So not much time for writing, painting, or much of anything outside work-related duties. This weekend I did, however, host my annual Halloween Party for my niece and nephews. This year my mom co-hosted so it wouldn't be as much work for me. That made it more fun and overall more reasonable in terms of time and work. Desite snow and cold, we had a great time. And I was able to make handmade gifts for the kids, which is something I love to do. Normally I write ghost stories for them, but this year I gave them ghosts-in-a-bottle!
It was pretty easy. I just got some bottles from Michaels, and to make them look older I brushed on a mixture of silver paint and an acrylic thickening agent. Stuffed some polyfill inside, along with a watercolor ghost, and then covered the cork with glitter glue. All in all I think the materials cost $4. Then I tea-dyed some old ribbon and scraps of paper, onto which I wrote a little poem to go with each ghost. Voila!
I also made some Halloween "crackers," which basically were just the cardboard roll of toilet paper stuffed with goodies and wrapped so they don't look like...you know...toilet paper rolls. But hey! It's just cardboard, and using trash for craft-making is a very green thing to do.
As for costumes, everyone looked great. I was kind of lame this year...I pretty much just wore a dress and a flower thing on my head and called myself a "wood nymph." Dave, as usual, had the best costume. He wore a suit, a long black coat, a top hat, carried a fancy walking stick and wore a pig nose ~ his costume for a Captialist Pig. Emily was a zombie rock star (she won the costume contest, by the way), Nick was some kind of a scary guy, and Matt was a storm trooper. We had lots of great food, games, and entertainment.
I think the above is my all-time favorite photo of Matt!
3 comments:
It looks like fun was had by all!
Oh, and what really makes Dave's costume is the monocle. Classic.
The monocle was great! And for whatever reason Dave looks very cute with a pig nose. I don't know if that would be taken as a compliment or not, so Dave if you're reading this I mean it in the "you totally rock the pig nose!" way, not the "you look surprisingly like a pig" way.
Thanks for the pictures of the halloween party. That was just one week ago. Weather was windy and cold. Here it is a week later and it's sunny and 70. It was a fun party and everyone seemed relaxed and enjoyed it.
Dad and I have been having bolo contest down stairs. we still kept that game up and it's fun.
Thanks again for the party. I know everyone looks forward to it every year. Mom
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