Halloween platters 2011: Round two

I posted a while ago about the upcycled Halloween platters I made for my Etsy shop this year, but I didn't stop there! I made a few more and wanted to show them off because I love the silhouette images!

First is the Spooky Silhouette Family Gallery, all of them on vintage china platters:

Dracula

Frankenstein

Witch

Skeleton

I also found these two really neat orange dishes. They're not vintage, but they're the perfect color for Halloween!

Dracula on orange

Spooky crow on tombstone on orange

I also found one more of my favorite USA pottery oval shaped plates. I used these last year and I love them!

Spooky crow on tombstone on white

This pair of vintage white pottery urns got spookified with the addition of a pair of spindly-legged spiders.

Spidery white vintage urns

I didn't make these plates, but I love the black and white and I think they'd look nice in an arrangement with some of the silhouette platters.

Vintage Glastonbury Abbey plate

Vintage Italian villa plate

I can't resist vintage aluminum cookie cutters when I am out thrifting. Christmas designs seem to be the most common, but I've come across a few Halloween shapes so I glittered them and made Halloween tree ornaments out of them.

Glittery vintage Halloween cookie cutter ornaments

I've had so much fun crafting for Halloween this year! I've been so busy crafting, in fact, that I haven't decorated for Halloween yet. Eeek! Now that's scary. The boxes have been in the front room for a week, but I decided (once I'd dragged everything up from the basement and made a huge mess, naturally) that I really wanted to paint my china hutch, a project I've been meaning to do all summer long.

I got started on Monday and I have to admit that it isn't going as well as I'd like. Next time I decide to paint a piece of furniture with a brush and roller and latex paint, somebody slap me, mmmmmkay? You'd think I'd have learned my lesson, but apparently I'm a slow learner. Or an optimist. Or just really forgetful. It's spray paint from here on out, baby! Hopefully I'll have a finished project to show you soon. Hopefully, because I need to get the decorating DONE and the disaster that is my front room back in order because it's giving me the itchies. Time to man my sanding block!