Haunt Your House For Halloween: Decorating Tricks & Party Treats (Paperback)

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Amazon.com Review

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

eerie projects-scary decorations, ghosts by the window, ghouls in your yard and on fences and porches. Creative ideas will make your home a Halloween masterpiece. Bonus: Party recipes, favors, and costumes. Try the Paper Clip Skeleton, Gelatin Wigglers, Snack-O-Lanterns, Face Painting, and some Sinister Salsa. 96 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806995025
• ISBN-13: 978-0806995021
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,046,593 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cutsie cutsie cutsie, June 30, 2001

By	Erin Rippy "inkyMouse" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Haunt your house with cute stuff!, October 4, 2000

By	"zarings3" (maple valley, wa USA) - See all my reviews

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute book, but would have called it "How to Decorate Your Home for a Country Autumn", July 26, 2005

By	Eco Girl "Candace" (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haunt Your House For Halloween: Decorating Tricks & Party Treats (Paperback)

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.