Saturday, September 25, 2010

welcome october!

As many of you know, I absolutely love Halloween! Over the past couple weeks I have been busy getting my halloween out and creating some new additions as well. Let's begin the tour, shall we?

I found this wreath idea at thelongthread.com and fell in love with it. It was so simple to make and looks absolutely fabulous! (It'd be great in christmas colors too. Hmmm....)



With Curt's help, I made this as a little tribute to one of my favorite poems.


I love the vintage feel of this Boo garland. You can download this template and other incredible images at The Graphics Fairy.



This is my mantle and I'm a little in love with it. The pictures all came from The Graphics Fairy and these incredible labels came from Love Manor. I already had all the jars (since I kinda have a bit of a jar fetish) and the rest is just things I made or already had. Oh, I did buy some eyeballs from Target.












This is the dining room with my halloween garland I made a few years ago.



My pumpkin jars nestled in with my plants.


I love that vintage halloween is really big right now.


I am crazy about these! I saw these on eighteen25 and last weekend Staci and I decided to make some. They are so simple and fun fun fun!




Ah, my halloween tree. I love my halloween tree. I did it a few years ago and every year that I put it up I love it a little more. I printed vintage halloween pictures from the internet (just do a google image search), hung them on some old branches, and put a couple ravens in the mix. Viola! An utterly fantastic halloween tree!





I love this pumpkin character. He's full of halloween whimsy!


My little tribute to Edgar Allan Poe. Love him.



I still need to get some of my treat jars filled.


More fantastic images from The Graphics Fairy. I really love this. Very macabre.



Of course, it wouldn't be complete without my halloween quilt that I made last year. I sewed all the strips together, which for me, was quite a feat. The beautiful quilting was done by Curt's mom, Carol, who is a quilting guru.




Even our kitchen couldn't escape the halloween carnage.




Well, that concludes the halloween tour of the Armstrong's. Happy Haunting!



6 comments:

Q said...

Love it! I miss the Halloween festivities of America.

Diane Denning said...

So cute. We are so sad we wont be able to be at the famous Halloween Party. Matt and I still talk about it! And i love your wreath and your quilt.

Staci said...

what did you use for vampire fangs? LOVE LOVE LOVE meg! wonderful job!

Andrea said...

I love it so much can i just come sit in your house for awhile.

ali.j said...

Every year I think you can't possibly come up with anything more cute and yet, you always seem to! The wreath was very very cute. I'm going to have to try it.

JBA said...

LOOKS GREAT! You guys are great!