10.28.2010

My Favorite & Frightful Halloween Decorating Ideas from Blogland…

With Halloween just a few days away, I’ve been surfing blogland for some last minute décor ideas. Wow. There are so many amazingly creative and down right creepy ideas for decorating your home and  entertaining your guests this All Hallow’s Eve. Here are some of my favorites I had to share with you. Enjoy!

Favorite Halloween Party Invitations:

halloween party invitation skeleton diy
Start the party off right with Skeleton Halloween invitations by Martha Stewart. Not too scary to make yourself – just download & assemble! Visit Martha’s for the how to.

halloween party invite amy atlas cocodot yellow orange
Stylish, colorful and paperless Halloween invites by Amy Altas for CocoDot. I used the “Boo!” invite in the bottom right corner for our little party coming up!

Favorite Halloween Décor – Outside:

halloween decorating outside home apartment
halloween decorating outside freak show apartment
For three years, this home in Brooklyn has been frightening trick-or-treaters. This year, it’s a “freak show” at A Brooklyn Limestone in Progress. Wow.

Favorite Halloween Décor – Inside:

halloween lab mantel decor spooky
Loving this Dr. Jekyll’s Laboratory décor theme from Three Pixie Lane. The vintage photos with googol eyes are the best.

halloween vintage clipart eyes goolish
The Graphics Fairy {love} has a ton of great vintage Halloween clipart for all your spooky projects. Here are those eyes just mentioned.

halloween decorating black white mantel ghosts
The stylish DIYer, Kate at Centsational Girl, created the best mantel this season. Love the black & white color palette. Aren’t the chains great?

Halloween decor mice up the staircase
Love these little mice {Martha Stewart} creeping and crawling all over the stairs at Thrifty Décor Chick.

Favorite Halloween Treats:

halloween cupcakes spooky frightful lily vanilli
halloween gourmet cupcakes mummy tombstone lily vanilli
These ominous cupcakes by Lily Vanilli via Cupcake Loves Evil are perfectly frightful for any Halloween party.

halloween party spooky candied apples matt bites
And how about these eerie candied apples by Matt Bites? Love the twigs.

halloween party candy jar labels martha stewart
For something a little more inviting {especially for kids}, this simple Halloween candy station by Martha Stewart  is a great option. The jar label’s can be downloaded here.

Favorite Halloween Drinks:

halloween party beer drink labels download
These ghoulish beverage labels by Centsational Girl are my favorite. You will need to drop by her blog; She has downloads for these witches brews and many others including one for kids’ juice boxes! Go here.

halloween drink labels glass simple stickers
Here’s yet another way by Real Simple to add an eeire touch to drinks by labeling each guest’s stemware. Make everyone’s different so to not get drinks mixed up!

Favorite Halloween Pumpkins:

halloween pumpkin with rats martha stewart
I picked up a bag of little rubber rats at Michael’s the other day having no clue what I was going to do with them. Now I know. Thanks Martha Stewart!

halloween painted pumpkins black white insects
Love these painted pumpkins too by Stylist Liz Demos via Country Living.

halloween cute painted pumpkins jack-o-lanterns
This assortment of painted and carved pumpkins is also a favorite. Does anyone know the original source? I found it on a blog that did not give it proper credit.

Need some more spooky decor inspiration? Here are some more Halloween decorating ideas I think you'll love.

18 comments:

  1. Love your list of faves. Some people are so creative with their Halloween decorating--I'm always amazed!

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  2. Halloween decorating can be such fun! :) These are remarkable!

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  3. Great finds! With no kids I guess hubby and I will just stay home and eat chili and pass out candy. Nothing too scary going on around here.

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  4. I posted a pic on my blog of my halloween/fall decor (pumpkin toparies)...I'm actually having my housewarming this coming Saturday. My decor for the party will have a halloween theme of course. I may have to use some of these great ideas. Cool post!

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  5. Wow lots of great inspiration here! That outdoor decor is fabulous, I love it when people make that kind of effort!

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  6. Fabulous roundup ! Love love love all your inspirational links! Delighted to be included, have the most haunted Halloween my friend!
    xo
    Kate

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  7. The mice on the stairs has to be my favorite!!

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  8. ha ha!! love this collection... I did the same for today!

    http://desire2decorate.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-decorating.html

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  9. love all these halloween ideas. the cupcakes look delicious! happy halloween!

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  10. Cristin
    All of these are so fabulous! The candied apples and pumpkins with mice are my favorites!

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  11. Amazing post!! We love the outdoor decor on those beautiful buildings... the mice silhouettes are great too! Have a Happy Halloween!!

    E+J

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  12. Cristin,

    Love it and Halloween is becoming a bigger deal every year and more creative no doubt. I just amazed at the volume of consumption choices. It's not just for children it's for us bigger children at heart as well.

    Bette

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  13. all so gorgeous! so many crafts so little time! And Amy atlas never fails to amaze me!

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  14. Martha is still the goddess, wow the mice in the holes of the pumpkin and along the stairs, the best!

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  15. Merveilleuses petites choses pour fêter joyeusement Halloween ! J'adore les verres à boire, avec "poison", "caution", "toxic", excellent, excellent !

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  16. Loving those painted pumpkins by Liz, and the candy apples are very fun!

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