My Halloween Hutch

A while back, a couple of my favorite gals Jilly and Mia came to visit me and to spend a day thrifting and DIYing.  We ended up at one of the gems of the west valley, Good Buys.

Good Buys is a second-hand furniture store run by possibly the meanest woman on the planet.  We were there for maybe 30 minutes and she yelled at us for what felt like the entire time and almost made me cry twice.  We actually had to hurry out of there before Mia started throwing punches.  She’s just horrid.  But, she has good deals!

I picked up this little beauty for a mere $125, which I thought was pretty darn good for a super solid hutch of this size.  I really loved the details on the doors too.

Haha, look at my dog!

Anyway, we got it home and somehow got it upstairs, just the three of us.  I have no recollection of how this happened. It’s so heavy. Anyway, we painted it with one of my favorite whites, Swiss Coffee, and I love how it turned out!  Thanks Jilly and Mia!

Right now I have it all decked out for Halloween, so I thought I’d give you a little tour of the inside.  C’mon in …

I wanted to do a little apothecary, so I rounded up some old bottles and such from Goodwill and spookified them.

This one gets a lot of comments, I just jammed some plastic skulls in there and topped them off with tea.  Spooky!

I printed out a few Halloween labels from Design. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. for the rest of my remaining jars, and filled them up with whatever creepy things I had on hand.

These are some of my favorite projects, my DIY altered books. So fun to make!

 Everybody just LOVES this glittered pumpkin the very most of all, and always asks me how I made it.  Yeah … I bought it for $6 at Ross.

Found this little witch statue at my sister-in-law Kalli’s most recent vintage sale, and she’s doing another one this weekend!  It’s her last one of the year, so be sure to check it out if you are in the Phoenix area, it’s AMAZING.  More info here.

My friend Kelley, aka Queen-of-Halloween, makes these amazing bottles.  She made casts of different doll-heads, then filled them with resin and glitter and gifted a couple of them to me.  She sure knows the way to my cold, dead heart.

Hope you enjoyed the little tour of my Halloween hutch and that you have a super spooktastic Halloween!