| Halloween is more than kids and candy. It has, in the | | | | for a jack-o-lantern with one or more candles inside it. |
| past few years, become one of the major events | | | | Either set the jack-o-lantern on your fireplace grate |
| for which Americans decorate their homes! So here | | | | or on the floor of the fireplace. Your fireplace is the |
| are four quick, easy, and simple Halloween decorating | | | | visual focal point of a room, so featuring one or |
| ideas featuring your fireplace hearth:o Convert a | | | | more lit jack-o-lanterns there can be either the total |
| cluster of small, three to six inch pumpkins into candle | | | | extent of your Halloween decorating or a striking |
| holders for your fireplace mantle or hearth. With a | | | | main decoration.o If your fireplace is currently just an |
| knife, cut off each pumpkin's stem. Then, with an | | | | empty black hole, fireplace candelabra can keep it |
| apple corer, remove a cylindrical core from the | | | | from suffering from the Black Hole Syndrome. For |
| pumpkins. Stick a candle into each pumpkin. Use black | | | | Halloween add orange and black candles, or candles in |
| and orange candles in your mini-pumpkin candle | | | | the shape of little pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns, or |
| holders for a Halloween look or candles in yellows, | | | | even candles shaped like candy corn! After |
| burnt orange and mellow browns for an autumnal | | | | Halloween, just change the candles and get a new |
| display.o If you are using your fireplace for gas, | | | | look. Whenever you want the welcoming glow of |
| wood, or gel fires, Halloween appropriate andirons are | | | | firelight in your hearth without the hassle of logs, just |
| both fun and functional. Black cat andirons not only | | | | light the candles in your fireplace candelabra. Fireplace |
| hold your logs but also hold the attention of those by | | | | candelabra are available not only in traditional black |
| your fire! Each andiron features a cast iron black cat | | | | cast iron, but also in copper and silver tones. Some |
| with glass eyes. With a fire going in your fireplace, | | | | fireplace candelabra are designed to hold votive |
| the flicker of the fire through those black cat | | | | candles or tea lights if you prefer those. |
| andiron's glass eyes gives a spooky but charming | | | | Use one or more of these decorating Tricks to light |
| effect!o If you are not using your fireplace for fires, | | | | up your fireplace for Halloween, and you will be |
| it is a great place for your jack-o-lantern. Since your | | | | delighted by the visual Treat in your hearth. |
| fireplace is designed for fire, it is a super safe place | | | | |