Halloweenie Hints, Tricks, and Treats

The_Lady_Snow · 10-24-2010, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MountainStar

I thought it might be fun to have a place to post some tips for pumpkin carving, listing what your costume is...what you like to do on Halloween....anything fun and related to that spooky day of the year!

What are YOUR plans this year?

We are heading up to the O-HI-O to hang with the pack for some fire, love and debauchery later on

What are you dressing up as?

Myself

Any good costume ideas?

The Jersey Shore Characters, or a Drag Queen/King

Any tips to share from past successes?

Never hang to close to the circle of fire, never attempt to bite through a sugar skull, and NEVER go to the nights festivity with ill intent.

Kätzchen · 10-24-2010, 01:10 PM

I love pumpkin carving! I'm not too good at it
and of course I don't have tools like they use in the video,
BUT, if I did, I would learn to carve a pumpkin this way!

I just use the good old knife in the kitchen...

ps/ I love to toast the pumpkin seeds in butter, honey and sea salt!

Bit · 10-24-2010, 03:48 PM

Ooooo, Halloween! I love Halloween! But not the way it is today, with chainsaws and gore--I love the Halloween of my childhood, with charming little kids in adorable costumes. Luckily it's still there, alongside the gore!

Our neighborhood association has a big Halloween party every year. Last year I told everyone I was wearing a Muggle costume. I don't think I can get away with that this year, so I finally decided to go as myself, but a little exaggerated. I'm going to splash paint on my hands and shirt--maybe a streak on my cheek, too--and make a necklace of sponge brushes, use a paintbrush--oh, or maybe a couple colored pencils!--as a hairstick (to put up my hair in a bun), and go as an artist!

Big bonus: two shirts, warm jeans and comfy shoes, since the party is in the neighborhood park and it'll be cold.

The thing I do NOT want to do? Be a judge for the costume contest. Guess what I'm doing.... yep, judging the costume contest... oy... glad I don't have to do it alone!

Soft*Silver · 10-24-2010, 05:42 PM

I am giving out olives for trick or treat...lol...

no, not really.

for cheap decor...

if you are a green person, save all those film cannisters and prescription bottles and use them to put pennies, candies and fast food coupons in to pass out on trick or treat night.

or you can poke a large enough hole in the lids and poke strands of xmas tree lights thru them. On the cannisters, you can use finer holes to make halloweeny type pictures, or an exacto knife to cut out halloweeny type pictures...

(everyone has wanted to know a use for them ...so here it is!)

always2late · 10-24-2010, 05:48 PM

I saw a really cute idea in a magazine....get the white paper bell decorations that they sell in party stores for wedding decorating, cover with white cheesecloth, a few bits of black felt for eyes and mouth...and instant ghost!! And they come in different sizes! Gonna hang them on my tree outside

Also, white coffee filters, a small rubber band, and a black marker...and you can hand out lollipop "ghosts" for the trick or treaters.

Rockinonahigh · 10-24-2010, 06:37 PM

Not shure I will be home for halloween cause I have two nights of pool league and a rodeo at the fair to go to...my son may hand out candy..then he may not cause he will eat it all..if he dose eat it all he best not complain to me.

Miss Scarlett · 10-24-2010, 07:30 PM

On Friday Concord will have the annual Candy Crawl - the downtown merchants will be handing out candy to kids from 3-5 PM. My boss and I will participate. Her dog will be there too. Last year he was rocking a pirate hat and had his photo taken with more kids than McGruff the Crime Dog who was across the street at the courthouse. This year he might be wearing this really cool "pimp" hat I saw unless I decide on the "headless horseman" outfit or the boss picks something up. Unless I find something much more unusual, I'll be sporting the purple Carol Channing bob wig and rhinestone cat glasses again.

10-24-2010, 05:42 PM	#4
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always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I saw a really cute idea in a magazine....get the white paper bell decorations that they sell in party stores for wedding decorating, cover with white cheesecloth, a few bits of black felt for eyes and mouth...and instant ghost!! And they come in different sizes! Gonna hang them on my tree outside Also, white coffee filters, a small rubber band, and a black marker...and you can hand out lollipop "ghosts" for the trick or treaters. __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

10-24-2010, 01:10 PM	#2
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10-24-2010, 03:48 PM	#3
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10-24-2010, 06:37 PM	#6
Rockinonahigh Senior Member How Do You Identify?: stone butch Preferred Pronoun?: makes no diffrence,I know who I am. Relationship Status: single,maybe looking if the right person comes along. Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: shreveport,Louisiana Posts: 4,907 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,682 Thanked 14,933 Times in 3,938 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Not shure I will be home for halloween cause I have two nights of pool league and a rodeo at the fair to go to...my son may hand out candy..then he may not cause he will eat it all..if he dose eat it all he best not complain to me.

10-24-2010, 07:30 PM	#7
Miss Scarlett Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: . Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: . Posts: 5,530 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,478 Thanked 12,947 Times in 3,419 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	On Friday Concord will have the annual Candy Crawl - the downtown merchants will be handing out candy to kids from 3-5 PM. My boss and I will participate. Her dog will be there too. Last year he was rocking a pirate hat and had his photo taken with more kids than McGruff the Crime Dog who was across the street at the courthouse. This year he might be wearing this really cool "pimp" hat I saw unless I decide on the "headless horseman" outfit or the boss picks something up. Unless I find something much more unusual, I'll be sporting the purple Carol Channing bob wig and rhinestone cat glasses again.