Halloween Decor, Crafts and Fun!

So it's officially Fall, the weather is cooler, the stores are loaded up with Halloween decor (and some even with Christmas decor, OH MY!) and I can't wait a minute longer to put out my decorations either! I never feel like I get enough of my Halloween decorations and they are my favorites! Seriously one month is just not long enough! When do you put up your Halloween decor?

I think you all have met my spooky eyeball wreath from last year but just in case you forgot, here he is :)

I have spruced up my cotton branch by the fireplace with a little fall sunflower and our monogram pumpkin!

Mr. Bones has also found a new spot this year atop my glass lantern and I have cramped my fingers away at crocheting a giant spiderweb this year!

The spread of Halloween continues in my sitting room and has possibly grown twice the size from last years! LOL!

I had also decided to craft up a few new decorations this year, since I now a nice writers table in my front room and it's still such a big open space hat needs filling... so... with that I took my favorite things about Halloween and ran with it! You can see the new additions for this year below :)

New this year is my stacked witches books... ohhh so creepy! LOL! Very easy to make, the books are from Michaels and you can find them for $4.99 each. I then just spray painted them and printed out some words from the computer and then aged them using tea bags!

I used the same effect with making the fortune tellers cards, they are simply just printed images I found on the internet and modpodged on some heavy card stock paper, aged again with tea bags, glossed over with some modpodge and then dried with a hair dryer to give that aged curled edge.

This is mostly for the kiddo and her costume this year but thought it might sit nicely a top the witches books... she is going to be Snow White for Halloween this year and I found a lovely pin on pinterest on how to make your very own poisoned apple. Incredibly easy to make... one fake apple from craft store, 2 small bottles of puffy paint, and some green glitter later this little baby was made!

And since I love all things Sleepy Hallow... I decided I might like a subway art tribute to it! The fake pumpkin is from Home Depot ... yes, Home Depot they are way cheaper there for the big ones! $9.00 you just can't beat that Michaels or Joanns. The letters are from Joanns and the mask from Michaels. I have always loved the idea of Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel and the Van Tassel's Harvest Ball... it's my favorite part in the story!

And of course what would a tribute to Sleepy Hallow be without the actual invitation to Ichabod from the Van Tassels! That's right! What you see here is the same written invitation you've seen Katrina write to Ichabod in the movies (mostly the Disney version) and I just love it! I used heavy card stock again and just wrote it all out with a sharpie, I added some left over ribbon I had at the bottom and then melted a red crayon to make the "waxed seal" and drops of "blood".

This fortune tellers crystal ball is quite possibly my other favorite item I acquired this year! This I didn't actually craft but I did get it from Big Lots of all places! I thought how perfect is this to go with my tarot cards! I just love the colors in it!

And of course the final picture...

On top of all this decorating I've been itching to try venture out and have some fall fun, we will probably be taking the kiddo to the local corn maze and pumpkin patch in a few weeks since we've now turned that into pretty much a family tradition. I will miss our farm that we always went to in Mississippi but it will be nice to explore a new one this year! I also really would love to take a weekend trip up to New England... I've been chatting with my mom about this and we have been talking about maybe doing it next year since she's pretty much used up all her vacation time already this year. But... next year it is SO on! I want to see Boston, Salem and possibly the Pilgrim village in Plymouth! How cool would that be? So in the mean time this year I will just have to surround myself with all things Fall and New England style LOL! How are you celebrating the season?