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!

#HaunterLife

Pretty bummed to say I won't be able to decorate much this Halloween, let alone have my annual party. Feels really not right. My inner Haunter is hurting from lack of expression. Let's just say moving sucks. But I've been getting my fill of Halloween decor and nostalgia by living vicariously through movies and Pinterest like any other white girl! Been building up all of my excessive Halloween boards, especially my nostalgic/Halloween geek board:

#HaunterLife

Cost Plus World Market: Halloween 2015

Loved everything I saw at World Market this last weekend! My contacts were bugging me, so I looked teary eyed... didn't help that I was gaping at every awesome Halloween decoration or treat I saw, people probably thought I was truly in awe... maybe I was...

World Market: Shop Now!

The Great Pumpkin Project

Absolutely loving this idea! I first heard about this from Pumpkin Rot, of course, and promised I'd share it along! Not sure I can pitch in as I'm a little bit busy since I'm moving during these next few days, but if you're a haunter or Halloween purest, feel free to keep classic Jack o's alive and join in!

Here's the project: carve a pumpkin for every night left in October and leave it in a place that you feel needs a handsome jack o' lantern. Here's the site for the details, where I found these fantastic pictures from people from around the country, and the world, showing off their jack o' lanterns in awesome places: The Great Pumpkin Project.com

Roger's Gardens Halloween Boutique 2015

Roger's Gardens has officially opened the doors to their Halloween Boutique - an awesome circus theme throughout. I got to visit the spectacle this weekend with my cousin and aunt and we were overwhelmed with joy and awe at its magnificence. 

Here's a great video by Roger's Gardens showing the magic in action, enjoy!

The Manor is Back!

My friend Johnny of Love Manor has posted a nice little teaser, letting us know there is more wickedness to come... Enjoy!

Don't forget to "Like" Love Manor on Facebook!

And visit Lovemanor.com for more tricks and treats! 

Roger's Gardens!

Every year, a must-see. 

More info here; Roger's Gardens.com

Halloween 2013 Decor

Had an amazing time putting up the decorations this year. It's many of the same decorations we have all seen on my Flickr and Blog before, but each year I try to mix it up a bit. 

Probably my favorite part of the decor was creating the bloody walls. I basically did the same thing I did last year for my windows. Contact paper, red acrylic paint, and a sponge brush to splash the paint is really all you need. 

Also bought some cute purple and orange lights for the dining room, which kind of brought the room to life!

Definitely enjoyed this year's decor. It was simplified in many ways compared to previous years, but I decided to go with my gut and just put things out that really popped in the room. Lets just say blood splatter was the perfect example. 

Check out more on my Flickr Photostream: Halloween 2013 Set! 

Deck the Halls with Pumpkins and Cheesecloth

Everything from Pumpkinrot, to Bruce Elsass, to Martha Stewart, to Love Manor, and even to a few of my own designs- my Halloween Decor board on Pinterest has it all!

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.