Ok I'll play!! I will bore you with the details of our annual party, Boo!Bash8. Wow. 8 years we've been doing this. Time flies.
Ok. Here we go. I always use black, white and orange as my color scheme with a loose "Eat, Drink and Be Scary" as my overall theme. We will have a photo booth with fun props, a food station with hot dogs (to roast over the fire in the fire pit) chili, nachos, cornbread, crackers, chips for Frito Chili Pie, and desserts. We will have a movie theater set up at the back fence with movies playing, including Charlie Brown and the great pumpkin and "Paranorman". There will be a popcorn bar with flavorings to sprinkle on popped corn and of course, a candy bar and a tub of iced drinks. We have a costume contest and a pumpkin contest. Participants bring a decorated or carved pumpkin.
I plan to decorate with Christmas lights strung from the back porch to my studio across the yard and plenty of paper lanterns, tissue balls and paper fans hanging around. I have a wooden ladder that will hang over the serving table. I am still figuring out how to decorate it.
I have made prizes for the contests using dollar tree skeletons that I posed in funny ways, hot glued to a board and spray painted gold. The pumpkin prizes are small faux pumpkins glued to a board and spray painted gold.
There is still plenty to do and I'm holding my breath about the weather. The party is always the Saturday before Halloween so it's October 25 this year. Fingers crossed and prayers going up!!