It's going to be a big, bad blow-out this Halloween, being our 25th wedding anniversary, too! We have people coming in from out of town for the week-end so we'll have a full house which is fine. The more, the scarier! Since Halloween is on Saturday this year we can have Halloween fun starting Friday night and go right through until Sunday morning.

Friday night schedule is a dinner party, a fancy costumed dance and cocktails. Not is that order, but cocktails, dinner and then a party and dance. We are setting up an 18 foot tent in the back yard with a complete sound system and computerized DJ. We want formal style costumes, fancy vampires, Gothy stuff. This one is just for our out of town friends, family and closest local friends.

Saturday night we will be all taking turns milling around the yard haunt, handing out candy and spooking the trick-or-treaters. When we finally send the last kid packing, we'll go back out to the tent for the big party for all friends, family and anyone else that drops by with an invite. We'll decorate the tent with gross, gory Halloween stuff and the costumes are whatever people want as long as they are wearing a costume.

Sunday morning will be a breakfast party for anyone still at the house. We'll do a big breakfast but on a Halloween theme starting with Bloody Marys, both virgin and non. Now we just have to start pulling all this together!!

I'm getting ideas for food, music and more at the following sites:
Halloween Music: Halloween Music 101
Halloween Food: Halloween Recipes 101
Halloween Decorations: Halloween Online Decorations section

I know I've said it before but using fog machines for Halloween just makes the night seem scarier, more sinister and just plain cooler! Every year new ones come out that do different things. We always incorporate them into our grave yard and what ever else we can think of.

This year, we are thinking about putting some up by our gates using a fog chiller, so the fog is roiling across and down the dirt road we live on. That should make it easy for people to find us! While there are fog machines that have chillers built in, we'll probably use old fashion chillers there since we can load them with dry ice and they'll last most of the night with one fill. Of course, we'll have to have someone check the fluid reservoirs once in a while.

You'll find the instructions for making your own fog chiller at GotFog.com, a great web site dedicated to fog machines and their usage. You won't find a better site!

It's never to early to start shopping for Halloween costumes and Costume Kingdom has a great selection and the best customer service we've found. You'll like the wide selection of costumes that suite any need and all the accessories that go with them! Last year we got my mom three Nun costumes and her and two friends went as singing Nuns! It was a hoot! These ladies are all in their 60's & 70's! They also used them for a talent show at their Methodist church that got a standing ovation!


They have this great gorilla costsume, the head on that thing hangs down to the waist and looks like a screaming, mad gorilla! We got that for my 17 year old nephew and he had a riot with it, scaring the girls at the Halloween parties he went to with his friends. He'll have that costume the rest of his life, it's that well made! I can picture him grown with kids of his own, chasing them around in it.

We got a beautiful set of Devil and his Lady costumes from them last year for us. They were just beautiful! The Lady Devil was all satin and lace and deep red and black, I got a long red hair devil wig that had horns attached to it and that's all I needed. Spooky, he was Satan himself, all dapper in his suite with vest, cape and horns. I did a all makeup on him to give him Jack Nicholson eye brows, he looked positively demonic! We were the hit of the Halloween party!

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Here are more easy ideas to add something extra to your Halloween haunt. We've tried most of these ourselves and they do work and most are fairly easy to do.

You can easily build a rotting corpse out of a cheap plastic skeleton using paper towel, spray glue, spray foam insulation and a little more. It'll add some life to your Halloween haunt and it's actually fun to make! Read how here!

Sitting there wanting to find Halloween sites that are informational and will give you ideas for your haunt but tired of looking at the thousands of search links? Try this web site specific site that has only Halloween links, Halloween Family!

Want to plan a scary vacation for Halloween? Did you know that Las Vegas, Nevada is a rockin' Halloween town?? It makes a great vacation destination for Halloween! For more info, check this out!