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My mother-in-law made the quilt hanging above the mantle a couple years ago. It's been our only Halloween decoration until today. I taped two large bamboo skewers together to make a quilt hanger and tied it off with raffia for added strength.
I usually skipped over Halloween and instead favored autumn items that worked through Thanksgiving. My favorite element was nearly free...I removed the pillar candles from the hurricane jars, poured in a generous heap of candy corn (one of Jake's favorites), and nestled those nifty flameless tealights into the candy corn.
I think it's cute and fun mix of what we already had (like the inexpensive Whole Foods flowers) and four new items purchased from Joanns for around $15 (the wooden signs and hangings under mantle). What do you think?
Want to see more? Tour our living room here.
We'll be mingling at these parties this week. Go join in the fun!
The Stories of A to Z is having a Halloween Mantle party.
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I thought I recognized some of the signs from Joanns! Love it! :)
Looks great!!! And oh. my. gosh. You put candy corn in your hurricane lamps. That is GENIUS!!!
I am hopping on over from Follow Me Back but am having a hard time finding where to follow you. Love the hurricanes. What a clever idea and I love how they just glow from inside.
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I LOVE the candy corn "candles" such a nifty idea!
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I love your Halloween decor! gorgeous!
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Adorable mantel place. Thanks for the inspiration! I am tweeting this.
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your mantle looks GREAT! So cute! I also love your blog design! I need some talent like this!
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So cute! My son is constantly begging me to get creative with our Halloween decorations! I'm following along from a Tuesday Blog Hop!
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It looks lovely. I love the use of Candy Corn. I might have to borrow your idea,lol.
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I really love the candy corn in the hurricane glass:) Here from Tuesday Tagalong:) Have a beautiful day!
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Hi. I love your mantle and this is a very pretty layout. I am a new follower from the Tuesday to the top bloghop. Come and visit at http://www.thriftymommastips.blogspot.com/ or http://www.thriftymommasbrainfood.blogspot.com/
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Thank you, Katie, for your nice comments but we can't take credit for our blog design.
Mary from Bright Sunshine Designs designed it for us. We picked out our digikit (this is explained on Mary's site) and wrote to her about what we wanted. She was awesome to work with (ours was all done through emails) and I'm so happy with the results.
Mary offers reasonably priced packages for total blog makeovers but she has a la carte items like buttons and favicons too. Go check her out!
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So Cute! I love what you did with the mantle! I wish we had a fireplace mantle to decorate!
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If only I could come up with something like that!
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Got it, now I am following!
Super cute mantle! I am following from the blog hop. I hope you can stop by and check out my blog and my latest giveaways.
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Love that Mantle!!
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Wow, that is super cute. I can barely decorate for Christmas!!
Your blog is SO cute!
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Im a new follower! Your Halloween mantle is really cute! Hope you stop by my blog sometime..http://annieroseshouse.blogspot.com/
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