Happy Halloween

After my extremely poor effort last week at dressing up as Vanellope I felt I should try slightly harder with Halloween. This does mean that I ended up with a witches hat and fake blood, because those two things definitely go together. Fact. I need to get better at this costume thing.

I have never really bothered with Halloween, its too close to Christmas as far as I am concerned and Christmas is a HUGE deal with me, so by the time Halloween has arrived I have already started getting stupidly excited about the festive season and Halloween seems to get forgotten about.

 

The one thing I do love about this time of year is carving pumpkins. I insist on carving one every year and this year was no exception. So it was a trip to our local supermarket for the perfect pumpkin, we also somehow ended up looking at Christmas decorations, I don't know how that happened. It took FOREVER as we couldn't decide which one was the perfect one, we did eventually make a decision only to get home and realise that when it was on a flat surface it tilted forward quite a lot. *sigh*. However that didn't stop us and we soon got thinking of ideas. I find with pumpkins a face is slightly boring and overused so I always try and think of something different, so this year we went for a slightly evil looking sorting hat from Harry Potter and I was quite impressed with the final result.

 

The final result

With the pumpkin done, I had to get thinking of a good costume. I ended up skipping the fake blood as it said on the packet it could stain your face for a few days and I had to go to work today so it was a risk I wasn't willing to take. Somehow I think stewarding a Charlie and Lola play with fake blood on my face is not the best idea ever. In the end I just wore a lot of black, a witches hat and A LOT of make-up, I even drew a cobweb on my face. Dressing up really is not my thing, but it was good fun to try!

 

I hope everyone had a fantastically spooky Halloween! I am now off to get ridiculously over excited about Christmas!

 

I did get creative with my noticeboard!