Halloween Party

Every year three of my friends and I (and our husbands) all pick a holiday to host a party. The four we choose from are Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine's and this year we ended up with Halloween. It started as a problem as I had no halloween decorations to start with, but my imagination and the internet soon helped with that (namely Martha Stewart...). Here's a few pics from the party for your enjoyment.

The table centerpiece was a vase of flowers and a crow covered in cobwebs made from strings of hot glue. It's hard to see the cobwebs in the picture though. The candles on either side of the vase had red wax dripping down them to look like blood. Yeah, that was a little spooky... but effective :D

Nothing's more inviting than a coffin shaped napkin and a tombstone with your name on it:

The menu consisted of green grog (lemon lime punch with lime sherbert, and spiked if you wish), stale crackers with moldy dip (spinach dip), worms in sauce (spaghetti), spiky beans with nail clippings (green beans with slivered almonds), stale black bread (dark colored honey wheat bread), and spooky silhouettes (gingerbread cutouts in halloween shapes).

We had all the lights out and curtains closed with candles lit everywhere. bwahahahaaaaa

Actually, the lights had to be on for pictures, so you can't really tell...

Here you see the "spooky silhouettes"...

... and the green grog. Notice the mouse silhouette on the right side- they were all over the kitchen. Remi was not amused.

OK, don't make fun. Here's Mark and I in our costumes. He was a werewolf and I was a Native American. I claimed that together we were "Dances with Wolves" but neither Mark (nor others) bought it.

Jonathan was a surgeon and Graydon and Heather were Jellyfish. Katie was a spelling bee and Dawn was Mrs. Christmas. Unfortunately Seth and baby Owen couldn't join us, they were out of town. 

So all in all a good party. We ate, drank, and were merry. We also watched the 'Burbs, which turned out to be somewhat funny and spooky enough. I'm thankful to have such great friends!

Hope you have a Happy Halloween!!