Gettin' Festive!

Happy Halloween! I love Halloween, more now than when I was a kid. When you're young it's all about the candy. When you get older it's all about the costumes, the movies, the decor, the food, the crafts--the good stuff. To get in the proper spirit this year I made cupcakes, meticulously planned my costume, and will carve a pumpkin and roast pumpkin seeds with my hubby, and watch a few horror flicks or some spooky cinema (The Corpse Bride is not horror, just fun) this evening. First, the cupcakes. I bought regular boxed yellow cake mix and white icing and added coloring to match the traditional Halloween colors: green, purple, and orange. I also used fun cupcake wrappers purchased on a shopping trip to Joann Fabrics with Kelly weeks and week ago. The cake color is perfect but the frosting looks a bit odd. The purple is more grey than I'd like.

The food coloring gel also made the icing really shiny but they taste just fine. I tried to swirl the two colors but it just looks strange. At least you can see all 3 colors. On to my costume. I've already professed my love and adoration for Duck Dynasty and Jase and Phil in particular. So...

I dressed up as Jase Robertson this year. Other than the two-toned hair I've hit it pretty on the mark. Students have said, "You've got to be Jase." I already had the boots but I did purchase the rest. The beard is held in place with hair clips (there a band that goes around my head) and spirit gum. Spirit gum is a very sticky, nasty smelling glue for costumes. I was able to find some at Walmart on Sunday. This costume is really fun but good Lord the beard itches like crazy. I don't know how men can stand this mess. Jeff and I really didn't do much of anything for any holiday last year so we're trying to make a better effort this year. We were a little late but we still bought two pumpkins Monday night, one to carve and one for extra seeds, to get in the Halloween spirit. We're carving and roasting tonight while we watch Insidious. 

I watched The Amityville Horror Ryan Reynolds version on Tuesday. 

The only good thing I can say about that movie is Ryan's shirt is off for a good portion. I also watched The Corpse Bride earlier in the week. I really love that movie. I bought some Halloween themed Cadbury chocolate eggs last week. I haven't tried one yet but I might need to give it a go this evening. I also need to catch up on some episodes of American Horror Story. I hope everyone has a delightfully ghoulish Halloween!