All Soul’s Day, Samhain, Halloween, Protestant Reformation Day – they’re all a week away. Chances are, you’re either going to a party, hosting one or hiding in terror. Make whatever you’ve got coming up better with the following guides.
Easy & Creative Halloween Costume Ideas
Why spend a fortune on Halloween costumes? This book contains over 60 creative and easy costume ideas that you can make at home, using common household items. Impress your friends at Halloween! Or make fun and inexpensive costumes for your kids.
Do you have a costume yet? Do you dread geting caught between spending too much time and money, and wearing the lamest getup ever? You should read Easy & Creative Halloween Costume Ideas by Lisa Severson. This book will show you 60 painless ways to create memorable costumes for yourself, your kids or that lackadaisical loser who shows up at your house dressed as “Joe the Plumber.”
13 Halloween Recipes
This booklet of kitchen-tested recipes includes a complete Halloween dinner, treats, appetizers and even a “Goblin’s Horns” breakfast casserole. Complete with color photos! Contents: 1. Easy Pumpkin Chill-ee Bowls 2. Blue Moon Corn Muffins 3. Orange Essence Honey Butter 4. Red Eyes are Watching 5. The Green Brain 6. Red Hot Cauldron Cakes 7. Skull on a Stick 8. Cheese Blob with Green Bat Chips 9. Hypnotic Apple Cheese Pinwheels 10. Pumpkin Seed Party Mix 11. What is it? – Checkerboard Fudge Part 1 12. Rocky Road – Checkerboard Fudge Part 2 13. Goblin’s Horns for Halloween Morns
Serve memorably spooky snacks at your party by following the repulsive recipes in 13 Halloween Recipes from ThirteenForHalloween.com. Those Goblin Horns are making me hungry. Please remember that these depraved dishes are only visually arresting – we have the authors’ word that everything featured is very tasty regardless of appearance. Even Poop On A Cracker.
Mummy Doll Pattern
MAke a mummy or a few for a frightful and fun halloween. You can enlarge this pattern if desired ot make a toddler size doll or make them mini to bury in candy bowls.
Further frighten up your humble abode with Mummy Dolls – frightfully fun projects for large and small mummy creations.
BLOOD LINES
All Hallows Eve has never been so funny with BLOOD LINES, Horrible Jokes, One-Liners, and Stories To Haunt Your Mind. This one-of-a-kind joke book is filled with over 200 hilarious Halloween theme jokes, riddles, and puns, plus spooky and unique drawings. This is the perfect, simple holiday gift for goofy ghosts, goblins, and little gobblers, and for the big people who are still kids at heart.
Keep your party guests groaning in delight with jokes from Tony Iacoviello’s Blood Lines. Here’s an example: What does a vampire never order at a restaurant? A stake sandwich. There are 52 ridiculous pages of this balderdash.
Monster Month
Thirty-one days, thirty-one monsters: Monster Month! After a lifetime of trekking jungles, climbing mountains, and spelunking caves, the world’s foremost cryptozoologist at last reveals a selection of his greatest discoveries. Herein you will find the Adameve, the Dark Strider, the Opium Gore Golem, the Trick Squilligoss, the Zompire Bat… And many more fantastic beasts! With the keen mind of a scientist and the bold heart of an explorer, Professor Ichbonnsen provides illuminating descriptions of how the creatures live — and astonishing tales of how he found them. Both adults and children will marvel at the Professor’s adventures… And be left wondering what else remains yet undiscovered in the unexplored corners of our rich planet. Like the map-makers of old, you will understand: “Here be dragons!” Monster Month is lavishly illustrated with 32 full-color paintings by Sven Bonnichsen, and 7 full-color maps tracing Professor Ichbonnsen’s travels.
Another book that would be fun to have at your party is Professor Ichbonnsen’s Monster Month. It’s a spectacular who’s who of the monsters that are likely skulking your streets this season.
Witch Way….His Way A reference guide to the Craft
Cauldrons instead of Jack-o-lanterns? Most people are focused on stockpiling bags of candy and finding the perfect costume for Halloween. But is there more to this festive holiday than the typical tricks and treats? Steven Johnson’s book titled Witch Way . . . His Way does so much more than spout off spooky tales of goblins and ghouls. Witch Way . . . His Way, is an easy to read desk reference full of information such as explanations of what this Holiday really means to Pagans, such explanations as, Gods and Goddesses from around the world, animal symbolism, a complete herbology section explaining the practical uses of common and some not so common herbs, rituals, and receipes. There’s healing, love, and even luck within these pages. So come Halloween will you be brave enough to crack this book that dispels all those modern-day myths of what witches really put in their secret brews. Reference guide for practitioners of the craft, including herblore, animal symbolism, oils, rituals and spells.
And, finally, if your party gets to the point where a past life regression session or druid healing spell is necessary, it’s probably a good idea to have a copy of A reference guide to the Craft on hand.
With all this fine literature at your disposal, any chilling celebration is bound to be a smash hit.
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Thanks for all the great ideas and websites. I will check them out. Happy Halloween!
Great ideas, Jay. I’ll check it out.
But, to be honest, i’ll probably be going as the old standby, Olde Tymey Banker.
See you at Glen So!
Thanks for the ideas and the website links! You’re the best.