It's hallowe'en and I am feeling at a loss for decorating...much more interested in the upcoming holiday season. Can we say...ah-choo! Sparkles galore! Yet...one must not forget my favorite past time of doing incredibly time consuming silly things when I have much much more important things to do! So... here it goes... Do what every girl does faced with endless hours of NO FREE TIME! (yes..holiday pricing and planning at Toscana...hmmm...where can I get my hands on peach envelopes for the sale mailer...is black wrong?? ha ha ha okay I digress) So a girl with no free time hits http://www.marthastewart.com/ and walmart/dollar store for spider webs in a bag.
Pumpkin Carving! Who doesn't love to carve pumpkins? Ahh...back to my youth and volunteering (the days of "for fun" not for the sake of networking, does one really understand the networking component at 20? Was it really appropriate for me to swill martini's while being interviewed by Malcom Perry?? Hey..really I didn't know the magnitude of "who" he was then!) for the Vancouver Art Galleries Black and Orange Ball! We had a blast creating pumpkin lanterns en masse! Carve 60 pumpkins...how...hmmm... The beauty of the drill bit! Yes multiple sized holes drilled all over pumpkins creates the
most beautiful lanterns a girl has ever seen! Can you believe that the VAG let us light those things? ha ha ha. Thank goodness for Martha Stewart even then! (Honestly...back in the day I kept my Martha love very quiet. Not sure that the power suits surrounding me would understand the little girl in her first "real job" spouting "Martha"ism's) So get creative with your pumpkins..just be sure to do as I do... just the basics and let the kids go crazy! It's much more fun and hmm..yes I let the chicklets pick where there pumpkins live then I casually throw my glistening lanterns around! hmmm...I am definately crazy!
Decorating the Easy way! Yes the easiest decorating possible ...The White Sheet! Ironing is optional (ha ha ha). So deck your side board with a few cake plates or shoe boxes and cover that bad boy with a sheet! Set up pumpkins and gords on top of your little boxes with the kids. Add a vase full of sticks from the garden! Strew your sticks with the spider webs and wow...spooky has hit your house and I promise the kids will think they are the most fabulous decorators!
Lighting it up! So if you are like me you normally invite people over for a few bites and for the kids to go treating with friends...(this year some one actually invited me over to there house whew! Highheels and a costume here I come) Funny thing...I don't really like ghouls, nor goblins so I told my daughter that Hallowe'en is a neighbour hood party. Hmmm...Well if I can keep the television off this week it might actually prevent nightmares! Set up the tidbits early and light candles in the kitchen...why...hmm I am not sure but it looks cool and it does get dark early! Light up the porch and dining room with pumpkin 
lanterns Voila... If you like to get a little more crazy check out Martha's chandalier idea...personally a few cobwebs and the chandalier on dim works too!
Okay! Hallowe'en is done and I can move on to the scary part....Christmas! Eeeeek! All pictures are from Martha Stewart's website.
lanterns Voila... If you like to get a little more crazy check out Martha's chandalier idea...personally a few cobwebs and the chandalier on dim works too!Okay! Hallowe'en is done and I can move on to the scary part....Christmas! Eeeeek! All pictures are from Martha Stewart's website.
