Then we had to make it all the way back around the bay to get back to our little beach where we stay..

Pure harvesty goodness.. Why don’t you make some too?Trust me, you’ll love them.We live in a 100 year old house and we have no fireplace.

How is that possible?Now, we have an old unfunctioning chimney, just no fireplace.It’s OK, house, I still love you..

I decided I still needed something mantle-ish to accommodate my decorating needs, so Chris built me a little something..The top is reclaimed barn wood and the legs are old 2 by 4s that Chris took out of the wall upstairs when we was re-studding Kennedy’s closet.. I’m not quite done decorating it yet, but I’m sharing it anyway.

I wanted to get some hay and maybe a big mum for underneath it, but I then I didn’t.

The weather-vane was at the house already when we got here.We cut out a few ghosts, pumpkins, and (the piece de resistance!)

a little spider, stuck em’ on, and had some instant Halloween fun to hang up anywhere we wanted.. To mimic the different fonts and types of letting and numbering in the inspiration version, we used a mixture of scrap booking stickers and hand-drawn numbers..Overall, the effect is not too bad!.

The time commitment overall was probably about 2 hours spread out over a few days.. Well worth it I’d say to start a new tradition that just may last for years!.Go ahead and start your own new tradition this year too!I just can’t stop fiddling with Kennedy’s room.