The itsy bitsy spider…
…went up the chandelier.
Here's a ghoulish setting spun from a mix of black and white wares sure to inspire any Halloween fête. With glittered spiders from Pottery Barn and a weblike linen from Quadrille, I conjured a table crawling with beastly bugs and spooky spirits.
Apple green shocktails in Venetian glass flutes do a dastardly dance around a sawtooth compote with faux black flowers. Hotel silver chargers and black amethyst glass plates are the perfect perch for a trio of owls. These plates I've collected one by one, from junk shops and antique stores, for years.
The forks are a mix of English hotel silver and American silver plate, while the antique linen napkins display a sinister script reminiscent of R.I.P.
Pray tell, what are you brewing up this Halloween?
Oh my the spider frenzy is spreading here too! My porch is being taken over as well!
I love the table cloth and the green in the glasses is spooktacular!
Thanks,
E & J…..
L.
What a great arrangement! Those little owl plates are adorable! As for Halloween, I am not brewing up much – just a nice little arrangement at my front door.
I brewed up Arachnophobia too. Your table is wonderful. I love the green cocktails!
Sherry
http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/2010/10/arachnophobia.html
Just ghastly in the best way! Love the entire thing…now what is on the menu, or who is on the menu?
pve
Now this is a perfect Halloween table, LOVE the unusual color palette! Janell
Oh my! I love what you have done at your Halloween table! I really looks spooktacular! I always enjoy your creativity and find it very inspiring. This is also my favorite time of year! So happy you posted these photo’s and I love your flatware!
~jamilyn
Those owl plates are so fantastic!
Beautiful.
Magical.
Creepy too!
Love the table setting! All of the milk glass is sooo wonderful!
Hugs!
Love the spiders coming down to the table. Is there anything you can’t create? 🙂
Oh, Eddie your so fine, your so fine you blow my mind…GO EDDIE, GO EDDIE!!!
This tablescape is up my alley, love it!!!The owl plates are simply amazing!
Cindy-
How did you get all those spiders out of my basement? Seriously cute and spooky!
spooktacular job! xoxo
You even make a Halloween dinner party look fabulous…such a great talent!!
I’m brewing whatever cocktail that is- despite its nasty green color I still want to have a few (or more) of those 🙂
Delightful!
So creepy crawly and BEAUTIFUL at the same time! I bet that was fun to create.
–Gretchen O.
Fun and spooky table! I particularly like the creepy green liquid in the flutes, a nice contrast to the black and white. Nice job. Reggie
Your photography is beautiful as always. I love the apple green accent with the monochromatic table setting! Smashing and very chic~
How creepy and fabulous at the same time – where on earth did you find the owl plates? They are perfect!
looks festive!
love the tablecloth and splash of green with your cocktail!
Wow! You did it AGAIN. I love love love this table. There is not one thing about it I don’t think is fantastic. I’ve never seen those owl plates before-so unique!
Enjoy your weekend. I hope you are actually going to dine at this table.
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I smiled the entire way through this post! Brilliant tabletop that looks nothing trendy or costume-ish. Just stylish.
Well done! I love it.
I have this thing about spiders..THEY FREAK ME OUT! So I was a little apprehensive about opening your post this morning but as usual it’s wonderful, love your holiday table in black and white.
TOTALLY freaked out by this post!….
That first image has me looking over my shoulder, eeewwww!
GREAT TABLE!!! Looks awesome, only I am probably too chicken to have a seat 😉
Northern Light
shocktails
owl plates
webs encircling the guests
black flowers
only you could pull off this look eddie; subtly ghoulish AND elegant
xo
debra
WOW! I love the creepy chandelier. Now I wish I was having a Halloween party so I could replicate your table. Gorgeous, as always.
‘Welcome to me parlor said the spider to the fly’ And I’d come right in!
xo Cathy
Eddie,this is fantastic, you can even make Halloween look elegant!! Love the shocktails and the owl plates take it over the top, the table cloth that looks like a tree knot print is all perfection, as always every little detail is covered!! Love it,and Love YOU!! Kathysue
Eddie — this is beautiful (oh I mean terrifying!) I love the shocktails with all of the shades of black and white. What a treat it would be to sit at that table to share a few tricks!
We have been busy decorating the market, come for a visit to our graveyard (if you dare). Today we posted an incredible dish for the weekend..Braised Bones of the Beast…perfect for a feast or splendid sliders.
Love the look, the embroidered napkins, the spiders not so much!! 🙂
Xoxo
Karena
Art by Karena
Nothing as cool as this. Love the tablescape!
That is so dang cute AND festive! I’m brewing some home-made garlic breadsticks for dipping in chili! YUM!
xoxo
Lila Ferraro
Love the chandelier! I want to try a mummy wrap on mine next year… We go all sorts of crazy over Halloween. I have my decor up at the moment, and I’m about to post about my party decor this afternoon. http://modern-country.blogspot.com/2010/10/haunted-halloween-tour-2010.html
Thanks for all the inspiration! Jaime
LOVE this! too bad my boyfriend is terrified of spiders, otherwise i would be doing this to our house tonight!
I love the punch of green added to all of the lovely black and white Halloween decor! My mother had a plate with 3 kittens on it instead of your 3 owl plates.
Enjoy your week.
Kat 🙂
This looks so spooky! I love it! I’m trying to come up with a Zombie theme tabletop that is NOT cheesy for the premiere Halloween night of the Walking Dead on AMC! We’re having Zombie cocktails and frenched tip lamb…but I need to decorate the table in the same theme. Ideas Eddie?
I adore your creepy chandy! Such a fun and whimsical table to sit at for Halloween. One of these days I’ll get with the program and put together a Halloween Fest.
hugs ~lynne~
I don’t think I could conjure up anything as wickedly cool as this! Whoooo but you could find those owl plates and coin the phrase “shocktail”?!
Hapy Halloween you two!!
xoxo E
What a fabulous spooky table – I LOVE it!!
what a delicious looking table. Love it!!+great pictures. xx peggybraswelldesign.com
I’d kill for those owl plates!! (and an invite to the party!!)
omg, i want the owl plate! i have not seen those before…you are so good…that green shocktail is sheer perfection against the sublte black and whites and of course the chandelier is so ghastly and scary! i hope a spider doesn’t accidently plop into someone’s drink! lol! i must live vicariously through your halloween decor…will be in a horse show at the park in lex, ky. happy halloween! you guys are awesome! 😉 jill
So sexily spooky! I love it!
I love this!!!! The chandelier is terrific! I love the table cloth and the owl dishes, how perfect. I love Halloween!!
wow eddie the owl milk glass plates are so unique! did you really collect a set of these over years? how fantastic!
love the green pops over the monochrome pallette, so totally pulled off! i suppose red shocktails would have worked too! 🙂
beautiful table, as always.
Love those owl plates! They do make a statement and that tablecloth makes Halloween modern! Wish I was that itsy spider watching all at the table. Enjoy!
Spooooooktacular!
Sinister as only
you two can do it ~
Loved every detail
and my {witch’s}
hat is off to those
shocktails {ya-ha-ha}!!
Happy Halloween,
xx Suzanne
Has anyone ever told you you’re fabulous????
Well of course they have, just kidding around.
GREAT table! We always join our old neighborhood for our traditional Halloween get-together so I never get to decorate a table…oh well, I’m bringing an awesome salad!
Cheers and BOO!
This is so great…”shocktails”…love it, your tale weaving writing is priceless! What fun you must have had putting this one together…I hope you didn’t scare yourself too much! 😉
xo J~
Be-witching, as always! Eddie you have such vision! Whoooo else could scour flea markets for such goodies? You always give us such treats!!!
~Nancy
Forget Halloween! I would for sure use the after Halloween. I love the owl plates
fabulous…that’s sure to be an eventful halloween celebration!! thanks for sharing. xo. julie
can halloween be elegant? yes! it´s great. kisses
love the plates!
I love the owl plate! I have a big collection of white milk glass but haven’t seen anything with an owl. I have a chicken dish but no owls. 🙂 The zebra table cloth is also awesome.
I’ve photographed my black and white Halloween using my milk glass at http://www.luckystarlane.com.
Have a great day! You Rock!
Erin
Love the spider and chandelier, love the dishes and owls, the green potion punch, and loVe lOve LovE-the monogrammed napkins!!!♥
Amazing, I love the spiders!
I absolutely love those owl plates! I have never seen anything like them before!
I’m just swooning over those owl plates!! We did a zebra Halloween table too, and my black cat collection on our mantel with some fun, almost-free crafts. I’m also still remembering your Halloween special from last year, it was the best ever! Thanks as always for the wonderful inspiration.
Cheers, Andrea
ooo perfectly creepy, yet always elegant. well done.
Oh God… The milkglass goblets are to die for… So pretty.
I love it all!! Have a Happy Halloween 🙂
Echoing others love for the owl plates- they’re ridiculous! Milk glass and owls coming together in one glorious mix of beauty- j’adore them like crazy! The whole table is gorgeously goulish.
PS- Thanks so much for stopping by my blog:)xx
Amazing work. And the owl plates are fantastic!
Eddie,
What a fab table! My daughter and I think this is amazing! I may have to have a Halloween dinner tomorrow, just to copy that green drink and spider web in the chandelier!
CC
http://currentlychic.com
No Halloween for us, now that we are back in Switzerland 🙁
I didn’t think I’d miss it this much. I think I might have a small Halloween dinner next year 😉
The Table (and spired-infested chandelier, mwahahaha!) is absolutely stunning, in a scary, goulish, awesome way reminiscent of the Addams family (which I ADORE, so it’s a compliment.) Anyone dressing up as a more fabulous, perhaps Armani-clad version of Lurch? 😉
Why there are more and more people buying our wrought iron entrance doors in such a bad housing market? Because we never lose the love for the beautiful life.
Who makes those owl plates? I’m just catching up on all my Eddie reading after being gone. Are they white on Black or do you have them on black plates. Love the table.
You’ve done it again….really fantastic, and not a bit of orange!!! Brilliant!!!
Oh how I love the amazingly unique owl plates! Great table setting!
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