This year Target's Halloween theme is Skelanimals. They make me a little sad because they are described as "Adorable little animals who have met an untimely end-mostly due to their own reckless and ill-advised behavior."
It's pretty hard to top last year's Domo Halloween at Target but the Skelanimals dressed in bunny and bear costumes are pretty funny.
I was in NYC for work during Halloween, so Aaron had to hand out candy to the trick or treaters by himself.
He decorated just like I would and added music, a black light and a smoke machine. This is a picture of the front door he sent to my phone. He hung shredded garbage bags for effect.
He did a good job, because he counted 306 trick or treaters this year!!!
Halloween in NYC was interesting. You get used to seeing ghouls riding on scooters and hanging out of taxis.
The day after is interesting too as you find abandoned costumes here and there. This Domo outfit was left on a post. He looks like an evil Domo.
Tonight I am having a sit down Halloween dinner party, so that required some crafting on my part.
I handmade the party invites. I used pre-cut black cards and added a moon with a stamped branch and a punched out owl.
Was it an excuse to buy the Martha Stewart owl punch at Michaels? Perhaps. Look how cute! It even embosses the eyes!
Aaron cut the moons out of yellow paper for me and then I used a branch rubber stamp to make a tree branch for the owl to sit on. Aaron then wrote the party details on the back with a white pen.
We also made paper mache pumpkins for favors.
The pumpkins were filled with ye olde fashioned candy like Bit-O-Honeys.
The pumpkins weren't hard... we covered balloons with orange crepe paper soaked in Mod Podge mixed with water. After they dried we popped the balloons and pulled them out. Aaron added wire handles and I added black crepe paper jack o'lantern faces.
I was going to make one for each person, but they were more work than I anticipated so we made them larger... one for each couple.
The house is looking very Halloweeny! It looks so festive and cozy, I had to take a picture. I am sure the neighbors were wondering what I was doing on the front walk in the dark with a camera and tripod.
I made a Halloween photo project for work where you can download these lollipop cover templates and customize them yourself. Seeing as how I get over 200 trick or treaters, I need to think hard whether this is something I want to hand out.
To make the photo lollipops I used these Yummy Earth Organic Lollipops. I was lured in by the packaging and the "All Natural and Delicous". Strangely there were NO "pomegranate pucker" lollipops in the entire bag. Also very few mango and blueberry. Otherwise very tasty. Do I want to force the neighborhood kids to eat USDA Organic candy?
I love all the Domo stuff at Target. I wanted to buy all the little Domo's in Halloween costumes, but the thought of our very own Domo sitting at home gave me pause.
Instead of buying a bunch of new Domo's I made a pair of bat wings for our Domo.
All I needed was some black felt, needle and thread to make Domo his own pair of bat wings. Boo!
Thanks to all my wonderful blog readers, when I got home from Toronto I had many emails informing me of Domo's presence as the Halloween mascot at Target. Thank you everyone! I scurried over there after work and nearly hyperventalated from all the Domo.
Aaron just walked around shaking his head mumbling that he thinks someone at Target is reading my blog.
They did a really nice job and the Target I went to didn't even have everything up yet! Well, that just means I will have to go back again in a couple days.
I have asked for a post holiday display from the Target people before... and I always got the run around. I don't know if I can handle the rejection again.
This year instead of a typical Halloween party, Aaron and I threw a sit
down dinner party. I cleared the furniture out of the living room and
set up a dinner table with candlelight.
The theme was "mad science" so the table had beakers with dry
ice putting off foggy mist, test tubes strewn about and wine bottles
with POISON labels.
Aaron and I even dressed the part. These were our badges.
I got the laboratory invitations, test tube party favors and
POISON wine bottle labels from Martha Stewart's line of crafts at
Michaels.
Here is a shot of the jelly bean filled test tubes with our guests
names on them.
Aaron made the cornmeal encrusted goat cheese with warm tomato salsa
appetizer. He later served up little petri dishes with green jello in
them for an aperitif.
It was a great evening. More pictures of the Halloween dinner
party are on My
Gallery. Matt took some great pictures too.
