Halloween Decorating

My Mother made the ceramic witch and painted it too!  It's at my house now.

laughing pumpkin!

Holiday Potpourri given to my by another artist--handmade!

Vintage Poster...from our childhood

blocks left from when we were kids

I carved this out of styrofoam for our college digs when I was in art school!

lots of cobwebs!

Our vintage film reel covered in spider webs really adds some spice.

we have a very spooky porch!

I got this from a party I was serving at...when I'm not in my studio
I work for a catering company on call.

candy corn candle.

we live in an upper apartment.  The stairwell is dark to begin with so it
really lended itself to spookiness ;)

An old tissue paper pumpkin that came from my boyfriend's childhood
stash.  His dad saved it from a party at the hospital he worked at, probably
some 20 years ago :)

I got the mums from my catering job after a party one night...but they died
soon after...just in time to decorate for halloween!  A few spiderwebs and
hocus pocus...our hallween decor ain't no jokus!

our vintage floor to ceiling lamp also lends itself to spookiness...just a few
spiderwebs and its nice and creepy.

This is hanging over my desk in the studio.  I think of myself as this witch..
brewing up a pot of creativity!

love the vintage decor...we have these all over the house.  They came from
my boyfriend's mother...who decorated their house with them for years.

Halloween

We had the neighbor kids over for some fun Halloween festivities...

Three Super Cute Cowgirls!

They decorated cookies and watched Hocus Pocus...

The children were very creative with their cookie designs!

We mixed up a fun "Pumpkin Potion" and served it with a ladle from a carved pumpkin.

Tags were added to each glass with a different pumpkin face on each to mark everyone's drinks.  These vintage glasses were given to me by my Grandma who had inherited them from past generations...a family that owned an ice cream shop years ago.

Even my boyfriend Cam got into the fun!  Here he is as a classy phantom butler.

The children were really intrigued with our dry ice tricks!

When it was time to go, each kid got to take home a handmade gift...

....with fun sweets inside!