What’s one sure way to scare the dickens out of trick-or-treaters? Animated Halloween decorations. The ones that look innocent at first glance but then catch you by surprise. We’re helping Design Happens fans get ready for October 31st with four giveaways of Halloween decorations from Grandin Road. Last week’s frightful delight…a Haunted Magic Mirror with a ghoul trapped inside. With this week’s giveaway — Velma and Evander Interactive Talking Halloween Busts — we’ve got the perfect pair to welcome and scare guests visiting your haunted lair. They’re sure to be spooked by what happens when stone-faced Velma and Evander come to life and engage in creepy conversation.
You’ve got until 12/11c Monday, October 3rd to leave us a comment. That’s all you have to do for a chance to win.
This week’s question: How would you describe your Halloween decorating style? Campy and vampy? Sheer terror? Kooky and kid-friendly? Classic horror?
Kid friendly, I dont put up anything the kids find scary and anything that can break
hehehe…their creepy and their kooky
glowing eyed and spooky
they'll scare you away from the cookies
Velma and Evander will!
Kooky and kid friendly. The kids love to help and I always include a few Halloween crafts they made at school.
I guess I'd say my Halloween decorating style is…semi-kooky and kid-friendly.
Along the lines of Rob Zombie's horror movies….. Odd and Frightening! Kind of like a train wreck, you can't help but stare.
Has to be a combo of: Campy, Vampy, Kooky and Kid Friendly! Whatever rocks my 7 year old grand daughter's world!
I WOULD SAY VERSITILE IT HAS TO ABLE TO STAY UP FOR HALLOWEEN AND THANKSGIVING AS I DONT GET AROUND TO TAKING IT DOWN UNTIL THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS COME OUT
I've always been a big fan of Halloween (my birthday is the day after), so I love to decorate for it. Some of my decorations even stay up all year. My style is sort of traditional-spooky….skulls, candles, spiders, ghosts, etc.
creepy and scary
My Halloween style is a cross between Halloween at Disney world – ie Pirates of the Caribbean to the kooky – pumpkins of all nations. Really depends on the mood – this year might be True Blood meets the suburbs!
My Halloween style is mostly kid-friendly spooky. Nothing gory or truly nightmare inducing. I get over 300 trick or Treaters and I like to pit on a good show that doesn't scare the little kids. I go a little spookier inside where it is more private, and I love thaw busts. When we were going through the Grandin road catalog, both my son and I made thermite nbee one pick if budget allowed. So now I'll keep my fingers crossed for the Friday Freebie!
My halloween decorating style is pretty nostalgic . . . traditional spooky I suppose, classic touches that spark conversation. Love Freebie Friday! Thanks for the opportunity to win
I was pleasantly surprised at the prices of the GrandinRoad halloween items, especially the ones from Martha 
In our neighborhood, we have a mob of trick o' treaters on Halloween, so we do our best to make the experience a fun one. I would love to be the winner of these talking heads. Thanks for the opportunity!!!!
This couple would fit right in with my family…I see the resemblance!!
These two are so AWESOME! we decorate campy and kooky, but mostly kid friendly
Definitely kooky & kid-friendly. But we're also going for a pumpkin chic look this year with a lot of cream on orange and black with glitter and rhinestone accents. It looks much cooler than it sounds-promise.
G-rated
some great candy bowls…a nice selection of carved pumpkins…and some fake spider webs.
Two words: LOVE THEM
How would you describe your Halloween decorating style? Campy and vampy? Sheer terror? Kooky and kid-friendly? Classic horror?
Campy & vampy. It's not just a kid's holiday anymore
. Have you ever been to Jerome, Arizona? Now that's how Halloween ought to be done!! Those things are fabulous!
Bone chilling! At least… that's what I'm starting to go for as I pick decorations. I've never decorated before!
Definitely kooky and kid-friendly…like Disney's ride, "The Haunted Mansion"
I don't have much Halloween style but we do carve a pumpkin and hang our noise activated ghost on the door. Does that count?
LOVE Classic Horror!! Only the kids don't so if I want to have trick or treaters I am kooky and kid-friendly.
These would be perfect for my annual Halloween party! My style is more classic horror with lots of fake blood!
What a fun couple to greet trick or treaters in our new home! They would be a perfect pair …a real thriller to terrorize the neighborhood!
They always say "two heads are better than one!" Especially for the scare factor at Halloween! Love this creepy couple…..
As close to a haunted house or horror movie as I can get. My goal is to one day run my own haunted house again. I even have real animal skulls and hides.
The giveaways are getting freakier and freakier. Unique. Mixture of East and West.
My style is all over the place. Trying this year to make it more realistic and scary
My Halloween style is an eclectic mix of vampy, thrilling, some fright for kids and adults, classic, and fun. I like to make my own window scene shilouttes, hang spiders and skeletons off the side of the house, create a cemetary with strobe lights, music, and fog, and have friends dress as zombies and walk around the yard. I love to take thrift store and dollar store finds, fix up old items and repurpose them. The fun in Halloween is adding new decorations each year to enhance what we already have.
Semi-spooky. It has to be sort of scary, it is Halloween after all!
Our style is haunted sophistication. We only buy a few pieces each year for Halloween…but we buy nice sophisticated pieces from Grandin Road, etc.
I'll get right to the point…It is all about the CANDY!!!!
We understand what kids want.
The awesome scary couple would be a great addition to the CANDY!!!
People who decorate over the top for Halloween obviously have expendable income. Not a fan of the term 'holiday' for Halloween. I'll try and reserve that word for true family times of meaningful celebration. No, I'm not down on people who feel the need to participate – but I will not observe the day for many reasons. Next topic please.
When we lived in Colorado, where winter comes early and by Halloween all the trees are bare and things look rather bleak, I used to go for classic horror. Our house sat up the hill from a remote road and we never got trick-or-treaters, so I always had a creepy display that could be seen from the road — our deck umbrella became a scary ghoul, and the hillside in front of the house became a fake cemetery. Now that we live in Georgia where fall colors are still at their peak during Halloween, I go for a more rustic harvest look. Lots of jack o' lanterns and colorful leaves and black cats, with the occasional skeleton thrown in for a hint of spookiness (we are still too remote for trick-or-treaters, though!).
Awesome , reminds me of the Haunted House ride in Disney!
I LOVE these! They would be great for trick or treaters and for our entryway for our halloween party! I love them! Our style is definitely campy and vampy in some areas, and sheer terror in others. ya gotta get through the terror to get to the campy and vampy!
Our style is mostly kid-friendly with a few eerie "surprises" openly hidden, perhaps beside an end table or under a chair. Fun, FUn, FUN!
pry lil kooky but for sure kid friendly…and fun, but scaarrry
Kid Friendly
My halloween decorating style is absent but I'm willing!
My Halloween style is a pumpkin patch growing up our walkway. Then buying lots of pumpkins to fill in what did not grow and giving the pumpkins away to the kids. So what do you call this style? Fun if you are a kid.
Classic Horror with vintage elements and some cute hand towels. My son is as into Halloween as I am an my eight year old would love these.
I decorate the outdoors kid friendly with a few eerie details. These two would be perfect on the entry hall table where we keep the candy. I have a "book" from Hallmark that holds the candy and talks when you open it. The kids love It!
creepy cute!
More kid friendly. All my grandchildren are younger and wouldn't step foot around my place if it was too scary. Wait until they're teenagers. Then we'll really have fun!
Velma and Evander are so cool! They would great for my spooky decorating style!
I have a little bit of everything! Halloween is the most fun holiday to decorate for.
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Dollar Store Spook- Chic is our current budget. Those red-eyed folks would really upgrade us!
Our style is scary…. love,love Grandin Road! Especially their Halloween decoration!!! 4 days ago we bought their spooky Grim Reaper pumpkin carriage and horse . Love the sound effects. 5 minutes ago bought the life size Endora the Witch with Misting Fog culdron!!! Can't wait to see it. If I could I would buy everything they have for Halloween. Can only get 1 or 2 a year. Would love to have Velma and Evander for the burst of scare these heads would make to guests. Endora would love the company of Velma and Evader!!!!!