Dia De Los Muertos

My son is studying Spanish in school. In the Mexican and Latino cultures, Day of the Dead is celebrated on November 1 and 2. We celebrated by decorating, making sugar skulls, eating special foods, decorating masks and creating an ofrenda.

Sugar Skulls

Masks

Pan de Meurtos

Albondigas


Tamales

My son's nicho

My daughter as Edgar Allan Poe!

Trick or Treat Night
Tonight was trick or treat night. I was so behind this year that things didn't get as organized as I would have liked.

Beemer was a vampire.

Bentley was a devil. I had a different devil costume for him, but Beemer wouldn't leave him alone. He kept biting him. All and all the costumes were a bust this year.

Can't you just hear them saying..."this sucks!"

The set up this year wasn't too elaborate. I was really disappointed, but I just didn't have the time.
Usually, my daughter helped hand out candy. We missed her this year.

Even the pumpkins this year were really basic.

There really wasn't a theme...

Nothing seemed to be working out this year. I had problems with my camera too.

I like the effect of these spooky, blurry shots. My camera wasn't cooperating and I couldn't capture the image I had in my mind....but, we had fun playing around with the fog machine.

Next year I'm going to do a better job!

Yikes!
It's almost Halloween and I'm not ready!

Fireplace Banner

Last year I made this simple banner for the kitchen fireplace.

This year I added a few pom-pom like embellishments to it.

I need a magic potion

I've been sitting around...making Halloween hats...

and still decorating the house...

instead of doing all that boring stuff that needs to be done!

A little bite of heaven

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Witch Hat
Having fun making these little hats.