Halloween Décor

Just as the Halloween season is coming to a close. I'm glancing at all the empty bowls that was once full of sweets - I have no regrets - *sigh*.

As I slowly detox and pack up all the pumpkins and spiders into storage bins, my creative brain starts buzzing in anticipation for next year's theme.

So before we wrap up on Halloween 2021, here are some highlights for our indoor Halloween décor.

My Cricut machine definitely gets a work-out this time of the year. First time I heard about Cricut I was unsure about it's abilities - a cutting machine? What would I need that for? - Until I watched a few videos and I understood how the Cricut machine worked. The possibilities are endless. I use my Cricut Maker machine mainly for my husband's business, household labels and of course seasonal decorations. However, this machine is switched on basically all year - especially for Birthdays etc.

Every year my husband and I host an annual Halloween party for friends. We love this tradition because it brings us together and hopefully will continue to the next generation.

So I like to pour most of my decorations on the buffet area and main table - keeping in mind not to make the centrepiece too tall, because this makes it hard to converse.

For a table centrepiece. I bought plain bottles (and some used wine bottles)

Spray painted them black and melted a couple of candles over it. This allowed me to set up more candles in the centrepiece without having to buy more expensive candlestick holders.

Most of the items on our table were coloured black. Because of this, I decided to add a dry ice element to our centrepiece.

I used a small vase - because a little goes a long way. The white vapour against all the black elements really added a classy yet spooky vibe to the table.

I just love these place cards. I honestly didn't think they'd come out this perfect. I used regular A4 paper - that fit about 2 hands. Again used my Cricut machine to cut out the skeleton hand.

* Design Tip * - I widened and lengthened the hand on the Cricut Design Space program very slightly so that each finger wouldn't come out too thin. Because when pinching the sides to curve and accentuate the knuckle, the fingers tend to come out a little too thin. This helped make the skeleton hand look anatomically correct.

These dome Cloches are from Ikea. What I love about cloches is that you can keep these around the house basically all year round and just swap the décor inside. For example, for halloween I've hot-glued mini skulls together - from Spotlight - to create this taxidermist display. Christmas time, using the same cloche, I swap the inside with a small Christmas village.

I use the same concept with these candle holders. I place something unique for halloween once the season is over, I swap them with a regular pillar candle for the rest of the year, but still using the same candle holders.

I bought these mini skull candles at Dusk, they are small but drip red wax which is really fun. At the end of the night the candle holder is covered in red wax, which looks amazing and super easy to peal off and clean.

* Design Tip * There are elements of my décor that stay the same every year, like candles and bats for example. If I want something to last more than just a year, I'll use my Cricut machine to cut plastic rather than just using paper, this worked really well when decorating wet areas, like the kitchen and outdoor porch.

Thanks for reading!

Until next Halloween! 👻

- C

xoxo

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