It’s been a while and I guess I’ll get into that another time but I thought it would be nice to come back on Halloween because I don’t know… we had a Halloween party and I felt more like myself again?
So as you know, James loves Halloween. He loves Halloween possibly more than he loves me >_> which is fine. >_>
Every year he tries to do something more elaborate and now that we have our own proper apartment to decorate, he’s even more into it.
Growing up in Australia, we never celebrated because it was more of an American holiday. But people seem to be getting into it a lot more these days so it’s easier to find decorations and whatnot!
This was our finished spread!
Of course, I don’t actually like parties so Celina and Toby just came over and we ate a lot of food and watched the Addams Family. Perfect afternoon!
We decided to go with the Addams family because we both really loved them growing up. I was always more into Wednesday but as an adult I think Gomez and Morticias relationship is goals. I also hate that I used the word goals that way.
And of course Lottie needed a costume too but dogs shockingly don’t like to wear hats so this was her only photo.
James bought a jacket from a thrift shop and I added the stripes with masking tape. I thought it was funny that he and Toby ended up looking like opposites. We had a bit of a struggle to try to find a suit that looked the part and wasn’t super expensive so we settled on something that actually fit over the idea of something that had the wide pinstripes.
I bought my dress from a thrift shop too and altered it to make the bottom tighter. I used the left overs to make some sleeves. Tbh I kind of wish I had enough to make longer more flowy sleeves but I think it still ended up being quite decent!
Originally I bought a $5 wig from Big W to go with it but it was so bad that I couldn’t make it work. I gave styling it a go but just ended up melting it hahaha!
In the end I bought some temporary black hair colour spray and ignored the warnings of “do not use on blonde hair”. It worked shockingly well!!
Of course I ran out with one blonde spot left and after a brush through, it looked pretty grey. Celina ended up having to stop on her way over and pick up some more so I could finish it *_*
In the end I think everything turned out really well!
For food we had mummy sausages, witch hat calzones, spider bread, spider choc dip, zombie brain cheese dip, slime cake, eye truffles and a heap of other thing. The ideas were either found on Pinterest or from our old recipes.
I have new uncomfortable diet restrictions from finally having my allergies diagnosed which have been really hard to work around but I was able to eat about half of this stuff which was really great. I really miss eating interesting and fun foods.
We had a bit of a snafu the night beforehand when James burned his hand very badly while dealing with molten fudge. While he was set up on the couch with his hand in water I finished off the fudge and took direction on making the second half of the cake.
Luckily James’ hand healed a bit over night and he was able to finish up everything he had planned the next day.
By the end of the party the hair spray had lived up to its $4-ness and rubbed off on everything it touched including my entire back XD
I was terrified of it not washing out properly. After 4 washes I ended up back to a slightly dirty blonde…
Another round of washes and I was back to blonde. Worth it for $4!
So I don’t quite know how to finish this off… how did I used to finish blog posts? While the lead up was a bit stressful the outcome was fun and hanging out with friends eating cute food is basically my favourite thing.
