Thursday, July 14, 2016

...how wire, moss, & ivy transform, and my love for Pottery Barn Halloween...



"Live each day as if it were your last,
and garden as though you will live forever"
~Scottish Proverb 
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/live-bat-topiary/?pkey=e%7Ctopiary%7C15%7Cbest%7C0%7Cviewall%7C48%7C%7C6&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH
I have always wanted my garden to look a little bit like Edward Scissorhands walked through it.  I love topiaries and was thrilled when I practically stumbled upon a topiary garden in Ohio.  I’ve had a fun pom-pom for several years now.  I have wanted a topiary shaped like an animal for quite a while but I’ve never found one that I absolutely loved until tonight.

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/live-spider-topiary/?pkey=e%7Ctopiary%7C15%7Cbest%7C0%7Cviewall%7C48%7C%7C5&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH
Sigh. Pottery Barn Halloween. I black-heart-love you.

Yesterday I read a blog post from a Halloween blogger asking who in the world ever buys the overpriced Halloween items from Pottery Barn. Um, I do. Now, in a gothy-girl’s defense, I do not *put away* Halloween décor. The Pottery Barn 2014 skeleton salt & pepper shaker is our salt & pepper shaker; the Walking Dead ice bucket which I use as a vase that currently is sitting on my coffee table. Heck, even my cheese tray is a Pottery Barn Halloween item. And, probably my oddest but most adored find was a Vampire Teeth drink dispenser stand. We don’t use it very often but while I’m sitting at my island typing, I can look over and see it sitting on our bar. It makes me smile.

This year they have these amazing living topiaries. I fell in love with the bat and the spider topiaries although they do have cats as well. Each of their topiaries include galvanized wire, tree moss, and English ivy. I put them on my wish list but then my enabling fella *made me* buy them. His words, “If they disappear, won’t your heart hurt?”  
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/spooky-floral-arrangement/?pkey=e%7Cspooky%7C9%7Cbest%7C0%7Cviewall%7C48%7C%7C1&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH
Love floral arrangements but not into taking care of living plants (or into watching cut flowers die), here is a lovely faux look called the Spooky Floral Arrangement!


******pauses for doorbell******

GWEE! My first Pottery Barn Halloween 2016 purchase arrived: the flying bats wall art, which is also currently on sale. That’s one of the things that I love about their Halloween items. Pre-season, you can catch some pretty good sales which is beneficial because their Halloween items are not inexpensive but then the items are not cheap. They’re nice quality that lasts… just like my spooky spirit!  

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/flying-bats-wall-art/?pkey=e%7Cflying%2Bbats%2Bwall%2Bart%7C1%7Cbest%7C0%7Cviewall%7C48%7C%7C1&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH


6 comments:

  1. The pottery barn things are, from what I can see from your posts, the kind of thing that looks classy and can actually be kept as home decor! I so want the fang drink dispenser!

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    1. The dispenser is best when filled with red punch but it holds much too much liquid for two people to consume in a reasonable amount of time so it is often left on the shelf where I gaze upon it.

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  2. I remember a previous post of yours in the same vein as this, and my response is the same: You never need to justify your spendings to anyone, my dear! Unless you couldn't feed your kids or it was putting you in deep debt, it's nobody's business. And you are the year-round Halloween queen, I think many of us would be a bit disappointed if you weren't regularly sprucing up your home with new finds :)

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    1. My fella says I suffer from not feeling like I deserve to make purchases because I used to be poor and that I carry over some kind of guilt from those days. Maybe. Mostly I just worry the house will cave in :p My mom is a hoarder so I worry I will fall into that myself. There aren't any signs but still.

      Thanks for always being so sweet to me. I need you in my life!

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  3. This may fall into the category of not helping, but have you checked out Home Goods Halloween merchandise?! They have been killing it the past couple years and have become my favorite spot to stalk during the Halloween season. They have several things that are Pottery Barn like, but for much less money.

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    1. Thanks Dustin. I don't discriminate against any store's Halloween ha ha. I love Home Goods and think they have some nice stuff. I did several posts last year about my finds there including this one with one of my favorite vampire friends :D http://goth-gardening.blogspot.com/2015/08/time-focus-and-few-new-halloween-friends.html

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