thefonz on 25/10/2009 at 07:45
I'm having a Halloween Party at my flat next weekend. Dress-up is mandatory therefore yesterday I grabbed a Mr Incredible outfit.
It lights up = win.
No Pumpkin as yet although I imagine that will be bought and carved up to look like something hilarious before Saturday...
Tocky on 25/10/2009 at 07:55
Best to wait till near the actual date as mine are growing the most amazing Fruit Loop colored molds and may not make it. Check out Ray Vilafane or Scott Cummins carving sites if you want to cry with envy.
Aerothorn on 25/10/2009 at 09:46
I'd hit that.
And by "that" I of course mean the guy with the sword, not your daughter.
june gloom on 25/10/2009 at 10:13
My Halloween tradition consists of handing out candy while watching Night of the Living Dead and eating pizza. I see no change in the foreseeable future. :cool:
BrokenArts on 25/10/2009 at 13:52
Tocky, what a tradition to share with your daughter. I do the same thing with my daughter. I started taking her to haunted houses when she was 10, she'll be 15 in Feb. Its a yearly thing for us, she loves it, and looks forward to it as much as I do.
Love the pictures you took, looks like you guys had fun. We adore going to the haunted houses. Dallas and the surrounding areas has some fabulous haunted houses to traipse through.
Our pumpkin photos are from years past, we wait until a day or two before halloween to carve out our pumpkins.
You can apply vaseline to the cut areas on your pumpkin, and cover them too. They'll last a bit longer.
This was my house last year. The low lights was a ah ha, moment for me. They are the way to go. I've been decorating more and more the last 5 years, its gets bigger and bigger every year I do it. To sit in the living room eating dinner, and you see a flash go off, you think its lightening, it happened again, thats a camera flash. I go outside to see some people that drove up and decided to take pictures of my house. That was pretty cool, wasn't the first time either. :-)
House from last year.
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http://modetwo.net/users/brokenarts/pumpkin2.jpgfrozenman on 25/10/2009 at 14:58
For the past two years I've worked at a haunted house, technically a haunted FOREST and I miss it so much that I can't work there again. It was clearly one of the best jobs ever. I would always have parents pushing their kids in front of them grudgingly, waiting for them to get scared, and then chuckling and continuing on, but it was always the best when I got a startle out of the parents as well.
I got to dress up in the most vicious costume I could think of, picking from a room with RACKS and RACKS of costumes and accessories- personally I always tended towards a monster-ish half-mask, and then covering myself with dangling rags and chains around my neck, and then standing in the woods with a large pipe in my hands amongst several strobe-lights simulating lightning...all the rags and chains look GREAT in strobe lights...
Ah forgive me for reminiscing but I'm gonna have a lame Halloween this year :(
BrokenArts on 25/10/2009 at 16:00
Awww sorry frozenman. Go crash a halloween party or something to lift your spirits, haha. Go to another haunted house yourself, take some friends with you.
I love a half mask myself. I went to a really good costume shop, got some water based paint. One of my masks, a skull mask, I continued the bottom part of the skull on my chin and lower half of my face. It looked great. Water based costume paint is surprisingly durable, and works better than the lame grease paint you buy in the chain stores.
Tocky on 25/10/2009 at 21:21
Forgive hell. I WANT your stories! The time some fat lady knocked over her entire tour group of little kids to get out, the guy who wet himself, the one who knocked some ghouls tooth out, there has to be some good ones. Don't be shy.
And BA, aint the number one rated haunted house in the nation in Dallas? What's that like? I may have to book a flight there some Halloween. She wanted to go to the zombie one near New Orleans this year but I talked her out of it. Loved the spiders, my own-
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Tocky on 1/11/2009 at 03:20
The Cutting Edge, that's the one, in Fortworth, biggest haunted house attraction in the US. Anyway, sad to see so few pumpkin carvers here. Maybe I should have figured a way to include a battle royale with massivlugi. Maybe I shouldn't have said shut it. At any rate, I remember why I don't start threads now.
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Night of the Living Dead is on a loop on AMC channel. The first time I watched it I stopped on channel 3 just after the title and didn't know what I was in for, just that I loved the creepy music and it had to be good. I think I was 12. I was right too. Yay for busy parents. I could gnaw on Barbara for trashing the 67 Lemans though. I had one of those. Not at 12 of course.
Sigh. Hope you all survived the onslaught of goblins and made it in out of the night in one piece. Happy Halloween.
