The "Halloween Decor" List

(Scary Hitchcock picture from here)

Why are birds so creepy when they're in huge groups?

I've remember feeling pretty nervous when I was suddenly surrounded by menacing pigeons at Trafalgar Square during Dan and my visit to London. They surrounded me like an angry mob and made all kinds of crazy coohing sounds. I actually remember barking something like, "Take the damn picture already!" to Dan when they started fluttering near my face. He proceeded to take his time and crack up over my bird hysteria.


So in the same vein as Hitchcock, I decided there was no better way to decorate for Halloween than with a scary bird motif! I love Poe's creepy poem "The Raven" and was so excited when I saw there raven silhouettes at Michael's for $4.00 per package. When I was playing hooky from writing class yesterday, I decided to do a little decorating. I removed all of the wedding photos from the frames in my dining room and filled them with the raven silhouettes. The whole operation took about fifteen minutes and a few sticky tabs to finish...

I tilted some of the pictures so that it would look like some of the bird silhouettes were trying to peck their feathered friends free from the frames:



Here's my dining room before:


And after my creepy bird invasion (sorry for the awful quality of the pictures- I desperately need a new camera!):





To finish the look, I put a few shiny, red delicious apples into a branch bowl to resemble "wicked" apples and added some black skulls from the dollar store on the table:
We're throwing a murder mystery dinner party later this month, so I just wanted to play with the set-up of the table.

Is anybody out there all about Halloween too? Please share! Oh, and enjoy our other Halloween decor pictures:

Stairs before:


Stairs after:



Mantle with gourds from supermarket:


Cinderella pumpkin that my sister bought for me (Can you believe this is a real pumpkin?? It looks so perfect!)