All Dressed up!

Goth Courtney
Punk Princess Katie

These are from Halloween 2007. Finding the perfect costume is a BIG deal here. The girls did a pretty good job of it!

More ghoulish pictures

Finishing touches for tonight!

More grave yard and more skeletons you can never have to many!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2007!

READY TO GET YOUR GHOULS ON?





Don't you just love the cool things you can do with candy? Gumy eyeballs!
skeleton legs & arms suckers. FANGtastic!



Party today and trick or Treat! I'll be a cupcake baking fool! These were from the parties this weekend.

Happy Halloween!

Party Time!

Ahoy! Matey, here we are! Captain Morgan and his pirate wench! This year's theme was pirate and spider... Are guests were AWESOME such great costumes!










We had a great time! Hope you enjoy the pictures! Can't tell you all that went on because our parties are like Vegas...

Gastly party food!

menu

brain (shrimp)
pureed purified brain (bean dip)
monster eyes (deviled eyes)
gut skewers with spider web dip (fruit and yogurt dip)
Snake sticks (bread)
grave and spider cakes (cup cakes)
Monster sludge (mud slides)
Vampire rum punch
Carmel apples with bugs

Haunt the Inside of Your House! BOO!

I've got a spider problem in my breakfast nook! They ate the last exterminator!



The Buffet

Gargoyle

Some VILE, EVIL person stole the gargoyle from my Halloween display. I hope it comes alive and eats them! Of course he was one of my favorite pieces... aren't they always? I got it at Target two years ago so replacing it is going to be a pain. It was relatively expensive too about $25. I don't pay much for Halloween decorations. If you see a good one some where on line leave me a message!

Any way my youngest daughter decided she'd take it's place and be my living gargoyle. isn't she ....twisted? ROFL! yup, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

HAPPY HAUNTING

CREEP OUT THE NEIGHBORS!

THE HAUNTED GRAVE YARD IN MY FRONT BEDS

Scrapbook Halloween!

Don't forget to take pictures to rememeber the fun!!! There are many fine lines to accent your memories! have fun with it!

Fun with Spider Web!

Decorating the house for the party! Since this is going to take some major time I've already started. Soon I'll have the Creepiest house in the subdivision!

Haunted Foyer

I spent quite a while yesterday decorating the 'foyer'. So when people come in they'll get a good taste of the pirate theme and scary. It is cross between pirates of the Caribbean , and the giant spider lair from Harry Potter. So far I really like what I've done. It needs much more work. I'm going to go crazy with the 'spider webs'.

Hauling the coffin down from the attic is the next challenge. Jim made me this coffin (isn't my hubby a sweetie?) Yes some women want jewelry, I go for the Halloween props! anyway... The dining room is going to be turned into a Haunted Crypt/ buffet. I found the perfect 'bowl' at Ross's. gotta go back and get it! Why I didn't pick it up when I saw it.... Groan! I hate when I do that!

I figured I might as well get the decorations up and enjoy them for while maybe tweak them up a notch for the parties.

Happy Haunting!

Haunted Crypts

Working on some new ideas for improving the haunted crypt. 2005 and 2006 are posted below. Any suggestions would be welcome! I'd love it to be truly frightening! I'm hoping I get my corpse done in time!

Scenes from 2005 Haunted Garage the tips to make it BETTER!

The harstest thing I've found is making a realistic dummy. The hands especially have given me fits. I now have a pretty easy method for making the hands seem more real and they can hold things if they aren't too heavy. I make a "skeleton" hand out of heavy gadge craft wire or coat hangers, roll the new paper or plastic bags aound the fingers then place the glove or tape over them for the finished dummy hand. The wire makes it so you can bend the hand to hold things. This is a time consuming little project so not for every dummy. But if I'd used the method in 2005 my ghoul chewing on a leg would have been more scary. I use the same trick for legs and arms with coat hangers. Coat hangers also make good shoulders. It is easier to make a more realistic form if you have "bones" you just cover.

Another trick I've found is using 2-liter plastic pop bottles for necks on dummies. the stiffness keeps the head up. I just cut the top off to the length I need.

I've found the making a oval ball of newspaper covered with a plastic bag taped makes a great head to put a mask on, better than a balloon because it doesn't lose air and slowly shrink.

sCROLL DOWN TO SEE GHOUL PICTURE AT THE BOTTOM. this picture was take after the party and he is a bit worse for wear...

Setting a scene

Making a Mad Scientist Lab is pretty easy to do just save some large jars! We just floated plastic body parts in colored water. Dragged out the old quack machines, you can find them at fea markets for about $150. It makes a nice gory scene!

ENJOY!

Decorating for the Bar

I've found having something tall at the back helps it sets the scene and you can see it through the munchies and bottles. I've used fake pumpkins and faux grave stones for height.

Using some Halloween themed serving items makes it FUN too. Last year I found the Blooding skull punch set at Wal-mart for $25. Talking skull tray is a BIG hit. I've bought after Halloween all the glasses At Walgreens for about .50 cents, before Halloween they were $1.99. I've slowly collected more every year. The after season sales are a real deal! The next year you'll have a KILLER table!

Great site for a Halloweem dinner party

I make projects http://bravo.imakeprojects.com/projects/halloween-supper/

This is one sick puppy! I LOVE IT! what he's found and done is just AWESOME! Or should I say gruesome? Any way check it out! I want to go to this dinner party!

Halloween for the last 4 years

See pictures at the link AT THE END OF THE PAGE

HALLOWEEN SCRAPBOOK PAGES.

DOCUMENTS DECORATION
FOOD DIPLAYS
COSTUMES
IN GENERAL A REALLY GOOD TIME!

Blood Punch Recipe for all you Vampires

Bloody Punch with Floating Hand
by Stella Zedman

Ingredients

3 cups (500 mL) cranberry juice
1-1/2 cups (250 mL) apple juice
1-1/2 cups (250 mL) grape juice
2 cups (500 mL) caffeine-free cola
1 cup (250 mL) frozen strawberries
Cooking Instructions
In a large pitcher or punch bowl, combine the cranberry juice, apple juice and grape juice. Stir, then refrigerate until you're ready to serve. At the last possible moment, add the cola, the strawberries and, of course, the Floating Hand of Death (directions below).
Floating Hand

In a measuring cup or jar, stir a few drops of green food coloring into some water — not too much, just enough to give it a slightly decomposed tint. Pour the greenish water into a disposable rubber glove (the stretchy kind — make sure it's not powder-coated inside) and tie the top securely. Place in the freezer for several hours or overnight. At serving time, peel the glove off the hand and deposit icy hand in chilled punch. Yum.
Servings: Makes about 10 servings.
How kids can help

Stir together the punch ingredients.
Un-glove the Hand of Death and add to the punch.

LITANY FOR HALLOWEEN

From ghoulies and ghosties,
Long-leggety beasties,
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us.-James Whitcomb Riley

Creepy Door decorations

Building a Skull Wreath is today project.

What you need:

4 small skulls
bones of choice
moss
hot glue gun
1 small floral wreath

1. Cut notches in wreath for the skulls.
2. Glue in skulls with hot glue.
3. Cut chunks of moss into manageable size pieces for gluing.
4. Hot glue small sections on wreath and place moss on it.
Do this until wreath is covered.
5. Add your other bones with hot glue.

SEE FINISHED WREATH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE....IF YOU DARE...

Welcome to my nightmare!

This site is all about Halloween! I'll get into decorations, haunted houses, food, parties, costumes, maybe a corpse or two....