Favorite Halloween Decoration...?

I don't know, but I thought it would be interesting to ask. My personal favorite is a severed head I named Edgar, who hangs in my living room year-round. You can find him on the Spirit Halloween Store online, and he's called the "Face Lift", I think. When you see him, you'll know why.
Anybody else? A good sharp-toothed clown, perhaps? Maybe a nice shrunken head on a stick?

About ten years ago, a friend and I saw a reproduction of the Jacob Marley doorknocker from the original Christmas Carol in a Halloween store. It was something like $50, and we were very poor at the time. It's one of my worst non-buyer's remorse episodes ever. I've been looking for that doorknocker ever since and I've never been able to find it.

That would have been great to have, but $50 is a lot of money. There are so many great items out there, but they're all so damned pricey. Shame. Hope you find it someday.

I think my favorite decorations are plain old carved pumpkins. The main reason I like them is because my kids get so creative with theirs, planning for days what they will do to them. Another thing I like about pumpkins is that pretty much everyone puts one out, and no one carves the same way so it means you get to see so many different and cool designs.

Another cool decoration I have seen is a motion activated skeleton arm that popped out of a mailbox, accompanied by a very loud scream.

I found this site this morning...
Since Halloween is my favorite season, I will chime in. Last night a very dear friend who knows I love Halloween gave me the gift of a candy corn night light shaped as a little guy with white gloves and boots. At the top of this head there is a bubble light that perculates as the night light gets warm...I love it!

Glad to hear from another Halloween lover. Feel free to join.

will do! Thanks for the invite~

I absolutely have to agree with xombie on this one, my all time favorite Halloween decorations are Jack-o-lanterns. The creativity that goes into real Jack-o-lanterns (not the ones that you trace a pattern on your pumpkin and cut as directed!) is what makes Halloween so fun every season.

And as a plus, they make a great head for any horsemen that happen to be missing one!!

I'm a morbid person, and Halloween is the best time to advertise that! So my favoite decoration is probably something I made a few years ago......white sheets that I threw fake blood on, we hang them up and it looks like a murder scene.

That reminds me of a great item I saw a couple days ago in a magazine. It was a shower curtain, with blood spatters thrown all about, and a knife-wielding silhouette painted on. So cool. Would it be at all weird to keep THAT one up all year?

My favorite HALLOWEEN decoration would have to be my headstones, and not just the headstones themselves but the way I display them. We lay down a sheet of plastic then put mounds of dirt on top with the headstones at the head of the mound of dirt. I have a motion activated skelton just the head,hands and feets that I have sticking out the dirt. HALLOWEEN is almost here can't wait.

That sounds amazing. It would probably have scared the bejesus out of me as a kid.

I don't know if this counts as "a decoration" since I have to recreate it every time we have a Halloween party. But when I decorate for a Halloween party, I write "Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light?" across the bathroom mirror in glossy red paint. (I think what it use is a fabric paint of some kind. I just peels right off when the party's over.)

A while ago someone in the Thing(amabrarian)s group posted a link to a website that had zombie lawn ornaments that looked like they were crawling up out of the ground. I thought those were so cool!

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A while ago someone in the Thing(amabrarian)s group posted a link to a website that had zombie lawn ornaments that looked like they were crawling up out of the ground. I thought those were so cool!

You mean these?

Yes, that's it! Thanks jseger, I was too lazy to find them again myself. I want one for year-round use, actually, but they'd be great for Halloween.

Oh!!! I love it! I want one!

In all seriousness, does anybody know where to buy one of those?

Here you go: http://www.designtoscano.com/product/garden+statues/extraordinary+statues/the+zo...

Be prepared: It's $90.00!

My friend has a sound activated bat. It's so much fun. When it is activated it drops down about 2 feet on a string while screaming. Then as it flaps it's wings to weird music it climbs back up the string. It is the best scream inducer I ever saw. She brought it to work and we booby trapped people with it all day!

That bat would be scary - the element of surprise always gets me. I don't know how many movies I've seen, and even the bad ones, and you know it's coming - the hand comes out of the ground or something jumps out at you, and it makes me jump. In fact sometimes that's the only scary part of the movie. I must get one of those bats.
I like the zombie too. I can't really afford it, I suppose you could make a scarecrow zombie and bury it.

At our house at Halloween we like to carve vegetables -- those grossly overgrown zucchini make great ghosts, but the best are the turnips. We buy the big ones and carve small evil faces on them, then put lights in and hang them in our trees. They look like goblins. They're quick to carve, too (I hollow them out with a melon baller) so you can do a lot of them if you like.

When I was a kid we always made a Halloween tree -- My dad would always paint a big gnarly tree on our front window (sometimes with a witch underneath) and we kids would cut out halloween creatures and "decorate" the tree with them. It always looked great, no matter how rudimentary our cutouts were. I do it some years with my kids, other times we do other things, but we always paint the front window with something Halloweenish.

Those are great ideas. Trees are so...Halloweeny around Halloween. I'd also like to get a big black fake Halloween tree inside and decorate it. I have a small one. What kind of paint do you use on the window?

I also love those black gates in front of the house to give it some atmosphere.

I usually use washable poster paint, but I think you can also get washable paint designed to be used on windows at some art stores. You have to watch out with some of the darker colors of poster paint -- if they get on your light colored walls or windowsills they may leave a stain.

Thanks for the tip.

Vegetable goblins and zombie lawn ornaments. Nice.

I love the veggie goblins, do you have any pics or tips on those?