I only decorate our living room, dining room and front foyer for Halloween. I wanted to show you my foyer, too!

I drape our light fixture in there with faux cobwebs and spiders. And, yes, the ceiling is barrel vaulted. The bricks are close to 150 years old. It's called a "Boveda" ceiling.

Holy cow! I have a mum and a pumpkin on my front steps. Hardly worth taking a photo of. I will be away on a lovely spa/retreat trip over Halloween, so the actual holiday is barely on my radar this year...

I do have a giant black spider in the attic that I usually hang on one of the columns by the front door...I should dig that out this weekend so I'm not a total scrooge!

In my quest to rid the closets of stuff, I have pared back. A pumpkin on the front porch and a few pieces in the house.

I love all your decorations - such fun! The ghost in the picture frame reminds me of a painting at my grandparent's house that was painted in the 1920s and was a somewhat dark landscape with a creek running through it. The landscape had little patches of snow in it, and as a child, I had never seen snow in person and thought that the white splotches in the painting were ghosts, and the painting therefore scared me. I did not see actual snow until I was eleven, and by then I was able to figure out what was really in the painting. They also had a dark painting from the same period of a vase of tulips, and I thought it was of a bear wearing a colorful hat. I think I scared too easily when I was a child! My grandmother (who was from Germany) used to tell me German folk tales when I was little, and those were scary also, as she neglected to Americanize them.

I have a full-size glow-in-the-dark skeleton in the garage somewhere, and so I guess it is time to get it out.

I love your new wreath, but I really cannot put a wreath on my new front door.

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Due to Hurricane Matthew, I haven't done much decorating. These are a few from Halloween's past.

Of course, I'm mostly drawn to the cute pups with their Halloween scarves, but the other decorations from everyone are pretty special, too. I don't think I will be putting out any decorations for Halloween this year except my two little mouse friends who will guard the entry.

I love your decorations. I was trying to gather the gang for dinner here in advance but everyone has plans so I decided not to put out more stuff. just a couple of Costco mercury glass pumpkins on the mantle....sigh

Not this year since we are still in the rv. But I usually do door wreaths and pumpkins and colorful mums . I am partial to Ravens too and liked your caged Raven. I have 3 beautiful black carved ravens that are carved so you can see through them like fillagree , they are wearing pointed witches hats in glittering purple , green and gold so they work for Mardi Gras too. The are usually on the mantle . I sure hope they survived the flood . All of the decorations are great .

My my kids are 10 and 11 this year and all of the sudden they want super scary haunted house stuff. Most of my Halloween decorations are still packed from our move almost 2 months ago, but all my old stuff does seem a little too nick-nack-y to me lately. I ended up buying a bunch of spider rings and spiders and used that poster sticky tack stuff to make a trail of spiders up the porch to the door. I thought it was just a little creepy, but not really scary, so it would be a nice compromise with my kids, but then a neighbor girl my daughter's age said she did NOT like it and hasn't been over to play for a while, so I feel a little guilty, like I did something wrong. Aside from a couple of black pumpkins, that's all I did this year.

My favorite Halloween was a few years ago when I was feeling super poor and my kids were little and really excited about decorating. I cut out a bunch of black bats out of cardstock and hung them strategically in my entry and stairwell so it looked like they were flying up the stairs. I even sewed a tiny black bead to each one so they would hang better. I thought I saved them, but I haven't seen them since, so who knows.

My daughter and I also saved interesting glass bottles for a while to make "potions" but those have been mysteriously misplaced, too.

Not really into spooky but I do love a festive atmosphere. I tend to sprinkle this and that about my home.