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Owls, Spiders & Birds ~ Oh My! A Halloween Mantel

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Well, Hello October.
Goodness, it’s so good to see you.
The kids & I had the best time this weekend.  We brought up the famous “orange” storage boxes that holds all our treasured ghosts, spiders, birds & pumpkins.  We all seem to treat those orange boxes like they are truly long lost buried treasure.  They know exactly what it means when those boxes come up from the basement & immediately the talk begins of  “What they’re gonna be for Halloween.”  Their love for Halloween is truly hereditary.

Thanks to the Dollar Tree, this mantel has a centerpiece with all the appropriate Halloween-ish creepy crawly creatures.  Yep, the birds, spiders & web all came from there.  Everything else I had on hand, other than the tassel garland.  I thought the mantel needed a little pop of shimmer & color so I gave the shiny garland a try.  Not really sure how long it will last because I have two 4 year olds that are very attractive to shiny sparkly objects (that’s hereditary as well.)  Needless to say, I had Mylar strings everywhere in the house this weekend, but I also had very excited kids with Halloween imaginations running wild.  My favorite way to spend the weekend.

With October’s arrival knocking at our door over the weekend & the Harvest Moon shining, I looked online for a poem or something(???) to read to the kids on Saturday night.  I found this one below by Pearl N. Sorrels.  It’s a good one!   It made for the perfect bedtime poem that I’m sure will be read quite often this month:

Happy October, everyone!
Have a super week!

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  11. Love the masked owl! My weekly linky party–One Creative Weekend–has gone spooky this week in honor of my thirteenth party. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll visit “One Creative Weekend” on OneCreativeMommy.com (open every Fri-Wed) and link up this idea and anything else you’d like to share. (You can include non-Halloween posts as well, but feel free to link up as many Halloween-themed posts as you like.) There are two categories—one for Halloween and one for everything else.