Halloween
 

After last weekend, I noticed one of the neighborhoods I pass through on the way home from work, was lit up. I thought it was Christmas decorations but when I got there it was for Halloween.
Yellow and orange strings of lights on houses, fences and trees. Ghosties, goblins, pumpkins and witches everywhere.
These folks are going all out.
Do you decorate your house/yard for Halloween? :behead: :ghost: :shock:

My house, in some important sense, is always decorated for Halloween. I love Ancestor's Moon.

I have a dilemma. I am attending a party tomorrow night, and have not made any moves to prepare a costume. I am actually not certain that it is a costume party. The invitation instructions "be as kinky as you want to be" may call for consultation with BrianR rather than getting a SpongeBob costume at the Walmart ...

Therefore, I need something that is clever, but relatively low key, in the event that I'm the only one that shows up dressed for Halloween rather than an orgy.

I have a full lady pirate outfit from the RenFaire, but in a small space I tend to knock expensive shit over with my sword if I turn around too fast.

I have considered a couple possibilities:

Tie some string to an index card. Write the word "Witch" on it in very fancy calligraphy

I have a teeshirt that has a print of Durer's "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Since the great majority of the party guests will be city-livin' liberals, I had considered introducing myself, if asked, as the Fifth Horseman ... The Conservative. This, however, is a bit too close to what I wore to a party given by the same gentleman a few years back ... I went as a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

I could use the same Four Horsemen teeshirt and pick one of the four ... War, probably, because I have a set of OD green BDU pants right here handy. Pestilence might be fun as an alternate, but would require a good deal more playacting, including sneezing, sniffling, and coughing. The equipment necessary to carry off a convincing Ebola is not within my budget. There is no way that I could do Famine, and Death, well, that's been done to Death, so to speak.

yep.

I have orange lights on my house and a plug-in Jack O'Lantern in the window (he has a very evil grin) and pumpkins, wreaths, a wind-chime thing-y of skulls and bones and window decals of scary cats and cartoon witches. I've a beautiful wooden statue of the Headless Horseman and lots and lots of indoor decorations, too. I LOVE Halloween. It's so much better than Christmas. Low stress, good weather, and you don't go broke preparing for it.

When I lived in Philly, it seemed like people put up lights for every holiday: pink for Valentine's Day, green for St. Pat's Day, orange and yellow for Halloween/Thanksgiving. I have seen some houses here in St. Louis decorated with lights for Halloween...maybe holiday lights (beyond Xmas) are a nationwide thing these days. I guess I'll see over the next several months.

From Christian Century , Nov 15, 2000. From How-stuff-works From Pittsburgh live We're talking big bucks here, but the per person isn't that bad unless you want it to be.
There will always be somebody on the block that wants to be "The Joneses" :biggrinje

Wolf, but the SpongeBob costume, then make a great big penis out of yellow sponge, attach it to the BVD's, and you'll be prepared for any eventuality.

so would that make him a Sponge "worthy" Bob ???

I don't do all that much but this guy did something interesting. :worried:

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The neighbors were less than amused, :lol:

People need to lighten up. I used to make various Halloween-themed construction paper cutouts to hang in my front window. I always included a ghost smoking a cig. That would probably get me a visit from the Surgeon General these days.

I used to decorate the inside of my house very elaborately for Halloween, using mostly the harvest themes that would carry over all the way until Thanksgiving. I'd put stuff in the windows, but never outside because too many kids nowdays are budding vandals and like to trash the work of more talented families. Last year, as usual, I had a centerpiece of gourds, Indian corn cobs, mini pumpkins and leaves, changed all the candles and candle rings to seasonal colors, put the electric jack-o-lantern in the greenhouse window and hung a new windsock with bats on it. I was especially proud of my new lifesize rooster from Michael's, made in China with real feathers, which sat in the middle of the centerpiece.

I got to enjoy the atmosphere for exactly one day. Barely asleep, I was startled by a tremendous crash and rushed out to find T'Pau, Queen of the Universe, dragging the rooster across the floor in the wreckage of the centerpiece. She had stalked and "killed" it and now was trying to figure out how to eat it! Since she was just 5 months old and had only been with me for a few weeks, I guess she thought her space was being invaded. Or maybe just the feline killer instinct. But it has put an end to my decorating impulses for now :(

Just in case, I didn't put up the fiber-optic rotating Christmas tree last year either.

Best Halloween decoration of the year.

At the company I work, for the second year in a row, the halloween office theme is "dress up as one of your co-workers". I'm dressing as one of the girls that I'm going to the Gwen Stefani concert with. She has distinuishing features that I can duplicate and be recognized.

She always wears black low-top Chuck Taylors with ankle socks. Got mine Friday night. Black capri pants and black shirt; check. (shaved my legs below the knee). Since August her necklace is a hollow pink heart on sliver chain. I made one out of pink pipe cleaner and chain.

With that alone, I could pull it off. But the slam dunk is the hair. I got a halloween wig of long black hair with two big bleached streaks. I got the spray purple hair color and will do half the bleached streaks in purple. That will be a very good replica of her hair.

My 15 yo daughter is helping me with the project. She got me black liquid eyeliner and will put it on me with long points to make my eyes look more asian. I tried on all the clothing and everything looks great. This is going to be so much fun.

uh----RS--where do you work, again?

In an unrelated incident: I've suffered a Jack'O'Lantern carving accident to my left thumb. It was very painful and very bloody but, thankfully, I am recovering.

Thank you for your concern. And thank you, in advance, for your Jack'O'Lantern pics!!!!!!

They still allow you to have knives?

Only the suck-y kitchen type knives and that is why I stabbed my thumb....mm...thinking of obtuse lawsuit against county and unfair practices...etc...yes....yes...I can see it now..!

why must you always bring up my record?

Our neighborhood is insane on Halloween. Literally hundreds of kids.

We did an underwater pumpkin carving contest yesterday. My husband won for Most Creative. His is the one with the cone on the head - it's all stuff he found at the dive site.

Here's my friend Michelle.
She never seems to win any prizes..... I don't know why. :lol:

A 45 person internet company making a profit for three years. We have our own company-label beer for trade shows. It's a fun group except for all those VPs who have sticks up their asses.

On Wednesday, I'm going to GS Warriors Season Opener with our HR Director. She dressed up as one of the guys at last year's halloween office day. Although, so far none of the guys have dresses as gals, yet.

imagine that

I meant this

I gotta tell ya, I've grown to really not like Halloween. I live in a college rental neighborhood so it generally means drunk fat boys in dresses asking for Snickers, public vomit/urine/crap, damaged cars and not-so-small area fires.

Where is the cute toddler dressed like a cow? I'm planning lights out tonight. I took care of the few neighbor kids earlier.

We live in a pretty good-sized development, but no kids seem to come by. We've only gotten one group of trick-or-treaters in the 7 years we've lived in our house -- and that was 5 college chicks looking for canned goods for charity. I know, sounds like a great setup for a porno. :rolleyes:

For the love of G*d, you had better post pictures or else!!! :lol:

Like Wolf, our house is always somewhat Halloweenish. We have several signs out front in the rose garden declaring our home to be the residence of a witch - signs that stay up year 'round. We also have a very large Yule pentacle that stays up for a significant portion of the year beyond the Winter season itself.

You've already seen pics of the ritual area...

Blessed Samhain to everyone in The Cellar. May you get lots of candy/healing of pumpkin carving injuries/long conversations with your departed relatives.

Don't forget to set a plate at dinner tonight for those who join you, but may not be seen.

BTW, that was a great party.

Well--it's seven-thirty, half an hour to go for trick or treaters, and I'm tapped out! Had to blow out the jack O'lanterns and now am hiding! Saw a couple of cute costumes, but nobody was cuter than my 4 year-old nephew (he went as Jack Sparrow) adorable!

It's 7:30 and we've only had 8 trick or treaters :(... it's raining here though so it's a pretty crappy night to be out begging for candy.

Snickers, kit kat, smores, smarties and granola bars for EVERYONE!!!

It was indeed. But I was far less fascinated by the ladies' boobage than you were.

My obnoxious, too loud, next-door neighbors had their party on Saturday night.

They have many friends.

All of their friends drink.

They stumbled around the front and back of the apt, and played overly loud house/trance/rave-ish crap ALL FUCKING night. Oh, and they destroyed several pumpkins on the front steps, including a poorly carved jack-o-lantern. The fact that these pumpkins were owned by the host is immaterial. It's the principle of the thing ... if you're destroying your own pumpkins, you still have to clean up.

Unfortunately the only piece of equipment that I have in the house that would have been louder than their music is only permitted to be used when certain conditions are met. I checked the law, and there's nothing about overly loud neighbors.

So, after an unsuccessful attempt at direct negotiations, I called the cops.

It worked, sort of. The guests decided that they had to drunkenly go off and party somewhere else for the remainder of the night (it was 0100 hrs), and as a parting shot, hurled the final remaining pumpkin at my door. They were drunk enough that they missed by about eight inches.

A little late, but I was just introduced to this page this morning...some pretty cool stuff!

I'm all Halloweened out.

We had over 200 kids come through - we stopped counting after a while.

Halloween has come and gone, but the cheap candy season has only just begun!

:)

Roommates' costume:

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thanks, what a riot. too bad you didn't have a shot of the template for the costumes...