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Friday Finds: Halloween Goodies

October 4, 2012 1 Comment Friday Finds

These past few weeks tons of Halloween goodies have been popping up on all the blogs I read. I myself am gearing up for the spooky holiday’s annual party and posts. Couldn’t help but share some of these links to seriously awesome Halloween freebies & tutorials.

Hello Lucky’s free Halloween invitation printable. SO cute. I love the drawing. Love the black and white. And, spiders freak me out so they are my go to Halloween evil creature. (First photo top left)
Cotton Candy spider webs are just genius. Candy companies are going to be stealing this idea soon. (Photo top right)
One Charming Party put together the most fabulous “bloody bar” ever. The drink recipes are so creative (Gin & Tourniquet & Stabbery Daiquiri) and the gauze backdrop is amazing! (Photo Bottom Left)
Pic Monkey now has Halloween themes to add to your photos! (Collage made with Pic Monkey!)
As usual, Holiday with Matthew Mead is chock full of awesome Halloween Ideas. Can’t wait to see the magazine!
Did you get your free Halloween Printable set from the A Well Crafted Party’s Facebook page? Just like A Well Crafted Party on Facebook and you have access to the free download! (Photo Bottom Right)

Do you have some fantastic Halloween Inspiration to share? I’d love to hear about it or visit a link!

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Halloween: Favorites of Years Past

September 18, 2012 2 Comments A Well Crafted Party

I love Halloween. It is seriously my all time favorite holiday. I love the fantasy of it all. The make believe. I’m not too big of a fan of the horror or gore side… although, it can be fun for decor options. But, the dressing up, and the creativity that just permeates the holiday makes me incredibly excited as September rolls around and the leaves start changing.

Every year we throw a huge Halloween party. We spend months and months scheming and planning. This year, with our move and other stresses, we have decided to not go crazy. I’m sad about it. Really (probably unreasonably so) sad about it. But, hopefully I’ll get to take this year to spend planning out an even bigger and more awesome event for next Halloween.

I wanted to reminisce a bit on the past Halloweens before swamping the blog with a bunch of awesome inspiration for this year’s holiday. I have thousands of great Halloween memories. But, I wanted to share just a few with you.

My top 5 past Halloween memories:

1. My First Halloween with my Son!

I got his adorable Lion costume via Costumes 4 Less

2. Our Costumes

We had fun “couple” costumes for the past few years.
These two are my all time favorites:

Alice in Wonderland and The Mad Hare

Circus Family: Clown, Ring Leader, and a Lion

3. Mad Tea Party Backdrop

I spent a LONG time working on this backdrop. And, overall it was my favorite part of the Mad Tea Party. It even got a fan who did one for her own party!

4. Spider Wall

Spiders creep me out more than anything else. So, when I have a chance to decorate with spooky items I always go for the spider decor. Last year we created a huge spider nest along one wall.

Man, was it creepy.

5. Haunted Halloween Dinner Party Menu

I really, really love creating a good menu. And, Halloween is no exception. I had a blast creating a menu for the Haunted Halloween Dinner Party.

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Real Party: Costumes & Cocktails The Costumes

November 2, 2011 No Comments A Well Crafted Party

I’m not in the camp of “dressing up on Halloween is just for the kids.”
Now.. trick or treating is certainly only for the kiddos.

But, I LOVE dressing up for Halloween (or any occasion really).

I enjoy the planning of the outfit, the making of the outfit and then seeing everyone’s outfits!

Every Halloween we have an overwhelmingly awesome amount of people dressing up for the occasion in really amazing costumes. (Check out last year’s response to the Alice in Wonderland theme!)
This year we also had a costume contest!

Check out some of the costumes we had in attendance:
(This is only a smattering of the amazing costumes we got…
it would be a terribly long post if I put up everyone’s amazing costumes!)

Me as a clown (I’m pretty proud that I managed to make that costume!)
My husband as a ring leader and my son the lion!

I made my dress but bought a wig, horn, and white gloves to make my costume. For my husband’s costume we bought a wig, hat, and whip. And, my son wore a lion costume that I purchased from Costumes4Less.

One party-goer decided to go as my son for Halloween!

(His crying baby face was the best.)

Beetlejuice and Lydia (don’t they look amazing!)

The Addams Family— Wednesday even won for Best Overall Costume.

I loved this one… “The Drowning Girl” by Roy Lichtenstein

A Blind Ref

We also had a Mr. Plum, Lana from Archer, Ricky & Lucky Ricardo, Coach McGurk from Home Movies, Border Patrol…. and so many more!

Such a fun night!
Check out the decorations and food from the party as well.

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