Let’ go shopping!
Is Autumn a favorite season for you? If so, you’ll love visiting Laura Goines’s Little Shop Antiques in Fall,…she loves Halloween, too! She has wonderful and simple ideas anyone can do.
Spooky entrance to the shop
Laura Goines tells us, “My husband and I live on a farm in Southwestern Ohio, in Brookville. I operate an antique shop in the old outbuildings; my husband is a custom furniture maker. Part of the draw to our shop is the gardens around and the decorations for the different seasons.” . Laura has a Facebook page for her shop The Little Shop Antiques and Gardens/ R.S Goines maker of fine Furniture.
Rows of corn stalks lead the way
Add a scarecrow to an old bike…
Laura says, “Add a scarecrow to an old bike for instant autumn charm!! The wreaths are made from items that dry well, bittersweet, boxwood, sweet Annie and such.”
The woodshop decorated with bats, spiders and spooks
“Halloween is a personal favorite of mine.” Laura says, I like traditional Halloween decorations done with an antique twist. Natural decorations such as pumpkins, hard shell gourds and whatever else I can gather add to the look.
Hang witches hats from branches and trees
Hang witches hats from branches and trees. Your guests will wonder if there are invisible witches around to chill their bones!
“Expect scarecrows in barrels, Skeletons made from old wood turnings, gourd goblins, and more!! Don’t worry though, nothing is too scary.” Laura assures us.
Go ahead, have a seat!
Rusty iron pans hold creepy creatures
Pumpkins heads wrapped in burlap
Make an eerie raven and birdcage scene
With a little black paint, some old goblets, and a black crow or two you can replicate the look, seen recently in a Pottery Barn birdcage for practically nothing.
A crushed rusty bucket holds dried corn stalks, berries and a raven!
Laura uses all her dried garden clippings, berries and cornstalks for Halloween decorations. Why not make a bouquet of dried flower clipping right from your garden for some muted colored Halloween arrangements?
Let the last of the garden’s flowers droop
Insulators and mossy covered pots. See the little pumpkin in a funnel ‘cage’
A skeleton drives a creepy carriage and ‘tombstones are held up with stacks of bricks
Laura’s U-Neek shutter man
Collection of coal shovels…
“Somehow I ended up with a collection of coal shovels. I chalked a different face on each one. I can see a chalked up snowman scene this winter.”
A sly witch sneaks by….
