Elegant Halloween Tablescape You’ll Love This Year

Wouldn’t you love an elegant Halloween tablescape this year?  Halloween doesn’t have to be juvenile and ugly.  With just a few items, you can create a lovely, more adult, yet spooky, tablescape.

You won't want to miss out on this week's “There’s No Place Like Home” Autumn Blog Hop.  This week features autumn tablescapes. Several bloggers including our host Rachelle of My Hubbard Home and Karin at Karins Kottage are sharing their fall crafts. This group of ladies have gotten together for 5 weeks of autumn ideas and this is the final week. We're sharing tablescapes. Links for all the posts are at the bottom of this page.  Be sure to check out all of their great ideas!

Prepare The Table for the Elegant Halloween Tablescape

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Begin by placing a white tablecloth on your table.  Next, layer a spider web – bat tablecloth on top.  You can find a similar tablecloth on Amazon. ◄

Skeletons and Skulls – A Common Thread

This year, the silver bedazzled skeleton and skulls are the common thread for the Halloween decorations.  You can find silver and gold skulls decorated with jewels, glitter, and rhinestones for under twenty dollars at the hobby and craft stores.  Yet, the Dollar Tree has skulls for one dollar.  These are easily glammed up with inexpensive spray paint and craft store finds.

Click here for directions for painting the skull and adding rhinestones, pearls, and beads ◄ The process is the same as the process used for the chic skeleton wreath, I shared a few days ago.

Spooky Night Candy Dish Centerpiece

What is more perfect than this silver spooky candy dish held by three skeleton hands to use as a centerpiece?  Instead of using it for candy, 18 beautiful deep red roses are on display.

Just imagine, you can create a similar look by buying skeleton hands at the dollar store, spraying them silver, and attaching to a bowl with hot glue.

Filling the Dish with Roses

For containing the roses, I ultimately decide on a silver stainless steel cup for mint juleps.  Unfortunately, the florist foam I was sure I have is not to use for arranging fresh roses.  It’s for dried or silk flowers.

Brainstorming, I think about a glass jar but spot the stainless-steel cups and think one will be less noticeable in the bowl.  After trimming the stems, the roses fit perfectly in the metal cup.  Sitting in the bowl, there is empty space all around the cup.  What to use there?

Then, I spot the black thorny, sparkly branches in the Halloween bin.  After cutting the stems into smaller sections and tucking them around the cup, it is the perfect filler for a Halloween arrangement!

Spooky Elegant Halloween Table Settings

The first step is setting the black lace votives wrapped in diamonds on the table.  You can see the step by step for making these DIY Halloween Candle Holders ◄here.

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Then, place the silver charges on the table.  Next, center black plates on the charger and center skull plates on the black plates.  Place folded ivory napkins under the forks and a crystal knife rest above the knife.  ◄ You can find a similar set of skull plates and knife rests through these links.  I bought these clear and silver stripe knife rests many years ago.  The knife rests are to keep your pretty tablecloth free of grease, butter, and food on your knife.

More Elegant Silver Skulls from Dollar Store Finds

Last year, I found skulls on a pedestal at the dollar store and used them in the Hauntingly Beautiful Tablescape.  So, this year they are updated with silver paint and bedazzled with rhinestones, beads, and pearls.  In order to paint these plastic skulls, I carefully, pull the skull from the pedestal base, paint them, allow the paint to dry, then, reattach the skull.

If you can’t find these at the dollar store, you can find inexpensive candle holders, paint them black, and glue a decorated skull onto the painted candle holder.

You can find the directions for painting the skulls and decorating them with jewels and beads in this post. ► How to Create a Chic Spooky Halloween Wreath.

This dollar store skull, painted and bedazzled, sits perfectly on a silver scalloped tray.   It will be a nice place to display pretty French macarons.

 

 

To finish the tablescape, two white taper candles in crystal candle holders sit on either side of the rose display.  Also, notice that I’ve added a few faux pumpkins that have been spray-painted silver, too.

Be sure to visit the other ladies on this blog hop!

The next stop is Karin @KarinsKottage.

 

Autumn Blog Hop – “There’s No Place Like Home” – Tablescapes Oct 14
My Humble Home and Garden	Karins Kottage	The Painted Apron	Calypso in The Country
Celebrate And Decorate	Mantel and Table	My Hubbard Home

 

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