Halloween 2021

 

Our Halloween this year didn't get going until Oct 28.  It started with my thinking we have to eat dinner on Halloween night so maybe I would do some sort of spookified dish.  Then I thought, well, we can't eat a spookified meal in an Asian themed dining room.  So then I found myself doing a bit of Halloween decorating in there.  Then PB came to me and said he and his friends were thinking of going trick or treating and could I help him with a costume.  It was all last minute and unplanned but it came together and if even for a few days Halloween did happen around here.

I usually start off each holiday season showcasing my new finds/gifts I have acquired since the previous year.  Seen above is one that I got from Mr. Husband last year for Christmas.  It has been on my "need" list for sometime.  I was hoping to find one out in the wild but that's just not going to happen in my parts so he bought it for me off of ebay.  It's nice and minty and I love it!   

Up next (see below) a few more finds and our brief but not too shabby last minute Halloween happenings!

Halloween 2021 Red Owl sewing kit

I am going to count this as a new Halloween item for this season even though it's not really intended as such.  The red of the owl seems more orange to me and he has a sinister stare and it's an owl= Halloween!

Mr. Husband got this for me off of ebay as a gift last year.

 

Halloween Finds 2021

I found this adorable JOL at one of the extremely few estate sales I have attended over the past 18 months (gave a buck for it).  I already have one with the same face but it's not a pail and this one has a much richer orange hue.

I really loved the way the vinyl handle attachments looks.

 

New Halloween Finds 2021

 I found this vintage blow mold JOL candy pail at a thrift store for 99¢

Halloween 2021 decor

This year's decor was last minute. I only decorated the dining room so we would have a festive spot for Halloween dinner. Since it was only going to be up for a few days I decided to go random, hodge podged, and piled up.  I kinda liked how it turned out.  

 

Halloween 2021 Spider Meatloaf

 For our Halloween dinner I made us this spider meatloaf.  It was inspired by a cheese ball I saw in a magazine several years back.  It is a typical meatloaf recipe shaped into balls, baked, and coated in ketchup.  The legs are made from pretzel rods with string cheese holding them together.  The eyes are also string cheese with a little bit of black olive for the pupils.

JOL Halloween 2021

I also carved the pumpkin last minute this year.  I decided to do Mr. Husband's Horror Host show group Nightmare Theatre:

Mr. Husband is the Mexican Wrestler El Sapo seen on the left.

Halloween weekend season 3 premiered.  I have lost track of all the PBS stations it airs on.  A bunch in Florida, Tennessee, and in the new year all of Alabama.  You can watch it from anywhere as a live stream Saturday nights 10 pm central time on WSRE. And then see a few past episodes here: Nightmare Theatre

We did the filming this summer during the brief break we had from the coronapocalypse.  Yours truly will be embarrassing herself in an upcoming future episode where I play a cat loving, loud mouthed old lady...not too far from reality actually.

 

Halloween 2021: PB Plissken

This was the best part of my Halloween weekend.  PB came to me a couple of days before Halloween and said he and his friends were wanting to go Trick or Treating.  Yeah, he's a bit too old for it but I think some Halloween laws need to be changed.  I say no matter your age you should be allowed to Trick or Treat as long as you have a costume (No costume, No candy!).  

We got costumes and props all over the place so we just started digging around.  One of his friends was going as a pirate and yeah we have that.  Maybe they could be a pirate gang?  So he puts on the eye patch and I got the chills!  He was Snake Plissken!  

I added some silver duct tape to a black tee, electrical tapped a flashlight to a tommy gun from his past Halloween costume as a 1920's gangster, and printed and attached an analog clock read out to a studded punk snap wrist cuff ....

 

I mean!  Come on!!!!

Bonus to taking his photos at an old abandoned hobo filled building.