Ready for another twins photo dump? That seems to be pretty much all I occasionally do on this blog. I should work on that. But for now, I give you, Halloween!
The boys were adorable little skeletons in hand knit hats for the party thrown by our townhouse association. And then we took them trick or treating at the mall in hand made (by yours truly of course) Mario (Dom) and Luigi (Alex) costumes. I also slaved away over my sewing machine to pull off a sweet Princess Peach Gown for me and Toad costume for Kevin.
Wow, this year is just zipping buy, I cannot believe it's November already...and part of that is because the weather in Calgary this Fall has been gorgeous (Thanks El Nino). I mean no snow yet, we must still be in August! (that's a reference to when this happened last September)
But there it is, November. So bring on all the #NaNoWriMo #NaNovFiWriMo #NaBloPoMo #NaPlWriMo #NaNoDrawMo hashtags.
Confused yet? Yeah me too sometimes. But basically, November is the month for writing/creating more. (started with National Novel Writing Month and grew from there) And since my novel needs to be my thesis and some papers right now, I'm going to give Blogging every day a shot.
Did you guys have a great halloween? What did you all dress up as? Did you get lot's of trick-or-treaters? Let me know in the comments below! And Happy November Ya'll!
It's nearly time to get trick or treating, and this year I'm more ready than most.
First of all, I actually got a little festive around my apartment with some decorations and a pumpkin or two.
And I filmed and YouTubed the carving process of my pumpkin, it took about 55min of speed carving, the video is sped up tho (since who would want to watch that in real time?)
And don't you just love this adorable cross-stitched pumpkin? After seeing these on the cover of a home and garden type magazine, I just knew I wanted to give it a try. Here's the How-To Video! No skills required.
So with my apartment sufficiently festive, I had to get my stuff together for our annual pumpkin carve off. A traditional boozing and pumpkin extravaganza. Kevin and I were very critical of the pumpkins we selected, and spent about half an hour digging through bins of pumpkins at the Co-op. These were our final 4.
During the carve off, we have two 30 minute carving periods and 4 alcoholic beverages that need to be consumed, needless to say, people have bled on their pumpkins in past years. Not this year tho. I loved the way my creepy pumpkin turned out!
Everyone else's pumpkins turned out great too. As per usual, I've censored a few, I left the unicorns, which Kevin carved (back-story there's a prize given out for the naughtiest pumpkin) since that's just nature. (sorry mom)
This year, I also stepped up my ultimate house wife game, and brought snacks and jello shooters to the party. I promptly forgot to take any pictures of the shooters, which were of the pumpkin pie and candy corn variety. Also of the massive seven layer dip. But I did remember to grab a picture of this guy.
These Halloween Guacamole Pumpkins are all over pinterest. and are super easy to make. Just whip up a large batch of your favourite guacamole. Then grab a small pumpkin (I used a pie pumpkin) and carve up the face you make when you've had a few too many tequilas. Put some of the guac in the pumpkin and spew the rest out from it's mouth onto a platter. So easy!
Now on to my costume for this year.
I decided to go with a recreation, inspired by a jacket I picked up on ridiculous mark-down at Scotch and Soda last Christmas.
Here's the original childhood costume. Wasn't I just adorable!
So good.
Here's the line up for this year.
Jacket is Scotch and Soda, Dress from Top Shop, Shoes are Spring and Purse is H&M. Wig is painted white with acrylic arts paint... also it's mirror reversed (oops!)
I'll share some photos all done up tomorrow, as I'm off to go channel my inner Glenn Close, do my makeup and head out the door!
Every year we gather friends, pumpkins, beers and shots and partake in a carve off, complete with shot gunning beers, and half time mystery shots.
The first year in, I went simple, with an elongated pumpkin.
That first year there were only six of us, we carved on the back deck at Kevin's and the weather was even kind of nice.
In 2013, we stepped up the game, and went from 6 to 12 carvers. We all planned in advance, scouring the internet for inspiration pumpkins. I even experimented with shaping and two toned carving.
Producing this masterpiece! The rest of the feild looked pretty awesome too. I've opted to sensor some of the pumpkins, alcohol and boys in their 20s often leads to NSFW pumpkins.
This year we faced a potential set back, as Kevin and I drove from store to store on Halloween looking for pumpkins that were nowhere to be found in the all of Calgary. Lucky for us a friend new of a farm that was getting rid of pumpkins cheep on November 1st, and they picked up 15 for the carve off.
I decided to go art pumpkin, and freehand carved a pumpkin version of Vincent van Gogh`s The Starry Night.
Which looks O.K. unlit, but with three candles inside and in the dark, it really shines!
And the rest of the pumpkin feild looked great too! Complete with a couple minions, tinker bell and grumpy cat!
After all that pumpkin carving, we thru our Halloween costumes on and celebrated. You can find some of my past costumes here and here. This year, on short notice, I decided to celebrate the Turtle BackPack that Kevin got me for Christmas last year, and went as Raphael!
You can find an amazing how-to video on making your own Ninja Turtle costume on the Thread Banger youtube channel... not that I followed it, but it did inspire me!
And what did Kevin go as? A Taco! Not really a couple costume, but oddly enough the colours matched!
Hope you all had happy halloweens! What did you dress up as?
