Thursday, October 28, 2010

My Favorite & Frightful Halloween Decorating Ideas from Blogland…

With Halloween just a few days away, I’ve been surfing blogland for some last minute décor ideas. Wow. There are so many amazingly creative and down right creepy ideas for decorating your home and  entertaining your guests this All Hallow’s Eve. Here are some of my favorites I had to share with you. Enjoy!

Favorite Halloween Party Invitations:

halloween party invitation skeleton diy
Start the party off right with Skeleton Halloween invitations by Martha Stewart. Not too scary to make yourself – just download & assemble! Visit Martha’s for the how to.

halloween party invite amy atlas cocodot yellow orange
Stylish, colorful and paperless Halloween invites by Amy Altas for CocoDot. I used the “Boo!” invite in the bottom right corner for our little party coming up!

Favorite Halloween Décor – Outside:

halloween decorating outside home apartment
halloween decorating outside freak show apartment
For three years, this home in Brooklyn has been frightening trick-or-treaters. This year, it’s a “freak show” at A Brooklyn Limestone in Progress. Wow.

Favorite Halloween Décor – Inside:

halloween lab mantel decor spooky
Loving this Dr. Jekyll’s Laboratory décor theme from Three Pixie Lane. The vintage photos with googol eyes are the best.

halloween vintage clipart eyes goolish
The Graphics Fairy {love} has a ton of great vintage Halloween clipart for all your spooky projects. Here are those eyes just mentioned.

halloween decorating black white mantel ghosts
The stylish DIYer, Kate at Centsational Girl, created the best mantel this season. Love the black & white color palette. Aren’t the chains great?

Halloween decor mice up the staircase
Love these little mice {Martha Stewart} creeping and crawling all over the stairs at Thrifty Décor Chick.

Favorite Halloween Treats:

halloween cupcakes spooky frightful lily vanilli
halloween gourmet cupcakes mummy tombstone lily vanilli
These ominous cupcakes by Lily Vanilli via Cupcake Loves Evil are perfectly frightful for any Halloween party.

halloween party spooky candied apples matt bites
And how about these eerie candied apples by Matt Bites? Love the twigs.

halloween party candy jar labels martha stewart
For something a little more inviting {especially for kids}, this simple Halloween candy station by Martha Stewart  is a great option. The jar label’s can be downloaded here.

Favorite Halloween Drinks:

halloween party beer drink labels download
These ghoulish beverage labels by Centsational Girl are my favorite. You will need to drop by her blog; She has downloads for these witches brews and many others including one for kids’ juice boxes! Go here.

halloween drink labels glass simple stickers
Here’s yet another way by Real Simple to add an eeire touch to drinks by labeling each guest’s stemware. Make everyone’s different so to not get drinks mixed up!

Favorite Halloween Pumpkins:

halloween pumpkin with rats martha stewart
I picked up a bag of little rubber rats at Michael’s the other day having no clue what I was going to do with them. Now I know. Thanks Martha Stewart!

halloween painted pumpkins black white insects
Love these painted pumpkins too by Stylist Liz Demos via Country Living.

halloween cute painted pumpkins jack-o-lanterns
This assortment of painted and carved pumpkins is also a favorite. Does anyone know the original source? I found it on a blog that did not give it proper credit.

Are you scrabbling to get ready for Halloween? What do you have planned? I will be passing out candy to the kiddos and watching the SF Giants!