‘when black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam
may luck be yours on halloween.’
-author unknown
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image credit: pinterest
Oct31
Category Archives: halloween
Oct28
cooking with the witch.
cooking for the holiday
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‘i watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.’
-laura esquivel
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image source: Dorrie and the Blue Witch by Patricia Coombs
Oct28
haunted.
a trip to the haunted forest
with one daughter
two pre-teen grandies
and me
hearts pumping, adrenaline spiking
three generations
shrieking and running the whole way through!
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“what terrified me will terrify others;
and i need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.” –mary shelley
Nov1
finally, a pinata.
when i woke up on halloween morning
and finally, finally, i am a pinata
even cocoa the sweet dog joined in the fun
no candy in here
but luckily my kind colleagues
were the candy to my pinata.
“i feel like a human pinata. the disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.”
-katie couric
Oct31
tell a story.
Mack Elementary School Students in Halloween Costumes
For All-City Party, October 1941
Photo by The Ann Arbor News
All decked out in costumes,
these lads and lass are determined to win prizes
in the all-city Halloween party to be held in West Park.
Between 500 and 1,000 children are expected to attend the annual event.
happy halloween!
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“clothes make a statement. costumes tell a story.”
— mason cooley
Oct30
full of it.
this is not me, but we both have eaten our fill (and then some), of candy
before giving what’s left of it to halloween trick-or-treaters tomorrow night.
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“every time i avoid eating halloween candy, i reward myself by eating halloween candy.”
-author unknown
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art credit: ‘Maltesers’ by Alison Friend
Oct28
’tis near.
full october moon tonight, and something’s different
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“when witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near halloween.”
— author unknown
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art credit: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, The Witch on her Broomstick
Illustration from The Enchanted Forest – 1921
Oct24
one more week.
one more week until the candy rains down!
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“i want to get a vending machine, with fun-sized candy bars,
and the glass in front is a magnifying glass.
you’ll be mad but it will be too late.”
-mitch hedberg
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image credit: etsy vintage
Oct31
hot stuff.
i loved wearing the costumes of my childhood era
and happily ‘suffered for my art.’
recent neighborhood nextdoor comments on the halloween costumes are wonderful:
They were so ugly but if you made your own costume, it wasn’t cool. We had to buy these things…jumpsuit tore easily, and elastic snapped off mask. And the sweat…and trying to breathe through the tiny mouth hole!
Those masks were so HOT! Didn’t hold us back tho! Was so safe then and went out by ourselves.
You couldn’t see out of them, sometimes the parts that touched your face were sharp, the elastic that held it on got tangled in hair. It is a wonder we survived Halloween in these masks!
then the elastic broke so your mom tied it and was even tighter and hotter!
and tangled it whatever hair was still left!
I’m surprised there weren’t thunderstorms inside the mask with all the condensation from breathing too. My favorite was my Hot Stuff costume. I still have a picture of me in it!
I totally had one of these costume with the mask…but this…this looks like a Pink Floyd video.
It was miserable wearing those masks, but we didn’t care, we wanted that candy !!
Looking back at those costumes, they were actually a little creepy!!
How about the little tiny slit near the mouth so that you could attempt to get air? Your parents couldn’t understand why you had to take it off before you went up the steps of the next house. Your face would be drenched with sweat but you would wipe it off and keep going.
Made of suffocating plastic but we loved them anyway.
happy halloween!
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“when you’re wearing an animal costume and something bad happens,
your facial expression doesn’t change. the animal is deadpan the whole time.
if you’re skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion.
it’s just a stoic gorilla wildly falling down a hill, out of control.”
-dimitiri martin
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photo credit: vintage pinterest
Oct20
cat’s eye view.
my daughter’s two black cats
who i collectively call ‘the nathans’
waited until her halloween display was up
deciding to become the stars
sitting centerstage in the tableau.
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“in a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.”
-joseph wood krutch
I didn't have my glasses on.... 