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Monday, October 24, 2016

It's Halloween Outside

It will be Halloween in a week, and we have been doing some decorating outside.



I love fall and Halloween.  I have decorated for both fall and Halloween at the same time.  I kind of went into panic mode when I saw someone on Facebook post that there are only 10 Fridays until Christmas.  

The cellulitis that I wrote about earlier was really shingles.  I got a wrong diagnosis from the nurse practitioner.  The Dr. is treating the nerve pain.  I feel a bit better and haven't been doing a lot of sewing until lately.  I'll show you what I've been up to later.  

I love these pumpkin topiaries.   I don't have any real pumpkins and haven't for several years.  These are mostly from Hobby Lobby.  It is probably late enough in the season that they are on sale now.  You can read an earlier post on these pumpkins and see what I did with some of them here.

Here is a better look at the pumpkin topiary.  You can see my tutorial here.  My husband put holes all the way through the two bottom pumpkins and part way through the top one.  Then he ran a dowel rod through them that is long enough to hold the pumpkins and stick into the dirt in the flower pot.  


I've had these lighted jack-o-lanterns for several years.  My husband ran the cords to get everything working.  If you look in the photo above, he has something that works with a remote control.  So all I have to do to turn everything on in the evening is push a button from inside the house.  

This pumpkin is in my sewing room window and is from my days working in ceramics many years ago.  

I changed out my fall door swag for a scary wreath with spiders.  


I've added another tomato cage ghost this year.  I had used one of the cages as a Christmas tree in a flower pot, but it is so top heavy that when the wind blows the pot and tree both overturn.  So I'll do something else on the porch at Christmas time.

The ghost is made from a piece of fabric approximately 2 yards X width of fabric.  One of mine is from fabric, but the others are cut from old sheets that either had a stain or hole.  

Here's a quick tutorial, but there is a better one in an earlier blog post here and another one here.    The last link shows how I decorated faux pumpkins with duct tape.  

I used 100 indoor/outdoor mini lights and wrapped the tomato cage.  


The other tutorial doesn't show this, but over the years I've learned that in a strong wind, those cages don't stand by themselves.  So I bought a package of tent stakes available at one of the big box stores where you would buy camping equipment. 


Also, in a strong wind sometimes even though the tomato cage is anchored the sheet blows completely off of the cage, so I fasten the back of the sheet to the tomato cage with binder clips in a couple of places.  These are found at one of the big box stores or office supply store.


I use a permanent marker to draw the face.  I never know quite how they will turn out.  This guy looks a bit angry, I think.  Maybe it's his eyebrows.  The ghost in the earlier photo just looks surprised like he can't figure why anyone would put him out in this chilly, rainy weather.  






Thanks for stopping by for a visit. 

I hope you are finding some time to stitch today. 

12 comments:

  1. Wow! Such beautiful styling ♥

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  2. You are so talented at decorating too LuAnn! Now that I live so far out, I have cut down on my decorating. It gives me more time quilting! LOL

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  3. You always do such fun decorating for the holiday. I was feeling smug that I actually put anything up at all, but I feel kind of lazy when I see how cute your stuff is! : )

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  4. Cute, cute Halloween decorations!! Glad to hear that you got a diagnosis that is more consistent with your symptoms. Amazing how much better you fell once being treated for the problem that you ACTUALLY have!!

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  5. All of your fall/Halloween decorations are very cute. The tomato cage ghosts are super fun. I've never seen that before. Glad you're feeling better and can get back to normal soon.

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  6. Lovely fall and halloween decorations. I love your seasonal posts! You do so very well at decorating. Sorry to hear you have shingles. Hopefully you feel better soon.

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  7. Cute decorations. Clever. Glad you are feeling better. I try to sew each day, prep work, hand sewing, or at machine.

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  8. Some of the home owners have decorated their yards and porches for Halloween but it just is not like what you see in the northern parts of the US. I like it when we get to visit Ohio in the fall. So many more fall decorations are out on display.

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  9. your decorations look amazing! I love the ghost!

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  10. LuAnn, I do hope that the shingles go away and FAST! They say they are painful.

    I love your decorating, especially since Halloween is my birthday - YUP born 2 minutes to midnight on Halloween..... I was a "trick" for my Mother! LOL.

    Take care and enjoy all of your work - so talented. I know you will be glad to be back on your feet soon.

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  11. Your Fall decorations are Beautiful!
    Sorry to hear about your Shingles... I hope you get over this flare up quickly!

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  12. Lovely ghost and pumpkins a great Halloween place to be!

    Have a nice week,
    Evelyne

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