mantle and entertainment center

I wanted to completely decorate my condo this year for Halloween, but I wanted it to be inexpensive and easy. I feel like i accomplished my goal and I can not wait to finish the rest of my condo.

So here is how I transformed my mantle and entertainment center :) Hope you find some great ideas for yours.

I started by adding garland that had purple lights already sewn in. I found the garland on sale at Target for $9 and had to get it.

I also picked up two glass vases at the dollar store and dripped melted red candle on both to make them appear bloody. After adding the fake blood, I put 12 ping pong balls that look like eyeballs in the vases and added them to my mantle.

I painted two candle stick holders, that I also picked up from the dollar store, purple and then with mod podge to make them shiny. I added those to my mantle with two red candle sticks.

I found two shiny, mini witch's brooms at Target for $2.50 each that  I put on the ends of my mantle.

I already had a set of skull lights that I purchased from a dollar store last year that I added as well.

I then put my EAT, DRINK AND BE SCARY sign that I made in a previous blog post to the middle of my mantle.

I then pinned a string of skeletons to the bottom of the mantle.

My fireplace is not actually useable so a decorative item sits in front of it. I moved it and thought it made my whole set up look bare. I decided to add some dollar store cob webs to transform my ordinary item into a Halloween piece that adds more to my mantle.

 I then found some creepy cloth from, you guessed it, the dollar store, that I hung over my nantle and entertainment center to make my condo extra spooky.