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Fall up, my witches!

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Happy New Year to All

Here's to a new year of grand fortune!

 

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Wishing all of my spooky friends a lovely new year! I'm really hoping to achieve a lot this year when it comes my work. When many of us say 'work,' we mean the job we are paid to do, more so than the job we love to do - hopefully one day I can make that word 'work' an all-encompassing word to describe both. As a graduate, I'm still in that awkward 'I don't know how I'll get there, but I know where I want to be eventually' stage, so I'm learning to live with it and grow as I go. I guess I just have to keep doing what I love no matter what! Cheers to all who carry on with their passion whether it be for art, writing, or, of course, haunting!

Cost Plus World Market: Halloween 2015

Loved everything I saw at World Market this last weekend! My contacts were bugging me, so I looked teary eyed... didn't help that I was gaping at every awesome Halloween decoration or treat I saw, people probably thought I was truly in awe... maybe I was...

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Better Homes and Gardens: Halloween Issue

Digging some of the decor ideas from the latest Halloween issue of Better Homes and Gardens.

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Fiendies

     One of my absolute favorite booths at Scare LA! These artists are incredibly talented, designing and crafting everything from scratch, and were very nice and great to talk to as well. Here are some photos of their beautiful planchettes, spirit boards, and candles (and trust me, the candles smell fantastic! They mix the scents themselves so there's nothing else like them!). To view more of their products visit: Fiendies.

This adorable key chain beautiful planchette I purchased at Scare LA (I got the gold one).   

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Halloween 2013 Decor

Had an amazing time putting up the decorations this year. It's many of the same decorations we have all seen on my Flickr and Blog before, but each year I try to mix it up a bit. 

Probably my favorite part of the decor was creating the bloody walls. I basically did the same thing I did last year for my windows. Contact paper, red acrylic paint, and a sponge brush to splash the paint is really all you need. 

Also bought some cute purple and orange lights for the dining room, which kind of brought the room to life!

Definitely enjoyed this year's decor. It was simplified in many ways compared to previous years, but I decided to go with my gut and just put things out that really popped in the room. Lets just say blood splatter was the perfect example. 

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Pottery Barn, Making Halloween Magic!

I always look forward to what Pottery Barn has for the season, pretty neat picks this year! 

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Halloween 2012: Decor Pics

Just a few cool shots from my Halloween decor from 2012, never got a chance to post them...

Since I have my vintage camera collection in my bookcase, I decided that this area should be the spirit photography/seance section.

I usually like to keep the cute, vintage decorations in the kitchen and dining room, keeps things feeling nostalgic and homey.

Decided to bring my Scarecrow from my parents house so I could set it up at my place. I like how he ended up towering over the balcony, gives him a real spook factor.

But don't worry I didn't rob my mom's place of all the Halloween decorations, she has a lawn so we set up our graveyard outside. The best part is that we now have newer gravestones that my mom made during the spring for my movie Avery Parrish Thieves.

    For some reason red was my color this year, not only for my Lydia Deetz costume, but for blood splatter too. And speaking of left over props from Avery Parrish Thieves, I had a bloody sheet left over from one of our shoots and decided to hang it above our snack table, though I can't seem to find those photos. But trust me, it made everything look delicious...

   Still going along with the blood theme, I was very much inspired by blood splatter this year months ago decided that I would make my place look more gruesome than usual. Living the glamourous apartment life with white walls, I wanted to cover them with blood to really make them pop, but when I began looking for wall decals of blood splatter all I found were cheesy stick-ons, most likely with grease in them to end up giving my walls grease stains. So I figured, why not make my own decals? It was even easier than I thought it would be.

   All I had to buy was a roll of contact paper and some acrylic red paint. I rolled out large and medium sized portions of the contact paper on the floor, taped them down, poured the paint into a small bowl and used a sponge brush to dip into the paint and make the spooky blood splatter come to life (you can add a bit of brown paint in there to look more realistic probably, but I didn't have time). I have to say it was actually really easy, fun, and cheap. After I let them dry throughout the day, I stuck them right onto the walls for my party. On Halloween night I posted them on the windows hoping to get some trick 'r treaters...

Turns out we only had two. What is happening to the world!?

Overall I am pretty proud of how things turned out and those trick 'r treaters who never showed up totally missed out.