Sparklenana-that is hysterical and sounds so very much like my house!! Why are men such babies when they are sick/hurt/acting childishly? I have to say, though, that my DH doesn't mind company, which is a good thing since we entertain so often!! I loved reading about your party and am delighted that it went so well!! Congratulations!!
I didn't have time to work on Halloween on "the day" so I'm doing it today. It's cool and raining (and raining and raining-still!) and the kids are at school, so it's a good day to do this! And, we're not entertaining this weekend, so the house is not a big issue-not until my next party on Tuesday!! It wouldn't do much good to clean floors today anyway..they'll have to be redone Tuesday afternoon before guests arrive at 6:30! Anyway....I digress!
I'm just brainstorming again about Boo!Bash2!, our Halloween party. We had so much fun last year, and DH and I actually discussed it yesterday at lunch, so I know he's on board! I am going to amp it up a bit this year, and add hotdogs etc. instead of just desserts like last year. We had over 60 guests in our back yard! It was a huge hit!
So, here we go!
Date: we agreed that the party will always be the Saturday before Halloween. This way, over the years folks won't have to wonder when it is...they'll just know!
Menu:
*hot dogs with the works-chili, coleslaw, onions, peppers, cheese, mustard, ketchup and relish
*chips-tortilla chips for nachos, Fritos for Frito chili pies
*cheese dip
*brownies, cookies and other pick up desserts
*popcorn, roasted peanuts in the shell, Harvest Yummies (candy corn and salted peanuts) in snowcone cups
*sodas, iced tea, coffee, hot chocolate station and hot and cold cider
Decorations:
I really like a vintage look, and the porch is going to be decorated French country this summer, so I'll play off of that-sort of muted tones instead of brights, fallish rather than scarey..
Fall elements, such as pumpkins, hay and Indian corn (all grown in our backyard and/or at our farm), including white pumpkins and orange pumpkins of all sizes and shades
Last year I used just plain old crepe paper and folded orange and black together to make garlands-very vintage looking, very cute. I'm going to do some more of those this year, but I'm going to start earlier-it took longer than I thought it would to fold them and make them as long as they needed to be.
I'm wanting to take some of the bigger whites and brush them with glue then sprinkle clear glitter on them to use as centerpieces both for this party and for Thanksgiving. I'll work on that...I may get faux pumpkins to do this with so that I can use them again, but the ones we grow would be cheap decorations!!
I'll have mums and other fall flowers sitting around
Last year my brother brought a tractor and trailer for a hay ride-hope to do that again. We live one block from the movie theater, and he toured the kids around the movie parking lot! I"m sure people wondered what in the world was going on!
We also had a fire and soft throws for folks to warm up with, which was a big hit. I have most of those still (not counting the ones the dog took over as his own!!)
I'm getting excited!! I'm going to work on my Halloween section in my fall notebook today! I love this stuff!!