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Halloween Mantel

Filed Under: craft projects, crafts, DIY, Everyday DIY, Fall Decorating, Halloween, Halloween Tagged With: Dollar Store Crafts, Halloween, Halloween Crafts, Halloween Mantel

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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

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Comments

  1. DD says

    October 9, 2013 at 5:58 AM

    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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  2. Kirby says

    October 9, 2013 at 10:21 AM

    Longfellow? As a literature teacher, I LOVE it! And I can totally dig some cheesecloth.

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  3. Sonya ~At Home with The Barkers says

    October 9, 2013 at 10:58 AM

    This is good!! I’m not one to decorate “scary” but you did a great job. ~Sonya

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  4. Suzy @ Worthing Court says

    October 9, 2013 at 11:35 AM

    Oooh…..creepy……scary. You did an awesome job on your mantel, my friend. All of the details are so cool!

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  5. Becca says

    October 9, 2013 at 11:40 AM

    What a fun and scary Halloween mantel, Barb! Love the cheesecloth … and, the birds, spiders and “BOO” pumpkins are the perfect combination!

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  6. Heidi Colton says

    October 9, 2013 at 12:00 PM

    what is that you draped over your mantel? Cheesecloth?

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    • Barb says

      October 9, 2013 at 2:02 PM

      Heidi – come back this Saturday for the No-Sew Showcase:Halloween Edition and I’ll show you how I made it. Incredibly easy. 🙂

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  7. Shirley@Housepitality Designs says

    October 9, 2013 at 12:14 PM

    Spooky mantel…bet the boys love it!

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  8. Cynthia says

    October 9, 2013 at 2:19 PM

    Barb love this mantel and it has just enough creepy for me.I don’t really do Halloween too much but you did such a fantastic and inspiring job!!

    Cynthia

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  9. Linda @ it all started with paint says

    October 9, 2013 at 2:19 PM

    It’s perfectly spooky! I’m always a big fan of the BOO … it’s right up there with the EEK!

    🙂 Linda

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  10. laura @Top This Top That says

    October 9, 2013 at 2:56 PM

    okay,I am official scared and I am sitting in my office with the lights on!! 🙂

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  11. Therese @ Fresh Idea Studio says

    October 9, 2013 at 3:05 PM

    Oooo! So spooky! I love all the awesome creepy details.
    Happy Haunting!

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  12. Marty@A Stroll Thru Life says

    October 9, 2013 at 3:24 PM

    Oh I love your mantel Barb, it looks fabulous. The night picture is a real wow. Hugs, Marty

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  13. Tammy...circa-1929 says

    October 9, 2013 at 3:52 PM

    Barb- loved it. I loved the poem woven throughout it also. You sure did an amazing job – I so miss having my mantel to decorate.

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  14. Debra@CommonGround says

    October 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM

    wow, so much fun, loved that passage from Longfellow! Your mantel is “to die for”!!

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  15. Yvonne @ StoneGable says

    October 9, 2013 at 5:18 PM

    Oh shiver and shake! What a fun and ghoulish mantel! Just horribly creative and dastardly fun! I’m pinning and showing you off on FB! xo

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  16. Courtenay says

    October 9, 2013 at 5:45 PM

    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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  17. KATHYSUE says

    October 9, 2013 at 6:22 PM

    Barb this is absoutely SPOOKTACULAR! I bet the Grand kids just love this. The picts with the candlelight are eerily spooky!!
    Kathysue

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  18. Pam @ House of Hawthornes says

    October 9, 2013 at 8:40 PM

    Your mantel is too spooky! In a good way! Love the rats.

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  19. Holly says

    October 10, 2013 at 1:23 AM

    Perfectly spooky Barb! I love it!!

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  20. Lori @Vintage Charm Restored says

    October 10, 2013 at 2:19 PM

    Oh goodness!! I love it Barb!! So much fun!!

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  21. kelly says

    October 10, 2013 at 8:32 PM

    Fantastic Barb! Quoting Longfellow, promoting “no sew” & offering up a cow. Love the mantel!!

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  22. Christy @ Our Southern Home says

    October 11, 2013 at 1:21 AM

    Fabulous and spooky!!! I love Halloween and you outdid yourself! I need to get my act together and spook up the family room for the kids! XXOO Christy

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  23. Jennifer @ Town and Country Living says

    October 11, 2013 at 1:50 AM

    Love the Halloween poem. The BOO pumpkins are cute!

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  24. Ellora @ Creatively Southern says

    October 11, 2013 at 3:26 AM

    Love the mantel! It looks especially spooky with the lights in the dark, too! My favorite might the books… or the plate… well, maybe the spider plate. Oh do I have to pick just one??? Great decorating and enjoyed reading your post! Happy Halloween!

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  25. debbiedoos says

    October 11, 2013 at 7:59 PM

    Love it Barb and I love how many cool things are at the DOLLAR tree!

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  26. Kerryanne @ Shabby Art Boutique says

    October 12, 2013 at 2:29 AM

    Love the mantel Barb… it goes so well with the Longfellow.

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  27. Leena Lanteigne says

    October 12, 2013 at 6:07 AM

    Great decorations! Love the inclusion of the poem in your post! Happy Haunting! Leena

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  28. Yvonne @ StoneGable says

    October 12, 2013 at 12:27 PM

    SPOOKY! I love the picture with the candlelight! You always put so much work into all you do… thanks!

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  29. The Style Sisters says

    October 16, 2013 at 8:18 PM

    This is Awesome!! Wow you really went all out…I love the black and white theme…so fun! Come link up to Centerpiece Wednesday and share this idea with us. http://thestylesisters.blogspot.com/2013/10/centerpiece-wednesday-97.html
    Karin 🙂

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  30. Angelina says

    October 21, 2015 at 8:20 PM

    Love your Halloween mantel! I especially love the white pumpkins that say “BOO”!!

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    • Barb says

      October 21, 2015 at 8:31 PM

      Oh thanks. The pumpkins were my favorite part too. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by. ~ Barb

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  31. Audrey says

    October 24, 2015 at 4:07 PM

    Those plates are fun! Thanks for sharing on the #HomeMattersParty this week. I hope you join us next week.

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