It's going to be a big, bad blow-out this Halloween, being our 25th wedding anniversary, too! We have people coming in from out of town for the week-end so we'll have a full house which is fine. The more, the scarier! Since Halloween is on Saturday this year we can have Halloween fun starting Friday night and go right through until Sunday morning.Friday night schedule is a dinner party, a fancy costumed dance and cocktails. Not is that order, but cocktails, dinner and then a party and dance. We are setting up an 18 foot tent in the back yard with a complete sound system and computerized DJ. We want formal style costumes, fancy vampires, Gothy stuff. This one is just for our out of town friends, family and closest local friends.Saturday night we will be all taking turns milling around the yard haunt, handing out candy and spooking the trick-or-treaters. When we finally send the last kid packing, we'll go back out to the tent for the big party for all friends, family and anyone else that drops by with an invite. We'll decorate the tent with gross, gory Halloween stuff and the costumes are whatever people want as long as they are wearing a costume.Sunday morning will be a breakfast party for anyone still at the house. We'll do a big breakfast but on a Halloween theme starting with Bloody Marys, both virgin and non. Now we just have to start pulling all this together!!I'm getting ideas for food, music and more at the following sites:Halloween Music: Halloween Music 101Halloween Food: Halloween Recipes 101Halloween Decorations: Halloween Online Decorations sectionLabels: Gearing Up For This Year's Party 2009
Nothing perks up a Halloween party like lots of glowing Jack-O-Lanterns! They just shout "Halloween!" So, this year for our party, we want to make sure that we carve a bunch of them! Last years shortage and high prices kept the amount we carved down.
Probably the best thing to come around in recent years are the battery powered lights that take the fire hazard out of Jack-O-Lanterns. We still like to put candles in a few pumpkins, the smell is so nostalgic, we have to do it but any Jacks going outside have battery candles in them.
There's usually a new pack of pumpkin carving templates at the stores, too. We always pick up a couple just so we have the newest ones, if they look cool. And places that sell pumpkin carving patterns on line always have new ones for a really low membership fee.
We put together a carving tool kit years ago after seeing one at PumpkinCarving101.com and have added to it over the years. There's an article about putting one together yourself using things like old kitchen knives, ice cream scoops and things like that. I think this year we'll have to get ours out and take a look at it, see if anything needs to be replaced. Labels: This Years Jack-O-Lanterns May 2009
It's never to early to start shopping for Halloween costumes and Costume Kingdom has a great selection and the best customer service we've found. You'll like the wide selection of costumes that suite any need and all the accessories that go with them! Last year we got my mom three Nun costumes and her and two friends went as singing Nuns! It was a hoot! These ladies are all in their 60's & 70's! They also used them for a talent show at their Methodist church that got a standing ovation!
They have this great gorilla costsume, the head on that thing hangs down to the waist and looks like a screaming, mad gorilla! We got that for my 17 year old nephew and he had a riot with it, scaring the girls at the Halloween parties he went to with his friends. He'll have that costume the rest of his life, it's that well made! I can picture him grown with kids of his own, chasing them around in it.
We got a beautiful set of Devil and his Lady costumes from them last year for us. They were just beautiful! The Lady Devil was all satin and lace and deep red and black, I got a long red hair devil wig that had horns attached to it and that's all I needed. Spooky, he was Satan himself, all dapper in his suite with vest, cape and horns. I did a all makeup on him to give him Jack Nicholson eye brows, he looked positively demonic! We were the hit of the Halloween party!
What ever you want to be this Halloween, what ever you decide your Halloween costume should be, please check this place out, they are the best on the Net! Labels: New Costumes for 2009
Halloween 2008's parties were a smashing success! We are already planning on what to do for this year since Halloween will be on a Saturday. We can have a party Friday night for friends, our usual Halloween Haunt party for trick-or-treaters and maybe something Sunday night as well. When you have a Halloween week-end, why not make the best of it?We got lots of party ideas from Halloween Costume Party and Halloween Online. We found some great ideas for music at Halloween Music and food ideas at Wanda's Halloween Recipes which really helped with all the party planning.
We want to make Halloween 2009 the best Halloween ever and really kick up the Halloween Haunt that we put on every year. Adding some new things to the yard haunt like a big iron grave yard fence, a Pepper's Ghost effect in a crypt and some other goodies that will scare the kids. Ah, tradition! It;s what keeps families together!
It's almost here, the big night!! Unlike a lot of people, we are having our party on Halloween even though it falls on a week night. Next year it will be on Friday so the whole week-end can be party! But for now, we'll deal with this year.
The house is more or less decorated. Still some things to make. A couple of Halloween wreaths will be nice. I found the instructions
here. I also did their idea for a black Halloween tree that I found at Halloween
Online's Decorations section. They had a bunch of new stuff on
their website this year and it really helped give me ideas for the party!
I'll be trying the idea for a lighted punch bowl that they have in the
Recipes section, too. It's going to be a great Halloween party this year!
Labels: party night
It's finally here!! October 1st!! I love this time of year!! Autumn is beautiful, leaves start to change colors, the night air is crisp and cool. Best of all, Halloween is right around the corner!! We've started unboxing our Halloween decorations and are really going to go to town. I could leave this stuff up all year long!
We've been planning our annual Halloween party for months and it's all starting to take shape. This will be THE BEST year ever for our Halloween party!! I was looking around
Halloween Online's party section and found the theme for this years Halloween party. I'm not going to say what it is in case anyone tht's been invited reads this. You'll just have to wait like everyone else!
We are even going to have a pre-Halloween party for our friends that will be helping us out with the party and haunt this year. We're going to host Halloween Film-Fest with a night of scary movies and snacks. It will be on Friday, October 26th. starting at 6:00pm.
I went to
FearfulFilms.com for some movie suggestions and decided to stick with modern classics and will show two of the John Carpenter "Halloween" movies, Halloween 1 and 2. We may stick "Halloween 3: Season of the Witch" in there if the party keeps going. While costumes for the film fest will be optional, we are suggesting dressing up like characters from the Halloween movies. I'm going as Laurie and my hubby is going to be Michael Myers. I think I'll see if I can get a couple of my girlfriends to go as Annie and Linda, after Michael's hacked them up.
