Happy Columbus Day!! Hope you had a great weekend! It was rainy and cold here but it also made for a great time to roast marshmallows out by the fire and cook up a yummy batch of heartwarming chili! Since I was tied to inside only projects this weekend, I decided it was time to finish up the Halloween mantel.
This year I wanted to make it a little spooky without being too scary. Everything I used to decorate the mantel were Halloween decorations I already had or things that I shopped the house for and “spookified”. 🙂
 |
| That’s my craaaazy hubs jumping in while I snap some “blog pics”! 🙂 |
When I decorated this mantel a few weeks ago for fall, I discovered that I really liked having something at the floor to help tie it all together. So for Halloween, I added some orange lights. I love the glow of the mantel in the evenings with these. So fun!
The banner on the front of the mantel came from Target last year. It worked perfectly for our mantel this year!
And here you have it! My spookified Halloween mantel decorating. I’m working on the front porch now and the rest of the little niches in the house that need a little spooking. Stay with me this week as I’ll be sharing more Halloween decorating ideas in between a few other little projects around the house. Will I ever get it all done?! 😉
    
Hi, I’m Ellora – A mom, DIY’er, and party planner with a love for family and a passion for life, creativity, and design. Welcome to Creatively Southern, your destination for inspiration to find simplicity, calm the noise, and focus on what’s important so you can be more creative and find balance and happiness in every aspect of life.
Valerie says
October 17, 2012 at 9:29 amI love that your husband is wearing a Mets shirt! 🙂
Wendy @ Ramblings from the Sunshine State says
October 12, 2012 at 2:12 pmThat turned out really cute! Love the bats on the mirror.
ARod Rodriguez says
October 12, 2012 at 12:10 pmgreat job it looks so cute & spooky
Taryn @ Design, Dining + Diapers says
October 12, 2012 at 1:23 amI love the bats on the mirror! What a fun idea. Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Something Nice and Pretty says
October 8, 2012 at 11:34 amSo adorable and I love how you used everything that you had, love the lights too!
Rondell♥
ann k says
October 8, 2012 at 11:03 amGreat job shopping your house and putting this all together! It looks great! I love that you had those perfectly title books already for a Halloween mantel.