My Halloween Mantel 2012

Spooky Little Things

Here's my Halloween mantel for this year. 

I wanted it to be way different than what I've done in the past and I didn't want it to cost me any money.

I achieved both and really like it.

You can see last year's here.

I'll show the rest of the room tomorrow.

I gathered up all my cloches and filled them with ghostly silhouettes.

I hung strips of white tulle from the chandelier and attached paper bats to it.

It looks like the bats are flying around under the chandi.

Very effective.

I've made these little ghosts before using interfacing fabric.

Well, when I decided to make these the other night, I had no interfacing.

But I discovered that plain white printer paper works just as good.

I just taped the bats to the tulle strips.

I'm sure this will look spooky at night by candle light. 

I haven't tried that yet...but I'll take photos when I do.

I really like making decorations for Halloween rather than buying them.

I made things for the dining room too. I'll show that tomorrow.

Have you made any spooky things for Halloween?

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