A Halloween To Remember

When we moved to our little town 5 years ago we were so excited to be away from the big city and so excited to show off our love for Halloween. For those of you who are new to my blog, my husband and I were both Special Effects artists for the film industry in Toronto Ontario Canada. I was also the head of the hair department for an International film school called Complections International Academy of Makeup... check that out if you want to see some truly amazing makeup~~~~

Anyway, we were sooooo excited to set up our house and really show off... well as it turned out this was a Halloween to remember because we stayed out most of the night with spooky sounds playing and I sat waiting in our shed that we had all done up as a witches magic shop. All the candy was organized into jars that said things like eyeballs, fingers etc. We all dressed up even to the point that my husband was on his stilts all night... we had a great graveyard that J made all the grave stones for himself and awesome pumpkins that we spent hours carving... and that was the year Martha Steward first came out with the idea of the silhouettes and so we cut out a huge Witch that we drew ourselves and we had mice in the windows and on the outside stairs and we had two wooden silhouette cats too. It was so WICKED and we were sooooo excited ...

And no one showed up!... so sad! And it has never changed... not ever. SO now we just watch a scary movie, put on a nice dinner and that's about it.

So here is our Halloween to Remember: Welcome my guests

~Even My Mother In Law joined in the fun~



BREAST CANCER WEEK

Okay I know this isn't really a Halloween post although Breast Cancer is scary. I decided to post these photos of J and I, along with my Mother In Law and J's Grandma in the Breast Cancer walk a few years back.

ALL have been touched by this terrible disease and we are trying to do our part to help find the cure. I have lost my friend Debbie and J's two aunties are survivors...

Here we are in Toronto: My J did the entire marathon on his stilts... He spent the next day in serious pain and very ill due to over exertion but I am so proud of him... we raised a bunch of money for them and were tremendously supported by the staff and patrons of Jack Astors in Scarborough! Thanks again to everyone!

The Prims

These are only a few of the Halloween prims I have made over the years... all have found their homes so it was really fun to look back on these for this post. I hope you enjoy them...

~This one I kept~