I'm living in my first post college apartment, and I'm currently driving my roommate insane with my Halloween decorations. I've got some pumpkins around, a orange and black wreath, some fake cobwebs and Halloween candles. I also stuffed a pair of striped stockings and put heels on them....theyre sticking out from underneath my couch. My roommate isn't thrilled, but he's a guy and doesn't really care that much.

For trick or treating, I know theres a few kids in my complex, but since I'm a law student and never around, I'll just leave out a bowl of cheap candy. I'm also leaving a bowl out with "free legal advice"...slips of paper that say obviously non serious stuff like "if the glove don't fit, you must acquit". My roommate thinks I'm an idiot.

In any apartment/condo complex I have ever lived at I never got trick-o-treaters, I was very disappointed. I am excited for this year tho since I finally am in a house!! Yay for the season of holiday decorating.

I found this DIY ghost from HGTV. I think it looks really good and I am going to try it this weekend.
http://img.hgtv.com/HGTV/2011/02/21/...ty_s3x4_lg.jpg

http://www.pier1.com/Catalog/Seasona...n/Default.aspx


Yayyay! I got this for half price yesterday--I'd had my eye on it for weeks! :)

It snuck up on me this year. I never got the Halloween decorations out. We don't even have a pumpkin yet. My kids have gotten old.. no interest in going to a pumpkin patch for a pumpkin or anything. I'll probably go to Kroger :(

I do have to say that I love the white pumpkins which are everywhere this year! Once I'm far away from my holier-than-thou brother, there could be one in my future!

Oooh, I've seen so many wonderful ways to decorate with those in fall magazines! We've put in a stock of fake white pumpkins to decorate with in the future.

One of my favorite orange ones that we use every year has the Black Pearl carved on it, courtesy of Blazercheer and her stencils. I keep hoping she'll have time to carve Jack Sparrow on another one.

Are you talking about the snow covered ones? ;)

So we have out our pumpkins (including some from Michael's that are candy-corn patterned) and orange and ghost lights but this year we have an odd twist. Our Encore azaleas have finally decided to be the reblooming azaleas they're supposed to be so we have these pink azaleas blooming riotously in the middle of all the orange and black. Doesn't do much for the color scheme, although there is one little chimera bloom that's coral and standing way above the others, as if to say, "I'm going with the program! I'm trying to match!"

They've never bloomed like this in the spring--

Some houses around here go all out for Halloween and almost nothing for Christmas. It's creepy how much money they spend.

White pumpkin - not snow covered, they're actually white (well, off white) pumpkins. Really they're gourds, but they look like pumpkins. I've always seen smallis round ones, but this year I've seen larger flattened ones.

I don't know but I'm definitely buying a costume for my cat, muahaha.

My neighbors have all decorated. I don't have the energy. I wish I had the energy that I had before the Crohn's but it seems it will never be back no matter what I do. Oh well.

I knew the white ones weren't snow covered, I was teasing :)

White pumpkins at Home Depot - some of them are so flat, they look already deflated! ;)

We bought some more white pumpkins at Michael's and I can't decide whether to stencil them with orange and brown or orange and black polka dots. One theme is harvest-y and the other's Halloween. I also want to set up our Sugar and Spice Halloween village but after the grandkids come this weekend; they're too young not to mess with it.

I just read this thread from the start and laughed; the blood and gore-loving 6-year-old is now in 7th grade. He would still prefer that we set up a horror scene like the neighbors did, specifically one where we could chase the trick-or-treaters around the yard. Um, no.

MysticCat, is that the house from The Munsters?