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.

Grand Opening Fun at East and West, a new boutique

We are so excited about our new friends Brian and Lauren Simpson who have recently opened a wonderful boutique in downtown Kirkwood.  They came in to The White Rabbit hoping to find cool display furniture for their store called East and West, a clothing boutique inspired by designers from the coasts.  The two saw a need for a quality shop where men can find brands made in the U.S. that you just won't see anywhere else in the Midwest(there are a few things for the ladies too!).  We were thrilled to help them find unique pieces for displaying their wares. 

We recently visited them during their grand opening event and snapped some photos of the pieces they got at our store! 

It was so fun to see it all come together.

This is Brian and Lauren in front of a cabinet they bought for their line of men's skincare and grooming products.  I will definitely be visiting this cabinet for my brother's Christmas presents!

P.S. Aren't they kind of ridiculously cute??

They got this red table recently and I almost shed a tear when it left our store.  It has a rusty metal top and it came in with this red, flat paint. Awesome!

 They bought this banner for their wall which is perfect because it has the names of New York subway stops.  This is our best selling website item by the way. They put a ladder in the window and draped jeans and shoes from it. 

This old Brach's candy display shelf turned out to be the perfect piece to display their candles and colognes. We had JUST gotten it when they snatched it up! 

See the  leather bag on the crate next to it?  My boyfriend got it for me. :)

 We painted the top of this table with chalkboard paint so that he can write sizes, prices, messages, etc.  It was a really simple table but adding the chalkboard top makes it a little bit more special.

 We had these sheets of galvanized metal at the store and Brian thought it would be really cool to use as his checkout counter front.  What a fun idea!  I love re purposing old materials like this.

This chalkboard came from us.  Looks great! The table below is metal.  I love mixing some industrial elements with painted pieces.  It keeps everything from looking too matchy and formal.

We helped them create a collage of frames to go above a clothing rack.  Don't you love the colors they chose?  They were a little too bright to begin with so we used a brown glaze to make them look older.  Glazes are easy to use.  I would really recommend experimenting with them if you haven't yet. 

 Want to visit this new boutique? They are at 205 N. Kirkwood Rd, kind of across from Deweys Pizza.  You can also visit their site at http://www.eastandweststl.com/

Please be sure to tell them The White Rabbit sent you!

We tested some temporary wallpaper-Here's what we found

 Hi everyone!  I posted about the temporary wallpaper we found at market earlier and I promised to give everyone an update once we tried it, so here it is! 

So here are the basics the company gave us when we ordered:

1.  1 roll is 20.5" x 33" and covers 56.37 sq ft. 
2.  It works best on an eggshell or satin painted finish. 
3. You can use it on walls, doors, tiles, furniture, or craft projects. 
4.  It is repostitionable.
5. It has a sticky backing so there is no need for glue.

 Here is Sarah smoothing the bubbles out of the paper.

Here's what we found after actually trying it out:

1.   It really is repostitionable!  It was easy to pull it off and re-stick it if you make a mistake. It stayed sticky.
2. It's best to use a sharp xacto knife to cut it. Scissors left an uneven edge because they catch on it.
3. There's a little bit of a learning curve. Sarah says by the 3rd strip, she was quick and got it lined up without bubbles the first time.  It took her about an hour to do this project.
4. It really would be best for an accent wall or a strip on a large wall(which is what we did)  Part of the reason is, when we were trying to hang a big mirror on it, it tore a little which makes us worry that if it was on all of your walls, it would get bumped by furniture.
5. It looks high quality.  We are very happy with the "look" of it and the impact that it gave on our wall.

Here she is lining up the 3rd strip with the other 2.

Doesn't it look cool!?!  We kind of love it!

Below are some of the patterns we ordered already but we can order any of the designs for a customer, one roll at a time.  A roll is from $75-$95 depending on the pattern.  Just to give you an idea of how much it covers, if you have 10ft ceilings and a 10ft wall, you'd need 2 rolls to cover the whole wall.

Well, there ya have it.  Temporary wallpaper makes a big impact and is fairly easy to use.  We would use it for an accent wall or a strip in the center of a focal point or for crafty things.  Let us know if you have questions and when we give it a try on a piece of furniture, I'll post again. Oh, and if you want to purchase some, I'll be happy to help you!

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!