Outside halloween party

As I am writing this the wind and the rain is really crazy out here. Hope Sandy hasn’t wrecked much havoc on you all. Stay safe. On Saturday we had a Halloween party at a friend’s place and I helped with the decorations. We were trying to come up with a not too scary theme (as there...Read More »

Since the garden was sitting empty, waiting to be prepped for winter, I threw down some hay, strung up some lights, and setup a beer garden for the party.

Decorating ideas for a spooky insane asylum Halloween party theme; padded walls, bloody syringes, baby parts in jars, and more.

The last time I hosted a Halloween party, I was 22 years old. I had just moved to Halifax (on the East Coast in Canada), far away from my family and I didn't have very many friends. I wasn't particularly outgoing and I definitely wasn't popular. It was the first (and last) 'big' party I hosted when I was in school. I had a good friend who helped me put up posters on the bulletin board of our architecture school. It was just simple text with the date, time and location on regular letter-sized…

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