Whip up your own.
All pieces were attached with hot glue..The “real” version has a few details that ours doesn’t, so we tried to add in a few easy details, like the scalloped edging there, to make it feel a little more special..
Cutting out the pockets was pretty simple, especially since the “inspiration” model had slightly imperfect looking pockets too.It just makes it look more “haunted”!.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.What’s a fantel you ask?
It’s just my little table that I use as a fake mantel until we get a real-live, grown-up mantel of our own some day.Chris made it for me last year out of some barn wood (off the barn out back) and some old two by fours that he took out of one of our walls.
I still can’t get enough of it!.This year for decor, I did bright, happy, kid-friendly stuff in the living room and more subdued stuff in.