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Spooky season is upon us; cue the Halloween-y home accents! We’ve sourced some accessories that are quirky and creepy enough for the season at hand but can also transition into your year-round decor when November rolls around. Below, you’ll find pieces to incorporate into your tablescapes and macabre mantel displays, or place wherever you feel could use a little extra touch of All Hallows’ Eve — no matter the month.
A handcrafted owl pillow in this colour palette is very Halloween, but we’re pretty sure this more-cute-than-creepy little guy would make a lovely year-round addition to your couch.
Owl Pillow, $72, West Elm
Before burning, these candles look very unassuming, but once you light them, the drips get very dramatic.
Color Drip Candlestick Set, $5, Urban Outfitters
A black washed linen tablecloth will help you set the scene for a spooky tablescape or conjure a gothic aesthetic any time. Style with antique brass and plenty of candles for maximum moody elegance.
Washed Linen Tablecloth, $59.99, H&M Home
Pampas grass is a plant native to the plains of southern South America and is very popular in home decor right now. This feathery faux-grass wreath feels particularly versatile; it would take on a Halloween quality come October — especially placed above the fireplace and accompanied by some pumpkins on the mantel — but would also look chic in November hung on an interior door.
Rust Pampas Grass Wreath, $89.95 (will ship late September), Crate and Barrel
Though skull designs are always fashionable, these geometric concrete planters scream Halloween as soon as we hit October!
Geometric Skull Concrete Planter, from $38, You Concrete Me via Etsy
This 18-inch-by-18-inch pillow cover features a gorgeous, autumnal colour scheme, but mix it in with the rest of your Halloween decor, and you’ve got a throw pillow that delivers some serious candy-corn vibes — and we don’t think that’s a bad thing.
Embroidered Pillow Cover, $39.50, Indigo
Outside of October, let this vintage-inspired candelabra be the focal point of elegant tablescapes. When Halloween hits, add some black or orange taper candles for a spookier setting — or use it to light your way around a haunted mansion at night. It’s truly your call!
Amadeus Candle Holder, $74, VdeV
Another candle holder? Yes, absolutely! This sculptural, rust-hued glass candle holder will transition so well into the rest of your decor and into the holiday season too. Consider bringing it into the bathroom for vibey bubble baths.
Delaney Candle Holder, about $27.84, Anthropologie
If your approach is full-fledged Halloween, Society6 has an entire collection of art prints to sift through — including this adorable ghost family portrait. But if you’re looking for something to blend in with your other artwork, they’ve got those pieces as well. Above are some Halloween-lite selects we think fit the bill.
Clockwise from top left: Black Gothic Floral Skull Illustration Art Print, Spooky Lava Lamp Art Print, Pink Skull Art Print, Witching Hour Art Print, from $19.44, Society6
This pop-art lamp can read as either an innocent balloon or the terrifying Pennywise balloon from Steven King’s IT that it’s actually mimicking. How you style it and what you decide to tell people is up to you!
Pennywise Balloon Table Lamp, $54, Urban Outfitters
Read all your favourite Gothic poetry by the light of this metal table lamp that’s available in black or white as well as a variety of poses. Your personal raven can illuminate your room year-round, but he feels especially fitting for this time of year.
Raven Lamp, from $63.97, ShinesMines via Etsy
These oxblood-hued preserved natural ferns, which would look lovely in a vase, come in orders of up to 10 branches and are also available in black. We think they can be styled for both Halloween and the holidays.
Preserved Bracken Fern Bunch, around $48.31, Anthropologie
This modern table lamp is a gorgeous piece to read a book by all year round, but come October, there’s something so hauntingly “full moon” about its design.
1 Light Table Lamp, $88, Indigo
ICYMI, we love removable wall decals. For Halloween, why not embrace the popular full-moon motif by adding a large one to your space? We think it would lend an ominous tone placed above your Halloween-styled side table. Since this decal is reusable, meaning repositionable, you can add it back into the kids’ room or anywhere else in the house post-Halloween.
Black & White Full Moon Space Wall Sticker, from $9.99, Decall.ca via Etsy
Adorn your table with this elegant trompe-l’œil owl-pattern runner. The slightly spooky design is part of a collection which is described as “one part vintage ephemera, one part folklore frights.”
Patch NYC 90″ Owl Table Runner, $59.95, Crate and Barrel
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Salina Hemann, proprietor of Gifted Blessings, organizes merchandise Feb. 23 at her present and property decor shop in Solon. Hemann, a trainer, opened the store in Oct 2022 immediately after a well-liked present store shut in the metropolis of 3,000. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
SOLON — Salina Hemann places a large amount of enjoy into her shop, and she hopes clients get a ton of like out of it.
“I want to supply my clients with things for a home that they will appreciate and presents that they will appreciate to give,” she said.
Hemann opened Gifted Blessings in October in The Literary constructing in downtown Solon. The store, which sells dwelling décor and gift products, has been extremely well obtained.
“We are truly in our infancy nonetheless, but it is been so exciting,” she stated.
Hemann, 45, teaches initial grade at Penn Elementary in during the day. She and her partner, Nick, have two daughters, ages 9 and 12. So she’s occupied.
But when a well-liked reward store in Solon introduced it was closing, 1 of Hemann’s good friends, who works in retail, encouraged her to open up a shop.
“That planted the seed for me to start out pondering about it,” she reported. “I’m a busy mother, and I considered to myself, ‘I really don’t want to usually have to run into Cedar Rapids or Iowa City just to get a gift.’
“I knew I couldn’t do it on a huge scale, dependent on my agenda, mainly because I want to equilibrium loved ones and church involvement.
“But I knew there was a way for me to supply a support to people in city and encourage them. I couldn’t quit listening to that small voice in my head and I assumed, ‘OK, let us just see what takes place.’ ”
Hemann claimed her mother and her aunt operated a residence items keep for decades when Hemann was developing up. And she’s normally been interested in house decor, decorating and design, but considered it a passion.
“Gifted Blessings is now a good creative outlet for me,” she reported. “And it truly feels like an extension of my own property.”
Opening a company for the initially time, she claimed, has been a studying working experience.
“I’ve met so lots of persons working the exact same kind of organizations, and they have been so handy to me,” she reported. “It’s been a purely natural point for me to do this, and it’s been so pleasurable.
“It’s not just acquiring adorable stuff and placing it on the shelf,” she extra. “There’s a total operational side that … has undoubtedly been eye-opening. It genuinely helps make you respect what goes into running a modest enterprise.”
A single of the finest components of the small business — which is open Thursday and Friday evenings and on the weekends — is conference the men and women who arrive in to store. She’s the store’s only workforce, for now, but reported loved ones users also aid out.
“It’s a small town, and I know a lot of the persons, but there are also folks that come from out of city to knowledge the progress listed here in Solon. I adore listening to tales and encouraging men and women discover what speaks to them.”
Operator: Salina Hemann
Handle: 130 S. Dubuque St., Suite 103, Solon
Mobile phone: (319) 530-6134
Web page: https://giftedblessingssolon.com/
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Salina Hemann is revealed at her store, Gifted Blessings, in Solon. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Solon swag is among the goods out there at Gifted Blessings in Solon. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Pillows and other presents and home decor goods are offered at Gifted Blessings, a new store in Solon. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Salina Hemann, owner of Gifted Blessings, removes protective corners from a picket decorative body Feb. 23 at her store in Solon. Hemann reported she attempts to source goods domestically, these as the attractive wood products and solutions made by Kendrick Forest Goods in Edgewood, Vinton and Muscatine. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)