A Discovery of Halloween...

I think October may be my favorite month of the year!  I love the cool weather, crunchy leaves, college football, school activities, the colors, and Halloween!

3 generations of our family witches a few years ago!

 Our neighborhood seriously knows how to do Halloween too!  I am amazed each year at how many people have giant spiders crawling up the sides of their houses and skeletons clawing their way out of the ground!  Eeeeks!  And yes, so fun!!!  Trick or treating is the wildest night with a million kids walking around and many parents dressed up.  It's not that uncommon to go to a house where the homeowner offers my kids candy and me a drink! Not hard to see why I love this month! 

I also just finished reading A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness which is a good read to put you in the mood for October.  Then main character is a witch who has tried to deny her powers and ancestry and live as a human.  She is a scholar who spends her days in Oxford at the Bodlein library until she stirs up trouble by summoning an ancient alchemical text that apparently holds the secrets of all the otherwordly creatures living amongst us-  witches, vampires, and daemons (oh my!)  She of course falls in love with a 1500 year old vampire, which is forbidden and so the trouble ensues.  I guess I enjoyed this book, as I invested almost 600 pages, but I did not love it.  It is a great premise, in my opinion, but way too long and slow.  But I do like the atmosphere!  It takes place often in a dusty old library, then an ancient castle in France, and finally a bewitched house in New York.  She is there for Halloween when all the neighborhood kids come to trick or treat and she dresses in her witchy best and she and her vampire boyfriend enjoy freaking out the neighborhood kids! 

So this is one of my new Halloween decorations this year, that just so happened to cost me $0 since I used all materials I already had! But even if you have to buy supplies, you are under a few dollars!  I used some old fake flowers from back when I liked to use fake flowers!  But I removed all the flower petals, leaving just the berries.  Then I cut a great piece of scrapbook paper into leaf shapes and just hot glued them on... Ta Da!!!!  Took just a few minutes and I think it looks great! I also have found this super fun eyelash and popcorn yarn to drape here and there.  It looks so spiderwebby, but without being too literal.  I am not a big fan of the white, cottonball, stringy stuff... you know what I'm talking about. 

  What does your house look like this October??  What is your inspiration??