Luludou's Boo Bash Journal

[luludou]

Picked up Ginger's idea and here is my Boo Bash (I already posted this in a thread called Halloween party), but it's gonna be easier to follow everyone if we do it all the same way.
Ok, I made up a list as if I will have a Halloween boo bash. Here's what I got for now:

Outdoors decorations
(not too many of these because we usually have rain, snow and wind a few days before and everything is blown away)
- Exterior lanterns in the steps (I have wide steps)
- Cobwebs everywhere with spiders.
- Ghosts in a circle
- Sign "Morgue"

Indoor decorations
- Kitchen (tattered curtains, specimen jars, bugs, spiders, rats, mad scientist theme, bones, test tubes, cobwebs)
- Kitchenette (witch kitchen theme - cauldren, jars of weird mixes and herbs, spell book, cobwebs, spiders)
- Bathroom (Gory shower-curtains & horror towels, blood-dripping candles, cobwebs, spiders)
- Living room (helium-ballon ghosts, tilt pictures on the walls, cobwebs, bats hanging from ceiling fan, tattered curtains, dustsheets on furniture, dead-witch under sofa, colored light bulb, coffing bowl on table for chips & dips)
- Downstairs (colored light bulb, dustsheets, bats, cobwebs, sign "trespassers Beware!!", garlic
"tresse")
- Bedroom "no trespassing under penalty of horrible painful death" sign on door.

Need to figure out Date (probably the 25th of October), How many people (hockey friends about - about 25), for supper or just for the evening.

Food:
- cocktail sausages: fingers in blood-red sauce
- Eyeballs (mushroom heads, filled with cream cheese and an olive)
- Dead-men fingers (pizza)
- Chips & dip for coffin bowl (guacomole & salsa)
- Head on a platter tray with colored vegetables all around...
- Spider punch (punch with spiders made of marshmellows and licorice)
- Horrible lemonade (served in a weird container, add a bit of green coloring with gummy worms)
- Meathead
- Desert: witch finger cookies
- Bloody popcorn (add red food coloring to melted butter)

Party invitations
- fingers in a box
- rats in a box (really nice small ones at the dollar store)

Spooky music

Games
- Mummy race
- Eyeball relay
- Pass the apple
- Musical tombstones
- Scary stories (maybe)
- House of horrors - touchy felly gross stuff (maybe)


Costumes to come...
Ok, I need help in writing gory or scary spells (I have very little imagination!) and if you have other easy non-expensive ideas (home-made is always nicer) go ahead... think I should look into having a blog too...

 

[luludou]

Here are some costumes ideas I have
costumes for me this year: hmmmm... maybe half-awake / half-asleep...
Half Asleep/Half Awake
Cut some "footy pajamas" in half, and sew one side to half a pair of pants and half a shirt. On the asleep side, put your hair in curlers, wear no make-up, keep and wear a slipper. On the awake side, curl your hair, wear make-up, and wear a shoe. Carry a pillow on your asleep side, and a briefcase on your awake side.

I like this one too (but the expression doesn't work in French.. I'll have to keep explaining it all day... but might work for the teens... they go to english school).
Raining Cats and Dogs
Attach an assortment of small stuffed cats and dogs to an umbrella. Wear a rain coat and rain boots.

Movie "The Birds"... old dress & attach fake birds pecking all over with blood where they peck, cracked glasses, tease hair, add scratches. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/391819/homemade_halloween_costume_idea_tippi.html?cat=24 or like this one http://www.orientaltrading.com/appl...ous-_-When Birds Attack Adult Women's Costume

Housewife
Hair in rollers, facial mask, pajamas, wool socks, slippers, bathrobe. Add accessories: TV guide & remote control in pocket, pillow, etc....

Hannibal Lecter
Orange sweatsuit (to look like a prisoner) and attach black tape around knees & elbows for the look of the costume, fake chains... here's a picture of what I mean.. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JL12Z2...e=380333&creativeASIN=B000JL12Z2&linkCode=asn

Ghoul black dress (prom or wedding)
http://www.halloweenfantasy.com/product.php?productid=144560

 

[luludou]

Here's a list of some of our costumes over the years (always homemade ... mainly because DH doesn't see the need to put any money for Halloween except for candies for the kids).. but actually my costumes are different from the others and much nicer!

Last year I was dressed up as a titanic survivor .... old white bedsheets for a large skirtwith apron... I even made a life-jacket (I got a picture of an old one on the web).. but it was a bit bulky... and I wrote the Titanic on it ... with weeds in my hair... it was fun!!
My DD dressed up as Wilma from the Flinstones... found a white satin dressing gown and we added a bit of animal fur to dress it up at the collar and at the bottom (all with a glue gun) and small with styro balls made into a necklace.
My DS did not dress up last year and my DH NEVER does... but maybe if I have a Boobash this year he'll have to join the fun!!!

Over the years we have had:
- a soldier ( I made a small vest with army kaki material, the hat was a construction hat .. we cut of the front part so it was just round and put some army material over it),
- a spaceman (I spraypainted rubber boots in silver, with a yellow sweatsuit and a bit of silver material for a belt and a hat and cuff coverings),
- a princess (an old Christmas dress my mother had for ages),
- a Raggedy Ann (old red sweat pants with yellow bands of material to look striped, I made a blue apron and I found a striped shirt at the thrift store, and I made the wig from orange wool).
- a tiger (when they were small... just a fur bib with an easy hat to make out of fur and easy fur mitts)
- a pumpkin (bib, hat and mittens)
- a jester (bib, hat and mittens)
- a gypsy
- spaghetti bowl over the head (I glued brown pom-poms on my pants & shirt with pieces of a rag mop around to make it look like spaghetti & meatballs and a bit of red for the sauce and a pasta bowl on my head with rag mop glued into it).
- a scarecrow
- a witch ( I glued bugs on my black dress and put a black bird on my shoulder)
- a mermaid (made of the silver material left over from the spaceman)
- batman (old material given to me by a friend) and it was really a nice costume.. half black and half purple with a yellow bat on the front, a hat and a cape.
- A dinosaur (leftover purple from the batman)...
- A clown (with orange halloween pumpkins all over the material)
- Scary movie monster (DS wore this for 3 Halloweens... didn't want anything else)
- Freddy . Found a red and black striped shirt at the thrift store, an old hat of Grandpa's, and Freddy fingers at the dollar store.
- Man (for me a woman).. a expensive-looking silver jacket from the thrift store, with an ascot and Granpa's old hat.
- Cleopatra... dress made of old sheets.... with lots of golden jewelry.. and beads..
- Marilyn Monroe (dress from a thrift store & cheap wig)
- Construction worker for DS (my husband is a construction worker)
- Hippie
- scary doctor... thrift store green med outfit, white apron (full of blood), fake seringue in pocket, eyeballs, etc...
-,,,
I try to get a different costume every year if possible... but now I tell the kids they have to make their own (my daughter - 17- wore hers for the last two years) and DS - 15- doesn't want to pass halloween anymore.

 

[luludou]

Crafts to make this year... ok, used today for my GPD and here's what I have:

- Specimen jars http://aranamuerta.com/2008/01/29/witches-kitchen,
- Spellbook http://magicalholidayhome.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2538&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=spellbook
- Gory shower-curtain & towers http://magicalholidayhome.com/forum...=t&sd=a&hilit=halloween+shower+shower+curtain
- Black tattered fabric (to cover lampsades)
- Head - waiter tray http://www.marthastewart.com/head-waiter-tray
- Blood-dripping candles http://magicalholidayhome.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2055&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
- Party invitations (maybe small rat in a box)
- Ghosts in a circle from Mrs. Soup's blog http://fallforhalloween.blogspot.com/
- Signs "Morgue" and "Trespassers will die"
- Magic wand http://magicalholidayhome.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2341&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=magic+wand
- Dead-witch under couch

 

[luludou]

Themes for rooms throughout the house:

Gory / crime scene
- gory shower curtain & towels
- murder written in red backwards on the shower tiles so that when guests look in the mirror they see murder
- Trace the outline of a person on floor
- ...

Voodoo room http://www.hauntingyouryard.com/
- Pattern of a pentagram on the floor (a bit like DaVinci code)
- candles
- skulls

Witch's kitchen http://aranamuerta.com/2008/01/29/witches-kitchen
- Recipe book (with weird ingredients)
- Cauldron
- Jars of weird stuff
- Wand

Mad scientist lab
- Specimen jars
- Bones
- Cutting instruments

Dungeon
- Chains
- skeleton
- candles / votives

Haunted house
- Dustsheets on furniture
- Ghosts
- Spiderwebs / spiders

Vampire
- Garlic tresses
- Candles / Candelebras / blood-dripping candles
- Coffin
- Bats
- stake
- Cobwebs
- Tombstones
- Black / red drapes
- Gargoyles
- Cross

Fortune-teller
http://www.halloweenhowl.com/halloween-party-fortune-teller.shtml
- Crystal ball
- Tarot cards
- Stars everywhere
- Gold curtains
- Books on fortune-telling
- Round table with tablecloth
- Ouija board

If you have more ideas, go ahead... when I think of something new I will add to it in red.

 

[jackfrosty]

Wow! What fantastic idea's, luludou! arty:

 

[luludou]

Ok, here's what I plan to DO for next GPD:

- start costume (I think the half-asleep / half-awake one is the one for me)
- finish up buying supplies for other crafts
- I have the styro head for waiter tray but not the gauze.

The 1st is Canada day (so no work) and the 31st I'm taking a day off to have a long weekend. We will be gone saturday and sunday but I plan to start working on GPD stuff on monday.

 

[luludou]

I DID IT!!!

I made my halloween costume yesterday!! *tap on the back*

I finally made the half-asleep / half awake one. I took an old pyjama with pants and a button-up top and cut it in half (cut a little larger for the seams). I made a mark to know where the middle of the shirt (old shirt) was. I did not cut the shirt (would have been too complicated for me to join these), instead I put the pyjama top over half of it and I sewed it there - over the shirt (hope you can understand what I'm saying). Did the same thing with an old pair of pants.

I will wear my crocs on the awake side and I'm buying crocs-slippers this summer so I will wear one of these on my asleep side.

Awake-side: put make up and comb hair
Asleep-side: hair in rollers, maybe some cold cream,

These are the instructions I based my costume on: http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/do-it-yourself-costume.html#c1

 

[jackfrosty]

Great job! Sounds awesome! Make sure to post some pic's this Halloween!!! :haha:

 

[Janabanana]

Neat idea's

 

[luludou]

Bought a witch's cauldron at the used store... it's copper (maybe it was a spitoon in another life :rotflol: ), small size, for $4 .... slowly getting to Halloween...

 

[luludou]

Here's another idea for that witch kitchen... just added it to my notebook...
http://www.marthastewart.com/portal...110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&rsc=hiod_recipe_b

 

[ChristmasCheerleader]

That is too funny! Love that idea!

 

[luludou]

Got some Halloween supplies today:
... at the dollar store:

2 black roses
blood dripping plastic thingy (to put on bathroom mirror)
2 bats (to hang from living room ceiling fan)

... at the used store
Finally found a book for my spellbook!!! (it's an old encyclopedia) for 2$

 

[holidaymama]

Fun! I bought plates and napkins on Sunday for our party! It felt good to know I got what I wanted before it was all gone!

 

[aggy]

Lududou, sounds like you're making good progress. Can't wait to see pictures.

 

[wantabe]

Picked up a couple of party favors at the Dollar Tree! Bubba teeth and plastic straws with skeletons on them!!

 

[luludou]

Here's what I bought today:
... at the used items store:

1 black candle holder (.75)
1 big black salad bowl and 6 small black salad bowls (2.75)
1 big chunk of burlap (maybe for the table setting - 1.95)

at the dollarstore
- ghost holiday earrings (1.00)

yay!

 

[luludou]

Bought 2 white candles today (to make the blood-dripping candles...I already have a red one).
Went to the dollar store and bought an orange flower (to put with my 2 black roses I bought the other day), and I found a beautiful cadelabre with bats and spiders on it.... for 3 candles (I bought 2!!!)... will have to go buy another one.. maybe black!!

 

[luludou]

Did my blood-dripping candles last night. So EASY!!! and started decorating.... uh-oh, having a problem with my party. I had a date chosen (for once no hockey for DS) and started inviting... my SIL invited us to DNiece's bday supper the same night and DH seems to think we HAVE to go (it's his sister)... trying to find another date but just doesn't seem to work.... :help: :slap: