(Don't serve food from tableware used to display glittered bones.)ġ. If the pieces require assembly, secure with a glue gun. Remove springs and screws from plastic skeletal parts. Using items from your cupboards and closets, and a bit of imagination, you can devise many things that will create a ghoulish scene for curious trick-or-treaters and holiday partygoers. A further surprise: glittered orange insects climbing on the pumpkins.Ĭrafts stores and catalogs are filled this time of year with myriad items that can help set an eerie tone. Antique glass jars can be used to display old-fashioned candy, including gum balls and hard-candy sticks. They are really very easy to construct and especially effective. Relying on methods used for centuries to decorate hats and bonnets for every season, I fashioned leaves from green silk taffeta and paired them with silver-painted pumpkins on my hallway table. The bat-shaped incense burners became vessels for dry ice and smoldered in a doorway. Six of them proved to be perfect as a mysterious and smoky filler for a cauldron centerpiece made from those clunky bathtub claws and ball feet, the pots shrouded by dried Spanish moss. On that same trip, I visited an excellent nursery, the California Cactus Center, where I found an old lady cactus (Mammillaria hahniana) - an especially long-haired cultivar. A silver-glittered hand became a bony place-card holder, and its ideal resting spot was on a silver lusterware plate. We put our heads together and came up with several creative ways to infuse a home with some very scary stuff.Ī giant glass cheese dome, something I have had in my kitchen for many years, formed the perfect display case for green-glittered plastic skulls and bones when set atop a very large cake stand. The magazine's decorating director, Kevin Sharkey, who was traveling with me, loved the idea of a fancy, glittery, eerie, somewhat macabre holiday decorating scheme for my house in Bedford, N.Y. When I saw these items, my mind started to work.
I also saw a lone claw foot from an old bathtub that was being used as a paperweight. There I saw incense burners made of bronze in the shape of bats. While in California earlier this year, I visited a wonderful antiques store, Blackman Cruz Workshop, in Los Angeles. We plan the Halloween issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine months in advance, and I am always searching for ideas and inspirations to help make the current year's decorations different and more intriguing than those in past issues.
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