Well, it has been a LOOOOONNNGGGG while since I have decided to blog. But like every wannabe supermom, life got in the way, I started drowning under all my responsilbilities, and I needed to find a new “system” to handle life.
I will be posting my new system and tools I have been using next week, but I was so excited about decorating for Halloween today, I had to share my mantel:
How super cute is that! And so easy!. I know what you are thinking..”But I don’t have that stuff!” Well that is the point of my blog today, how to decorate with the stuff you have and accumulate the stuff you want.
Here are your basic decorating tips:
1. Use height! Remember, a flat surface is a boring surface, so vary your heights, you can even use an upside down wine glass and place a pillar candle on top. Be creative!
2. Stick with a color theme, here I use purple, black, green and orange, I love this color combo because it adds whimsy to halloween, I am not so much into the blood and gore.
3. Go with your gut! If you like it, than it is good. Take a step back every once and a while a rearrange what you see, if it is pleasing to your eye, than it works.
Now for accumulating the stuff. So this will not help you this year, but it will for next year. The signs I got for $0.99 at Michael’s last year, AFTER Halloween on the clearance rack, the candles…(the 3 in the middle) Safeway, $3 for all 3 after Halloween and garland (which lights up) was a post halloween steal from years ago. Every year I pick a holiday to add to my decor and clearance shop after the holiday is over (sometimes even a few days before the holiday happens you can get a steal). As you know, my family is always on a budget and we only pay cash for things, no credit cards here, so we really have to pick and choose what we buy. This is the best way to get really cute things for a bargain and people ooo and ahh when they come over.
And isn’t it all about the oos and ahhhs 😉
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