Witches Dinner in The Hollow

It's that time of year when the ladies come out to 

join us in celebrating Halloween!  They have been

joining me in celebrating since my first year of 

blogging in 2010!

Click here to see their first blogging appearance,

even though they had been hanging around our

house for ages before that.

But the more witches, the merrier, as our group 

of Crafty Witches joined us for dinner, set up in the woods.

Wander down the land into the deep of the woods 

to find where we are gathering tonight.

We have owned this piece of property for over 30 years 

now, and we lived here for almost 3 years, with the 

intention of coming back within 5 years and building, 

but the kids were at that age that we didn't want to move 

them again during junior high and beyond, so family 

has lived here, including Joni from Red Couch Recipes.

My oldest daughter decided to move out into the old 

house and build a new house on the property 3 years 

ago.  After she started building I found a journal I had 

written when we lived there and she was 9.  At that 

time she said that when she got married she would 

move here and live with her husband.  That was so 

fun to find since we hadn't remembered that.  Now hubby 

wants to develop a few more lots and build there too.

(Can you imagine moving just my tablescape items!!!???)

It consists of 5 acres with the lower part having 

been called The Hollow, since before we owned 

the property.  This part is heavily wooded and 

has quite a few deer and a rogue white rooster.

I have wanted to have my witchy friends here for three

seasons, but the weather is always a little iffy.  This 

year it rained early in the day but was dry and 

warm for our party.

My son build a custom table just for eating in 

The Hollow, using a gray-wash marine finish so it can withstand 

the weather.  It is 12 feet long. I covered it with a 

open cut spider web fabric that I had purchased 

a few years ago.  It was a perfect fit.  

Purple jeweled chargers from ZGallerie begin the plate 

stack followed by fun scalloped plates from Home Goods.

I used my black flatware from Horchow.

These playful goblets were a new purchase from Dollar Tree 

this year and they came in orange, purple and black.

The napkins sat on a purple glass plate with their name tag 

and a witch shoe ornament, but there was also a 

special party favor!

I gave everyone these fabulous garden gloves with 

claws!  They just looked so witchy, but they work great.

This black chandelier was my favorite part of the 

whole event.

I missed the fact that it wasn't wire as a plug in, but 

hubby helped me set everything up and he quickly 

added a plug.  We have a Humless chargeable battery 

that we plugged it into after hanging it in the tree.

It just made everything magical.

The table was filled with lots of fun items 

(yes we had to drag them all from our house!)

I used battery operated candles and real candles.

These new serving dishes from Home Goods this year 

were my husband's favorites.  

Silk flowers in black and purple with eyes filled my 

adorable MacKenzie-Childs pumpkin cart.

These came from Dollar Tree also.

And they adorned the backs of my chairs, which were 

my white chiavari chairs covered in black stretch covers. 

The chairs also had a little bit of gauze and gray netting 

to bring up the drama. 

The ladies oversaw the serving table.

I have this wonderful Witches and Warlocks urn 

that I got from Home Goods a few years ago, but I 

wasn't certain it was food safe, so I placed a bowl inside 

to make my witches brew.

We also had a bonfire going to add to the mood. 

We witches gathered for a photo, but we were 

missing one.

We could excuse her being late as she was bringing 

this glorious, scary cake.

One of our hubbies calls us the "overachievers" and we 

certainly followed through with that when we all ended 

up with three favors to take home with us.  

Dinner was chili in a bread bowl with fresh garden veggies and 

a fun fruit dip.

As I was flying a group of witches up and out of The Hollow,

our battery gave out, so these three witches had only 

candle light to keep them company until I returned.

Thanks to all my witchy friends who came and made 

this a magical evening.  The biggest thanks goes to 

hubby who helped me pack everything in and out,

and then did it again for a family dinner as the 4 year old 

witch insisted we needed to do this for the family!

I will be posting this with

Tablescapes Thursday