Hallowe'en

Hallowe'en is without doubt my favourite annual event! 

I'm not exactly sure why... I guess if I thought long & hard I could come up with a number of different reasons - my love of spiders, fascination with skulls & interest in pretty much anything spooky mcdooky spring to mind straight away - but I suppose the most obvious contributor is my love of fancy dress :-)

You will probably have gleaned already from a previous post that I am no stranger to such antics! I don't need much of an excuse & certainly no encouragement to dress up fancy dress styleee... I'd have a fancy dress party once a month if it were down to me! But it's not, & therein lies the reason why I think I get so excited about Hallowe'en... It's the one time of the year when those who usually shy away from dressing up, thinking those of us that do slightly extrovert & crazy, relent and join in the fun!

On 31st October (& the weekend preceding or following it) it becomes perfectly acceptable to frequent city bars, village pubs & walk the streets wearing odd looking wigs, outrageous makeup, freaky masks, ripped/stained articles of clothing &, most scarily of all, carry weapons! Albeit pretend ones of course... It's even considered acceptable by many to knock the doors of strangers for 'trick or treat'!

Some people go even further, spending hours decorating their houses & hosting their own Hallowe'en parties -  a number of which I've been fortunate enough to attend. Most years I manage to attend two Hallowe'en events - usually one publicly hosted & one privately hosted & of course, I ensure I have a different costume for each event ;-)

This year, Hallowe'en falls a week before Pay Day Friday... Not to be discouraged however, we have decided to have Scary PDF instead - a week later & anything goes costume-wise as long as it's scary! Our local PDF haunt (see what I did there?) Bluu http://bluu.co.uk/ have even arranged to have the bar decked out for us with spooky decorations even though it will be 4th November :-)

Here are some outfits from recent years:

2008 - Bluu

2009 - House Party, Cambs

2009 - Hallowe'en Bonfire

2010 - Apres

2010 - Hallowe'en Bonfire

This year my costume is 'zombie prom queen', nearly all sorted & boy am I excited! Particularly as I can't make the Hallowe'en Bonfire event this year :-( 

I have however, already decided upon my costume for 2012... ;-) A whole year to work on putting it together - woohoo!

Happy Hallowe'en folks!

My very first pumpkin!  I was so very proud :-)

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