Halloween at my Home
Because Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, I really like to have fun with the decorations around my home. Throughout the years, I’ve been acquiring many wonderful props and a lot of them are from Grandin Road. A couple of years ago, MSLO teamed up with Grandin Road, the catalog company, who now carries a great line of Martha Stewart Halloween and Christmas decorations. My housekeeper, Laura Acuna, has once again, done a fabulous job of creating a haunting Halloween haven. I hope you all have a really spooky and fun holiday!
- My Sheraton style sideboard decorated with bright orange ceramic pumpkins
- A better look at those pumpkins
- These Halloween treat boxes were made on my TV show. http://www.marthastewart.com/article/skull-treat-boxes
- The dining room table with Mexican pottery bowls filled with Halloween candies
- Funkins are great for decorating indoors because they’re so light.
- Unusual tiny gourds adorn this side table.
- More glittered bones
- These plant stands are handy holders for pumpkins.
- Not much left for this vulture to pick.
- Interesting squashes and succulents atop this marble table
- A miniature type of aloe
- And a spiny one
- I love this warty pumpkin.
- A spider on a cactus
- Another spider
- A spider about to be zapped
- I found four of these great jars at a nearby antiques store.
- The servery is prepared for dinner guests. I chose glasses in different colors.
- A spooky black owl
- And a scary black cat
- More owls adorn these flowing succulents.
- The brown room is festively set for dinner.
- The mix-and-match dark table linens look great together.
- Salt and pepper and rodentia
- A wonderful centerpiece
- The amethyst glassware is perfect!
- The mantelpiece decor
- Spooky rats
- Very spooky rats
- It really is an incredible flower.
- Blooming just in time for Halloween is the bat plant or devil flower – Tacca chantrieri.
- What better use for a Wedgwood bowl?
- These bat clips are fun. You can download the stencil at http://www.marthastewart.com/
- No leaves and very eerie looking.
- Step down into the green room.
- Green glittered skulls and bones look great in the green room.
- Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Chef Pierre is busy preparing dinner for my guests. We’ll be serving a Moroccan bisteeya, a lamb couscous, and for dessert – pomegranite and quince sorbets.
- Kitchen decor
- Picked right from the garden – carrots, horseradish, garlic, and celery
- Peter and Amy making a delivery from the TV studio – You can’t have too many pumpkins at Halloween time!
- The gym building by the main gate is decorated with gauzy ghosts and silhouettes.
- More skeletons and skulls
- The skulls are actually eerie illumination powered by a solar chip.
- The sentinel outside my gate
- A sitting sentinel
- A ghost flying above
- So very eerie
- Hanging around