Halloween!
I love/go crazy on ALL holidays, but I think Halloween has gotta be the best! 
Decorations, games, kid's EPIC imaginations, adult dress-up, the right to try to scare anyone, no gifts to buy, no boring, routine, holiday meal plan...every food group is candied, and kid-friendly.
I even like pumpkin guts. :h:
Here is Phase 1 of our Halloween Activities: Early decorations..these are the cheap ones that will last from now until then. More to come!
Phase 2: Gift boxes and bags for the special kids (friends) that come Trick or Treating at our house.
Phase 3: Pumpkin Patch for the little ones, then this Haunted Ship, and the Field of Screams for the big kids
Phase 4: FOOD!
and
and
Pumpkin/Walnut Cheesecake
are on the menu this year.
Phase 5: Pumpkin Carving bet: The two adults and two teenage kids are competing for facebook humiliation...I've pretty much got this in the bag.
Phase 6: More Decorations
a) I have an animated, winged reaper type guy that is getting strung up near the door.
b) I have 40 white paper lanterns that are being turned into ghosts and strung up in the yard
c) creepy eyes in the lilac bush behind the cemetery...I have been saving rolls for this for a while, hopefully enough to fill it!
d) Switch porchlight for black light and add tunnel of black light glowing cobwebs
Phase 7: Convince GW to tone down his zombie act, so he doesn't scare the little Trick or Treaters this year.
Phase 8: Make our 500 chocolate bars stretch until at least 7:00pm, then send teenager to store frantically (we give 2/kid)
Phase 9: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!>:D
Decorations, games, kid's EPIC imaginations, adult dress-up, the right to try to scare anyone, no gifts to buy, no boring, routine, holiday meal plan...every food group is candied, and kid-friendly.
I even like pumpkin guts. :h:
Here is Phase 1 of our Halloween Activities: Early decorations..these are the cheap ones that will last from now until then. More to come!
Phase 2: Gift boxes and bags for the special kids (friends) that come Trick or Treating at our house.
Phase 3: Pumpkin Patch for the little ones, then this Haunted Ship, and the Field of Screams for the big kids
Phase 4: FOOD!
and
and
Pumpkin/Walnut Cheesecake
are on the menu this year.
Phase 5: Pumpkin Carving bet: The two adults and two teenage kids are competing for facebook humiliation...I've pretty much got this in the bag.
Phase 6: More Decorations
a) I have an animated, winged reaper type guy that is getting strung up near the door.
b) I have 40 white paper lanterns that are being turned into ghosts and strung up in the yard
c) creepy eyes in the lilac bush behind the cemetery...I have been saving rolls for this for a while, hopefully enough to fill it!
d) Switch porchlight for black light and add tunnel of black light glowing cobwebs
Phase 7: Convince GW to tone down his zombie act, so he doesn't scare the little Trick or Treaters this year.
Phase 8: Make our 500 chocolate bars stretch until at least 7:00pm, then send teenager to store frantically (we give 2/kid)
Phase 9: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!>:D
Comments
I wanna know:
Are you dressing up?
--As what?
For the parents:
--What are your kids going as?
Do you decorate?
--Pics of decorations or GTFO
Post pics of your carved pumpkin
Post activities and/or food brags/beats
I'm pretty sure we posted last years decorations on here somewhere. I'll try and refind them. Wife loves doing the front of the house up.
Our Ravens we cut out of plywood (that was fun, 10 jigsaw blades later).
I'm not sure if this was ever posted on PFC, but here is a Zombie walk I did a few years ago with two forum members: DrTyore and 8ball (I think that was Ty's forum name, right?)
We are the characters from the video game Left4dead
she's been decorating a little bit but nothing crazy. she's pretty good at pumpkin carving and has made some really good ones over the years. if i can find some pics i'll post them.
Did you notice the pain pills and pipe bomb (that actually lit up) on my hips? We also made health packs. Also our "Bill" is a zombie since he dies between one and two. Geeks gotta geek.
For team playing, I really liked L4D better than L4D2.
Pro tip: leave pumpkin on step overnight and carve somewhere cool. It will help with the smell.
Bump for pumpkin pics.
I tried to see if I could find mine--no luck so far. I bought nicer carving tools the week after Halloween last year and I'm pumped to get going, but when I went to buy a practice pumpkin...they wanted $6 EACH from my local grocery store!?!?
Sigh...now I have to wait a week until the pumpkin patch.
Never heard of a pumpkin scraper before. Might have to look into that. Wife's already bought a big pumpkin. A single pumpkin. Don't think I'm included in the pumpkin carving this year. Must have complained too much last year.
You can buy a cheap scraper/carving set at a box store for about $5...unless you plan on doing a really complicated partial carve/relief type pumpkin these are totally sufficient. More than enough to be the best damned pumpkin on your block, and something I bet your artistic wife would seriously enjoy!
these are the only ones i could find. these are from a couple years ago. they are three different michael myers masks from the halloween movies.
btw, i totally want to steal your idea of the creepy eyes in the bushes.
EDIT: um...why upside down? i'll try to fix it.
EDIT 2: fuck it. no idea why it's upside down. doesn't matter how it's saved on my comp so idk.
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Those are amazing!
this year she's in the middle of making two halloween "dolls" for decorations. she's making annabel from "the conjuring" (i haven't actually seen the new annabel movie so i'm not sure if it's the same doll or not). it's so creepy and she's not even done yet.
the other is "sam" from "trick r treat" (i strongly suggest watching this movie for halloween - it's pretty awesome). i put dolls in quotations because sam is practically life size and will require a frame so he can stand and be positioned.
i'm just waiting for this thing to turn it's head and stare at me...
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