picture me trolling down the grocery aisles in Costco, with black fingernails, normal makeup (which for me is mascara and that's it) and a snakes coming out of my blonde hair? I wouldn't have to worry about getting hit by the grocery cart natzi's. People would get out my way! I used the same dishes I had on the table from a previous tablescape. I (again) wanted to prove that one could get done without a ton of fuss. I added some black and copper color......

Halloween Tablescape | Dead Man's Party |   My first ever spooky halloween tablescape. It feels kinda fun to step out of my rustic comfort zone and do something fun. I did some hunting around town couple of weeks ago hoping to be able to do a budget kind of thing for a halloween table.  You know, similar to a dollar store halloween table?  Well 3 dollar stores later, I got nada. They were low on anything halloween and anything inspirational. So these little spooky guys, an the potion bottle were found at Target. I also got a little bag of skulls in a bag and put them in the centerpiece. The little guys sitting on the plates are actually a happy accident. While making the table, I just put on little guy down on the table and he landed in a sitting position. My original plan was to make some sort of hang mans noose. And use dog hair as tumbleweeds. Ok I may be reaching a bit on the tumbleweeds. But I'll figure something out for the next one. XO, Also, if you're looking for ......