Dollar Store Halloween Decor: Tablescape

I don't usually decorate for Halloween because I don't like cheap plastic decorations and I don't like blood, guts, and gore, but on a recent day out doing errands, I found some items that I thought would make a good Halloween vignette.  Several pins on Pinterest inspired this idea to decorate for Halloween with a spooky tablescape of creepy crawlies, spiders, skeletons and other eerie items using glass containers.  I decided to fill glass containers, vases and bell jars with macabre objects to display.  This tablescape reminds me of a sorcerer's workshop full of odd and mysterious items and shelves full of strangely shaped bottles and containers.

On one of my errands, I made a trip to Goodwill to donate some items.  I can never seem to donate to Goodwill without going in for a peek and coming out with something new.  This time I found a bell jar for five dollars.  I love bell jars and the price was right so I snatched it up right away.  Seeing that bell jar reminded me of something I'd seen on Pinterest which used jars for a Halloween tablescape.  My imagination was fired up, so my next stop was the dollar store.  Yes, I know I just said that I didn't like cheap plastic decorations, but I had a plan and I thought I could make those cheap plastic decorations look good.

Here's my $5.00 bell jar and the rest of my haul
from Goodwill and the dollar store.

I also used a twig from the back yard and painted it black.

I was able to use some things I already had.  The bell jar with the spiders I borrowed from this project.  I made a quick label for the small jar and labeled it "poison" just to make it extra spooky. 

I also added some moss to the bottom of the vases
so the items had something to rest on.

Not bad for thrift store and dollar store finds
and they're decorations I can live with!

Inspired by multiples pins here, here, and here.