2013 Decorating Ingredients available now to Decorate-Halloween Candy Corn and Lollipops……Treats with Show Me Decorating Tricks

Halloween Candy Corn and Lollipops……Treats with Show Me Decorating Tricks

The Lisa Frost Halloween banner was the inspiration for this fun and colorful Halloween doorway!

Show Me Decorating tip: Picking a theme (from an inspiration piece or item) or color story will help narrow selections for your decorating projects.

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Glowing orange Faux garlands will be the base for this Fun Candy Halloween garland!

Designer tip: always shape faux greenery and florals, handle each branch, pulling out and shaping for a full look. Quality wired garland is a must to attach and wire your focal and filler items, ribbon, balls, florals etc.

Permanent screws have been installed in mortar around the doorway. Landscape wiring is attached and then garland is wired on by twisting the wire over and back.

8″ Shatterproof balls are wired on 1st, colors coordinate with the inspiration banner. Matt and shiny finish are selected for interest.

All the balls are placed on first, most of these were used on the fall doorway! (could be used for Christmas if the color scheme or theme allows)

Supplies are gathered on a blanket to protect them from the ground.

Oversized candy corn and glitter florals will help complete the look. Always think in size and proportion to your doorway, and what can be seen from the street.

Glitter Jack o Lantern faces are light weight and add in after balls are attached.

Glitter florals add fun and color! Lime green coordinates with inspiration Lisa Frost banner!

A good Quality base is a must to allow you to wire and secure big focal points to.

Black and White ribbon in stripes and polka dots will add a punch to this bright orange garland!

Giant lollipops and Candy corn, match the inspiration #Lisa Frost #Halloween banner.

To update your Halloween, add Black and white, polka dots and stripes with wired ribbon. the wider the ribbon the less it takes to make an impact. Loops and tails make for a fun bow treatment. Good quality ribbon will last several years.

The Lisa Frost Halloween banner was the inspiration for this fun and colorful Halloween doorway!

Ingredients: Most are available at www.ShowMeDecorating.com

7- 8″ shatterproof balls assorted colors
11- 6″ shatterproof balls
2 tubes, 4 each black assorted finish balls 4 3/4″
5- 4″ shatterproof balls
5 – Giant candy lollipops
6 – oversized #Glitterville candy corn
5 -bows, 1 10yd bolt each ribbon
18 -lime green glitter picks
3-9′  orange garlands (measure your doorway to determine how many you will need)
5- glitter jack -o- lantern heads

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Halloween Decorating Ingredients

Happy Halloween decorating Y’all,

Kathy and Becky

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the Shabby Chic Chefs….Halloween party! They Show You How!

the Shabby Chic Chefs. …..Halloween Party!

Halloween witches are great friends!

Best Friends and cookbook authors, show off how they celebrate Halloween!

The group themes their get together and everyone enjoys the Halloween treat at Beverly’s house. She enjoys hosting this one because her home is decorated. The table stays set for the main witch and her friends ready to party all Halloween season!

 The Halloween menu includes the freaky and scary names of the dishes that the Chefs added for fun! This is a great way to reinvent tried and true delicious recipes for your themed party!

Eat if you dare!

Beverly- Bad to the Bone Ribs and Lost Brain Salad

Mary- Gut Stuffed Potatoes

Pat-Bug Bread/Spider Bread

Candy -Sweet and Sour Eye Balls

Siri-Bad Boy Berracho Beans

Joan- Mini Mummies

Sandra- Brain Salad

Sara-Rearranged Organ Salad

Karla- Bloody Hands and Eyeballs Drink

Cindy-Worms and Eyeballs

“Bad to the bone ribs” look freshly cut……enjoy!

The recipe for Beverly’s “Bad to the Bone Ribs.”

1 package (about 5-7 pounds) Country Style Boneless Pork RIbs

2 teaspoons meat tenderizer

1 (4-ounce) bottle liquid smoke

1 teaspoon celery salt

1 teaspoon paprika

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon onion salt

2 Tablespoons brown sugar

Barbecue sauce. optional

Sprinkle ribs with meat tenderizer, cover with liquid smoke. Refrigerate overnight, covered with foil. Next day, sprinkle ribs with mixture of remaining ingredients. Cover tightly with foil and bake 2 hours at 300. Reduce heat to 200 and bake 2 more hours or until tender. Serve with hot degreased liquid or barbecue sauce of your choice.

Beverly and Joan share some more pictures of their everyday and party dishes turned Halloween!

eeek eeek, don’t eat me! “Bat bites” will surely delight!

Want to sample some tasty “Rearranged Organ Salad”?

Hurry and eat some “Brain Salad” before the worms devour it and you go hungry!

Catch the “spider bread” before it crawls away!

“Bug Bread” will tickle your throat with the creepy crawly legs as you swallow!

“Gut Stuffed Potatoes” are safe to eat say the creepy skeletons keeping guard

Halloween treats for the brave at heart!

Beverly sprayed inexpensive potting containers and trimmed with rick rack and creepy crawly spiders! Never let your guest leave without a treat!

The cookbooks have arrived!

Joan and Beverly at a Christmas show! Sampling treats from the cookbook!

Cookbooks are available At Miss Cayce’s Christmas Store for $20! It is titled Keepers, because these were the recipes worth keeping!

Thank you Beverly and Joan for sharing the Shabby Chic Chefs!

Happy Halloween Decorating to Y’all,

Kathy and Becky

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Peacock Splendor and a touch of leopard… Show Me Doorway designs!

Peacock Splendor and a touch of leopard… Show Me Doorway designs!

Fall into Autumn with this peacock inspired doorway design! Our Show Me Decorating team never dissappoints!

Fall into Autumn with a peacock surprise touch!

Now it’s time to gather up your ingredients! Check out our online store, for key ingredients!

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Floral garlands plus a quality base green pine garland are the foundation for this doorway decorating. Garlands are layered securing to the base garland by entwining the wire branches. No glue needed!

Permanent mortar screws having been installed on this brick entryway! They are used with landscape wire to attach the Garland base to the entryway, and then all the ingredients may be wired on in layers.

Floral accents of turquoise and peacock plumes will help complete this peacock inspired doorway!

Shatterproof balls are one of the 3 key ingredients in Show Me Decorating techniques! The variety of colors and finishes, matt and shiny add contrast and interest to the design.

Ribbon ribbon ribbon, we can’t get enough of this key ingredient! 4″ wide wired ribbon in contrast of color and texture is just what this doorway design needs!

The 1st key ingredient, ribbon sets the theme and color story for this doorway design! Leopard pattern adds whimsy and takes the decorating to the wild side!

Make a bow! Need to know how? We have an app for that! $2.99, http://www.app.ShowMeDecorating.com

Shatterproof balls are not just for Christmas! Colors and sizes were chosen to compliment the peacock theme.

These 2 floral stems are wired together to add into the peacock inspired doorway.

Closeup up peacock plume spray and turquoise floral leaf spray! florals are the 3rd key ingredient in Show Me Decorating techniques!

Come in a little closer and enjoy the detail of the design! The 3 key ingredients for a Show Me Decorating design are Ribbon, balls and florals to set your theme and complement your color story!

Autumn doorway has a new twist with the rich colors of a peacock feather. Peacock plumes and sparkle turquoise leaves contrast against the rich autumn colored leaves

Fall into Autumn with a peacock surprise touch!

3 Key ingredients, make for a beautiful doorway design!

Ribbon, balls and florals! 

What is your new design twist?

Happy Fall decorating y’all,

Kathy and Becky

Lanterns to Light up your Halloween!

Lanterns to Light up your Halloween! and every other season or Holiday!……….   

Select and empty lantern and your themed ingredients, here we chose a black lantern for Halloween, Halloween ornaments, ball garland,and fun wired ribbon

Lantern step by step: fill with ball garland, ornaments,  position the skull and pumpkin ornament on top to show. Next, add strips of Ribbon by wiring together then attaching to the ring on top of the lantern with a thinner wired ribbon!

Finished lantern ready to light up your Halloween! By choosing your Holiday, fall could be pumpkins and leaves, Christmas might be ornaments and balls then add the perfect coordinating ribbon and you have a Lantern for all seasons!

Happy Decorating Y’all

Becky & Kathy

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How-To Halloween Garland

 

Check out all of our Halloween products on the website here!

Trick or treats? “How to” Halloween garland for Miss Cayce’s front entrance!

Everyone feels like a kid when Halloween rolls around! What was your favorite candy to receive? Did you ever get the wax coke bottles filled with a liquid treat?

or how about the wax lips and teeth?

Did you know whose house gave out the best candy?

If you love Halloween and decorating as we do you, you will love this simple, easy, step by step garland used on our front entrance at Miss Cayce’s Christmas Store in Midland, Texas, home to Show Me Decorating!

We hope you enjoy decorating and cooler fall weather. Watch as we transform this garland to fall and Christmas, in upcoming post!

Smiling pumpkin welcomes visitors! Happy Halloween!

Start off with a good quality garland, shape out the branches for a full look

Attaching the garland is easy if you have installed permanent screws in your brick, metal or wood door facing

After green garland is secure, add lime green mesh, bow loops in the middle and single loops in the corners, secure with wire and greenery

2nd and 3rd rolls of mesh added, big loops and tail on each side of doorway
Designer tip: each step should be able to stand alone!

Mesh comes on a roll (different quality and price are available at the retail level). check for good weight and texture to insure it will hold up in inclement weather. best source:
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Using the greenery branches, secure the mesh by twisting like a twist tie

Wire on #Dollar Store pumpkin buckets, great focal point   low-cost!

Get the most bang for your buck with a pop of Black and white! use wire to secure to garland. Ribbon is available on our website.

Betty, drills a small hole in lollipop sticks to secure to garland with a florist wire, this step is optional

Remember the  designer tip? Your design must look complete after each step. You could stop here and celebrate Halloween and add more next year!

Next step is to add 8″ balls as supporting focal points. Glitter polka dots add a whimsical touch to the Hot pink, lime green and turquoise!

The next step is to add large candy lollipops (2 sizes and mixture of colors)! available on our website  www.showmedecorating.com

Bright colored candy lollipops and balls add a Halloween treat!

Add the finishing touch with smaller (4″ and 6″) colored balls and sprigs of candy corn picks and it’s done! How many items can we keep for Fall and or Christmas?
Now its time for the fall weather to cool off!

Measure your doorway or entrance to determine how many 9′ (normal length) faux green garlands you will need. Lighted garland with colored lights added in, would add a spooky Halloween touch! Secure garland and leave up to decorate for Halloween, Fall/Thanksgiving and Christmas!

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Happy Decorating y’all,

Becky  and Kathy

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Open or close doors….Ist Impressions

Will Your 1^st Impression, Open or Close Doors?

You never get a second Chance to make a 1^st Impression!

You CANNOT, NOT make a first impression.

 

People always form an initial impression about us, our homes, our offices, our businesses the 1^st time they come in contact with us, in person, over the telephone or at our front door.

The experts differ on the number of seconds it takes to create a 1^st impression, but between 7-17 !

Vision leads the pack of our senses used to make a first impression, smell is second.

Cleaning, sweeping, fresh paint, clean glass, cobwebs, etc (don’t miss up high)

 

“The 1^st time I passed through the country of Switzerland, I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy” Argentinean Journalist

A Welcoming Entryway

• Pots
  
  

  Round Top metal pumpkin with purple and lime green dots! I love the way the green sweet potato vine pops against the orange

Assorted sizes, proportion to entry way, freshly planted and maintained

• Flower Beds

Cleaned, trimmed, planted, mulch

• Furniture

• 

  My bench with fall cushions, new fall wreath on the front door, notice the lime green berries that coordinate with my color scheme!

A bench, chairs, pillows, and rugs allows you to treat your front porch like an outdoor room. Leave plenty of access and don’t overcrowd.

• Lighting

Nice fixtures, sconces, all price ranges, sizes and colors or finishes,

• Wreath, door piece or banner

What Season is it?

Everyday- coordinate with the color of door, house trim and brick. make sure the wreath or door piece is proportionate to the size door. step and view from the street.

 

Summer- consider a “fun”doorpiece to celebrate summer! flip flops, sunglasses, beach toys and garden tools

 

Fall/ Halloween- many wreaths and door pieces can be created to change from fall to Halloween and back to fall. adding some spooky is fun for trick or treaters. celebrate the beginning of fall and school starting with a decoration made from school supplies!

Welcome Trick or Treaters!

Wire on fall garland and fall picks, add ribbon bow and a fall sign as your focal point

Lisa Frost canvas banner coordinates brick and trim

 

Christmas –this is the time to go all out! add the sparkle and shine!

 

Winter/ Valentines- a plain grapevine wreath accented with a large fun bow can be placed after Christmas, think about adding a valentine or oversized heart to celebrate Valentines Day

Welcome to my home! Happy Valentines day!

Easter/ Spring- bright greens (St. Patricks Day) are a welcome sign after a cold winter, easter grass and easter eggs, complete with a basket and bunny can make a welcome entrance way!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Changing of the Seasons

• Pick out a visible location or spot in your home (mantel, entryway table, island, buffet, etc.)
• learn to tie a bow www.app.showmedecorating.com from our “How To” app! $2.99
• 

  This Egg-tra special display celebrates Easter!

  

Storage Solutions

• Clear  Store holiday and seasonal decorations in clear tubs clearly marked with the holiday or season will make it easy and convenient to decorate

 

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Happy Decorating y’all!

Kathy and Becky

Show Me a Champagne Toast …….Bow?

We love to decorate with Glitter! We have a famous saying at Miss Cayce’s! “Get Glittered or go home!” After a trip to the store you will always have a touch a shine! This tree is named “Champagne Toast” and I think you will agree. With the touch of mink, glitter and sparkle, it is ready for a night on the town or your living room!

When selecting a theme, and color story with start with ribbon. We love to layer ribbons for drama and interest! This is a brown velvet, Leopard print and glittery silver and gold. The “Mink Stole” will be added to the tree in lengths!

We selected our ribbon based on our Theme, Champagne Toast

Step 1, make a loop and twist

Step 2, make another loop and twist

Step 3, cut top ribbon

Step 4, add next ribbon loop and twist

Step 5, make another loop and twist

Step 6, cut second ribbon

Step 7, add wire across middle, twist behind to secure

Step 8 Next is brown velvet and we tie the same just making the loops slightly bigger to show after we place the 1st bow on top

When tying larger bows it is easier to tie them separately and then wire together!

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Step 10,We made 2 loops on each side, cut, and wired over middle to secure

Step 11, Now we will place 1st bow on top of brown velvet and wire on to secure!

Step 12, Bow is almost finished! Love the glitter!

Pull out loops so all ribbon is showing!

Step 13, For an extra special touch, a clip on leopard print flower is added

Flower with clip

Bow is finished! Now it is time to decorate!

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Becky and Kathy "toast" the new season with the Champagne Toast Tree!

Happy Decorating Y’all!