We Are Ready for Halloween!

At the Roseland house, we are READY for Halloween! This is the most decorating that I have ever done, and it still really isn't that much, but I love seeing the house all festive and I know the kids do too!

So, want a little tour of the decor? If so keep reading, there is even a how to on making your own Halloween wreath for your front door!

THE FRONT ENTRANCE GATE:
Kyan loves the spider webs! They took forever to put up and the wind has had its way with them, I am hoping that they hold up until the 31st!

THE FRONT DOOR:
I slaved over this wreath, those flowers took FOREVER to make, but I LOVE the result! I am sad that it only gets to stay up for two short weeks, but excited to have made my first wreath for the front door! My mom kept telling me to buy something already, but I kept saying that I was going to make my own, as I was inspired by so many similar wreaths out there in blogland!
Finally, today I finished and here is what it looks like:
Super easy to make, yet so time consuming!
My first attempt with the flowers was with felt, but I hated it! So off I went to buy fabric and what a difference it made!

HOW TO:
So, here is where the how to comes in. Thanks to this little man, my photographer Kyan, I can show you how to make those pretty little flowers!

1. Cut your fabric into about inch and a half strips. Make them as long or short as you want, but I recommend making different sizes.
2. Hot glue the strip together, so you have the fabric displayed on both sides, better for rolling.

3. Roll the strip about 1/4 of the way down and then start twisting and turning the fabric around each other, gluing when needed to hold your flower together, until the flower is finished!
4. Repeat as needed (think I made close to 50?)!
5. Hot glue flowers onto wreath.
6. Add in tarantula looking feathers as needed.

I wasn't sure where to put the letter R and originally wanted to include it somehow on the actual wreath, but decided at the last minute to put it in the middle of the wreath, where I think it fit rather nicely. To make this part, I did something very similar in this post. The difference was that I used craft paint instead of spray paint to do the black around the R and I used paper instead of fabric (which I think is easier).

Ready for the Trick-or-Treaters!

Onto the inside of the house (even though I could stand outside that front door and look at it all day long)!

THE KITCHEN

THE ENTRY

LITTLE DETAILS:
I only really decorated my downstairs, so here are pictures of just about everything Halloween in our house, from the kitchen to the dining room to the bathroom to the living room!

I hope to make more decor next year! I love reading others blogs and seeing what they do to decorate!


BOO!
Now, onto "BOOing"! Do you BOO? Another thing I have seen all over blogland and I love the idea! What a great little thing to do to the neighbors! I was hoping to be the first to BOO someone, but the neighbors beat us to it! I came home on Thursday night to discover that we got BOO'd! Kyan was super excited to tell me all about it and even more excited to put his BOO buckets together!

We had plans to BOO our next door neighbor with three kids and the neighbor two doors down, whose granddaughter lives with them, only to discover that the first of the two houses had already been BOO'd (I think that is who BOO'd us)! So, neighbors way down the street just put up scary decor outside and Kyan wanted to get them! When we got to the door, I had to help him drop the bucket, ring the bell and RUN! Lola was with us, along with lots of neighbor kids who wanted to check out what we were doing, so it worked out kinda perfect! There were so many people around they weren't sure who BOO'd them, but I heard them open the door and yell, "Mom, we got BOO'd!" It was perfect!

We displayed our BOO's in picture frames outside, next to the pumpkins. That way the neighbors know we've already been BOO'd, and to move along to another house that hasn't!

Want to start a BOO in your neighborhood?
Click here for the printable that I used to spread the word!


That's it, we are ready for Halloween! Are you? Do you do anything special?