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
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
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
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
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
*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
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
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 ~
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 ~
~ 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
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 ~
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...
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