Halloween is one of my favorite holidays to decorate for, there is so much versatility in my decor and it's fun to change it up each year. This year I decorated in a creepy vintage feel in my entry way and living room area. I love how the birds in the branches remind me of one of my favorite suspense movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock, "The Birds." And even better, they were purchased at the Dollar Tree, along with the skulls. Isn't it great when things can look amazing and be so cheap?!

In my kitchen and dinning area I tried to keep it on the lighter side since the feel in that room is more light and airy. With just a little cob webs on the gallery wall, black floral added to the centerpiece on the table and eyeballs placed in the plant on the shelf give it just the right creepiness.

Homemade Valentines Cards are sent out to grandparents each Valentines, a tradition that started a few years back. Photoshop is the trick to getting your clipart (googled) onto the photo. Now of course we wouldn't print several of these. We just keep them special to grandparents and cousins, especially since grandparents live hours away and it's our little way of showing them that we think of them on Valentines Day. 

You will need:

• Round styrofoam wreath(that has squared off edges)
• 16 red flowers
• 1 black feather boa
• 1 garland of black beads
• 2-3 white pearly flowers (not sure what they're called)
• hot glue gun and sticks

First take off all the stems from your red flowers then push them into the wreath and hot glue in clusters of four (two in front and two on the side). Do this all around the wreath leaving small space in between for the feather boa. Then you wrap the feather boa all the way around and glue. Next you wrap the bead garland around in no specific way just so it's noticeable. Lastly remove the pearl flowers from the stem and randomly place them around and in between the red flowers. It is best to turn as you go to cover all the angles. I purchased my embellishments at Michaels and Roberts but this was a few years ago so I'm sure you can use whatever.

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  The wreath fits perfectly with the rest of my Valentine decor!
   
  
  

Sulley and Mike Wazowski pumpkins

 Painted on with acrylic paint. We have a little one so no carving was involved. 

 Felt cut out, hot glued, and then pinned onto t-shirts.

Horns sewn, stuffed and glued onto headbands.

 Boo and Sulley 

(We had Boo's costume made by my dear friend who has better sewing skills than my basic.)

The Monsters Inc. Klan 

My daughter passed off as Boo perfectly because she already looks like her. Big eyes, brown hair and straight across bangs. You can't tell but we also put her hair in piggy tails. She wore purple pants, pink t-shirt and tennis shoes just like Boo. Prior to Halloween, we had several people tell us that she looked like Boo. That lead us to the the Monsters Inc Theme. A perfect fit for us, we just love that movie :)

 My Daughter Aunika and I, 2013

Happy day of LOVE!