Fun and Spooky Weekend

I can't believe that Halloween has come and gone already! It was a whirlwind weekend full of lots of fun (and naps!) and already I'm missing the red hair I rocked from Friday to Sunday.

I really wanted to be a villian this year, so I decided to go as Poison Ivy from the Batman Comics. I made a green dress and then pinned and sewed HUNDREDS of little fake ivy leaves all over it. It took a few evenings of movie watching to do it, but I loved it when it was done. Really comfy to wear too! My friend Julia went to the party as Puck Bunny in a Maple Leafs jersey. Too cute!

There were lots of great costumes, like these guys who went as Terry and Dean from Fubar. This may just be something that only Canadians get, but there were a big hit.

This cute couple went for gory and looked great!

This costume may have been a highlight of my night. Anyone seen Office Space recently? He even got the mug and made a name tag!

But then I saw this one and it cracked me up too. Gotta love a fellow Scot!

What is better than hanging out with great friends, listening to the Monster Mash and dancing the night away?

The boyfriend decided to go as MacGruber from the SNL skits. We couldn't find a khaki fishing vest, so I took a pair of men's khaki cargos from the thift store and made them into a vest (Thanks for the idea, Mom!) And, no, that is not his real hair. It a wig that I cut butchered into a mullet.

Maybe we should have gotten Whiskey a wig too ;)

But he seemed happy just wearing his little bat costume.

Of course we had to get him in a picture with this Mistress of the Night!

Everyone wanted to cuddle and hold Whiskey. He even started to fall asleep in people's arms. So cuddly.

Some of my friends' neighbours stopped by in matching outfits. They really could be sisters!

Our hostess had out lots of great food, including this cake made to look like a cat litter pan (complete with tootsie roll cat poops). Looks disgusting, but it was actually really good. Don't worry, it was a new litter pan, that she washed about a million times and lined with plastic and the kitty scoop was washed too.

We tried to convince some of the guys to try on a little Tinker Bell costume, but oddly there were no takers. I think he looks dashing as a fairy with a mullet, haha.

Of course there was LOTS of dancing.

And many attempts to remember the moves to Michael Jackson's Thriller.

This one's for you! haha

End of the night high five to the hostess with the mostest.

It was a really fun night with all the girls (and guys and pups too!) Why do we have to wait a full year to do Halloween over again?

Thankfully with the way that Halloween was on a weekend, it meant that Saturday night was another party. This time I headed back down to the city for an 80s video dance party. I put a little forethought into my costume and opted out of wearing heels for fear of suffering while dancing all night. I took a pair of old flats that were on their way out the door and covered them in green fabric scraps from the dress and added a few ivy leaves for decoration.

There were tons of great costumes at the video dance party too, including these cuties who went as leftovers! They didn't need coats all night with those emergency blankets wrapped around them. They practically radiated heat.

I ran into another Poison Ivy there too!

And partied it up with a few droogs from A Clockwork Orange. Love the eye makeup!

What did you do for Halloween?

Happy Halloween!

Its been a weekend full of crazy parties and good times with great friends (which I'll be posting about tomorrow), but now I just want to relax on the couch and watch some scary movies with my favorite little bat. Maybe hand out some candy to the kiddos too...but probably just eat most of it ;)

What are you up to tonight?

Hope that everyone has a fun and spooky night!

Happy Halloween!

The Ghosts of Halloween

It's Halloween, and it just got dark.

I have lit all the lights in the first floor rooms. The house, inside and out, looks lit and welcoming and all ready to welcome witches and goblins and Indiana Joneses for Trick or Treat.

Tally so far is ... 2: the neighbor kids from the house behind us, whose grandparents used to live in this house. No one else has ventured either up from the street in front or down from the cul-de-sac and driveway behind to beg for candy.

This makes me sad. In our former house, in a close-built neighborhood, with quiet level streets and no moving vehicles except those of other parents, the streets were alive between 4 and 9:30 with kids. It looked like a Peanuts special when you looked from our porch, with little costumed beggars swarming over grass and piles of crunchy leaves and the remains of spent annuals.

I loved it. I loved Halloween. I loved bringing cupcakes and juice to the school, watching the parade in the parking lot, hosting a Halloween party for my Girl Scouts.

I loved making costumes for my two daughters, usually in a mad last minute rush. I loved decorating the house with spider webs and flying bats and a scarecrow on the lawn swing, pumpkins and hay and Indian corn ... even a big goofy-looking plastic skull with giant googly eyes and a motion sensor that triggered "I SEE you" in a lugubrious tone when people approached the front door.

Now I've got a couple of tasteful pumpkins, a few copper colored mums, and a bittersweet wreath -- pretty, but restrained. Now I have two bowls of candy -- one at each door -- and no little takers. Now I've got a great old house, perfect for Halloween parties, and my girls are elsewhere -- one of them 3000 miles away.

I miss a real Halloween! I wish someone would knock at the door, some little extortionist, threatening me with dastardly deeds if I don't pony up the Twix and Kit-Kats.

Oh well. Howard will be home soon, and I did buy two bags of his favorite candy -- 3 Musketeers Bars.

I will make him beg.

Happy Halloween!