Halloween
Happy Halloween! ~ Quick Cocktail Bar Setup with a Frightful Sip

Happy Halloween! ~ Quick Cocktail Bar Setup with a Frightful Sip

  Set up a quick  HALLOWEEN cocktail tray with a few fun & simple pieces!     I included: Striped straws and black & white ticking, a tray of candy corn treats in gold foil liners and….Frank!     I set out savory & sweet cocktail bar bites…on my new West Elm pedestal. Love the...
Halloween Quick Hit

Halloween Quick Hit

    Black cobwebs & crows…black coral with a fanlike skeleton… Sparkly skulls and shiny All Hallows Eve garlands… A lovely Santos ‘witch’ presides over it all…I’ve started my HALLOWEEN decorating, you?    
Girls' Night In with Monica Hart at Metropolitan Market

Girls’ Night In with Monica Hart at Metropolitan Market

Tonight is the night! The fall  Fête!     It’s Girls’ Night In  at Metropolitan Market in Kirkland! So excited! Some VERY Pretty Pumpkins will be on parade!     I’ve packed up a plethora  of pumpkins and put them on display at Met Market for the ladies to peruse! From chalk painted to gilded to...
It's Time! Halloween Curiosities

It’s Time! Halloween Curiosities

     All Hallows Eve  is r~a~p~p~i~n~g once again at our front door. Please do come in! I cleared the cobwebs off of nostalgic old Halloween  family pieces and welcomed a few beguiling new  ones.   The haunted  Grimsly Manor still creaks and shrieks  with bone chilling efficiency under the watchful eye of a tortured winged creature.        ...
Girls Night In with Monica Hart at Metropolitan Market ~ Fall Fête

Girls Night In with Monica Hart at Metropolitan Market ~ Fall Fête

  Mark your calendars for  Thursday, October 24th! It’s the fall edition  of  Girls Night In  with Monica Hart  at Metropolitan Market Kirkland! The event is from 6pm to 8pm. Join me for  fresh  Autumn decor & tablescapes, complimentary wine tasting, fall bites & recipes!   Tablescapes will be brimming  with fall inspired ideas, from a...
Halloween Curiosities

Halloween Curiosities

*Haunted* *Image ~ Stefanie Knowlton* It’s finally  here… Halloween. This rather moody  image, from my ‘White Fright Halloween’  post was taken by my niece Stefanie. It’s pretty eerie. Stefanie did a great job capturing the spirit  of the setting. If you want a quick scare, go ahead and step inside my virtual haunted house  with this ‘vintage’ ...
Halloween Comes Knocking

Halloween Comes Knocking

Wicked Welcome ~ Halloween starts innocently  enough with a few feathered friends at our front door. My niece, Julie, surprised me with this cool wispy  wreath and  frightfully pretty sign.  I knew just what to do with them.  They work perfectly with our just planted, Black & White  Halloween pansies! Thank you Julie! L~o~v~e. And as sweet...
Fall Candlelight

Fall Candlelight

Mini gourds and tiny tapers ~ Love these petite, pale  white gourds. They’re pretty enough, placed in a simple white …French  bowl,  but when I spotted these tiny, tiny  tapers, I thought the the two were made for each other. I searched around for a proper carving utensil and  began carefully  whittling away at the stem....
Happy Haunting ~

Happy Haunting ~

Bewitched   I hope your Halloween is brewing with… Tricks  and  brimming with…  Treats  and is sufficiently…. Frightful. H~a~p~p~y  H~a~l~l~o~w~e~e~n Monica          
All Hallow's Eve ~

All Hallow’s Eve ~

~ Halloween Wrapping Station ~ T’was the night before…. H-A-L-O-W-E-E-N  and I’m Madly wrapping… You? Monica
Halloween ~ 'Vintage' Raven Tree

Halloween ~ ‘Vintage’ Raven Tree

T-R-E-A-T First, thanks and hugs, go out to Cindy, from Haley’s Cottage, in Kirkland, (If you haven’t been…you MUST  visit!) for the ‘sweet‘ mention on her FAB blog. ‘Le Petite Pies’… I made the other day, were a surprise, for Cindy’s booths, at ‘Ruffles & Rust.’ Thank you Cindy, loved making them! * * * And now...
'Dark' Halloween Mantel ~

‘Dark’ Halloween Mantel ~

 Act I Halloween is ‘theater’ to me. In fact, I’ll take a little dramatic Halloween décor…over gore…any day. And this year, I’m raising the curtain on ‘The Raven.’  I’ve mentioned this before…Poe’s, ‘The Raven,’ has been a sentimental literary favorite, ever since our son; memorized a good chunk of the poem for a school project, back...