It's that time of year when the ladies come out to
join us in celebrating Halloween! They have been
joining me in celebrating since my first year of
blogging in 2010!
Click here to see their first blogging appearance,
even though they had been hanging around our
house for ages before that.
But the more witches, the merrier, as our group
of Crafty Witches joined us for dinner, set up in the woods.
Wander down the land into the deep of the woods
to find where we are gathering tonight.
We have owned this piece of property for over 30 years
now, and we lived here for almost 3 years, with the
intention of coming back within 5 years and building,
but the kids were at that age that we didn't want to move
them again during junior high and beyond, so family
has lived here, including Joni from Red Couch Recipes.
My oldest daughter decided to move out into the old
house and build a new house on the property 3 years
ago. After she started building I found a journal I had
written when we lived there and she was 9. At that
time she said that when she got married she would
move here and live with her husband. That was so
fun to find since we hadn't remembered that. Now hubby
wants to develop a few more lots and build there too.
(Can you imagine moving just my tablescape items!!!???)
It consists of 5 acres with the lower part having
been called The Hollow, since before we owned
the property. This part is heavily wooded and
has quite a few deer and a rogue white rooster.
I have wanted to have my witchy friends here for three
seasons, but the weather is always a little iffy. This
year it rained early in the day but was dry and
warm for our party.
My son build a custom table just for eating in
The Hollow, using a gray-wash marine finish so it can withstand
the weather. It is 12 feet long. I covered it with a
open cut spider web fabric that I had purchased
a few years ago. It was a perfect fit.
Purple jeweled chargers from ZGallerie begin the plate
stack followed by fun scalloped plates from Home Goods.
I used my black flatware from Horchow.
These playful goblets were a new purchase from Dollar Tree
this year and they came in orange, purple and black.
The napkins sat on a purple glass plate with their name tag
and a witch shoe ornament, but there was also a
special party favor!
I gave everyone these fabulous garden gloves with
claws! They just looked so witchy, but they work great.
This black chandelier was my favorite part of the
whole event.
I missed the fact that it wasn't wire as a plug in, but
hubby helped me set everything up and he quickly
added a plug. We have a Humless chargeable battery
that we plugged it into after hanging it in the tree.
It just made everything magical.
The table was filled with lots of fun items
(yes we had to drag them all from our house!)
I used battery operated candles and real candles.
These new serving dishes from Home Goods this year
were my husband's favorites.
Silk flowers in black and purple with eyes filled my
adorable MacKenzie-Childs pumpkin cart.
These came from Dollar Tree also.
And they adorned the backs of my chairs, which were
my white chiavari chairs covered in black stretch covers.
The chairs also had a little bit of gauze and gray netting
to bring up the drama.
The ladies oversaw the serving table.
I have this wonderful Witches and Warlocks urn
that I got from Home Goods a few years ago, but I
wasn't certain it was food safe, so I placed a bowl inside
to make my witches brew.
We also had a bonfire going to add to the mood.
We witches gathered for a photo, but we were
missing one.
We could excuse her being late as she was bringing
this glorious, scary cake.
One of our hubbies calls us the "overachievers" and we
certainly followed through with that when we all ended
up with three favors to take home with us.
Dinner was chili in a bread bowl with fresh garden veggies and
a fun fruit dip.
As I was flying a group of witches up and out of The Hollow,
our battery gave out, so these three witches had only
candle light to keep them company until I returned.
Thanks to all my witchy friends who came and made
this a magical evening. The biggest thanks goes to
hubby who helped me pack everything in and out,
and then did it again for a family dinner as the 4 year old
witch insisted we needed to do this for the family!
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