Havisham's Halloween Tea

I'm joining in the Halloween Tea Party fun at 

www.afancifultwist.com

This is a reposting of my last year's Halloween decor in the dining room.

I was inspired by Great Expectations.

This is Ms. Havisham's Halloween.

A spooky couple reside a top the wedding cake,

awaiting guests who will never come.

a wedding cake of tissue paper flowers will do

the only guests, mice, bats and crows

spiders too

a spooky spectacle

a reminder of a day not so happy for the bride to be

of happiness that will not be

a spooky candelabra lights the table

frozen smiles

uninviteds feast on the celebratory meal

bats swirl about the banquet

bats swirl about

the celebration that never comes

I missed "Great Expectations" last year with Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.

I must find it on dvd and watch this year.

Here's the trailer for it...
HBC looks very good in it but then she always is.

 - Havisham -

Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then

I haven't wished him dead. Prayed for it

so hard I've dark green pebbles for eyes,

ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.

Spinster. 

I stink and remember. Whole days

in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress

yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;

the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this

to me? 

Puce curses that are sounds not words.

Some nights better, the lost body over me,

my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear

then down till suddenly bite awake. 

Love's hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting

in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding cake.

Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon.

Don't think it's only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.

Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy

Isn't this the perfect Halloween poem?

Heartbreaking, it is.

If you are visiting from Vanessa's party...be sure to check out my previous posts this month. 

There is more Halloween decor and crafts too!

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Halloween Revisited

I'm showing last year's Halloween mantel because I'm still painting in the living room.

I hope to finish this weekend. I should. I am not working. But things change.

Anyway, I know I have a lot of new readers and perhaps they have not seen my 2012 mantel decor.

So this is a repost.

There is more Halloween decor under projects in my menu bar.

I still have more Halloween projects to make and show this year but oh...I'm having a hard 

time creating after standing on my feet 6 or more hours, opening boxes, building furniture and such...

I'm doing the best I can do at the moment.

I kept it simple last year.

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.

But these I made just using plain white paper.

I just taped the bats to the tulle strips.

These look spooky at night by candle light. 

I love Halloween!

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Good Things

In the Pages of...

I kind of forgot all about this till a couple of readers emailed me last week 

to tell me they'd seen my projects in these magazines.

My Ghost Containment System is in the October issue of Cottages & Bungalows.

I have to say this issue of Cottages & Bungalows is the best ever!

It is chock full of great things.

Then...

The November issue of Romantic Homes showed off one of my Christmas mantel displays.

This issue of Romantic Homes has so many wonderful holiday ideas in it.

I'm still working my way through it.

I have to say it was super exciting to open the pages of these magazines and see my projects.

I think you'll love these issues...no..I know you'll love these issues.

Try to pick them up.

This is still going on...you still have time to enter.

Win a $100 Gift Certificate to use at

Just go to my post about it here and enter.

I'll announce the winner Tuesday, October 15th.

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