In all the excitement over Sadie's birth (our friend Amie's baby) I forgot to post about putting up the Halloween decorations, which we did on Monday--October 1. Obviously Christmas has fun decorations, but I think we love Halloween almost as much. The kids were busy when I got up that morning, busily drawing jack-o-lanterns and black cats to hang in the front window. They look nice, tiny and grouped together.
In the front yard, we hung our ghosts in the trees--one is a ghost, the other three are ghost bodies with wooden cat, witch and Frankenstein heads. The scarecrow on a stake we put near the driveway--and every time I pass the front window I mistake it for a small child! The plastic jack-o-lantern (no rotting!) is on the table on the patio, the Trick or Treat wooden hanging on the front door and the scarecrow harvest wreath on the back door. We hung sparkly pumpkin bunting on the porch light posts, and wound a strand down the stair rails on each side, too. We have a stuffed witch and scarecrow on our arbor benches, taffeta ghosts on sticks by the front walk, a sproingy metal ghost by the stair railing, and a metal shovel that's painted with a haunted mansion and a wooden sign also decorated with witches etc. by the magnolia tree.
Inside the house we have many and sundry Halloween candle holders, a felt table runner with spiders, webs and ghosts on the sideboard, glass pumpkin cookie jar, Halloween cups to drink from, the witch candy dish, and of course my Halloween tote bag I made last year.
Did I mention we love Halloween?
Jen
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