Halloween Decor

I've always wanted to decorate our home for each season. Last year, as the holidays came around, we had only been actually living in our house for a few weeks - we were barely unpacked and had little furniture - seasonal decor wasn't a priority. This year isn't proving to be much different. Yeah, we have furniture now and I actually have the time to do it, but financially... I just don't want to overdo it, cost wise. Unfortunately, I also seem to have "champagne taste," as my mom says. So, I'd rather have very little, then a bunch of stuff I dont really like.

So for halloween, so far I've got this:

Simple, low key. Those are dollar-store candy corn, too, so I wont be eating those!

(I am that picky with my candy corn)

As for outside, I found some old purple and orange twinkle lights we had from our previous life (aka, pre-Katrina house) I wanted to put up around the door, but I am so NOT mechanically inclined that I don't want to risk even trying on my own. I might get J to do it for me one day. In the meantime, I stuck this sad little pumpkin up in the window above our kitchen sink. heh.

And since I brought it up, I'll leave you with a funny little picture we took of ourselves back during our first halloween in the house. This was October of 2004. That jack-o-lantern didn't last long: a tree branch fell on it literally like 10 minutes after the picture was taken and smooshed him to pieces. Poor pumpkin. :(