A Halloween Treat

Happy Friday! I love Fridays! I usually have a long list of projects and social events that I have planned for my weekend, and this weekend is no exception.  I’m busy prepping the house for my Halloween Party (see last year‘s and the year before‘s) and I’m very excited about some things in the works for this year! I’m going with a more black and white theme for my table this year and decided to extend that trend with my invitation.  I’ve been loving the chalkboard art that I see on Pinterest and around the blogosphere and decided to get in on the action! I googled around a bit to figure out how to make them and downloaded about 30 fonts (see the bottom of this post I have some listed that I used on these pieces).  I tried to make my own chalkboard background, but ended up finding a better version here for free.  From there I just played around with my newly downloaded fonts until I found something I liked.  And this is what I came up with for the invitation (address and date changed for privacy!)

My mother is excellent at coming up with funny rhyming poems, its just one of her ‘things’, I’m not so great at it, but I was pretty proud of this one! If you can’t read it, it says:

While ghosts and goblins roam the streets

Come feast on some delicious treats

With friends, laughs, and costumes galore

A true Halloween bash we have in store

So don your best duds if you dare

To come and visit MJ’s Lair

The bats are the letter F from font KR Boo Lane– which has some excellent Halloween dingbats (if you aren’t familiar with dingbats, they are little drawings used as a font… kinda like the webdings font that comes standard for Microsoft).

I also have a chalkboard in my kitchen that I usually have a drawing on, and decided this year I would try to create one on the computer that I transfer (haven’t figured out exactly HOW I’m going to do that yet) to my chalkboard. Being the English major that I am, one of my favorite Halloween phrases is a Shakespearean quote: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.  Its also the title of a Ray Bradbury book that I read in high school and still stands out to me as the most definitive source on light/dark imagery.  But enough of an English lesson for today… here’s my poster:

Most of the fonts I used in the above two pictures can be found on this list (links below)

1. Haunted Mouse 2. Admiration Pains 3. Lemonade 4. Kings and Queens 5. Burton’s Nightmare 6. Chalkhand Lettering 7. An Unfortunate Event 8. Angelic War

I download almost all of my fonts from dafont.com or fontsquirrel.com because they are free and safe download sites.  Happy Haunting!