Haunt Your House For Halloween: Decorating Tricks & Party Treats | 
 enlarge | Author: Cindy Fuller
Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 735939
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0806935677
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.5941
UPC: 049725035676
EAN: 9780806935676
ASIN: 0806935677
Publication Date: December 2001
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Create a charming country-style Halloween setting through your whole house, from the front yard and the entryway to the windows, mantelpiece, and table, with a little help from Haunt Your House for Halloween. More sweetly spooky than scary, the decorations feature lots of simple, painted wood cutouts (ghosties, pumpkiny characters, rabbits, cats, crows), easy wreaths (such as a circle of ghost-wrapped lollipops), and clever edibles (sloppy joes whose buns masquerade as pumpkins; ghoul-aid; chocolate scaredy-snacks). Full directions and patterns are given for each project, although the book's format occasionally makes finding the instructions for a particular project challenging: a series of photos illustrates a number of project tableaus, followed by the step-by-step instructions for those projects compressed together, then another series of photos, and so on. Everything is clearly pictured, though, and the directions do refer back to the illustration page, so this minor drawback shouldn't keep Halloween crafters from finding their way. --Amy Handy
Product Description
Here are 80 eerie projects—scary decorations, ghosts by the window, ghouls in your yard and on fences and porches. Creative ideas for every room and area will make your home the area’s Halloween masterpiece. Bonus: Party recipes, favors, and costumes. “The decorating ideas and party tips in this colorful book can make your Halloween a treat.”—Country Almanac.
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 WELL-DONE CRAFT IDEAS FOR HALLOWEEN September 13, 2005
"Haunt Your House for Halloween", despite its ominous title, isn't really geared towards the scary side of Halloween. The book presents mainly tame Halloween decor and on that level it works very well. You just have to know what you're getting. Author Cindy Fuller wastes no time with lengthy histories of Halloween myths and traditions...we've all read those time and time again. She jumps right into the many projects found in this 96 page book.
One of the semi-scary projects to be found is the Floating Phantom, made with just a handful of items that you may have at home or can be picked up at the local craft store. Made from primarily a piece of old white bed sheet (I prefer an off white or gray to make it seem no so "pure") and some line for hanging, you can achieve more of a terrifying look by drawing a more evil face on your phantom before hanging from a tree or perhaps an awning.
Halloween wreaths are becoming quite common place today and allow a decorator to really use their own imagination in coming up with unique designs. There's a wonderful Halloween wreath, decorated with tiny ghosts that serves a dual function. It not only looks good, but you can stick suckers all around the wreath for a distinctive way of passing out candy to trick-or-treaters.
A very simple, yet effective way to make scary decor for Halloween is to cut various shapes of ghosts, or bats, or other traditional Halloween characters out of Acetate and stick them to your windows, using light to create some very spooky silhouettes.
Fuller also has many projects for decor inside the home including a neat little pumpkin patch village that can go on top of your mantle or on a table. There are also a number of items that can be made out of pine if you have the right tools to cut the wood. The book contains patterns for all of these wood projects.
There are also things like recipes and decor for Halloween parties. The book features a full color photograph of each completed project and each is detailed in clear, concise instructions, and is accompanied by a full materials list. While it's more crafty than scary, "Haunt Your House for Halloween" presents some great-looking and simple projects to accent your home's holiday look.
Reviewed by Tm Janson
Cute book, but would have called it "How to Decorate Your Home for a Country Autumn" July 27, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Being a Halloween aficionado, I find this book cute, and full of good for ideas for a mild Halloween, but "haunted" is not what I would call the decorations. I still can't understand why some of the pumpkins have jester hats. Personally, I would call this more fall country decor than anything, but very cute and good ideas all around.
 Cutsie cutsie cutsie June 30, 2001
38 out of 38 found this review helpful
I'm a serious Halloweenie. When I heard the title "Haunt Your House For Halloween: Decorating Tricks & Party Treats" the last thing I expected were cutsie country painted wood cutouts of pumkpin men (stacked 3 hight like snowmen), pigeon-looking blue crows, and BUNNIES with harlequin diamond painted ears. There were even oversided EGGS painted in yellow, orange, and white as if to be candy corn.If you're a serious country crafter who wants to spend a lot of time cutting shapes out of pine with your jigsaw and then painting them, this book has great ideas for you. Personally, I found that a lot of the instructions were quite lengthy and involved, and required a lot of money spent on materials and tools. I bought two Halloween books online this year in preparation for my 2nd annual haunted costume party. This one was a big disapointment for me. If you're looking for some really fantastic, easy, original and genuinely SPOOKY decorating and party ideas, try "Scary Scenes For Halloween" by Jill Williams Grover. I've left rave reviews for the wealth of amazing ideas I've gathered from her book.
Haunt your house with cute stuff! October 4, 2000
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book has a lot of ideas for decorating your house. The majority of the items are "country" style wood cutouts. They are cute but not what I thought would be in a book that is called "Haunt you house for Halloween"! The directions are thorough and easy to follow. The book has a lot of photographs of the actual finishes projects as well. The ideas are probably good for houses with little children who may scare easy or for people who like the painted wood decorations.
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