Do you ever have that moment where you didn’t know you were lacking inspiration until the inspiration hits you? Or gets delivered to your door? That’s what happened to me this past week. I am so blessed to have many creative & talented people in my life & one of them is Holli from Hollihocks. She is an artist, a mom, a wife, & a fellow creative who I can relate to so much. We happen to live in the same town & she is also one of the talented people you can find at our shop, The Found Cottage. You have seen many of her pieces in our home, but last week when she was showing one of her recent pieces I KNEW that I wanted to create a halloween look with it in our home…

Her recent drawing is called witch’s feet & it’s so clever! Sometimes you see the same old thing used for halloween decor & art, but leave it to Holli to put her own creative spin on it. So, she came to the farmhouse and dropped off her recent drawing of the Sanderson sister’s feet from Hocus Pocus at our house & just like that I had the inspiration that I didn’t even know that I needed for my next halloween look.

I created a halloween look all around the drawing that Holli did & here was the inspiration behind the look: I wanted to create a cozy reading corner that I wrote about so much in my book [HERE], but in the perspective from a witch. I asked myself what a witch’s reading corner would look like & this is what I came up with…

For the cozy witch’s corner I imagine what a witch would have in her reading corner. I came up with brooms, breakers for all those spells, books of even things, family portraits of fellow witches, candles, & of course her pointy shiny shoes among her cozy things like we all love. I think they key to halloween looks is layering… For halloween I think that layer of different items can add to that aged spooky factor. A few added elements to give it more of that authentic spooky look. In the beakers I put colored bubble bath, I made sure the candles were burned down to give them that used look, & of course I added movement to the space with large bats [here] & small bats [here]

All in all I think this cozy witch’s corner is a fun halloween look that can be done anywhere, but I chose to recreate it in the corner of our dining room where this slipcovered chair is. You can get your own witch’s feet print [HERE] from Holli’s shop. I hope this post inspires you to create a witch’s reading corner in your home for halloween. You can see my other halloween looks [HERE] along with fall looks if you are feeling like you need some more inspiration.