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Unveiling My Haunted House: Get Ready To Spook With Kmart!

October 28, 2013 by Beeb 15 Comments

My Haunted House - 2013

Gift cards provided by Kmart to create a howling good Halloween display!

Over the course of this month, I’ve been showing you the step-by-step process of creating my perfect Haunted House with goodies found at Kmart. Are you ready to see the frightful finished product and hear about my grand unveiling party?

Check out my video tour of our haunted house:


Haunted House Overview

Haunted House Overview

Lights

Driveway Lights

Skull & Lights

We knew that to make our yard pop, we’d need a lot of lights. We strung a strand of 200 white dome LEDs over the driveway, with a charming skull as an accent! These LED lights are great because since they’re a neutral color, they can easily be reused for Christmas – or put in an upstairs room for track lighting, if you’re us!

Flaming Reaper

I also set this grim reaper flaming head outside for the public unveiling. He’s actually not an outdoor decoration – something clearly marked on the package that I failed to read – however, he works as long as he’s set on a flat surface. I thought he’d be OK outside just for an hour to welcome guests to the party, and it worked like a charm.

Marcus The Carcass

Marcus

Hand

Foot

Moon Over Marcus

We also had Marcus the Carcass, who sits in the grass by the driveway and gives a great illusion of being buried in the leaves.

Reaper & Lights

Haunted Porch

Red Halloween Lights

Red Globe LED Lights

For the front porch, we put up a black light strip under the eve and swapped out our regular porch light for a black light bulb to add a little florescent glow. We then hung up strands of red globe lights to give a creepy red atmosphere. (These, too, would be great to reuse at Christmas! Think ahead!)

Purple Rope Light

Purple Light

We also ran a 12 foot purple rope light along the grass to illuminate the walkway up to the front door.

Purple Light Garland

In the porch window, I hung up this garland of black fabric and purple lights which I love. This framed my spiderweb nicely!

Light-Up Eyes

We also had a pair of eerie eyes watching all those who came and went!

Accents

Creepy Fabric

Grim Reaper Guarding The Front Door

This “Creepy fabric” made a nice accent for our front door, along with a large Grim Reaper hanging ominously by the door and the giant spiderweb in the window!

Effects

Pepper's Ghost in Window

Pepper’s Ghost was set up in our window to provide a 3-D illusion to haunt our guests – for the full explanation and how-to, click here. This got a lot of notice from our guests, who had never heard of this illusion and seemed pretty impressed by it.

Ghostie

Our scary flying ghostie is motion-activated and skulks along a braided cord, with optional haunted groans. We hung him up in the living room to give the appearance of floating by the window, and it also tied in (literally) to Pepper’s Ghost and gave a fun conversation piece for our guests, who congregated in the living room. My aunt in particular commented on how much she loved the ghost and thought it was so cute; it was also a hit with the one year old who kept running around the room!

Costumes

Pirate Captain Jai

Jai picked out the pirate captain costume, and I thought he looked very dashing. The costume looked more elaborate than I expected!

Witchy Beeb

I picked the witch costume and broke out the black lipgloss, drawing a spiderweb on my face with an eyeliner pencil. This whole look doesn’t even seem like a costume to me because I dressed just like this in my most heavily goth days (makeup and all). That was actually my inspiration for this costume – I wanted a dress I could wear again! 😀

Interactive Fun

Our little DIY photobooth consisted of a Halloween backdrop and black curtains, with an LED light strip hung overhead. I brought out the camera and tripod and snapped some fun pics of the guests who mugged for the camera!

There's an alien in my photobooth!

Baby Watermelon

Mr. Pirate

I'll get you, my pretties! Mwuahahahahaha!

Candy

Crazy Bones

I served these Crazy Bones suckers, and let me tell you, the little one went nuts for these (and us adults liked them too!) I was totally sold by the skeleton handles, which I totally saved and ran through the dishwasher to use as cupcake toppers later because that’s just the kind of frugal goth I am.

Baby wants candy

Yummy lollipop!

A sucker for each hand

Now I know what you’re thinking: “Beeb, didn’t you buy some “Good” candy too?” Yes, yes I did…and Jai and I ate it all before the party. Whoooooops. 😉 I will need to restock before Halloween so I have something for any little ghosts and goblins that come trick-or-treating – we pretty much never get trick or treaters because we live down a dark rural road with no sidewalks, but I’m hoping that since we’ve done up the yard so much, maybe some parents will park the cars so their kids can get out and stop by for tricks and treats. I practically have a neon sign in my yard saying “I have candy!” with all these decorations, so here’s hoping kids come so we don’t eat a second bag of candy by ourselves. 😉

Halloween Party 2013

Halloween Party Guests

We had 8 guests over for our little haunted house unveiling, and it was a great way to kick off the spooky season! Halloween is coming up fast, but there’s still time to pick up fun items at Kmart that you can put up with a minimal of fuss. Since my partygoers knew this endeavor was sponsored by Kmart, they kept asking, “But did THIS come from Kmart? But what about this?” And they were impressed/surprised to learn that every single piece came from there. Kmart truly had a spook-tacular variety of Halloween items, so go pick up some fun decorations for the yard and some bags of candy for the kiddos! (Or, um, yourself! ;))

Beeb's Spooktacular Halloween Party Catalog

If you’d like some simple last-minute inspiration to prepare for Halloween on Thursday, check out my ShopYourWay Catalog for details and pricing information on the ghoulish goods I picked up to created this display!

Have you decorated for Halloween yet?

Filed Under: House, review Tagged With: decorating, Front Yard, Halloween, Halloween costumes, Halloween party, Holiday Decorating, Holidays, Home & Garden, Kmart, Outdoor Decorating

Host a Themed (Halloween) Popsicle Party #PopsicleMom & Giveaway

October 25, 2013 by Momstart 355 Comments

I’m a Popsicle Mom working with the Popsicle Brand to bring you guys a Popsicle summer. I am being compensated for my time, but all my opinions and love of the brand belong to me.

I was looking at the Popsicle Facebook page and I saw this really cute idea. What a great fun way to decorate your table and let the kids have popsicles. I love letting the kids have popsicles because they are so low in calories and the kids consider it a snack plus they really can be eaten at any time. It doesn’t have to be summer and it doesn’t have to be warm.

popsicle Halloween party

So I put together a Halloween party and my party was so much fun and easy to decorate the table. This table took me five minutes to create.

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Popsicles are a great decoration to a paper cup or a clear glass. I find that the effect in the clear glass is even cooler. Plus no matter what theme you decide to go with you’ll find a matching color popsicle to go with it.

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Even when the popsicles start to melt I still they look really cool in the glasses.

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The kids love reading the jokes after they eat their popsicles. Now, I also found some really great crafts to do with popsicle sticks, I’m going to save that for one of my HP projects so stay tuned.

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Filed Under: crafts, personal Tagged With: Halloween, Halloween party, Party idea, party ideas, popsicle, popsicle mom

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