The Haunted Attic: Halloween 2025

 

I love to do themes within holidays and I was super excited about this one I pulled together in my dining room! 

The Haunted Attic!

 I have never heard of anyone doing this one before so that added extra robustness to my creative imagination!

My inspiration came from acquiring a couple of perfectly deteriorated antique wood window frames.  They reminded me of lowly forlorn attic windows atop of a deserted haunted Victorian mansion.

From there I piled different items and such that I thought could be up there among the dusty corners and cobwebs.  Creep among them, if you dare!

I was really happy with how it turned out!

On the other side of the dining room is the china cabinet and here is the Haunted treatment it got:

Other past themes within Halloween I have done are:

Tiki Voodoo Halloween Swamp Hut

Fortune Teller's Atelier

Falloween Halloween

And full explosion Halloween:

Halloween 2024 

Kitsch-o-ween 2023

Kitsch-o-ween 2022

Halloween Decor 2021

The Sinister Shack 2020

Demented Decor 2019

Better Tombs and Brambles 2018

Demented Decor 2017
House of Horror 2016

Demented Decor 2015

Eerie Asylum Of Ruins 2014

Treehouse of Horror 2014

Tomb Views 2013

Halloween Digs 2013

The Morbid Mortuary 2013

Halloween Decor 2012

Halloween Decor 2011

Haunted Insides 2010

Halloween Hauntings 2025

I decided to do something a whole lot different this Halloween season. I love me some holiday decorating but the going all Griswold with it for so many years has taken it's toll on me.  I am simplifying it this year but also doing a few somethings I've never done before, keeping it from getting stale!

Typically for the extended holiday season (Hallo-Thanks-Mas) I strip out ALL the decor from walls, tables, shelves, and other various nooks and crannies in the two primary rooms; living and dining.  Then cover everything back up in extreme festive exuberance. This year I only tucked the dining room stuff away completely.  The regular living room decor got mostly shrouded in creepy cloth and a new primary focal spot was made at the front window.  I also did something I had been wanting to do for a while, which is making a holiday curtain.  This curtain is actually a black twin sheet and an orange and black buffalo check table cloth I got from a thrift store.

I decided to do a Halloween tree as the center focal point and flank the sides with a couple of matching vintage tall plant stands turned display shelves.

Here's a few views:

The other side of the living room I just draped everything in creepy cloth and leaned into the tiki theme that is the regular decor but added back in some of the bits and bobs from a past Halloween theme several years ago : Tiki Voodoo Halloween Swamp Hut

This was much simpler to accomplish decorating-wise. Just not having to find places to stash my regular decor was a load I don't like to deal with. 

Now that I'm reviewing this decor, it's still kinda Griswoldian!  

 

Halloween crafty crap 2025

I picked up this cutie ceramic JOL at a thrift for one buck, but it needed some help.

BEFORE

It was painted very blandly with iridescent paints along with one of the mice missing an ear. 

AFTER

I started off by giving the JOL a bit of visual depth by adding black acrylic paint in his orifices and within his crevices. 

The JOL section is glazed so it's kinda there just for looks and will rub off if it gets wet.

Next I repainted the little cute mice with a more rustic look, again using acrylic paint.

I also fixed little guy's ear using a bit of air dry clay that I shaped and glued into place.

It was a fun challenge to fix this cutie up!

 

Cauldron Cake

 

Many, many years ago (2006!) a fellow blogger sent me an Interesting Package that was full of all sorts of goodies and fun stuff.  Included in there was a recipe for a super cool cake that looked like a witch's cauldron.  All these years I have wanted to make it and finally did this year!

It's basically an upside down bunt cake with lots of sugary, gummy goodies bubbling up!

I went a little off road with what items I placed in the brew.  I did gummy teeth, brains, and worms.  Along with candy eyeballs, candy witch finger suckers, and sprinkles.  In the bottom pic I had forgotten to finish the pyre, oops! It's made from pretzel sticks, rods, and cut up bits of red twizzlers.

A little bonus in this post is the only new Halloween item I picked up this year is that gorgeously hideous vintage 90s rocking witch.  Unfortunately I can't get her to work but I love her even without her cackling "I'm going to get you my little sweetie.... heh..heh... heh...hehhhh!" with her green eyes flashing!

Surprisingly the recipe is still out in internetlands if you would like to make your own:

 How- To Cauldron Cake

Truckin' 49

It's my last year in my 40s!

Gotta Keep on Truckin'! was my little birthday theme this year.

I am quite enamored with big boxy 18 wheelers and Halloween, and strawberry cake so I mashed it all together!

Just a big pink truck operated by a skeleton driving past a cemetery under a full moon!

I found the cake pan at a thrift for 3 bucks.

And here I am with a real truck that just so happened to be parked in front of a cemetery!

A Real Snow Day!

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For the last several years I have been celebrating a snow day here on MHiCTy even though I don't ever see snow because of living in the sunshine state.  I just pretend! But something got turned on it's head and Florida was New York this year.  I got 11 inches of snow at my house and it was so glorious!  It lasted for several days and I just loved it.  I absolutely embraced and appreciated it's once in a lifetime beauty every single day.  I loved watching it fall, how it would come to rest in the most interesting spots, it's blanketing effect, and how it highlighted everything elevating it from mundane to exquisite. 

Here are a few views of the house, yard, and cutie cars:

 

PB made a snow angel.

The sugary Scion encrusted in glistening snow.

And the sugar baby Element snow laden in a wintery landscape.

Even though I was sad watching it all melt away I still enjoyed scenes such as this as it made the yard look like a washing machine had overflowed with suds!

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Snow Day Element Snow Baby

 

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With getting a once in a lifetime real snow day in Florida, with 11 inches of snow, I played out in it every day! 

One of those days I spent carving out this snow baby Element!

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Snow Hobo

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Since we got a once in a lifetime snow day in Florida, I had to do all the stuff.  

I made a little snow hobo!

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Element Vintage Firestone Photo Shot

 

How does a gal who is obsessed with her 2006 Honda Element and a neat old Firestone building spend her Christmas Day?

Doing a photo shot because the parking is all empty!

Here's my sweet baby car looking all gorgeous amongst a midcentury Firestone building!

And the neon still works!

Below is a photo to show what the whole building layout is, but it's a bland photo:

And then there was this neat old rusted warehouse down the way that got some photos too!

AND!  Look what I have added to my toaster family!

A little precious nugget 2006 Scion Xb!

Swoony Swoon, swoon!

I'm so obsessed with these darlings!