Dragonflies and Flutterbyes: Halloween {Part 2} {Halloween Decorations House Tour}

{living}

Finally getting the tour of all my Halloween decorations I promised posted! {yay}.... I was sick and then running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get ready for our annual Halloween party (which I was behind on because of being sick........) {I'll be posting about that later}. But there's still a few days before Halloween and there's always next year, if you want to steal any of my ideas ;). I don't go quite as all out with Halloween decorations as I do for Christmas (although I do a little more than I do for some of the other holidays), so while I call this a "house tour" it's actually only a few rooms and the front yard, I do plan on continuing to expand and add to my Halloween decorations though each year so it may get to be a little more thoroughly distributed thoughout the house eventually (there were actually a few things I wanted to do this year - especially for the kitchen- that didn't end up getting done, so I may start on stiff for next year as soon as this year is over). Enjoy!

{Front Yard}

Ghost dresses I made from Chicken Wire and white spray paint in the front side yard, you cant see it too well in the picture but there's also a chicken wire butterfly/moth on the bench

a little bit closer view of the ghost dresses

graveyard in the front garden (I have had quite a time with these gravestones over the years. I bought them I think from Dollar Tree years ago, but the little stakes that came with them never held them into the ground well enough and they'd fall down and blow around the yard, so then I tried gluing the metal stakes in last year but they still didn't really go deep enough into the ground so this year I unbent some wire hangers and taped them to the back with packing tape and made sure they were a lot longer to go into the ground..... the backs look like a hot mess, but they haven't budged!)

Ghost pumpkin carriage I made.... it used to have a door.... I'm not sure what happened to it....

{Front Door}

I made this 4 or 5 years ago, and I still love it.

{Hallway}

looking through our front door

Mice and rats on the stairs

one of my new decorations for this year..... I had gotten the urn on clearance at Kmart at the end of summer and had planned on doing some sort of outdoor Halloween decoration with it, but I also meant to go back and get a second on possibly for that and didn't and I decided I needed something right at the top of this section of the stairs here (it turns and there's 4 more steps) and I'm so glad I used it here instead of outside!

closer view,,,,, the branches were from our backyard and I just spray painted them black, the large black pumpkin I had picked up last year on clearance just after Halloween with no clear idea of exactly where I would use it (glad that worked out lol) - it's holding the branches in place - and the birds were from Dollar Tree

my Halloween garland for the bannister.... the idea came from one of the Better homes and Gardens Halloween Tips and Tricks magazines (I think it was 2 years ago)...... I keep forgetting I need to make it a bit longer though.......

this little alcove in our hallway was originally where the houses telephone went, of course that has long since been relocated, so now it's just an extra little space for me to decorate!

A ghostly image in the mirror

a little decoration hanging from the coat closet

close up of one of the little mousies

and another close up....

I wanted to add a little bit better look at this little guy too, because he started out life as a small plastic pot from Dollar Tree, a wooden candlestick, a mini canvas, and a weird little Easter tree I got on clearance after Easter from Dollar Tree years ago and never knew what to do with..... but a little hot glue and some black spray paint (or orange spray paint..... you'll see an orange one in the kitchen) and it became the perfect little decoration, I was so thrilled with how they turned out!

{Living Room}

looking into the right side of the living room from the Hallway

I won't give too much description on these pictures since I already posted them a few weeks ago, but here's a view of one of my Halloween pillows and the Halloween floral arrangement

more Halloween pillows..... they are a combination of ones I've made and ones I've bought

the windows normally just have the honeycomb shades (I think that's what they're called) on them, the Halloween window treatments are simply made from black cardstock and back and gray "creepy cloth"

I love decorating the mantel for different holidays and seasons

This is actually supposed to be a haunted doll house, but since I only have a couple of the rooms inside finished it works perfectly here for now..... when I get the inside done I think I'll get a mirror to sit behind it so you can see the rooms..... either that or get some sort or lazy susan to out it on

"graveyard" littered with black {glittery!} mini pumpkins

spooky forest (if you can call one black {glittery!} spooky tree and a picture of a masquerade in the woods a spooky forest lol)

this is on the other side of the living room...... I've started trying to get my monogram wall done so some of my "B"'s have been hung, so as well as a cheesecloth ghost on the little table I added a few "o"'s so one of the b's would say "boo" (I might do more of them next year)