After our October’s First Friday weekend, Halloween needed to be taken down at Juju. I take clear plastic tubs with me to be packed up properly and brought home to store. No use tossing it into a box, then putting it away later, right?
My process is to use as many clear tubs as I can, and to label solid ones. They are all sorted into either season or color and stacked along the walls of my garage ready for the next time Ineed them.
Because no matter how good the weekend goes, there is always inventory left. And I like to shake up the look of my space so, I switch up what I have there.
Not everything got stored this time. I pulled some of the stuff to add to my displays at home. This year, I have seriously enjoyed my haunted cocoa station and turn the lights on every morning when I get up. Just like I do with my Christmas lights.
A little extra twinkle around the cottage makes me smile.
There were a few floral umbrellas spray painted black hanging from the ceiling at the mail. I brought two of them into the kitchen to add to the existing decor.
And kept one of my brooms inside too.
I have plenty of orange stuff and dollar store decorations that Sugarwings and I have used for parties in the past. If if set them out, it’s usually for a short time use or in the kiddo’s area. But this black and white? It hasn’t gotten old for me, even though my kitchen has been rockin this look since the end of August.
Funny, I debated adding to what I’d set out earlier, telling myself it was kinda late to be doing that just to pack it up again after the 31st. Then I reminded myself it’s only mid October, and I have a couple weeks left to enjoy it.
After that, it took some willpower to stop myself from unpacking all the stuff I’d brought back from the antique mall. But I managed. This is plenty to keep me entertained, and I did such a good job of packing up the rest in my clear tubs… but they are calling to me, like a ghostly moan. “Oooohhaaahhoh, savaaave us from this box, let us cooome innn!”