HALLOWEEN TABLESCAPE REVEAL

Halloween Tablescape 2013

In the past, I have decorated for most of the holidays; the major holidays.  This year I decided to try my creative hands at creating a tablescape for Halloween.  I scouted stores and websites for inspiration.  It was then I found my inspiration!  I walked into the Williams-Sonoma store in NYC and saw their table linens for Halloween.  It was a toile inspired Halloween theme, with animal skeletons; vintage inspired (called Halloween Skellie Toile on sale now in stores).  It was then, my creative juices started to flow. 

I wasn't sure what I was going to do for the centerpiece.  Of course, it had to be bigger and make a statement.  I went through several options in my head:  paint a large pumpkin and put it on a stand? Buy candle-themed candles and put it on holders? I didn't find anything I loved so I decided to use the hurricane vase and mercury candle holders I did for Christmas. Adding black tapered candles and webbing changed the look related to the theme.

For the dinnerware, I used what I had (Crate and Barrel, no longer available). I didn't want to spend a lot of money on buying all things Halloween.  So, I decided against buying Halloween plates.  My tastes change so often, I didn't want to buy plates and then the following year, find something else I like and have a collection and no where to store them.  I found some dollies for glasses and thought these would make a perfect decoration for plates.  Adding those to the black plate charges at Michaels (thanks to my sister for telling me).  And, they were only a dollar each! 

To pull the whole look together I added webbing to the table, mixed with barbed faux wire, metallic objects, little painted pumpkins, gems, spiders and skulls with a realistic crow.  I love telling a story and this does just that!  It's a little spooky but still glam.  This was a fun and easy project.  The spider webbing was the only difficult thing to work with; lot of pulling and cutting along the way.

Hope I've inspired you to create your own look.  Head over to http://designbyoccasion.com/blog/ and check out a collaboration my sister put together featuring her version of my tablescape.  And, while you are there, you have to check out her GLAMOWEEN table!

Happy Halloween! 

Lillian Vernon spider dollies http://www.lillianvernon.com/product/spiderwebdoilies.do?from=Search&cx=0.  I added the gem in the middle.

 



Black Crow from Williams-Sonoma store (on sale now).  Black and Mercury votives at Pottery Barn.

Grim Reaper at ZGallerie http://www.zgallerie.com/p-14345-grim-reaper.aspx

A band of gems purchased at the Container Store to dress up the hurricane.

Metallic Skeleton Hand - ZGallerie http://www.zgallerie.com/p-2468-metallic-skeleton-hand.aspx



Metallic Skull found at Marshalls.  Black votive at Pottery Barn.