Halloween Bathroom Decor and Props

So, just browsing the web for Halloween tips I found two images, that instantly caught my interest. One is a towel with bloody hand prints and the other is dead body in a bathtub.


The bloody towel is fairly easy to make.

The body in the bag takes a bit more effort, but should be fun to make - and will look awesome!

Dexter Halloween Buffet Table Decor

I always love to set the dinner table - or in this case, the buffet table - for Halloween. This year I will be wrapping it in transparent plastic and have a "murder tool kit" on it as prop, in keeping with my murder room theme. I will have red wax candles and red napkins. To contrast the red I will attempt to use as much white chinaware as possible.

I found this very chic Dexter table setting at inventorspot.com - My room will of course look no way as fancy but it is great for inspiration:

Murder Room Halloween Theme - Part IV

My final Dexter props will be red string and a set of black leather gloves laying about.

Murder Room Halloween Theme - Part III

Next up on my Dexter inspired theme will be to wrap the dining table in transparent plastic and add a "murder tool kit" as an extra feature. If I owned a chainsaw I would have used that! That would look really cool I think.

Murder Room Halloween Theme - Part II

My next Dexter inspired Halloween Murder Room decor project will be printing and framing blood splatter pictures.

These are from Dexter:

And these you will find by searching Google images for "Blood splatter" - large images. Please assume they are all just for personal use.

Murder Room Halloween Theme - Part I

This year's Halloween theme is Gore Galore. So in order to get the house ready for the party I have decided to decorate parts of the house as Murder Rooms.

I found a lot of inspiration just searching for "Dexter murder room" on Google images.

I will most definitely be putting a lot of transparent plastic on the floors and walls. And I will put up pictures Dexter style like below. It might be cool to find some of the guests and Photoshop a little gore to pep them up ;)

My First Halloween Party For Kids - Part II

Well, the party was a success. I did not do the muffins - which turned out to be a good call - since it turned out there wouldn't really have been enough time for it.

My daughter and I carved out the inside of the pumpkins before the other kids arrived. I was really glad we did that beforehand. Kids have a short attention span at that age, and hollowing out a pumpkin does take some work. Drawing the faces and cutting them out took the right amount of time for them to not lose interest.

Cutting out the easiest paper models from Ravensblight.com was also fine. Fortunately I had done a test run the day before, and realized that kids 7-8 years old would not have the patience - or possibly the skill - to cut out and assemble houses and vehicles. The kids all chose the bats to cut out and put on their walls.

So in between play, dress-up, trick-and-treat and eating candy it was a really nice day - for both the kids and their adults :)