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Angelina October 13, 2018 Halloween

Hauntingly Beautiful Decor – Halloween link party week 2

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Welcome to week 2 of Hauntingly Beautiful Decor!

Amber ~ Follow The Yellow Brick Home – see her Hauntingly Beautiful Vignettes

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Angelina ~ Petite Haus (Formerly Peonies and Orange Blossoms)

See my Witch-themed Halloween mudroom.

witch themed halloween mudroom decorating idea

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Instagram #hauntinglybeautifuldecor hashtag party co-host, Larissa Jenkins

See her Haunted Halloween Home Tour

Southern Seazons shared her Elegant Halloween decor.

Come to Dinner at 8 shared her Potions and Spells table.

Raggedy Bits shared these DIY Halloween wooden paddles.

Deebee’s Buzz shared this beautiful bewitched wreath.

Debbie Dabble shared her Fall and Halloween home tour part 1 – I love her Fall tree!

Here’s how to play:

Share all of your “Hauntingly Beautiful” Halloween decor and be inspired by the best Halloween decorating ideas in blog land. The party is live every Saturday-Wednesday in October.

*Be sure to stop back by your hosts blogs and social media accounts for party features each Saturday!

Party etiquette:

1. This is a Halloween home decor or elegant Halloween craft party. Please, NO RECIPES.

2. No advertising, shops, or link parties or links to sales.

3. You may share old or new content.

4. By joining this party, you give permission to the hosts to share on any social media and blogs.

5. Please follow the hosts through email subscription or your favorite form of social media.

6. Add a back link to this party so others know where to join in the fun! ex. “Linking up at the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Link Party”

Now it’s time to Trick or Treat yo self to some Halloween eye candy! Enjoy the party!

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Angelina October 12, 2018 Halloween

Elegant Halloween Mantel

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I was excited to be able to decorate this mantel for the first time for Halloween! This is what I’m calling my elegant Halloween mantel.

elegant Halloween mantel

The bust usually sits on the mantel but I put a mask on him for this holiday.

elegant Halloween mantel

I bought these courtly check “beware” pumpkins last year and love them on this mantel.

elegant Halloween mantel

The ravens evoke memories of the horror movie, the Birds.

Of course the black cats are out too for this Halloween.

elegant Halloween mantel

It seems though for Halloween decor I much prefer the decorations at night, even though they don’t photograph as well.

Enchanted Castle Halloween table

See my Halloween Mudroom this year too! It’s theme is “The Witch is Home!”

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Angelina October 8, 2018 Halloween

The Witch is Home – Halloween Mudroom

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The Witch is Home in her Halloween Mudroom!

She is a fashionista, wearing fancy booties and an elegant hat.

As you can see I don’t have a lot of Halloween decor. It is mainly Fall decor with a few Halloween touches. I have owned the Jack O Lantern vase for a decade.

I shopped my closet for the remaining Halloween items. These suede boots with pearl heels seemed like something a chic witch would wear! The witch hat I owned from previous costumes.

A wand sits next to this spooky bag with a tiger’s head.

The witch had just gone shopping for a new wand at Ollivander’s Wand Shop. I had saved the bag from our trip to Universal Studios’ Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I save tons of shopping bags and this is why – I reuse them for various things!

My husband was outside when I was putting this photoshoot together – he looked inside for a second and saw me wandering around the house with my witch hat. He had a puzzled look on his face. I just continued on pretending like everything was normal in this haunted house!

Your Halloween decor doesn’t have to be expensive or specifically themed. You can take your Fall decor and throw in a few Halloween touches – instant Halloween! It doesn’t have to be “classic” Halloween with skeletons and bats… just some black lace and witch hat or a masquerade mask will do too!

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Angelina October 6, 2018 Halloween

Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Link Party 2018

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Welcome to the most spooktacular link party in blog land! Here is where you will find amazing Halloween ideas as blogger’s share their most “hauntingly beautiful” elegantly eerie, moody and mysterious, and wonderfully whimsical Halloween decor and crafts.

Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Link Party

Last year’s Hauntingly Beautiful Decor link party was such a success! We can’t wait to see what you share this year at the blog party and on Instagram by adding #hauntinglybeautifuldecor to your Halloween photos and tagging your hosts:

Amber ~ Follow The Yellow Brick Home

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Angelina ~ Petite Haus (Formerly Peonies and Orange Blossoms)

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French Gothic Halloween

Instagram #hauntinglybeautifuldecor hashtag party co-host, Larissa Jenkins

Here’s how to play:

Share all of your “Hauntingly Beautiful” Halloween decor and be inspired by the best Halloween decorating ideas in blog land. The party is live every Saturday-Wednesday in October.

*Be sure to stop back by your hosts blogs and social media accounts for party features each Saturday!

Party etiquette:

1. This is a Halloween home decor or elegant Halloween craft party. Please, NO RECIPES.

2. No advertising, shops, or link parties or links to sales.

3. You may share old or new content.

4. By joining this party, you give permission to the hosts to share on any social media and blogs.

5. Please follow the hosts through email subscription or your favorite form of social media.

6. Add a back link to this party so others know where to join in the fun! ex. “Linking up at the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Link Party”

Now it’s time to Trick or Treat yo self to some Halloween eye candy! Enjoy the party!

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Angelina October 28, 2017 Halloween

Elegant French Gothic Halloween Table Inspired by Phantom of the Opera

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In this post – a French gothic Halloween table inspired by the Phantom of the Opera

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I was thinking about my theme for my Halloween table this year and I was thinking… Haunted mansion initially.

Note: I have updated this post from earlier this month because I am participating in a fun Halloween Blog Hop put together by Amber at Follow the Yellow Brick Home!
If you are joining me after touring Belle Bleu Interiors, welcome!

Be sure to check out the rest of the Hauntingly Beautiful Homes too, scroll down to the end of the post to see the other fabulous bloggers sharing their Halloween homes too!

But then on vacation, I had listened to the Phantom of the Opera on the airplane and had been humming the tunes for the past few days…

Then I thought, oh! I have my theme!

Inspired from the phantom’s lair full of candelabras, as seen below from the movie.

I used these antique French altar candelabras as my base.

Red roses are the other main theme – the phantom gave Christine red roses.

I used an antique lace tablecloth on hand.

Dried roses rest on each plate.

Crows and pumpkins add the extra Halloween touch.

A look at this table during the daytime, although I had much more fun shooting at night!

Antique Meissen plates add a little extra color to the table and go with the flowers.

Everything on this table I already had on hand – except the fresh flowers, pumpkins (from our garden), and the Crows which I got here.

Just decorate for halloween with things you already have – and then sprinkle a few little Halloween touches here and there, such as: crows, witches’ hat or broom, potion bottles, skull, insects, pumpkins… you get the idea!

The red Celosia cristata remind me of the gyri of brains. The red roses and purple carnations add to the Halloween flair.

Your Halloween decor does not have to be so creepy or scary.

You can set an elegant Halloween table with vintage and antique decor.

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Faux Crows set of 6 or Crows set of 3

Black Dinner Plates

Meissen Purple Indian are the purple/pink plates

Gold Candelabra (not French, but gives you the similar phantom effect!)

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Welch House 1900 at Follow the Yellow Brick Home

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Follow The Yellow Brick Home

Hip And Humble Style

Belle Bleu Interiors

Peonies and Orange Blossoms

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Angelina October 27, 2017 Halloween

Hauntingly Beautiful Halloween Party and Friday Features 10/27

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Hello and thanks for joining us for the last week of the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Link Party and Friday Features!

Grab your favorite mug and strong brew and get ready for A KILLER Halloween party with all your bloggy friends this weekend!

We have been been enjoying all the fun posts you have linked up with us so far and we can’t wait to be inspired by even more Hauntingly Beautiful Decor now through October 31st! Remember to come back on Halloween to see the three top viewed links of the party!

Halloween Link Party

All your hosts have been busy this week getting ready for the Hauntingly Beautiful Halloween Blog Hop which is live now! We also have three other talented bloggers joining us for the hop so please do check out all the posts after you have linked up here at the party.

Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Link Party

Here are the posts each of us shared for the hop:

Amber Lyon Ferguson Follow The Yellow Brick Home

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Reinvented Collection Blogger Olivia

Olivia~Reinvented Collection

Angelina~Peonies And Orange Blossoms

French Gothic Halloween

Larissa, Contributor at Reinvented Collection and Follow The Yellow Brick Home

Instagram Larissa_Jenkins

Larissa shared her Historic Welch House 1900 Halloween home tour as a guest here on my blog!

The Welch House 1900 Halloween Home Tour

After you party with us here today don’t forget to visit Rhonda at Hallstrom Home, Deborah at Hip And Humble Style, and Shannon at Belle Bleu Interiors to see the beautiful ideas they shared for the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Blog Hop too!

And now for your host’s Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Friday Features:

Amber’s feature:

Halloween Shadow Box

Halloween shadow box

I love to create altered art and assemblage which incorporate vintage objects…especially for Halloween! Saturday’s Vintage Finds shared some really awesome Halloween Shadow Boxesusing vintage treasures that inspired me to get creative with my own junkin’ finds.

Cool halloween bottles vintage bottles

Olivia loves vintage bottles! These simple, elegant and creepy Halloween potion bottles by The North End Loft are great!

How to make ornate pumpkins with bling

Angelina chose Catherine’s beautiful bejeweled pumpkins over at Ornate Splendor.

Spooky Dollar Tree Halloween Portraits

Larissa loved how Saturday’s Vintage Finds transformed Dollar Tree spooky portraits into instant Halloween heirlooms.

In case you missed last week’s features you can see them here.

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Thank you to everyone who linked up this week. Be sure to visit all of the blogs featured today for more Hauntingly Beautiful Decor inspiration and please do link up again!

Now on to the party! Here’s how to play:

Share all of your “Hauntingly Beautiful” Halloween decor and be inspired by the best Halloween decorating ideas in blogland. You may link up as many times as you like from October 2-31!

ON HALLOWEEN we will be sharing YOUR favorite features based on page views so be sure to visit then!

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1. This is a Halloween home decor or elegant Halloween craft party. Please, NO RECIPES.
2. No advertising, shops, or link parties or links to sales.
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Angelina October 20, 2017 Halloween

Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Party – Week 3 Friday Features!

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It’s week 3 of our month-long Halloween party! We are so thrilled with how the party continues to grow!!

It was so hard to pick a favorite this week! There are so many great Halloween ideas you are all sharing!

Don’t forget, you can link up this years posts or one from the past! We love it all!

Here’s what your hosts have been up to:

Amber~ Follow The Yellow Brick Home

See her $10 Antique Farm Table Styled for Fall!

Olivia~Reinvented Collection

Chic and sophisticated Halloween Party Tablescape Ideas worth stealing!

Angelina – Peonies and Orange Blossoms

Cute and Not-so-Scary Halloween Home Tour

Larissa – Instagrammer @Larissa_Jenkins and contributor to Reinvented Collection

Follow her on Instagram and her features for our hashtag, #hauntinglybeautifuldecor.

Our Features for the Week

Lori at Dining Delight decked out her sideboard with eerie ravens, gathered branches from her yard, and creepy spiderwebs.

Olivia chose this Simple Halloween Entrance wall. This DIY Halloween art is spooky cool and unique. Katrin from Kreativk things subtle with a natural Halloween color palette but took it over-the-top by adding spiders printed with a 3D printer. It’s incredible how much dimension they have.

Amber loved how Deb at Seeking Lavender Lane added just a few classy Halloween touches to her Fall porch.

Made in a Day shared her glam Halloween Entryway in gold and black. How fun!

Larissa’s pick was Mariah from Giggles Galore did a fantastic job creating a mad scientist Halloween ice cream party! The attention to detail in this display is absolutely amazing and her mad scientist skeleton is fun!

Time to Play in our Hauntingly Beautiful Halloween Party!

Share all of your “Hauntingly Beautiful” Halloween decor and be inspired by the best Halloween decorating ideas in blogland. You may link up as many times as you like from October 2-31!

Each Friday during October we will be sharing our favorite features on our blogs so be sure to visit again.
On Halloween, we will be sharing YOUR top 10 party favorites based on the number of clicks on each post!

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Angelina October 17, 2017 Desserts

Spooky Ghost Hot Chocolate – Halloween Drink Ideas

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Happy Ghoul-a-ween!

These ghosts are haunting my hot chocolate mugs and they can easily haunt yours too!

Last year I shared this recipe at Katherine’s Corner as a guest post, but I thought many of you may have missed it so I decided to repost it here.

Get the printable recipe here

Ingredients

4 large egg whites

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

candy eyes

Supplies

Electric Mixer

Piping Bag and Piping Tip (I used Ateco tip #806)

Silpat or parchment paper

Directions

Preheat oven to 200F. Line a baking sheet with Silpat or parchment paper.
In a large bowl preferably with an electric mixer, beat the egg whites, cream of tartar and vanilla on medium speed just until frothy.
Next, gradually add your sugar while the mixer is mixing, little bits at a time until the sugar is all gone. Now increase the mixer speed to medium-high. Beat the mixture until stiff peaks form. This takes around ~6-8 minutes.
Now, fill your piping bag with a spoon. Next, pipe swirls of meringue onto your baking sheet. To pipe, just place your tip perpendicular to the baking sheet and gently squeeze, lifting the bag up slowly to create layers. Then at the end, do a little swirl to give the ghost a cone top! Next, add two candy eyes to each ghost. There is no “perfect” ghost, they are supposed to be spooky and uneven!

Bake in the oven for about 1 hour or until the meringues and dry and feel hard to the touch. Turn off the oven and allow to continue to dry in the oven. Once cool, you may enjoy!
Fill your mug with hot chocolate and simply place on top!

The ghosts will keep at room temperature for up to 3 days! Perfect to make ahead of time!

I confess, I had them up as decor way longer than 3 days. I did not eat them, but I had tucked them into my Halloween village and used them as decorations. I would not advise eating them if you keep them out that long, but they do make cute decorations if you have extra!

I had so much fun with these, maybe I’ll make some more again this year…

Children, both big and small are sure to love these treats!

Check out my other Halloween Treats (no tricks involved)

Chocolate Cat Hazelnut Macarons

Pumpkin Spice Macarons

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Angelina October 13, 2017 Halloween

Hauntingly Beautiful Halloween – Friday Features!

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Welcome to the second week of the SPOOKTACULAR Halloween party!
I was so inspired by all of your creative ideas!! I had such a hard time choosing favorite features this week, so I picked quite a few!

My Friday Features –

Laurie at Bargain Decorating with Laurie – See her vintage Halloween sunroom!

Shannon at Belle Bleu Interiors – See her evil witch bewitching her French country Halloween table!

MaryJo at Masterpieces of my Life created this fun Quoth the Raven Nevermore vignette! If you have forgotten, it is from the Raven poem from Edgar Allan Poe!

Ann at Corner of Plaid and Paisley – She sets an eerie Halloween table!

Penny at Penny’s Vintage Home – See how this old buzzard skeleton is haunting her living room!

Rhonda at Hallstrom Home – Spells are cast and make these witches’ hats and bats fly over her outdoor table!

Jann at Jann Olson – A Vintage DIY Halloween Wreath tutorial!

Here is what your Co-hostesses shared this week:

Amber at Follow the Yellow Brick Home – A DIY Bewitching makeover! See how she created this wicked witch!

Olivia at Reinvented Collection – Shared elegant Halloween touches to her romantic Fall decor and also participated in a Fall & Halloween Home Tour Hop with 12 other bloggers!

Angelina at Peonies and Orange Blossoms – I shared my elegant Halloween table inspired by the Phantom of the Opera. I have also added some Halloween Favorites to my Curated Shop!

Larissa @Larissa_Jenkins on Instagram – Did you know that we also run a hashtag on Instagram called #HauntinglyBeautifulDecor?? Larissa is an Instagrammer and you won’t want to miss her beautiful Halloween house! Follow her here

Time to Play in our Hauntingly Beautiful Halloween Party!

Share all of your “Hauntingly Beautiful” Halloween decor and be inspired by the best Halloween decorating ideas in blogland. You may link up as many times as you like from October 2-31!

Each Friday during October we will be sharing our favorite features on our blogs so be sure to visit again.
On Halloween, we will be sharing YOUR top 10 party favorites based on the number of clicks on each post!

Party etiquette:
1. This is a Halloween home decor or elegant Halloween craft party. Please, NO RECIPES.
2. No advertising, shops, or link parties or links to sales.
3. You may share or old or new content.
4. By joining this party, you give permission to the hosts to share on any social media and blogs.
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Angelina October 12, 2017 Halloween

7 Fall and Halloween Table Setting Ideas – TFT

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Welcome to this week’s Thursday Favorite Things! I have rounded up Fall and Halloween Table Setting Ideas all from this party! Tons of inspiration here!

There is also a new rule added to the party in order to be featured. Please scroll down for more information.

First, here’s what I shared this week… an elegant Halloween table inspired by the Phantom of the Opera.

I have also added some Halloween Favorites to my Curated Shop!

Halloween Party Table – Belle Bleu Interiors

Halloween Table and Decor – Penny’s Vintage Home

Autumn Colors on the Table – Dinner at Eight

“Give Me All the Pumpkins” Table from Pollie’s Place

Maggie’s Dark and Moody Halloween Table – The Sweet Sensations

Glorious Goldenrods Fall Table – Everyday Living

We love all of your posts and enjoy visiting you – there is something for everyone at this party!

Don’t forget to check out our Thursday Favorite Things Pinterest Board!

I pin my features for the week to our board as well as many others! Make sure your posts have a high quality pin that screams “pin me!”

New party rule: In order to have your post featured on our blogs, you must leave at least one of us a comment with your post number(s) (so we know it’s you)! Features will be selected from the comment list!

How do you know what your post number is? After you have added your post to the party in the in-linkz party form, refresh the page or go back to the blog. There you will find your post with a number next to it. In the picture below, Katherine’s Corner’s post is at #1, as demonstrated by the purple arrow. That is where you find your post number. Does that make sense?

I believe we have changed this to have more interaction from our party goers and also because there have been some spamming bots going through link parties right now and we don’t want them!

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Please take the time to stop by ALL of your hostesses!

Thursday Favorite Things blog hop co-hostess

Eclectic Red Barn

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Angelina October 10, 2017 Halloween

Cute and Not-So-Scary Halloween House Tour

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In this post- Cute Halloween Decor Ideas that are not-so-scary or creepy!

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Halloween decor does not have to give you the creeps! You can have cute Halloween decor too!

This year I’ve created a Halloween tree.

Now, if you know me, you know that I *love* Christmas and I *love* Christmas trees so any excuse to put up a tree is a perfect excuse for me!

I found this tinsel tree in the Christmas decor section and knew I would take it home with me and put it up promptly!

The Steiff Halloween scared black cats are the ornaments in the tree. As well as a few other creepy items – some potion book ornaments found for a bargain at Tuesday Morning as well a sa pumpkin gourd from a local Fall festival.

A raven also perched itself into the tree. The ribbon is Mackenzie Child’s courtly check ribbon I’ve had for years.

A vintage clapsaddle candy box sits at the bottom as well as my Hedwig the Owl (from Harry Potter, if you are a fan!)

The Halloweentown village sits in the center of the island. There is a haunted barn, mansion, carriage house and train.

It is particularly fun at night – the lights flash and make eerie sounds. The sounds can be turned on and off.

A look at my elegantly haunted table… inspired by the phantom of the opera!

I wrote a whole post about this table earlier this week – check it out here.

Mr. Swan is joining the masquerade party held at the opera!

He is carrying dead roses this time.

Potion bottles add an extra Halloween flair.

My little phantom of the opera nutcracker is haunting the party as well on the left.

The Halloween mantle is extra spooky with the black and white courtly check!

I am not generally into new figurines, preferring antique ones instead, but I do like these little Halloween characters from Lori Mitchell.

The little girl witch riding her broomstick is new this year!

The center pumpkins say BEWARE! I love their miniature size.

A last look at this year’s Halloween house tour!

Sources (affiliate links)-

Beware black and white pumpkins

Black and white check pillar candle stick (taper version here)

Witch figurine, Witch in a Pumpkin Carriage figurine,
Scarecrow figurine

black and white check ribbon

tinsel tree

Halloween Faux Crows

Department 56 Halloween Village (these are not retired, the others I have are retired): Halloween Water Tower, Train Steam Engine, Train Pumpkin Car, Train Caboose

I have also added some Halloween Favorites to my Curated Shop!

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Angelina October 8, 2017 Halloween

Hauntingly Beautiful Halloween Decor Link Party

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Hello and welcome to the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Link Party Friday Features!

We have enjoyed getting the link party started this week and being inspired by all of your gorgeous Halloween posts. We can’t wait to see what you continue to share in our ongoing October party!

I’m a little late to join hosting the party, but I am SO EXCITED to co-host this fun party!

Welcome to the spooktacular Halloween link party hosted by:

Amber~ Follow The Yellow Brick Home

Olivia~Reinvented Collection

Angelina – Peonies and Orange Blossoms

Share all of your “Hauntingly Beautiful” Halloween decor and be inspired by the best Halloween decorating ideas in blogland. You may link up as many times as you like from October 2-31!

Each Friday during October we will be sharing our favorite features on our blogs so be sure to visit again.
On Halloween, we will be sharing YOUR top 10 party favorites based on your votes!

Party etiquette:
1. This is a Halloween home decor or elegant Halloween craft party. Please, NO RECIPES.
2. No advertising, shops, or link parties or links to sales.
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Angelina October 6, 2017 friday favorites

Elegant Halloween Decorating Ideas – Friday Favorites

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I’ve been thinking about Halloween decor since it is October already (where did the time go??)…

…and I’ve been thinking about how to decorate your Halloween house in an elegant way.

So I started searching for inspiration.

You see, I am not so much into the creepy skeleton/zombies/bloody/insects.

There are other ways to decorate for Halloween other than, well IMO, the gross things that give me the creepy crawlies.

Let’s start with below, see, elegant candles, dark moody lighting, interesting florals… You’ll notice a lot of the different pictures have similar themes.

via Rebecca Hanson Weddings

Moody plates, lots of candles…

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This was someone’s wedding!!! A Halloween themed wedding!

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An elegantly lit pathway….

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a vintage inspired Halloween – elegant and even cute!

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Use items found from your yard- dried clippings, a found bird feather…

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Use dried florals

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Again, candlelight, moody fabric and lighting.

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For your Halloween party, simply drape your furniture with extra sheets.

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An easy project, glue some black lace to simple glass votives.

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This staircase below – elegant, but creepy but then kind of cute at the same time. You don’t have to use the creepy noise-making zombies/ghosts/witches sold at the store to have a house decorated for Halloween.

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Unless, of course, that’s your thing. But it’s not my thing. These decorating ideas could also work for younger children since they are not quite so scary (although stay around them if you light candles!)

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Happy October! Halloween is just around the corner and it is time to start thinking about Halloween parties, food, and decor!

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How to Create a French Country Vignette for the Holidays in 5 minutes!

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So today I thought I would share a few simple ways to create a French country vignette for the holidays… and it should only take you a few minutes!

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Start with a French Floral Centerpiece as a “base”

My focal point is this pretty bouquet of roses and seeded eucalyptus in a French pitcher. Flanked on the sides to balance the scene are some antique French candelabras. If you have a French teapot, vase, pitcher, etc just fill it with flowers and voila! Instant centerpiece!

French Country style frequently has flowers and floral motifs so a bouquet of fresh flowers is perfect! Mix old things and new things. The pitcher here is new while the candelabras and French buffet are antique.

Now that you have your “base centerpiece” as above, here is how you can change it for the holidays.

Fall

Add some white little pumpkins. That’s it! Done! Your Fall decor does not have to be over-the-top. Just a few pumpkins here and there is enough. These ones actually came from our garden. They are the only pumpkins that grew this year!

I told you it was easy and fast. It still looks French Country, doesn’t it? This works for Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving. You don’t have to choose pink flowers, I just happen to love pink.

Christmas

For Christmas, I simply went outside and cut a few small sprigs from our redwood trees. I then tucked in a few little ornaments into the sprigs to make it a little more elegant.

If you have any evergreens in your yard (or nearby), just clip a few little sprigs and you are pretty much done with this vignette! This took me approximately 5 minutes, walking to and from the tree included!
(And, ironically, these pink ornaments just happened to be at the very top of the very first ornament box I opened! ha, what luck! Because that could have turned into an hour adventure!)

Creating a French country vignette for the holidays is really quite easy. You can copy the look with a white pitcher and fufu candlesticks too! I think the key here to the French country holiday look is using natural elements.

Pretend you are walking out of your Maison de Maître into your garden to pick your flowers, pumpkins, and pine tree sprigs… you know, your French country style also needs to have the right attitude!

Valentine’s Day

You can carry this into Valentine’s Day too. I have these cute little French boxes that I set next to them… let’s pretend they are full of chocolates from my valentine! Also a little velvet bejeweled strawberry adds to the scene.

Overall, these different holiday vignettes were actually very cheap to create! Most of the items came from the garden, and I could have simply picked some roses from my garden too but my pink ones aren’t blooming right now. I owned all of the items already, so just go rummage through your closets (or “shop your house”) and create a little vignette!

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