On that same trip, I visited an excellent nursery, the California Cactus Center, where I found an old lady cactus (Mammillaria hahniana) - an especially long-haired cultivar. A silver-glittered hand became a bony place-card holder, and its ideal resting spot was on a silver lusterware plate. We put our heads together and came up with several creative ways to infuse a home with some very scary stuff.Ī giant glass cheese dome, something I have had in my kitchen for many years, formed the perfect display case for green-glittered plastic skulls and bones when set atop a very large cake stand. The magazine's decorating director, Kevin Sharkey, who was traveling with me, loved the idea of a fancy, glittery, eerie, somewhat macabre holiday decorating scheme for my house in Bedford, N.Y. When I saw these items, my mind started to work. I also saw a lone claw foot from an old bathtub that was being used as a paperweight. There I saw incense burners made of bronze in the shape of bats. While in California earlier this year, I visited a wonderful antiques store, Blackman Cruz Workshop, in Los Angeles.
We plan the Halloween issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine months in advance, and I am always searching for ideas and inspirations to help make the current year's decorations different and more intriguing than those in past issues.
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