HALLOWEEN is coming and here at the County Press, we're looking forward to seeing lots of your favourite pictures from this spooktacular focal point of the autumn season.

Are you intending to have a Halloween party? If you are turning your home into the scariest-looking place in town, we would love to see your pictures!

Whether you are filling your steps with jack o'lanterns, putting mock gravestones in the front garden or spraying your walls with cobwebs and leaving scary spiders and skeletons hanging everywhere, we would like to see the evidence.

Isle of Wight County Press:

One of the spooky looks created by Kathy Prounis.

Dressing your home for Halloween is particularly popular in America and is gaining popularity in the UK too.

Kathy Prounis, a New York City-based architectural interior designer, runs the Kool Kathy blog and believes it is easy to ensure your guests will remember your Halloween home decor for some time to come.

She said: "Your entrance is your guests' first impression of your spooky style. Add candles, books, twigs and a flower arrangement to catch the eye."

She added that white chocolate eyeballs are scary fun and can be paired with books, skeletons, slithering snakes and leaves to create a display such as the one pictured above.  

Kathy also recommends picking up some interesting pumpkins, either at a farm or a grocery store near your home.

She explained: "I personally like the solid colors of celadon, white and what I call 'rose gold'. Then make sure you 'stripe a pose' and get some of these beauties! They really add life and dimension to your decor.

"Black and white is the new 'orange'. I took orange pumpkins and spray-painted them matte white and matte black for a table setting, but you can use them throughout your house.  White looks good in kitchens and bathrooms, while red as an accent makes for a sultry spiced-up, bloody-looking decor.

A quick Google will bring up all sorts of ideas for themed food and drink to serve to your Halloween party guests, but one of Kathy's quirky ideas is to make sure your visitors are all vaccinated.

She explained: "Serve up some Bloody Mary mix in syringes on ice. If Bloody Mary’s are not your poison, go for cranberry and vodka in the syringe and serve them up in a champagne glass (pictured below).

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Kathy says make sure your guests are vaccinated!

  • The County Press is hoping to run a gallery of the scariest of your pictures in the newspaper (November 5 edition) and online, so please click the submissions box below to send us details and images and join in the fun!