My Halloween Decor 2015 [Pic Heavy]

Yes, my kawaii zombies it's finally here!! I swear this must be my most anticipated post ever because of the amount of messages regarding it and purely because I know people want to see how I decorate for Halloween. I had hoped to post it sooner but I needed to wait until a DIY project was finished and I actually picked up a few more things this weekend. If I had an unlimited budget I swear my entire yard would look like a haunted house (but that's not to say that it isn't already).

Now my outdoor decor this year is far from grand. It is minuscule compared to last year. Sadly at least half of my lights died on me this year ;______;. I not only decorate outside but I decorate inside of my house as well. Every year I try to out do myself and make my house look like a Halloween land. This year I think I went crazier than usual. I absolutely love it though! Every single thing in this post was put up by me. I've spent many hours climbing up and down ladders, even falling from one. Some of my decor I have even made myself. 

So what would my home look like if you were to come to my door? I would like, if I may to take you on a strange journey (Hehe I couldn't resist quoting Rocky Horror). Without further ado, here we go on a blog tour of my Halloween decorations.


Starting with my outdoor decor. I have a rather large front yard, so I have a lot of room to decorate. We have some small bushes lining the walkway, I always put my lights on them.

One of the light strands I have are these really old, cute pumpkin lanterns. Here is a close up of one of the lanterns:

Along a gap between the bushes, I like to have this string of large spider lights dangle. Here they are in the daylight:

I have a few severed hands sticking out of the ground in places. They're just plastic hands from the dollar store that I stuck a chopstick into the bottom to use as a stake. 

Closeup of the spider light. 

In our entryway area/pantry before the front door that goes inside to my house, I put up red string lights as well as a red light bulb. This effect was inspired by my favorite Poe story, the Masque of Red Death. In the story, there's a party where all of the rooms are illuminated with different colored lights. Everyone in the story is horrified by the red lighted room. It isn't as visible in pictures, but it is a really cool, creepy effect. 

The lights from inside the entryway.

Big ass spider! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!

Inside the entryway, I have this huge ass spider and this skeleton/grim reaper looking dude. I hung the spider up a little weird this year but I was afraid of falling from the ladder I had to use >__<.

In my kitchen window, which is highly visible in the front yard I put up an orange, green, and purple light strand. I also put up these ghost and bat lights. I love them so much *^*.

In the daylight. I also have a "Graveyard entrance" sign hanging in the window. It may be a bit hard to see due to the glare. 

As I was decorating, my cat sat in the kitchen window and watched me the entire time. Here is my mom pointing at her butt. She thought it was funny because my cat kept rubbing her butt on the window. 

Here is myself with mommy dearest. We look absolutely nothing alike and I look like a ghost next to her XD. I inherited most of my features from my dad, save for my hair color. 

As for the rest of my yard, I have this graveyard. The Freddy Krueger, RIP Poe and Michael Myers ones I made myself. It is SUPER easy to make tombstones. I just used some foam board insulation we had lying around (you can easily find it at Home Depot), added some tape to it to use as a stencil and sprayed black spray paint all over it. You can use a wire hanger, chopsticks or kabob skewers as stakes. 

I also have some foam skulls surrounding the tombstones and faux barbed wire.

Hand close up. Can someone give me a hand? Hehe.

On one of the bushes across from the ones lining the path, I randomly hung this fishnet-like fabric

On the side, I tied a foam skull into the bush

On this tree, next to the bush I put this inflated bat. I had to half climb the tree to put this on there! 

Pretty fall leaves *^* my neighborhood is absolutely stunning in the fall.

In front of my house, I have these wonderful skeleton flamingos. I found them on Amazon last year and absolutely had to have them.

On one side of the door, I have a small plastic skeleton. On the other, I have signs reading "Haunted House" and "Not Every Witch Lives In Salem". The latter, I made myself in a way similar to the tombstones. I also have this skeleton window thingy.

Sorry guys, had to censor a bit for privacy reasons.

Skeleton window thing from the inside

This spider web resides on the window of my front door. 

And now, onto the indoor decor. Step inside! 

In my kitchen, I have this garland that I made. There will be a post detailing exactly how you can make this.

I had a few leftover ornaments that wouldn't fit onto the garlands so I hung them over my tea shelves. 

Above the entryway to the kitchen, I put this hanging skeleton garland. 

On these shelves in my living room (formerly used to display my dad's car models), I did a sort of "mad scientist"/witch thing. I took some old "potion" bottles I made using various bottles and colored water and placed them on the shelf. I also put these candy specimen jars I never opened and used purely for decoration. I hung a blood bag and placed my small plasma ball in the middle. 

On the shelf above that, I put one of my small tombstones and two of my skelanimals; My Diego bat dressed as a vampire plush and my Dax the dog mummy costume plush. 

The adjacent wall. This wall used to house more of my dad's car cases, hence the studs all over the wall. Here includes decorations I forgot to take down from last year (hahahaha); the bat specimen I made and this holographic picture frame where the man changes to a skeleton. I also have my skeleton bride and groom. The rope on the wall is a rope light that I keep up year round because it's a bitch to hang up. 

Above this is a cheesecloth ghost I made last year that deflated in storage. What else can you do with a deflated ghost other than hang it? 

The rope light turned on. It alternates between orange and purple.

On this shelf, I have two mini pumpkin pails hanging. In front of the window I have this faux broom that says "Broom parking" on it. 

Further to the left of the wall, behind our armchair is this Jack Skellington mask I made in ceramics class in high school. 

These are on the next wall, a plaque I made with a faux raven head that reads "Nevermore" and this other sort of sign I made that says "If you are reading this then you are unaware of what is creeping up behind you". 

Around my dad's old car case, I put this string of bat lights that I got last weekend. They're so cute! 

Then above my Daenerys poster is another one of the garlands I made and a sign reading "Not every witch lives in Salem" that I made.

Next, is the decor of our picture shelves. On the very top shelf are these jar luminaries I made and a little cheesecloth ghost. 

Later on I added this cute ghost beanie baby I found.

On the next shelf, I put these other cheesecloth ghosts, a "torture" candle as I like to call it and some cute itty bitty (actual) pumpkins. My grocery store had them 4 for $3. The torture candle is a candle I made - a white pillar candle with red wax dripped on it and nails sticking out. I also wrapped faux barbed wire on the shelf below.  For some reason I don't have a picture of it, but there is a strand of orange lights above this shelf. 

On the next shelf, I put this witch luminary and small tombstones on both sides of it. This isn't any old luminary. It has a motion sensor and when turned on, if someone walks by it a witch cackles and says "Happy Halloween."

On the final shelf, I put a bunch of my horror movies and horror/Halloween related anime. 

Lastly we have the top of the tv area.

I have this strand of spider lights. These are the lights I fell off of a ladder trying to hang up.

On top of my tv, I have this faux gothic candle I made with toilet paper/paper towel tubes, hot glue, spray paint, battery powered tea lights and a dollar store plastic platter. I also wrapped a skull and bones necklace around the bottom. I put my skull runner underneath everything. A Halloween skull plate. A skull candle holder upon which I put my mini witch hat (the headband it was on broke ;_; ). A light up skull, a skeleton champagne flute and two of the kawaii mini pumpkins. In the dish in the back, I have my leaf candles (which I posted a picture of in a previous post). 

And that's it!! I hope you all enjoyed seeing my Halloween decorations as well as this post. I've been working on this post for three hours. Yes, I shit you not 3 hours!!! I have some more Halloween posts in progress, I'm hoping to queue a few before I go away for my mini vacation this weekend.

Xoxo

Stay creepy