The Dilemmas of Decorating

The skeleton crew is joining Marfi at Marfi-topia for some spooky fun leading up to Halloween.

It's only a week away, which means that it's time to finish up all the holiday decorating and spruce up the place for All Hallows Eve!

Can you ever have too many pumpkins? Then again, how many is too many?

Is it possible to have an excessive amount of Halloween decorations?

Well, it might be fun to find out.

Even though we've had most of our Halloween decorations for quite awhile, when we start to think about autumn (even if it's only August), it gets harder ever year to wait until October to put them up!  

Every once in awhile a decoration or two will get misplaced but eventually they turn up. Burt's ancestors somehow got put away in the piano bench but have been gracing our mantle since June when we accidentally came across them. I don't think any of our visitors have even noticed their unusual characteristics and Burt's been very happy to have them back.

In the past our shopping for Halloween decorations usually took place in November. Let's just say some of us are prone to procrastination. Shopping after the holiday meant the selection wasn't th best but you really couldn't beat the prices. Then a couple years ago, in the middle of October, while picking up candy for the Trick-or-Treaters, we noticed all the spooky stuff was gone! Except for the costumes everything else had been replaced with Christmas ornaments! It was horrible!

After that frightening experience, we finally learned our lesson. Plus, it's a great excuse for getting out and doing some early shopping and who can resist the lure of new treasures anyway?

Of course there's always the issue of where to store all that new stuff.

Earlier this year, while being trapped inside by an unprecedented hot, humid summer and then hoards of mosquitoes, we spent way too much time watching the endless Christmas in July sales on the shopping networks. (When did they start devoting an entire month to them?) Anyway, every once in awhile a Halloween goodie was slyly sandwiched between an angel and a snowman. Eventually we caved and ordered this Jim Shore Kitty. I wonder if there will ever be Halloween in June sales?

  

It's about the size of an actual adult cat which came as a surprise when we unpackaged it - as is the case with most of the things we purchase online, ha! It's huge size may be why our kitties have not felt the need to knocked it off the chest of drawers onto the floor . . . yet.

This is the newest addition to our Halloween hoard and it makes our whole house smell wonderful! It was a gift from our goddaughter. Thank you, Katie! She sent along the cool spider rings, too. 

Ivy found a great place for her new pumpkins. It's funny how just a few new things will give new life to older decorations or sometimes just moving the old stuff to a new place transforms it completely. Then again, Ivy's been rearranging the curio for about a month now and it still looks just awful! Maybe we need to do a little more shopping?

As you can see all this shopping and decorating has taken quite a toll on poor Burt. It's always important to take a break and relax awhile to reduce the stress of the holidays, even the most fun one! Hope they don't get too comfortable, there's still pumpkins to carve, garland to put up and lights to string before the Trick-or-Treaters start ringing the door bell!

Thanks for stopping by!

Are you ready for Halloween?