#1 favorite-CANDY!!! I usually always buy bags (and bags and bags) of candy corn and mellowcreme pumpkins. I am pretty picky about the brands so I only buy Brach's (no they are not sponsoring this blog post! I just really love them!) BUT this year, I added a new fav...White Chocolate candy corn M&Ms!!! They are "shut your mouth" yummy!!
#2: Candy Corn Candles!! Of course, why would I not buy this candle?! Candles by Carol makes a yummy Candy Corn candle that I love. She's a local candle maker that I make sure to check out a few times a month. Supporting local small business is where it's at!
#3: GOLD Skulls!! This year in a our living room, I went with a gold, creme, black color scheme for Halloween (with a touch of orange). I adore cheap but cute Halloween decorations but then again, who doesn't? I found skulls at the Dollar Tree and bought a can of gold spray paint. I loved how they turned out. I think I painted at least 3 to place around the house.
#4: My homemade "EEK" banner!! Since the hubs has all our TV "accessories" on the mantel, I could only decorate the front of the mantel and below. So I layered homemade banners/ buntings/ pendants (whatever you want to call them). Keeping with my color scheme of black, cream, gold and a touch of orange, I made a cardboard banner of 5 triangles. I HUGE heart polka dots so the cardboard banner has big gold dots with smaller black dots. I found cute spider web ribbon on Dollar General and placed it through the pendants to hang. Then I took 3 cream colored triangles and sponge painted big gold dots. Using my "letter cutter." I cut "EEK" in black glitter vinyl and heat pressed it on the triangles. (Yes, I warmed up the heat press to press 3 letters because I was too lazy to paint them on with stencils. Don't judge." More adorable Dollar General ribbon (orange with black spider webs) is holding this banner up. Last but not least, I found the cutest black spider web banner in the dollar bin at Target. I have a chalkboard sign to add but it hasn't gotten done yet.
#5:"Hello Clarice...": This sign was a must!! My teenage daughter and her friends were OBSESSED with "Silence of the Lambs" during the spring time. I lost count on how many times I heard "it puts the lotion in the basket..." While my daughter was gone one day, I printed this little sign up. I found a Halloween font on Pinterest, downloaded it, (googled how to spell "Clarice") and typed it up. I don't have a doll of Hannibal Lecter laying around, so I used another gold skull, a small skeleton (Dollar Tree find painted gold) and another lime green glittery skull. The little lights are skeleton heads that were also from the Dollar Tree. The sign is in a 8x10 white frame from Walmart for less that $4! I am still pondering what else to put with these guys. Maybe some creepy cheesecloth for them to sit on...
Those are a FEW of my favorites for Halloween. I chose cheap, easy, low maintenance decor ideas that can be copied with little effort. So make your way to Dollar Tree and load up on skulls!!
Hugs y'all,
LSG
