Halloween decor

Time to decorate for Halloween



Spooky mantelscape.



A bit outside.



My favorite vintage plastic mold lights.





I get you coming and going...

Apple decor

Love, love, love apple season!

Fourth of July decorations

July is a weird month because I want to decorate for the Fourth of July but then I have to live with the stars and stripes for 27 days after the holiday is over. I do have some pretty cute decorations though.

Red white and blue tea towels.

Very patriotic mantelscape. See my own photobomb?

I love this little detail. I found this liberty bell bank at my Grandma's.

Not every holiday gets it's own pillows.

This looked cool for July Fourth but then I had to take it down. It kept getting twisted up and blown off.

On the doors.

We will see how long I make it before I break down and switch to a summer beach theme.

Mountain mantelscape

Typically for May I go with a birthday decorating theme but this year I have something new. It's a "mountain theme" with a "Go to the mountains" sign and three laser cut wood displays.

We love the mountains and our stays at the family cabin hold such good memories.

So here's a little bit of that on our mantle.

A bit o' the green

I know St. Patrick's Day isn't a major holiday, but I love green so I try to decorate for it as much as I can.

Hit up Dollar Tree again. Glitter!

I love these plush cushy dish towels. Not for actual using... no no no. We just look at these dish towels.

Even the chalkboard gets updated for St. Patrick's Day.

I have to say there is a serious lack of St. Patrick's Day kitchen accessories. Those were the only oven mitt and pot holder designs I could find.

Christmas decor

The halls are decked for the holidays.

We put out our wood German decorations for the Christmas mantelscape.

I found these light up laser cut wood houses at Christmas Tree shops. They were such a good price, I wish I had got more.

Santa is too cute to light and melt.

My cherished aluminum tinsel tree with vintage Shiny Brite ornaments.

I put a lot of decorations up in the kitchen. I had to explain to Aaron - "This oven mitt is for looking at, not using. Use this burnt grubby one over here instead."

I think it makes the kitchen cheery to decorate in there too.

Fall tablecloth - with owls

I bought this fall fabric a year ago with the intention of making an autumn tablecloth and it somehow got lost in my craft room.

I found it during a cleaning session and immediately got my sewing machine out before it could disappear again. It's not a hard task to hem fabric on a tablecloth, but it is a lot of material so there is a lot of tugging and wrestling on my behalf when I do it.

Now I have a tablecloth perfect for that transition between summer to Halloween. Someone asked me "Are owls fallish?" I don't know, but I'm campaigning for it!

Squeaking in fall decorations

I wasn't ready to take down summer decorations, but my fall stuff is so cute.

Fall mantelscape. A little less than what I usually do since Halloween will be here soon.

Kitchen decorations.

Door hangings. These four are all from Dollar Tree. I am such a Dollar Tree fan. They aren't paying me to say that either.

Vintage Halloween Blow Mold Lawn Ornaments - and a little history

This is taking me dangerously close to having another collection, but when you love holidays and decorating as much as I do, it’s hard to ignore blow mold decorations.

Blow molds are those light up Santas you see in yards at the holidays. And not those fabric ones that require a fan. The old school plastic ones with the hole in the back. They are called blow molds because that is exactly how they are made. Plastic is melted and then blown into a mold using air pressure.

I tried to find information online about the history of blow mold decorations but it was a bit scanty. There is a bit in this blog post and this blog post and this blog post. From what I can tell they have been available since the 1940 but it was the Pink flamingo lawn ornaments in the 1950’s that made them really popular. The famous pink flamingo was designed by a guy named Don Featherstone if you can believe that. AND he passed away recently ON June 22 WHICH just happened to be one day before Pink Flamingo Day! Coincidence? I think not.

Blow mold lawn ornaments still seem to be going strong… as evidenced by this Facebook page and this Facebook page. I like smaller sized ones, that sit on a table rather than the large sized ones. And now, I am really into the Halloween ones. Particularly vintage Halloween ones.

I went to an antique shop with my mom and I was on the look out for them. I wasn’t disappointed as I found two for $7 each. There was one more I didn’t get and now I’m kicking myself.

I’m looking forward to putting them on display for Halloween. (Holding out for October however)

Patriotic House

Aaron got a red white and blue bunting and hung it from the attic window. The house looks so patriotic for the Fourth of July.

Star garland for July Fourth

I couldn't find a garland that was just right for my Fourth of July mantelscape, so I decided to make one. Some red, white and blue felt, a star template and string was all I needed.

Simple, but just right!

Fourth of July decorations

Since the Fourth of July comes so early in July, I figured I might as well put the decorations up now to replace the birthday ones for June.

Some patriotic decoratons for the kitchen too.

Lil' bit more green around the house

I got a new door plaque for St. Patrick's Day.

I got this light up shamrock last year at Wegmans on clearance. Now it is glowing in our front window.

Aaron got me St. Patrick's Day flowers too. They look extra cute in a green Ball mason jar.

St. Patrick's Day Decorations

I picked over the house for green items for a St. Patrick's Day mantelscape.

And a bit of green in the kitchen too.

I love me some holiday dish towels too.