halloween party

scenes from our halloween party this past weekend....

halloween party 2008

the halloween party was a HUGE success. beyond all expectations. ALL of the kids came very dressed up and into it and brother-in-law michael was the coolest, scariest zombie around...check out the highlights:

sabin greets cousin dracula nicolai

the coolest zombie with the most need for dental work

two of the guests quite scared of the zombie

husband secured a real pig's head that was a source of extreme fascination

especially the digusting eyeball bit of it.

and i found the coolest purple eyelashes.

i think i'm gonna wear them all the time.

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.

scenes from halloween in tivoli

halloween approaches

halloween is coming and since poor sabin never really had a birthday party clear back in january because the house was torn apart, we've invited her whole class to a halloween party. last sunday, we all sat down to make the invitations together.  here are some of the results:

i started off by gocco-ing the words onto one side of the cards.

i love how the gocco-ed cards look in the drying rack.

we stamped the word "Halloween" with rubber stamps.

orange is so cheerful!

even with a skullie on it.

then we proceeded to decorate the other side of the cards.

we used halloween paper goodies i bought at scrap shops in singapore.

sabin did this one.

this one was mine.

one of mathilde's

sabin's favorite one.

we saved this one to remember them by.

and then there was far...

this was tame enough

and rather amusing since it contains an image of

the evil pia kjærsgaard of dansk folkeparti,

the "afraid of the world" party in denmark, 

caught in a spider web.

but then there was this:

husband was quite inspired by the newspaper.

he took a cartoon with the seals and bats,

put it over a picture of a swimming pool of happy children,

and then liberally used a red marker.

i think we'll set to work producing such cards and sell them on etsy ,

in a shop called "totally disturbing cards."

what do you think?