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eat,
drink
& be
eerie
how
to throw a fabulous halloween party
by Yee-Fan Sun
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playing with fabric | Scour thrift stores and discount fabric shops for cheap fabric and sheets -- anything black is great, especially in velvet and lace; orange, red and purple also work well with the Halloween theme. Use the fabric to embellish (and protect) tabletops, bookcases, and other furniture; arrange lace over windows and doorways for a Victorian feel. You can also go the haunted house route by draping all your furnishings in tattered sheets. paper silhouettes | One of the cheapest, coolest-looking decorations I've done involves cutting bats and spiders out of black paper. Don't just snip out the exact same image twenty times; use an array of different shapes and sizes for a much more visually interesting end result when you stick them all over your walls. Need help with drawing bats? Download this pdf and copy away. spider webs | Fake cobwebbing clings brilliantly, allowing you to easily create spiderwebs wherever you feel like it. You can buy bags of the stuff pretty much anywhere they sell Halloween décor. but wait! there's more this way...
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lighting
| Replace all of your regular boring old white bulbs with colored
bulbs and blacklights. I like red lights best, but go with whatever
suits your fancy. String lights in orange and purple are readily
available for cheap this time of year, and add a nice subtle touch both
indoors and outdoors. The one thing I avoid is real candles - the
combination of drunk folks and open flame just makes me too nervous. If
you're hell-bent on having real candlelight, be safe about it: stick
with floating candles or use glass hurricanes.