Tablescape Tuesday ~ A Monster Mash!

Tablescape Tuesday ~ A Monster Mash!

Tablescape Tuesday is hosted by our sweet blogger Susan of Between Naps on the Porch, so please stop by her blog here to see a list of other participants!

I had fun designing this slightly macabe tablescape scene today.

Quickly just set out one place setting as I had an appointment, but you get the idea. I started off with ratty-tatty looking old cheesecloth full of holes and then layered from there.

On my antiqued mirrored plateau, I added a pewter raised cake stand, covered it with a shimmery black sequinned & beaded shawl and placed a ceramic skull amid fall leaves on top.

Added a cheese dome atop the skull, & went to work on the ambience. I used a five-arm pewter candlestick with black tapers & then wound black tinsel with tiny purple bats & purple lights around it.

I decided it would be fun to do a vampire & spiders theme, so I used these cute little Draculas in my crystal stemware, & attached a purple glittered spider to the rim of the glass.

The Dracula vampire test tubes come from Target & have red candy pellets inside..."Vampire Vaccine" they are called. Wouldn't these be just too cute as stirrers in some Virgin Bloody Marys?


I had some glow in the dark spiders, so I just dipped them with some tweezers into decoupage medium & then dusted them lightly with some of Martha Stewart's purple sapphire glitter. So easy!

I added a small wooden "Vampire State Building" that my parents gave us several years ago & another small bear Vampire. Isn't he cute?

I purchased some Halloween pens last year so I can't remember for sure where I got them, but I found that the Dracula pen looks adorable in the small wooden coffin that I bought at Michael's & painted black. These would make such fun take home gifts!




I found some fuzzy & glittery spider slap bracelets so that is what I used for the napkin rings. I also added a Count Dracula candy container to the center of my plates & attached another purple glittered spider to the plates, too.

Since I don't have any "Halloween" china (do any of you?) I printed off some bats & then laminated them & cut them to fit the border of my salad plates & attached with double-sided tape for a cool effect. Then I layered a pointed black witch's hat between the two plates.

Glamorous black satin stitched & beaded & sequined roses are very appropo.

Casper Ghost & a metal spider votive holder from Big Lots adds fun touches to the table top.
Any mummy can do this fun tablescape!!

I'm brewing up another fun tablescape scene for next Tuesday so please come visit again!!

Hugs,