kickass mummy makeup

http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.3a0656639de62ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=5749c137bf22f010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=bf89cf380e1dd010VgnVCM1000005b09a00aRCRD&rsc=articlecontent&page=1&lastnavigatedchannel=bf89cf380e1dd010VgnVCM1000005b09a00aRCRD

TO DO!

Thursday night:

1. groceries
2. paint Amy & Michelle's tombstone
3. fortune cookies

Friday:

1. cut dowls and tape to tombstones
2. lighting
3. zombie arms
4. set up Horace
5. set up buried skeleton
6. gut & carve pumpkins
7. make cheesball
8. boil eggs
9. arm going down drain
10. set up candles
11. rent movie
12. cobwebs & spiders
13. make knife for baby

Saturday:

1. make guac
2. make devilled eggs
3. bloody the shower
4. set up movie screen and projector

tombstones

1. Michel GraveHell & Screamy Lam

2. Gangrena Gonelly & Jen Drowned

3. Sandra Scare-it & Unicef Box

4. Minced Galante & So-longya Wail

5. Wormy Rotteneau - Michelle Embalm-us?

Gross Menu II

Food:
fortune cookies
barfing pumpkin guac w/ black nachos
witch finger cookies
olives and eyeballs
devilled eyeballs
crackers and brain cheeseball
roasted pumpkin seeds

Props:
bloody flopping hand
spider toothpicks (for?)
brain cheeseball with spiders on it

Shopping list:
4 avocados
2 red onions
dill
red food colouring
red decorator gel
olives
jar roasted red peppers
2 bags black nachos
fortune cookies
crackers
cheddar
mozzerella
2 blocks cream cheese
sour cream
eggs
mayo

Recipes:

Witch Fingers

Ingredients
1 cup (250 mL) butter, softened
1 cup (250 mL) icing sugar
1 egg
1 tsp (5 mL) almond extract
1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla
2-3/4 cups (675 mL) all-purpose flour
1 tsp (5 mL) baking powder
1 tsp (5 mL) salt
3/4 cup (175 mL) whole blanched almonds
1 tube (19 g) red decorator gel (blood for fingers)

Preparation
In bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla;
beat in flour, baking powder and salt.
Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Working with one quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remaining dough refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoonful (5 mL) of dough into finger shape for each cookie.
Press almond firmly into 1end for nail.
Squeeze in centre to create knuckle shape; using paring knife, make slashes in several places to form knuckle.

Place on lightly greased baking sheets; bake in 325F (160C) oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until pale golden. Let cool for 3 minutes. Lift up almond; squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back into place, so gel oozes out from underneath. Remove from baking sheets; let cool on racks. Repeat with remaining dough.

Jack-o-lanterns: this years and last year's

This year's jack-o-lantern options :

Last year's jack-o-lanterns:

Pumpkin sites:

http://www.pumpkinway.com/

decor

Front yard:
tombstones
skeleton reaper
green lights
zombie arms from last year
new grave (use new hand, boot?)
skeleton dude sticking out of the ground

Skeleton in trunk on porch?
movie
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Inside:
spider webs
jackolanterns (5 total? inside and out) missed the $2 sale!! FUCK!
shower - blood splatters and hanging knife
arm down the drain again?

to do tomorrow:
get pumpkins (5 big, 2 babies)
get new dress for costume
fake pearls
maybe new doll
get liquid latex, red and white acrylic paint, brushes?
dollar store candles? Cauldron?

Food table:
fortune cookies
barfing pumpkin guac and black nachos
witch fingers
olives and eyeballs?
devilled eyeballs
crackers and brain cheeseball
roasted pumpkin seeds
bloody flopping hand
spider toothpicks (for?)

Gross Menu

Last year we had pretty awesome looking food, so I think we should still use all of those ideas, but add a couple of new things.

So far the only ideas I've come up with are brain cheeseball, which will be made with my new brain mold, which should be on its way now!

idea: damn I wish I'd pulled over to buy that hairdressing head at that yard sale... but if I can find something like that, cut the top off and serve the salsa in a bowl inside the head....

Martha Stewart's Halloween ideas are usually a little elegeant and/or PG13 for our taste, but her spider toothpicks are a subtle but nice touch.

Of course we'll be using the witch fingers and puking pumpkin, and the s&s cocktail meatballs always go off reeeally well.

40 more days....

I think I want to use Janet for the ween party invitation. Just have to figure out exactly what she'll be screaming...
maybe with an off image balloon saying "Catriona, quit yelling!!" hahahahahashewouldsokillmehahahahaha

Looks like between me, Catriona and Janet here, we'll have quite the 60's horror theme happening. Catriona wants to be Tippy Whatsherface from "The Birds" and I'm gonna be Rosemary and baby. I'm really stuggling with whether or not to hack my hair and dye it blonde the day before halloween, just to really go the whole way. I'll prolly chicken out. I'll have to be blonde though, so highlights it is. Too bad - I've grown so attached to my crap brown gray streaked hair.


I'm thinking it will be quite a challenge to find a 60's aline maternity dress. Reeeally hard. Might have to do the nightie thing. Makes for a more authentic still recreation...