Monday, October 28, 2024

Halloween Trick or Treating With LilacsNDreams

 

Halloween Trick or Treating With LilacsNDreams

Hello, and welcome to LilacsNDreams! Excuse me it has been a while. I had been sick, and trying hard to get rid of it because I had a scheduled procedure last Monday. Yeah, I was able to do it, and now just spending time healing. 

Sunday, October 27, 2024 is when our little town scheduled Trick or Treating for the kids here. We had fun decorating the outside, and bay window prior to this. Then, when we set up for Trick or Treating I generally sit outside to greet, and make sure they take plenty of candy. Love seeing the littles, their costumes, and some of the parents enjoy watching their kids with the animated figures put out for this time. It makes the holiday season fun, and enjoyable watching it all. 



Here is the front of the house with our little set up. The spider is censored, and does jump out, but never hurts anyone. The headless man kept talking the whole time….slight wind, and it kept blowing right on the sensor that the pumpkin head talked. Now, the scarecrow worked too. When you reached into the bowl to get candy a sensor activated that he would sit straight up with his comment. Sooo fun watching kids with this, the parents enjoyed, they took pictures and some videoed the spider jumping too. 






These pictures give you an idea how the side of the house looked a little bit too. The headstones had been glued to a piece of wood making them a little more sturdy. Then, expandable foam was sprayed around the bottom of the stone and wood. Once it dried the foam was then spray painted a dark brown giving it more of a dirt ground look. We used skeletons, and dressed them with costumes, and they were set with stakes in the ground. It’s nothing fancy, but fun. Better yet watching the kids, and how people look and react is very fun, and enjoyable. 










Thought I would show you some pictures of the night view when the bushes, and lights are all on. The front door has a door cover with a strand of lights around the door frame to appeal to the picture.

Thanks so much for stopping by LilacsNDreams! Glad to have you here. Enjoy the rest of the week with Halloween festivities. Be safe, and see you again soon. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!




Monday, October 7, 2024

Halloween Decorating Home Decor Outside Decor

 

Halloween Decorating Home Decor Outside Decor

Hello, and Welcome to LilacsNDreams! It’s October, some leaves are changing, weather is undecided about being hot or cold, seasons are happening, and right now I am focused with Halloween. I have done some decorating inside the house for the season. I do a lot of fall decor that can also be used for Halloween time too. Most of it can stay out until the house is prepared for Christmas time. 

Today son and I worked on getting the outside decorations done for Halloween. For all we do it takes time. Love doing it to watch and listen to kids, and adults with their reactions, driving by, and so on. Still 1 of my favorite times of the year to enjoy.

We have spent money for decorations, and trying to make things a little different every year. Ever since we have moved in we have been known as the spooky house. So, each year we try to do what the kids enjoy. This year I bought 5 more skeletons making a total of 11. I also bought the 7 foot skeleton too. We have costumes from the past 1-2 years with the masks too. This year we put the costumes on 5 of the skeletons. We have IT, Michael, Georgie, Scream, and some pig face mask from last year. As of this afternoon the skeletons were dressed, and put outside with a metal stake support. We also put up a cob web with a spider on it, and we hung a wrapped body form on it too. In our big bay window we have an animated woman who is holding a head in her hands. On each side of her is a 3 stack of plastic pumpkins that light up. Decorative dome lights have been added outside too. Red one is facing towards spot the cemetery will be at tomorrow. A light faces up to the lady in the window. The other light is showing ITs face on the wall of the house where IT is standing in one of our bushes.






All the pictures above are preparations of the characters being completed, and ready to be put outside. Once the graveyard, big skeleton, tombstones among bushes, and more skeletons are added to the front porch we should have the outside complete. That should be done in 1-2 more days. We are a little behind from our normal decorating schedules, but it is soon completed. 

Sadly, over time it has been noticed that not many people decorate for Halloween anymore. The spirit of the Holidays has been missing. It’s nice to see some still do things, and we enjoy it. Listening to the kids going by the house, the looks they give seeing everything, watching adults driving by slowly and enjoying…this is one of the biggest joys of doing this.

Hope everyone is able to enjoy the fall Halloween season upon us. Thanks for sharing time with LilacsNDReams! Hope to see you again soon. Take care. Toodles!