I've had so much fun decorating our house for Halloween, and while I absolutely LOVE the ornaments, fake snow, trees, lights, scents and overall ambience of the Christmas season, I am beginning to love the aspects of Halloween even more! Yesterday morning while the Hubs was working, so was I...just in a different way.

I. Love. This. Front. Porch. Surprisingly, it didn't take that long to make it look this way. Here's what I did:

1. After purchasing about 15 yards of cheesecloth on eBay a while back for around a dollar or two a yard, I measured the width of the entryway and added a few inches to compensate for the arch. I then stretched it and used scissors to shred it. Hubs had some double-sided mounting tape in his garage, and I was initially unsure of whether it would stick to the brick. I cut a few squares and placed them about a foot apart, and this morning it was still hanging. I also used some cheesecloth to hang from chandeliers, like in one of last week's posts.

2. Next I used the same mounting tape to hang the 'caution' tape across the entryway. In addition to just looking cool, this also keeps the wind from blowing the cheesecloth into the guttering.


3. On the left side of the door is an old lampstand on an old wire table that I wasn't using. I popped in a flickering candelabra bulb and strung more shredded cheesecloth over it (This particular strand of 'blood'-stained cheesecloth I bought for $1 at Dollar Tree. Score!). I also found some rough wood frames I thought would look cool sitting there. Insert a few LED candles and voila!


4. On the right side of the door I used a chair from our back patio and covered it with an old ivory sheet. I stuffed some of Hubs' old clothes with more sheets and used skeleton arms and a skull to finish it off. The skull originally did not have holes in its eyes, but I thought it would look cool to have a light glowing from inside, so Hubs drilled some holes in its eyes and we used an LED tealight candle to light that sucker up. The dry ice in the witch's cauldron and strobe light really finish it off perfectly. :)


5. You can't have Halloween without a black light, right?


6. Had to dress up the mums, too; now they just need to bloom!



Remember the paper bats I stuck to the wall over the fireplace? I had a lot left over, so here's what I did with them:

The purple eve lights add a spooky effect at night. :)

The perfect lighting makes for some hard-to-beat effects, so we replaced the bulbs in our garage lights to flickering candelabra bulbs, too! You can't see the flickering, but with all three lit up at night, it looks really neat.


We had to incorporate something spooky into our island, and I knew the perfect addition: a tombstone of course! With Hubs' help, I've made three so far, and they're so easy! The wind will have a hard time knocking it over because of it's heavy wood base. We added a strobe light at night for effect.


In addition to the strobe lights, the fog from the dry ice and the flickering of the tealight candles and candelabra bulbs, what one thing could make this entryway even better?

Spooky sounds of course! I can't figure out how to play them on here, but it sounds really cool!

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Until next time... <3