October 12, 2009

spooky

The weather here in San Diego has cooled down considerably and I've made plenty of fall-ish recipes (pumpkin bread, shepherd's pie with butternut squash instead of mashed potatoes - so good by the way) and thought, "this baby's coming any day so I better get this house decorated while I still can!"
I ran into Michael's to see what they had for cheap fall decor. Not much. But they did have these awesome black crows that were only $5 and I bought a few candles (several parchment colored and one red - for blood effect). Then, on a trip to Ross after that, I found this letter "S" for only $7 (it's 14" tall) and while it's not useful for anything else after Halloween I still liked it. At home, I had some leftover houndstooth wool, some raffia (why did I have raffia?), a couple of white pumpkins from the local grocer and some votive candles. I also printed a few of these silhouettes that I made onto cardstock and distressed the paper a little. I wanted to frame them but I just couldn't bring myself to make holes in our rental walls just for Halloween. I also cut out a few little bats and taped them inside the lamps for a lighted silhouette effect and cut out several cutouts from Martha Stewart for the walls. Not too shabby.

10 comments:

  1. A-Dorable!!! I need to go pull out all of my halloween decor! I wish you were here so we could have another halloween party this year!

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  2. love the effect of all of the candles. i'm all about chandeliers and spooky candle sticks this time of year. so fun to get into the mood of halloween.

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  3. FAB-U-LOUS!

    You definitely have a gift! You have me inspired to do a little decorating.

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  4. looks like someone is nesting! Can't wait for you guys. Get some rest!!

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  5. I love it all Lizzie and you can surely use the "S" at Christmas time for SNOW and Santa!

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  6. Oh! I love it!
    I'm having a Halloween party and I'm going to use your bat silhouette idea!
    (and beautiful house by the way, I love your decorating!)

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  7. I made you receipe Sick Day Vegetable soup lastnight for my sickie hubby. It was so good... and he really liked it. Only thing I think I added too much pasta, because it was a little thick.. I did 16 oz. instead of 8 oz. and it was the swirly pasta.. so I was going to add some more broth so we could finish it off... do you think it will still be good, if I add more broth and simmer for a while? Also why chicken stock instead of chicken broth? I used broth.. because the container on the stock said add to sauces and gravy...

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  8. Luv the houndstooth. I'm a sucker for houndstooth. so happy it's back. also, am I an idiot? what is the S for? Spooky? Stupid cousins? Simplify? I feel lobotomized today.

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  9. You are so talented! Come decorate my house! I'm in such a rut!!!!!!!

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