Put a Little Glamour in Your Halloween

We are so thrilled with the look of our Halloween decor this year.  We ordered it in January and had a black, white, and tan theme in mind.  There are touches of orange and a little bit of glamour.

  Don't you just love the look of a classier Halloween? I don't understand why so much of the Halloween decor you see in stores is so cheesy. It's all plastic and shiny. Why can't Halloween be pretty AND spooky? 

We had these jeweled pumpkins last year and sold out of them instantly so we got several sets this year.

 

Old top hats are so cool for a Halloween table.  You can fill them with pumpkins or put them on top of a skeleton's head.  We used some hay to add a special touch to our top hat and pumpkin.

My favorite part about the pumpkins we sell is their twisty stems.  So cute!

 Susan from Knollwood Lane made some fun pennant banners with different images on them.  I love this BOO banner.

 We pretty much believe that you can never have too much glitter!  These are glass glitter pumpkins.  They are $8 and $12 each.

 I love the hanging witch in the moon.  She is so cool.  We ordered her from the Bethany Lowe showroom.

 

Halloween decor looks cool against the temporary wallpaper from my recent post. We made it even more glamorous looking by mixing in mercury glass and old silver like the tray and candleholders below.

 They're watching you....

 These boo blocks have been really popular because you can put them anywhere.

 I ordered the black candleabra for our display a long time ago.  I just knew it would be perfect!

Another cool Knollwood Lane creation.  Susan made door hangers like this skeleton one below.  I love the glass glitter.

 

People have been so tickled by these Ouji board placemats.  We've been collecting them for a few months so we'd have enough to make a whole table setting.

 We've also been collecting the white ironstone for our table.

Mr. Crow is wearing a crown.  He's so fancy. 

 

 These silhouette ornaments are really cool.  It's one of my favorite things we ordered this year.

 

 

This is a fun, inexpensive way to decorate for Halloween.  I bought one bag each of white lima beans, black beans, and black eyed peas.  You can fill jars in layers with them or use them to fill in around displays.

 

We can make you a gorgeous bow for your fall wreath this year.  Just stop in and we will help you pick the ribbon and make whatever size you need.

 

If you are in the St. Louis area, I hope you can come in and see the Halloween displays in person.  We will be happy to help you pick out the right pieces for your mantel, table, cabinet, or front door.  We can always ship things too!  Just give us a call at 314-963-9784 and let us know what you saw on here that you want.  I'll send it right out.

We are working on planning a pumpkin decorating workshop for September too!  I can't wait!  I'll post about that when we figure out the details.

Getting ready for Halloween! What's inspiring us.

Can you believe that we will be putting our Halloween merchandise out in about 2 weeks?  I know!  It's crazy.  Our customers are really excited though.  We've had a lot of people wanting to know when they can see it. 

We've been gathering inspiration for our displays from Pinterest and I wanted to share some of our favorite ideas and images(to be clear, these are things I'm getting inspiration from, not our own projects :) ).  This will give you an idea of the look we are trying to achieve.

First of all, most of it will be black and white.  We have a few things that are a muted orange and brown, but a lot is white. (surprised?)

I'm trying to figure out how to recreate this wall of silhouettes.  Don't you love the look of the gold with the blacks and browns?  I know we can get lots of old frames like these but where did they get those silhouettes?  Perhaps someone on ETSY sells downloads of them??

Just a little bit of Victorian influence.

 A little magic marker is all you'd need to make the tree below! And you can adjust the branches depending on how many shelves you have.  Cool idea!

Pretty pumpkin art!

My absolute favorite photo is the one below.  It's exactly what I want our Halloween "look" to be.  It's a little bit glamor with the gold, it has a little vintage with the old silver tray, it's got shells and white coral which is a little unexpected, and it's mostly black and white so it has a clean, simple feeling. 

We did order full sized skeletons like this one.  We also have ravens, domes, shells,old books, and vintage silver so I'm hoping we can re-create the feeling of this picture.

 We have had our pickers looking for old top hats for about 3 months now.  I want to put them on skeletons, pumpkins, and crows.  LOVE!

 I love everything about the photo below.  The clock on the wall, the paint color on the shelves, the number on the pumpkin... Ok, really I love everything.

 I love that the owl is looking into a mirror here.  And the chippy wood on the wall is fantastic!!

 A cute mantle display that popped up when I typed in "black and white Halloween"

 Lacy pumpkins.  How cute!

 This picture below is from Curious Sofa.  Did you ever visit that store?  It was in Kansas City.  Owner Debbie Dusenberry always had the coolest displays! I'm loving these stockings coming out of the ceiling.  She doesn't have a storefront anymore but she still sells online.  Here's her site!

 I'm wondering how time consuming it will be to make these book pumpkins.  It looks easy, but crafts are never as easy as they seem!  Have any of you tried it?

Here are a few pictures of actual things we ordered.  If you want any of them, let us know and we can set one aside for you!

We ordered lots of this cutie with the crown!

 We had these jeweled pumpkins last year and people went crazy over them so of course we got more!

 We got a few sizes of these lace pumpkins.

 I absolutely fell in love with the skull tablecloth.  It has black tulle on the edges.  Amazing!!!

 This is the showroom we ordered most of the best stuff from.  I can't wait to put it all together.

We are hoping to get everything put out by August 20th.  I'll definitely post pictures and let everyone know when we have it all set up.  I post the most photos on Facebook so check out our page if you haven't yet!