Office Halloween Window

My new office has a door.  AND a window.  Woo hoo!!  A window on a ground floor that looks into a vestibule that coworkers use to enter our building.   The first week at work in my new office, my next door coworker said that he decorated the office on holidays.  The gauntlet was tossed and I had no choice but to answer the challenge.

Behold… my first holiday window.  (I feel sort of like Macy’s or Barneys or one of those New York shops with the fancy window display.)

Like Frankenstein’s monster, everything comes a different source and most were not meant to be Halloween decorations.

The topiary on the left came from The Collection on Gaines and provides nests for the crows who are stashing their harvest of creepy little hands.

Mr. Scary Feet hangs with the crows. He was hiding in a antique store in Illinois.

The little skeletons were a gift from a new co-worker when she saw my Halloween window.

I found an alphabet of these cards at GoodCents, and all the words the letters spelled made me s.c.r.e.a.m.

I’ve started a nice little library of spooky books.

A bowl that once held a candle now holds shrunken skulls. The owl was a GoodCents find, of course.

My favorite addition to this year’s decorations is “Fear the Spirit”.  I folded the pages of an old paper back book creating a paper column. I topped the column with a mirror from the Dollar Tree, a little carved bird from a museum gift shop, and a squirrel skull courtesy of my carnivorous 20 year old cat.  I found the skull last summer and being the proper hoarding crafter knew that it would come into use on just such an occasion.

Adding glamour to the window are a sparkly skull, a black feather boa, and large piece of black silk as a base.

Topping it all off is my favorite item from last year’s Halloween tableau, the haunted librarian.

I hope you enjoy looking into my window.   I love my new office.  Besides great coworkers, a couple of crows keep me company.

Here’s what I see looking out.

Boo!

Costs for the window:

• Black crows (Dollar Tree) – $10 (bought them 2 years ago)
• Topiary (Collection) – $8 (used in my summer display)
• ceramic hands & feet (GoodCents) – $.50
• books – $1.50
• Owl – $2
• Old picture – $1
• Skull – $.50
• mirror-$1
• bird – $4
• bowl – had it
• boa – $.50
• silk fabric – $.50
• driftwood – had it
• picture – $.85

Grand total- $30.35 (and worth every penny!!!)