Halloween means a lot more this year with bèbè as I am getting to relive every childhood memory I cherish again through him. Of course he won’t remember the several costumes I intend to dress him up with or his first pumpkin patch adventure but I will! And I am acutely aware that my creative input in Halloween moving forward is on countdown as I am sure Parker will have more and more of a say about how we celebrate and what themes we indulge in as he gets bigger.

But alas this never really was my holiday anyway, growing up it was always about my sister’s birthday and so ultimately it all centered around her and those beloved candy apples I don’t mind myself, hence why they earned themselves a seat here at the table for the lady of the month herself who happened to be in town this very evening.

So I managed the smoke and spider webs thanks to a few cotton balls spread thin across my floral arrangements and dry ice pouring out of the most gourdgeous (see what I did there) sage green pumpkin.

Okay so moment of truth here, I did use dry ice and it did spread smoke, however, not the smoke you see here in the pictures as I missed the big point of adding warm water in the plastic container to create the big effect! It was heartbreaking because I was so excited to finally try this dry ice trick especially after finding such a gem of a pumpkin in the perfect shade of sage green with all it’s bumps and other wicked imperfections! So full disclosure, the smoke appeared but not as smokey as I edited it to in these photos you see!

But back to the tablescape.

I managed to swap out orange for a lovely shade of green and brighten the space with colorful florals and candy. As always place cards are as important to Sutton Sracke as a candlelit table is to moi so I used miniature skeletons to hold little scraps of paper adorning each guests name.

It was one of the simplest tables I’ve created in a long time but yielded the most beautiful setting to enjoy with family.

And the pastel ghosts too.

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