I will post some pics on Friday night, but i'll tell you what the kids will be ahead of time: Ani is going to be a ninja, and Lisa is going to be Wednesday Adams from the Adams Family. I laugh when I say this because it was my idea.
We were out a couple of weekends ago, and she had her hair in braids just like Christina Ricci does in the movie. I forget exactly what we were talking about, but she answered me in the same deadpan voice with the same droll expression and voila! - inspiration took over. We found a cool black skirt, and vintage black top that she can wear, and I bought her an absolutely hideous pair of orange and black striped tights (that she wears EVERYWHERE .. but I digress ... ) to go with them, so she'll look pretty cool. Minimum effort .. maximum effect. Gotta love it.
I think she's too old, but what do I know? I'm sure she'll outgrow it soon enough. We dug up some of our perrenials in the front garden (since they are done for the season anyway) and got a couple of little tombstones and a bag of bones we scattered around to make it look like a disturbed grave. Then we put some stakes around them and taped them off with caution tape. It looks pretty cool. I told Andy we should tarp over the big shrub we have, cover it with dirt and make it look like a real grave - this will be next years project.
Maybe something fun with body outlines .. ala Naked Gun. LOL. Now i'm just getting carried away. This will be our first Halloween over here, we're not quite sure how much traffic we'll see. I know most of the kids in the neighborhood, since they have all been in my house over the summer, so I think we'll have a good turnout.
We have a fog machine and a strobe light for the hallway too, we just need to get some pumpins and get them carved for the steps. I'm going to get Andy out this weekend to hang up the Christmas lights too. He was going to do it last weekend, but that ferocious wind we had would have knocked him over.
Ah well .. if Halloween is this much fun, I wonder what Christmas will be like ?
3 comments:
I can SO see Lisa being Wednesday..
"But are they made from real girl scouts?"
I have watched those movies too many times...
(and in the spirit of the season, my word verification for this comment came up as "UNKIN" )
That's my favorite part too .. and the part where Gomez says "c'mon thing ... lend a hand!"
giggle ..
That wind took our fence and the neighbours fence on the other side; we spent the Halloween weekend building them both; and thank goodness it's done; we all have dogs.
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