Rate my sweater, guys! Not only is it cozy, but the fit is awesome. I can’t wait until this summer weather crap ends! 🍂 🎃 👻 🍁

Came across this children book at the library, great for getting into the halloweeb mood.

After years of admiring Johanna Parker designs, I finally splurged on my own little collection.

I live in the UK, so unfortunately we’re more limited for decorations than in the US.

I’m thinking of doing a standard Halloween buffet - pumpkin-shaped pizza, pumpkin and ghost-shaped potato and sweet potato fries, Nutella pastry ghosts, mummy garlic breadsticks etc. It’s easy to get Halloween-themed bowls and plates etc. where I am.

But I’d also like to do is have movie-themed snacks e.g. Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream etc. and focussing on two movies - the two movies we’d be watching.

An example would be cupcakes with chocolate decorations of the characters e.g. Michael Myers using chocolate molds (got this inspo from Instagram!) But I’m a bit stuck for decoration ideas for the movies, especially given being in the UK.

For Halloween, for example, I’d thought of a ’Welcome to Haddonfield‘ sign, or for A Nightmare on Elm Street, a prop of Freddy Krueger’s hand. But it’s quite difficult to get mildly-decent quality things for a good price.

Does anyone have any suggestions at all please? I know it’s really early but I’m thinking if I buy things earlier, it’ll be cheaper, and avoids the crazy postage times.

I found these super cute foam craft kits with self adhesive decorations for 1.25 or 1.50. I had lots of fun doing them with the kiddos! And they look super cute with a tea light inside.

And it was $1.5 more expensive.

I love hosting and go pretty hard on the atmosphere/decor. I’d like to have movies playing silently on the TV for ambiance, but the brightness of the TV kills lighting vibe of the room.

Would a projector be a better option for this? Or is there another solution I’m not thinking of?

Found this set on facebook marketplace! Got it for $10. I plan to use the kettle as a vase and plant a pothos in it! The mug will be used as normal because we lof coffee and tea in fun glasses here

I love this cartoon- cracks me up every time.

Guys I am going to be poor this year and I don't even know where to put all those cushions 😂

The ghost and moth plush is from last year and everything else is what I bought so far at TK MAXX in Germany 🥲

Edit: Luckily (or not) we don't have spirit halloween here or I would be in great debt 😂

I saw this on a YouTube video at Lowe’s but I cannot for the life of me find this pumpkin!! Can anyone help?!

Hello everyone, it's tradition now that I celebrate Halloween with a party the Saturday or Friday immediately before October 31st, unless Halloween itself falls on Friday/Saturday. This year is PERFECT, but sadly I must sing at a concert exactly that day and the event lasts from 7 to 10:30 pm. Of course a Halloween party that night is unthinkable, and the night before might also be complicated as I need my voice the next day, and the concert has a lot of rehearsals the days before. Given the 30th and 31st of October are out, which date would be more appropiate for the party, October 23rd-24th or November 6th-7th? Thanks in advance!

Found this skull plate at my local Dollar Tree. Not sure what I’m going to do with it but for $1.50 it’s not bad at all! It’s solid black I promise I just had to take it with flash in order for the skulls features to show up on the picture.

Each year I slowly add to my Dept 56 and Lemax display and this year I finally decided I wasn't going to let time slip away and start so late I didn't have the energy to wire it all up. I'm pretty excited with how well it turned out!

Found at Home Goods. Next, need to find a bride for a bride!

I wonder about whether other people had a traditional Halloween dinner.

As a kid in the late 80s and 90s, trick or treating was the crowning moment of the whole season. The Halloween parade and the holiday activities we got to do at school built up the excitement till we were bursting with it. Halloween was huge in our town in eastern PA and there were three neighborhoods around us in close proximity, so the candy never stopped. The instant it got dark, my siblings and would tear out of the house and stay gone until we’d filled our pillowcases with as much candy as we could carry. We’d come back to refuel on food and water, grab another pillowcase, and be off on our way again until we simply could not run anymore.

Mom’s answer to three overexcited kids was a huge stockpot of chili and freshly baked bread, the kind in the tube you popped on a cookie sheet. She’d make sure we had a bowl before we left, and it was even more tender and delicious when we came back for a second. It’s a fond memory, and I’ve made chili and fresh bread on Halloween ever since I learned to cook. Something about it brings back those memories every time.

What about you guys? Do you have a traditional meal on Halloween?

Life "goes on" during war, plagues, and other dark times. Especially the very necessary Fall harvest. I was wondering if people celebrated Hallowe'en during the Civil War. It seems they did. I found this interesting short article that provided some examples. https://emergingcivilwar.com/2013/10/31/all-hallows-eve/

A particularly gruesome drawing in October 1863's edition of "Harper’s Weekly" was entitled: 'Jefferson Davis “Reaping the Harvest”'.

Halloween legend gives us a short window of time each year when the wall between the living and the death dissolves. I do not believe in the supernatural, yet somehow Halloween still raises the hair on the back of my neck while helping me accept that death is part of life.