Any Halloweenies out here...

[thom1102]

You know who you are. The people who turn their front yards into graveyard, dress up to scare... I mean greet the kiddies, go to haunted houses, host costume parties. You know, the people who just go nuts when the leaves start to fall. (before people start thinking I am being disparaging, I do ALL this stuff; I LOVE HALLOWEEN!)

Last year, my partner didn't think I could take things much further, but I accidentally stumbled upon a really cool site today and I am as giddy as a school girl... boy...whatever! It is called www.Deviousconcoctions.com.

omigod omigod omiGOD!!! They have the COOLEST stuff to make and they have two books that you can buy that have the detailed instructions on how to make them! I am gonna have a coffin, where the lid pops open, and a gargoyle, and I am so excited I can hardly type!

What kind of stuff do you do for Halloween?

[soleft]

1. This year I'm going from never having seen the parade to being in it

I'm talking the big Greenwich Village Parade.

I love Halloween and always like to dress up in something ghoulish and greet the kids when they come trick or treating. So even tho I've lived in the village 4 ever I've never been to the parade.

This year is going to be different because my girlfriend is the Parade Queen, she gets on TV every year because of her amazing costumes and this year will be no exception.

[demnan]

2. My brother and I used to play that Yoko Uno album

where she screams for 20 minutes. But it scared the shit out of the little kids so we had to stop it.

[Drifter]

3. I give a Trick and a Treat ...

After the kids have been "candied", I whip out the torches, and Juggle Fire.

Most of the people (in my neighborhood) are used to it, but we get the occasional new comer.

Cheers
Drifter

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. Halloween is MY holiday :)

I grew up in monster movie heaven as my Mom was a full on no holds barred horror movie buff. Since I was a little kid Halloween has always been the most special of days. Now that I'm a dad (a 2 year old and another on the way) I can share the macabre majic of the season with my boy.

I've already designed a Godzilla costume for the little Kaiju, I've mapped out the trick or treat route for his first ever Halloween excursion, and I might even take a trip to Spookyworld this year.

I hope to also host a Halloween party this year to complement my annual monster/horror movie film festival (in which several friends consume a bushel of popcorn).

The whole mis en scen of Halloween is so wonderful here in New England too. The nights are clear and cold, wind pushes rustling leaves, the smell of the first apple pies of the season hang in the air.

Jeez, I'm getting all goosebumpy just THINKING about it.

Trick or treat!!!

[thom1102]

8. We took my partner's 8 yo godson to Spookyworld last year

It's a lot of fun, but he was terrified! We did the whole day. We started in Salem, spent the day there wandering around, and checking out the haunted houses, and such, then we left for Foxboro...Sorry, Gillette Stadium. (The funny thing was as we were walking the streets of Salem, we literally walked into my cousins from Albany, NY... and we live in West Hartford CT) We had VIP passes, so we got to hang out in the VIP lounge where they serve you ice cream, and soda, plus you don't have to stand in any lines! Christopher (godson) didn't want to leave the lounge.

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. if I make the trip it'll probably be alone

My wife is pregnant and our boy is only 2. When he gets older though, I'll bring him :)

I've never been to Spookyworld but some of my friends work there every year.

[purji]

5. I love halloween

I think I spend more time decorating for halloween than I do christmas.
Thank for the link great stuff.

[DoNotRefill]

6. Whenever I get all dressed up and scary....

nobody comes around. I think I scare them. :(

[VelmaD]

7. Me Me Me!!!

I love Halloween. Favoritest holiday of the year.

Three years ago my best friend and I bought a light-up green alien to put outside to amuse the trick-or-treaters. That year he was just an alien. Two years ago we got creative and he was a glam rocker - complete with purple glitter top hat, neon green feather boa, and rainbow colored fake eyelashes. This last year he was a pirate. Wanta see:


We also make lots of goodies. Black and orange M&M cookies and sugar cookies shaped like witches and cats and ghosts. This last year I got adventurous and this is what I made for the silent auction at the office party:


Anyway, I haven't figured out what I'm gonna "be" this year yet. I'm usually a witch. (Well, ok, I'm pretty much a witch everyday.) I'm open to suggestions. :-)

[KCDem]

9. I love it!

I'm looking to do something outrageous this year as well, so thanks for the link. We just bought a house, and it's on a street in which there are 3 "We support Pres. Bush and the Troops" signs... so I'm thinking something special needs to be done. :evilgrin:

Any ideas?

[thom1102]

10. They have a "how to make a ghost's head"

You could use that to make a ghost of an american troop who died in Iraq

[CBHagman]

12. Talk about scary!

The ultimate horror is to turn on the TV and see the Chimpified One held up as fearless leader. Surely there is some sort of Halloween motif there...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. I am the...

neighborhood nutbar who does up the house BIG time each year! I have a big corner house that already stands out -- all the Halloween goodies just make it that much more noticeable. I get carloads of kids from other neighborhoods coming by for treats -- I always give out three treats per kid, none of this one-roll-of-smarties crap. Whenever I am asked by folks why I do it, I tell them it's because I want the new kids to have the same great memories of Halloween that I had as a kid -- when I was growing up every house on the block was lit up and ready to go, now, it's me and three other folks on the entire block. That is just so damn sad.

Last year my 4' black light went out, so my giant glow-in-the-dark skeleon wasn't as fabulous as he usually is. :(

Thanks for the link -- it's good to start planning early!

Hell

[Maeve]

14. #2 Son lies in the coffin and reaches out at the kids

Nice stained plywood toe-pincher coffin we had made for us...candy goes in a plastic cauldron on top of the coffin. Tombstones in the flower bed by the pumpkins, chalk outline of a body on the driveway behind my van--just some nice, homey touches.

[thom1102]

15. I like the chalk outline...

nice touch!

[qb]

16. We used to go WAAAAY overboard

Our church youth group put on a haunted house for the UNICEF trick-or-treaters. It included lots of bloody makeup, real animal organs (from a butcher shop), and a scene where a girl was getting here leg amputated with a hack saw (her real leg went through a hole in the table, the hack saw was actually cutting through a bloody cow leg bone); most unnerving was her screaming (she could compete with Faye Wray). Needless to say, kids were streaming out of the church in tears! That was the last time they let the youth group do a haunted house.

At our hose, it was a little tamer - open the door with a string, a corpse in a coffin & scary music. Still, after a couple of years we got almost no trick-or-treaters. Oops.

[SiouxJ]

17. I love Halloween!

I always thought if I ever get married, I'd get married on Halloween. Definitely my favorite holiday. I always go buy all the half price Halloween crap the day after. I have enough stuff to throw some really rockin' Halloween parties. Oh, and I even make Halloween music compilations for them. I wish we had trick or treaters but we don't where I live. They all go to the mall or something :shrug: . I used to really do up my house for them when I lived in San Diego.

[arcane1]

18. cool link!

I guess I'm a 'weenie' though I'm not used to the term :-)