Target: Halloween 2015

Loving the goodies I've been seeing at Target this year! A lot of buttons to be pressed, and spooky noises to be heard from these dec's... 

...Especially this guy!

*step*

*howl*

*scream*

Check out the rest of the Halloween awesomeness from Target!

Halloween Decor 2014

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Sit Back, Relax!

Been trying to revamp my apartment, at least a little bit, so I've been trolling Pinterest for inspiration. Found these hilariously awesome pillows! I may need to get a few of them...

View my #HaunterLife Board here! 

 

Halloween 2012: Decor Pics

Just a few cool shots from my Halloween decor from 2012, never got a chance to post them...

Since I have my vintage camera collection in my bookcase, I decided that this area should be the spirit photography/seance section.

I usually like to keep the cute, vintage decorations in the kitchen and dining room, keeps things feeling nostalgic and homey.

Decided to bring my Scarecrow from my parents house so I could set it up at my place. I like how he ended up towering over the balcony, gives him a real spook factor.

But don't worry I didn't rob my mom's place of all the Halloween decorations, she has a lawn so we set up our graveyard outside. The best part is that we now have newer gravestones that my mom made during the spring for my movie Avery Parrish Thieves.

    For some reason red was my color this year, not only for my Lydia Deetz costume, but for blood splatter too. And speaking of left over props from Avery Parrish Thieves, I had a bloody sheet left over from one of our shoots and decided to hang it above our snack table, though I can't seem to find those photos. But trust me, it made everything look delicious...

   Still going along with the blood theme, I was very much inspired by blood splatter this year months ago decided that I would make my place look more gruesome than usual. Living the glamourous apartment life with white walls, I wanted to cover them with blood to really make them pop, but when I began looking for wall decals of blood splatter all I found were cheesy stick-ons, most likely with grease in them to end up giving my walls grease stains. So I figured, why not make my own decals? It was even easier than I thought it would be.

   All I had to buy was a roll of contact paper and some acrylic red paint. I rolled out large and medium sized portions of the contact paper on the floor, taped them down, poured the paint into a small bowl and used a sponge brush to dip into the paint and make the spooky blood splatter come to life (you can add a bit of brown paint in there to look more realistic probably, but I didn't have time). I have to say it was actually really easy, fun, and cheap. After I let them dry throughout the day, I stuck them right onto the walls for my party. On Halloween night I posted them on the windows hoping to get some trick 'r treaters...

Turns out we only had two. What is happening to the world!?

Overall I am pretty proud of how things turned out and those trick 'r treaters who never showed up totally missed out.

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My Costume for 2011...

Marie Antoinette

This year was a year like no other. While working on a stage production of Sherlock Holmes, two theatre festivals (one scene/short play from each), improv rehearsals and shows, and several film projects up in the air, I have been a very busy girl! However, I did not let these other passions of mine get in the way of my passion for Halloween and I still managed to throw the annual party, put together a costume, and decorate my new place. When it came to this year's costume, I had been wanting to dress up like Marie Antoinette since last year, after buying a white petticoat from a thrift store for my 2010 costume, The Crone from Sleepy Hollow. It was the only article to the costume that I had had until this summer when I did a little more shopping.

After visiting a few thrift stores, I found a white blouse that had some ruffles and a rather interesting collar that I felt could work, and a pair of shoes that had the perfect shape. I then visited the fabric store and bought lots of trim, and some fabric that luckily was on sale! Another vital item I scored big time on, was the corset, thank goodness for sales again, because I got mine for only 25 dollars (originally 60!). And last, but not least, some other important accessories to go along.

I used some Sarri fabric for the skirt (which I pinned over the petticoat) and added some trim to the slit in the center. For the shoes, I used some gold/yellow fabric to cover them and then decorated them with more trim and a really neat pendent I found in the bead section at the craft store. I honestly don't know how I managed to pull off the shoes, but they were decorated, none the less.

Before...

After!

The blouse I bought from a thrift store was originally white so, of course I dyed it pink! I didn't mean to dye it that bright, but I feel it still looked pretty good with the whole costume. I took the sleeves in a little bit and added some lace cuffs to them. For the corset, I added lots of extra trim and a traditional 18th century design down the center.

After all that, it was time to tease my hair up, put my face on, and start pouring on the blood...