Oh my goodness! Halloween is tomorrow!
I love Halloween stuff/decor/decorations/trinkets/tchotchkes/etc., so it's rather surprising that I don't decorate a whole heckuva lot for Halloween. Maybe it's because I have sort of Halloween-y decorations inside and outside of my house all year round:
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| One of the two gargoyles guarding the house |
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| We have a cast of a skull in the living room. |
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| We have busts of the Bride of Frankenstein and Werewolf, and mini Madame Alexander dolls of the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch on a bookcase in our computer room. |
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| The bookcase is also home to a skull that has a removable skull cap so you can use it as a candy dish, and a large tarantula (not live, thank goodness) named Lemmy. Next to the skull is our stack of "The Walking Dead" books (volumes 1-16). (Which, I'll have you know, we read long before the tv show existed. So there.) |
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| On another bookcase in the computer room, we have a (tarnished) antique silver candelabra and matching vase with black roses, and an Angel of Death figurine. |
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| My sister painted this figurine and gave it to us for Christmas one year. |
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| On that same bookcase, we have a witch and cat figurine/windvane that my husband's sister gave us. |
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| On a bookcase in the living room, we have a glittery severed hand that sits behind a black wooden bowl. |
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| My mom just gave me this awesome Second Empire-style ceramic house that is kind of haunted house-y. This is how my husband and I want our house to look. It would require a total rebuild, though. |
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| She also gave me this nightlight/fragrance diffuser with a "bulb" (they call it a bulb) of Cinnamon Pumpkin Spice fragrance. |
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| In the guest bedroom, we have a set of glow-in-the-dark zombie figurines that were a wedding gift from our best man and his wife. They know us so well. |
And then we have my husband's art. (I'm only going to show you three pieces, otherwise this would be a never ending post).
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| This one is a self-portrait. |
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| This one, called "My Dad is a Werewolf", is 4 feet by 3 feet large. |
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| Here is how it looks on the mantle. |
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| He created series of artworks called "Totally Sweet" that is a group of portraits of well-known horror villains/monsters (mostly from films) made out of Halloween candy. We have a framed print of the black cat portrait in the living room. |
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| Close-up -- you can see all the different kinds of candy used. |
Finally, we have some "temporary" Halloween decorations around the house:
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| Glittery spider for the front door! |
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| I made this banner years ago. It is made out of felt bats and puffy paint. I love it! |
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| I even added dots of red glitter paint for the eyes. |
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| I hung up some skull lights on the mantle. |
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| They look fitting under the werewolf painting. |
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| Of course, we will put out our plastic light-up Jack-o'-lantern on the porch on Halloween night. |
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| I did hang up this little dude, but maybe it's too morbid. |
Do you decorate for Halloween?
P.S. If you would like to check out more of my husband's candy monsters from his "Totally Sweet" series, go to
http://www.freep.com/story/news/weird/eric-millikin/2014/09/18/eric-millikin-totally-sweet-candy-monsters-2014/15804341/. He has 17 total so far, with more to come. They include Leatherface from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", Vincent Price, Lily Munster, Audrey II from "Little Shop of Horrors", and a self-portrait.
