Happy Halloween!!!

I hope you all had a great halloween :) we had an awesome one. We decided to have a costume flat party and had great fun making decorations and making the flat look really spooky throughout the day. We also made a massive curry, a cake, fruit punch, gingerbread cookies cut in the shape of coffins and of course carved pumpkins (mine is the bat one). Every single crumb of the food was gone by the end of the night so I guess everyone enjoyed them. I really enjoyed putting together my vampire costume, It consisted of a cloak which my mum made, the necklace made by Lizette and a lace top over a red top and pencil skirt. It was a great night of games, interesting costumes, music and of course lots of drinking. There were lots of great costumes, here is a selection of some of them.

1: My vampire costume, 2: Mad scientist, 3: MJ, 4: 006.5 and me, 5: Sugar skull and me, 6: Butterfly, 7: Sugar skull, 8: Zombie Mario, 9: Little Cook































The flat looked awesome and really set the mood for the night, here are some photos of the little touches we did. 1: drippy candles in old wine bottles, 2: candles, 3: skull shot glasses, 4: string of bats, I cut out bats from black paper and sewed them together, 5: more drippy candles, 6: lots of sweets.









Here is a photo of Luke and me in our costumes. 006.5 and a vampire, I pulled that pose a lot throughout the night :p.

I will leave you with a few photos of my face painted by my housemate in the days leading up to halloween. I was a little poorly so we decided to do some painting because who can be sad when their face is a pumpkin :p

Halloween Costume Swap

I was so excited the other morning when this little brown paper parcel arrived at my door. I could tell from the cute pumpkin paper that it was from Lizzette over at Creativity Lizette and that it was my gift for the Halloween costume swap. I had previously told her that my costume for halloween is going to be a vampire so I couldn't wait to see what she was going to make for it.

The handmade gift she made was a stunning necklace which she had sewn 'I bite' onto, it also has a little pendant of some teeth. I love the style of it and it will look great with my homemade red and black vampire cape. The necklace was presented inside a cardboard coffin box which was so intricate with a little rat, spider and lock with key on it.

Another gift she made was an eyeball magnet. It is so unique and such a clever idea and will look great on the fridge. The other items in the box were a coffin cookie cutter, (which we are going to use to make a big pile of cookies for the party) a pumpkin scented candle and some halloween sweets :) it is such a thoughtful gift and I cant wait to see what she thinks of the gift I sent her :)