I love Martha’s Halloween ideas because they are so out of the ordinary. She has some incredibly elegant, beautifully creepy Halloween decoration ideas. A lot of the items I inherited from my parents’ cache of Halloween decorations are more cutesy-creepy than elegant creepy, but each Halloween I try to add a few more elegant-creepy elements to my Halloween decoration. Here are some macabre decorating ideas I pulled from her site, many of which you can do with ordinary items in your house:
Moth-eaten curtains provide an excellent and creepy Grey Gardens feel to your Halloween! I don’t have these but if you had a lot of space and places to hang items then this could be a great and subtle touch to your haunted house.
Martha also does a lot of gorgeous candle displays, which are an easy and classy way to set the mood. Very Miss Havisham‘s house.
Specimin-Jar Candle. These are so fun and unusual! I really want to make some creepy specimen displays for my party this year. I plan on hitting up one of the local thrift stores for some inexpensive glass vessels.
Creepy Candles. They look like they are bleeding! Awesome!
I also love that Martha uses flowers on Halloween, which isn’t something that one would ordinarily think to use. Her floral displays are appropriately creepy and could provide a nice surprise to guests.
Forbidding Flowers are easy enough to make: silk flowers, some cob webs, a creepy urn, fantastic!
Deranged Halloween Centerpiece, this is really fun and awesome.
I hope that I’ve inspired you to use some not so scary items as scary, creepy decorations this Halloween! Three weeks!
You would be amazed at the jars you have around your house. Olive oil, liquid soap, and vanilla extract all run out eventually. I keep a stash. ; )
Yeah…but the tops are too tiny to accomplish what I need, which is fitting a whole cauliflower in there and calling it “brains.” Ha.