Outdoor Halloween Decorating

The other day on my way down to Pennsylvania, I passed some really cool outdoor Halloween displays. This is one that I absolutely had to stop for and snap a picture.

I went ahead and shared it on Rosemary Lane's Facebook page and it received quite the response!

Clever isn't it? 

Here is another home in Tewksbury New Jersey. An old Victorian played up perfectly with a goolish front yardscape!

This next home's front porch was decked out for Halloween in 2012.

So it got me thinking and I decided to search the Net for other really fabulous Outdoor Halloween Decorating ideas. Here is some of what I found. 

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You can never have too many pumpkins!!!

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Love the picket fence and the witch in the doorway!

This last pic just made me laugh!

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Have a great week!

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Orange & Black Never Looked Better Halloween Mantel

Using some simple black and orange decorations, but keeping the mercury glass from my fall mantel, I created a bewitching mantel display for Halloween!

The fabulous Halloween wreath was a post season clearance item at Pier One a few years back. I just love the how white background contrasts so beautifully with the classic black and orange of the wreath.

Using a few black bound books to keep with the color scheme, it was easy to give the display some interest by varying the heights of the crows and pumpkins.

Gosh don't you just LOVE Halloween???

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A "Witchy" Cafe ~ Halloween on the Front Porch

A Halloween cafe all ready for a passing Witch to "Come Sit a Spell".

A place where she can hang her pointed hat...

...rest her broom and maybe pet a bat!

She can grab a brew and thumb through a book of spells in this cozy spot...

A Witch's cafe...where else would a Witch be?

Are you all ready for the Bewitching night yet?

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8 Fun to Make Halloween Ideas

Yeah it is October 1st and Halloween is only 30 days away!!! Don't you just love Halloween? As a DIYer, crafter, baker and so on Halloween just seems to bring out all of my creativity. You probably feel the same way right? Well over the past years I have come up with a few idea for this very spooky holiday, and since I have a witch fascination, I couldn't help but to use witches as my theme each year. Here is some of what I have come up with...

1. Last year I made this adorable miniature Witchy Clothesline using from felt. My sister loved it so much it went home with her. No worries I have more felt so I may be knocking out another one yet this year!

2.  This is my Shelf Liner Pumpkin. I used a faux pumpkin I bought at the craft store for a couple dollars, and then just covered with strips of shelf liner. Pretty easy to execute and you can use it every year!

3. I made this Happy Halloween Sign using leftover beadboard from our kitchen back splash project.

4. How about a spooky mantelscape? This is my Witchy Mantel I created using a bunch of Halloween decor items, specific to witches of course. 

5.  Now onto some fun foodie ideas for a Witchy Bash. First up is a Witch's Brew.

6.  How about these darling Witch Hat Cookies? So easy to make with some fudge striped shortbread cookies, a Hershey Kiss and some orange frosting.

7.  If your taste is more for savory than sweet, these cute Witchy Broom appetizers would be a big hit at any Halloween party.

8.  One last fun idea to do with the kids...Glue Critters to Your Pumpkins! 

Happy October Everyone!!!

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"The Witches Spell" ~ Halloween Mantel

"Round about the cauldron go:
In the poisoned entrails throw.
Toad that under cold stone
Days and nights, thirty-one
Vicious venom its sleeping got,
Boil it first in this charmed pot!"

"Double, double, toil and trouble,

Fire burn and cauldron bubble."

"Fillet of a marsh snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake:
Eye of newt and toes of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."

"Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble."

"Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch's mummy, guts and gullet
Of the fed salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock, dug in the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat and slips of yew
Felled in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-delivered by a slag:
Last, a tiger's entrails.
Our pot will create what entails."

"Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble."


"Cool it with baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good."






"Oh, well done! I commend your pains

And everyone shall share in the gains.
And now about the cauldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in."






- poem by William Shakespeare, MacBeth
(Mantel by 21 Rosemary Lane)

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