Spooky!

Well, I’m spending today getting our house decorated for Halloween! Don’t get too excited, my arsenal of decorations is pretty small.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was never much of a Halloween kind of gal until recently.  And unfortunately, my husband put me on a $2 per year budget for decorations (he had to be kidding, right?!).  Anyway, I’ve stuck pretty closely to that budget, and probably have spent only around $15 in the last two years.  So needless to say, my decorations are a little pathetic. 

I decided that the most important place to decorate is the entryway and outside since that’s where the trick-or-treaters (hopefully!) will be.  I used some outdoor lights, a Halloween welcome mat, some witches hats, and a Fall wreath to spruce up the outside of our house.  We’ll be adding a carved pumpkin or two this weekend.  We’ve been so busy we haven’t had a chance to carve pumpkins yet!  

 

 

I’d like to take a moment here and share a few pictures of Hal, our pumpkin from last year.  I really fell in love with him and was so sad when we had to let him go.  I think I scared Doug with my unreasonable attachment to a pumpkin (in my defense I was pregnant!), but what can I say, he’s just so cute!

Anyway, back to this year, in the entryway, I decorated our small welcome table.  I used some spider webs, a pumpkin that matches the outdoor witches’ hats, my mummy family (see my DIY post on how to make them), a Spooky! sign, and some pumpkin table scatter.  As you can see, I have my bowl full of candy as well, ready for the hundreds of trick-or-treaters we’re bound to have (not really, last year we only had 23, yes I counted them). 

 

 

Honestly, that’s about the extent of my decorations.  I have some Fall decorations scattered around the house, but nothing too fancy.  I guess I need to get my husband to raise my Halloween budget! ;)