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Halloween Decor: Silhouette Crazy

By Our Concrete Home on Oct 22, 2012

Our Halloween decor has been pretty consistent the last few years. After my colorful Halloween rave theme in 2009, I changed direction for a more modern interpretation. My favorite prop has been animal and monster silhouettes. They are so easy to add to my current decor for a little more spooky flair.

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This is the third year I’ve used Martha Stewart’s skeleton cling in our front picture window.

It’s so easy to put up and take down.  All you need is a spray bottle with soapy water and a squeegee to apply. I learned how watching this video. Basically you spray the window and decal down before applying. Then position it exactly how you want it and squeegee the excess water and air bubbles out. Work from the center out. Spray more water if it dries out before you are done.

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Once it’s up, I add orange fairy lights to the window with a combo of strategically placed nails and 3M command strips. At night when our shades are drawn the strands give enough light to see the skeleton from the street.

A witch in the window

The windows are such a fun vignette to tell a little story. Joining the creepy skeleton this year, is a witch in our kitchen. I bought her the same time I bought Mr. Skeleton, but wasn’t sure where to put her up.

Scary witch at night

After a lot of deliberation, I really am glad she’s found a home in the kitchen. It’s fun to see her there especially when I am cooking dinner.

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I had to cut her down to size so she unfortunately lost her cauldron in the process. She still has her bone though that she’s about to throw to the raven I stuck to the other window pane.

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Window decals are not the only way I use silhouettes. I’ve made my own bat and mice silhouettes out of card stock to decorate the interior in years past, but I couldn’t pass up on these sparkly spiders and ravens I found on clearance to use this year.

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It made sense to add more spiders to the front picture window and a raven to the kitchen one. The rest went all over the house. I just used double-stick tape to mount these guys on windows, walls, mirrors and picture frames. When I am ready to take them down, all I have to do is peel of the tape and store them for next year.

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With my murder of ravens and cluster of spiders, I did bring one little mouse back. He’s messing with the raven in the Great Room.

Black cat mug

Of course decor is only part of the Halloween celebration. I recently got this scaredy cat mug to drink my Pumpkin Spice beverage selection from. It sure makes my evenings much more fun.

Later this week, I’ll finish the look with a few carved pumpkins to decorate our entry way, but that’s it — a very simple Halloween look.

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