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Posts tagged “halloween”

Your Neighbors' Homes: Trick-or-Treating Memories?

Other people's homes always felt mysterious and strange to me as a child; perhaps I just couldn't yet comprehend that people actually lived their own disparate lives apart from mine. But on Halloween,...

Pumpkin Carving: Free Templates
Last Minute Decorating

We know it’s getting close to trick-or-treating time and we’re here to rescue you from a boring, un-carved pumpkin. Your gourd deserves a great design and you deserve the pumpkin seeds. Click bel...

Science Inspired Home Accessories

Maybe it’s the mad scientist in us but this seems to be an appropriate time of year to invent and experiment with our homes. ...

Gilded Halloween Decor

Ever since we saw Martha Stewart's glittered pumpkins a few years back, we've adored all Halloween decor that glimmers and shines. Some gilded inspiration for a more pretty than spooky Halloween......

How To: Pumpkin Carving with Nikki McClure
Sunset

Paper-cut artist Nikki McClure has created a beautiful template and step by step instructions to help you create the jack-o-lantern of your nightmares! Bwaa ha ha ha. Now, you too can have an amazing...

How To: Spooky Packing Tape Transfers

Here is a super simple project for those with access to a laser printer and clear packing tape. Maybe on your lunch break at work? Although this tutorial is geared towards our fast approaching Hallo...

Chic & Modern Halloween Decorations
Roundup

Since we can't all shell out the dough for a multimillion-dollar diamond encrusted skull a la Damien Hirst to make our homes Halloween chic, here are some more affordable options that don't include f...

Flickr Find: Crazy House Of Collections In Seattle

An ex-Boeing engineer collects anything and everything at his home in Seattle. His walls are packed with taxidermy (real and fake), toasters, electronics, vintage prints and paintings, plus all sor...

Unique Pumpkin Carving Ideas
Country Living

We've seen several posts in the last few weeks on decorating for Halloween, and though it might be too late for your front door pumpkin, we had to add one more. What can we say? We're feeling festive,...

Inspiration: Pumpkins

Spotted: These un-carved non-orange pumpkins on Sunset magazine's blog. Besides the fact that we're crap at pumpkin-carving, we really like the simplicity of these autumnal vignettes. The white pump...

How To: Pick the Perfect Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin

Halloween is still weeks away, but it's pumpkin season and we can't help but feel the itch to carve a jack-o-lantern. We'll be patient and wait a couple of weeks, but just in case we end up pulling ou...

Halloween Products at Crate and Barrel

In our humble opinion, it's never too early to start preparing for Halloween, especially in this town (who else is disappointed about the Castro being out of bounds?). And we're always amazed at the ...

Holiday Decorating - How Soon is Too Soon?

Ah fall. It seems the weather barely begins to shift, and all of a sudden there are gourds decorating every table and pumpkin flavored everything added to the menu (not that we're complaining on the l...

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