Home Costumery

I've always loved Halloween. I was a lucky child, with an incredibly creative and skillful mama, I had amazing homemade costumes my entire childhood. We lived in the country and so my mom would begrudgingly drive us to the affluent suburbs (they have the good candy) to go trick-or-treating every year.

This tradition lasted a little too long into my adolescence for me to willingly admit to the Internet.  

While I rarely dress up for Halloween these days, I decided that, for the benefit of the littles, our house needed a bit of costumery. Not to mention that, I am on Pintrest too often to not feel pangs of guilt if I don't fancy my life up from time to time. Truth. 

{mama's gifted pumpkins}

{felt spiderweb, purchased, not made; best white candy jar pumpkin}

In addition to inheriting a few decorative pumpkins, I made a boatload of (well, two)  garlands. One interior, one exterior. I'm proud of myself. It's okay. It's my blog. 

{felt bat garland and cameo by creepy holographic vampire portrait}

{in a house of three men & me, I sneak in my sparkle where I can. Sparkle bats!}

I am moderately obsessed with my DIY glitter skeleton garland. I've seen a lot of glitter skulls, and as mentioned above, when I have a chance to incorporate a something shiny into my life, well, carpe sparkle. I also noticed that these skeleton garlands, are, like, a thing. I can get on board with any idea that is creepy enough to please the littles, but also step-mama tolerable.

These guys came from a dollar store and were initially white (my very tactful co-worker deemed that they "look hella cheap"). So I painted them with neon green paint; then added a few coats of glitter/Mod Podge mix (1 part neon green glitter, 1 part Tooth Fairy mix) and voila. Skeleton of questionable taste, but definite happiness.

{cameos by the Creepy Talking Witch and the skeleton one foot behind the glass door}

Did I mention that we like skeletons around here? No?

{Martha Stewart made this skeleton. I love him. His face is really dopey}

We like skeletons around here.

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