halloween party prep

we all worked hard this evening, preparing for tomorrow's big halloween party.

there was pumpkin carving:

resulting in these:

and these:

salty pumpkin seeds were baked:

and a spooky spider web-y ghost costume worked on:

it was adorned with spiders too:

the street has been warned that 20 2nd graders will come trick or treating (it's not a trick or treat country, after all, so we had to warn people so they'd have candy on hand.

we even made the warnings spooky, with burned edges and old, creaky type.

we'll be back tomorrow with pictures of the actual party itself.