Halloween Blog

I usually take pics of my indoor and outdoor decoration just to have as reference. I find that when I like the way something looks its easier for me to visually look at it again in an old photo and recreate it perhaps with different but similar items. I really like this version of my kitchen window! It screams Halloween party. The balloons and streamers give off 1990's Halloween party vibes and kick up the party a few notches!

A few more LED lighting ideas. Don't you get bored with wrapping the lights up the same way each year? I do! Each year I try to find a different way to display lights both inside my house as well as on the outside. A few ideas I came up with are this diagonal zig-zag design on my window with orange and purple LED light sets which I loved. It looked super bright and spooky! The other sets were actually kind of boring, so I tore off some eyeballs from an incandescent set and put them on purple and soft white light sets. Sometimes the eyeballs would roll off because they were a little loose but since it was temporary it didn't really matter. I also use the close quarters of my kitchen to run the lights mid-air connecting them to either side of the wall. 

I'm really into LED lights, whether it be for Halloween or Christmas. They're so much brighter, use less energy and are a lot safer because the bulbs don't get hot. In fact, over the years I have completely switched to only LED and its all I'll buy now! Above you'll notice skeleton LED lights intertwined with bright blue LED lights from Christmas. Together they give off an eerie and skull-tastic glow and look great with the light on or off! My recommendation is to try to find blue, purple, or red LED light sets on clearance after Christmas to add to your indoor or outdoor scenes. These were draped over my shelves in the photos below.

Also, I added battery-operated light sets to some of my plastic pumpkins for a cool glow. They look fangtastic but it does get tiresome to have to change out the batteries from time to time. I also try to buy any LED pumpkin lights I can after Halloween. I usually get lucky and get several and tend to use those for mostly indoor use.