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Halloween Mantel at The Everyday Home 

All houses wherein men have lived and died

Are haunted houses. Through the open doors

The haunted phantoms on their errands glide 

With feet that make no sound upon the floors.

Halloween Mantel by The Everyday Home

We meet them at the doorway, on the stair

Along the passages they come and go,

Impalpable impressions upon the air,

a sense of something moving to and fro.

Halloween Mantel by The Everyday Home

There are more guests at the table than the hosts

invited; the illuminated hall

is thronged with quiet inoffensive ghosts

As silent as the pictures on the wall.

Halloween Mantel by The Everyday Home

The stranger at my fireside cannot see

The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear;

He but perceives what is; while unto me

All that has been is visible and clear.

Halloween Mantel at The Everyday Home

We have no title or deeds to house or lands,

Owners and occupants of earlier dates

From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands,

And hold in mortmain still their old estates.

Halloween Mantel at The Everyday Home

The spirit-world around this world of sense

Floats like an atmosphere and everywhere

Wafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense

A vital breath of more ethereal air.

Halloween Mantel by The Everyday Home

And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud

Throws o’er the sea a floating bridge of light,

Across whose trembling planks our fancies crowd

Into the realm of mystery and night.

Halloween Mantel by The Everyday Home

So from the word of spirits there descends

A bridge of light, connecting it with this,

O’er whose unsteady floor, that sways and bends.

wander our thoughts above the dark abyss. 

(passages from) Haunted House

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858) 

Halloween Mantel by The Everyday Home

 

Halloween Mantel at The Everyday Home 

The Everyday Home is proud to present its

Halloween Mantel for

The All Things Home Halloween Tour

Halloween Tour at The Everyday Home

Please visit the following Blogs today to see what

they will be sharing:

 

1)  Top This, Top That

2) Atta Girl Says 

3) Just Us Four

4) The Creek Line House

 

I will be sharing details of several of these projects in the

next few days.  This Saturday, please join me and five

other fabulous Bloggers for another

No-Sew Showcase: Halloween Edition.

I will show you the scary details of how I created the 

No-Sew Mantel Scarf.

 

No-Sew Showcase: Halloween at The Everyday Home

One more quick thing….

Yearling Heifer Cow Head at The Everyday Home

He’s back in stock!  But, after all the pre-paid orders are filled,

I will only have SIX remaining, So get yours NOW by clicking

HERE!!! 

 

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Comments

  1. This mantel is terrific!! So many wonderful details and the total look is perfect in “classiness” and “spookiness”. You’ve done a fabulous job in combing just the right elements! Going back to look again…if I dare!

    DD

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  16. Ooo! I love all that spooky white cloth you have hanging over the front of the mantel! That’s too funny about us both putting spiders on plates. I see we both have white pumpkins that spell out BOO too! 🙂

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