A Bit of Fall and Halloween Fun

Happy Wednesday, or "Hump Day", whichever you prefer {smile}.
I've got a just a quick post to share a few fun things I've been up to; benn decorating the house for Halloween, don't 'ya know...
I've been spending A LOT (read- huge amounts of time) of time on Pinterest lately. There are so many fabulous ideas, and yeah, I've even managed to incorporate a few of them.
Up first, a glimpse of some glittered pumpkins; idea courtesy of a pin on Pinterest. Please excuse the horrendously blurry photo (not sure what happened), but at least you'll be able to get the idea. Get out those Martha Stewart glitters you've been hoarding!

I used Fire Opal, Sterling, and Onyx glitters. I didn't exactly follow the directions from the Pinterest link- what I did was:

I coated a pumpkin with spray adhesive, and then sprinkled on the glitter. After they looked the way I wanted them to, I coated them with some spray fixative. A little note on the glitter- it took almost 3 coats for the silver pumpkin to get good coverage, and 2 coats for the black. Even though it took so much silver glitter, I still only used about half of one of the 1.5 oz bottles. They are quite sparkly, and everyone here loves them, me included.

In the dining room, I just gave the place a bit of an autumn feel.

The centerpiece for the table:

No, I didn't make anything here. I just plopped down some ceramic and foam pumpkins, some autumn foliage and a little wooden bucket, but the colors are just beautiful.

On the sideboard (or buffet, or console or whatever you want to call that piece of furniture in the dining room that holds all that crystal and linen that you never use)  hee-

We found these fun little gourds at the farmer's market, and thought they would fit in nicely in the dining room. Aside from the funky shapes and colors of all them, my favorites are the little stacked pumpkins- ain't they sweet?

Moving on to the front entry- This is the area all the little trick-or-treaters are going to see, so we needed to make it a little more fun.

The supremely warty pumpkin was also found at the farmer's market, and I'm just in love with the sparkly skull.

Another item from a pin on Pinterest were these delightful labels. I just printed them out on copy paper, and inked them a bit for some aging.I mod podged the back of the label and just smoothed it onto the bottle. After applying the labels, I added water to the bottles, and a bit of red food coloring, letting it run down the insides of the bottle(s) to up the creepy factor.
Please do click on the photo of the bottles to enlarge it. Harry Potter fans might get a kick out of the labels {wink}.
 I'm not sure if you can see all the spiders scampering about, but they were a just a bag of plastic spider rings that I cut the ring part off.
So now you know I've been playing- I'm worse than a little kid at Halloween and Christmas, I tell 'ya, but now I've got to get back to work on the Christmas treat boxes for the kiddos in La Princessa's Kindergarten class.
Hopefully tomorrow I will be back to show you the mantel in the family room; more fun stuff there.
Smooch!