Conjure up some fun on Halloween with these gothic and glamourous decorating ideas, easy and clever creepy crafts and wickedly delicious goodies. Whether you're aiming to involve your kids in a cute project or want to give friends and neighbours a sophisticated and spooky welcome, these charming ideas are positively bewitching.
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Create a stylish Halloween home
Halloween hearth
Sit, if you dare, in this cosy corner in the light of tall black candlesticks and a construction-paper mantel. The black cat pillows sport button eyes and white-thread whiskers and they'll help you keep an eye on all those fuzzy spiders!
Create a stylish Halloween home
Spooky science experiments
Skulls and statues and bell jars full of brains are the objets that make up this ghastly grouping. Haunt craft stores and yard sales -- or search your attic and closets -- for funky, inexpensive props that can be pressed into service for a display. The scarier, the better!
Create a stylish Halloween home
Bone china
Clean glass dishes and frightening fabric are all it takes to decoupage these shudderingly scary skull plates. Group them on a wall to add ghoulish glamour, or give away as creepy party favours.
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Excerpted from Budget Celebrations: The Hostess Guide to Year-Round Entertaining on a Dime Copyright © 2009 by Shelley Wolson. Excerpted by permission of Filipacchi Publishing a division of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc. All rights reserved.
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