Halloween 2011 Outdoor Decorations

 Ok - now I finally have some time on my hands to get back to my daily blog practice I want to catch up on what we've been up to for the last couple of months. Our Big Halloween Bash was great fun - worth all the effort to see the kids having such a fun time. A great party is all in the details - and that means starting well in advance and being prepared to use your creativity to work around limitations in everything else - the budget, the location, the weather, etc. etc.

We start prepping for Halloween with our outdoor decorations - they go up in early October. When the summer flowers in the front garden bed are spent - it lies fallow for a while until it can become a spooky graveyard.

Then Helga - the witch - makes her appearance in our coconut tree...

A couple of unlikely characters take up residence at a cocktail party in the front entryway.

And pumpkins start appearing everywhere....

The emphasis is on fun - and so I try and incorporate the traditional spooky Halloween elements but in ways that elicit smiles from the Kindergarten set. Nothing too ghoulish and lots of touches of humor (look for the spook with the toothbrush!) As I said - it's all about the details and adding an original twist to those details.