Halloween Decor

   As a child I remember every year in the beginning of October, our parents would take down the bins of Halloween decorations from the dusty attic in the garage. My sisters and I would rummage through the spooky treasures and proudly display the gruesome decor: spiderwebs with giant eight-legged creatures, witches with larger than life warts, and ghouls and goblins galore. These days, decorating for the Autumn holiday can be just as fun...

 

Take a look at the following decorations from Rustic Metal Design, a team of talented artists from Turlock, CA. Matt starts

by hand cutting each letter with a plasma cutter out of a flat piece of a sixteen gauge metal sheet. Each piece is than sanded to remove any slag and soften the edges. The finished product is then sprayed in a flat durable paint specifically made for metal surfaces. Candace likes to spruce things up with hand painting the item in a fun print and/or glittering it up! If you live in the area, you can purchase goodies from Rustic Metal at the Hilmar Cheese gift shop. For everybody else, visit their shop at www.rusticmetaldesign.etsy.com

  This year, I'm also in love with vintage and handmade apothecary bottles. You can dress them up with plastic spiders and bubblegum eyeballs for the holiday, then display them in their original state year round.

www.deadspider.etsy.com

 

 

http://www.deadspider.etsy.com

www.paddyridge.etsy.com

eyeball chocolates for your jars

Being the vintage lover that I am, here are a few classic Halloween decor items that are amongst my favorites...

www.sweetlovevintage.etsy.com

www.vintagedomestic.etsy.com

www.sweetlovevintage.etsy.com

www.experimentalvintage.etsy.com

 " Round about the caldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot!"

 -from William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'