I’ve seen a number of advertisements lately for costume contests. Hopefully, I’ll have the time to put together a monster list of costume contests in each geography next year. That’s part of my plans to list Halloween parties in the nation’s largest cities on Funtober. In the meantime, I’ve put together the following list of […]
Let me make a quick plea to you right now. There’s three weeks left until Halloween 2012. Take a few hours out of your day and decide what costume you are going to wear. If you do not spend the time now to figure out what you want to be when you grow dress up, […]
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To be perfectly honest, this project is the result of one of those moments when I’m at the store looking at kitchen and table linens that I really don’t need (but I don’t have an autumnal leaf tablecloth!) and one catches my eye — the colors! the pattern! Then I see the price tag, […]
Sadly, the last litre of beer was served at Oktoberfest 2012 in Munich yesterday. Over the course of the celebration, 6.4 million people consumed 6.9 million litres of beer. But that doesn’t mean that the fun has to end. There are still a number of beer festivals to enjoy in October. Yesterday, I took advantage […]
I ran around town to do a few errands this morning and it was obvious that it is October and Halloween is quickly approaching. The first stop was CVS – where there was an entire aisle of Halloween candy. My local pet store, Doggie Style, was ready for Halloween as well. They had dog costumes […]
Here’s a little secret I’m reluctant to share: if anyone ever wanted to give me a good Halloween fright, all it would take is a fake spider. No strategic placement needed! So this mobile, with plastic spiders cascading down from a string and hoop web, is just about the creepiest craft project I’ve ever done […]
This cute paper pumpkin is wrapped full of all sorts of tricks and treats. It’s a great way to occupy bored kids (or adults.) The recipient starts by pulling the ribbon tab and as they unroll the pumpkin bits of candy and creepy crawlies fall out! Supplies: – 1 (81 foot) roll orange crepe paper […]
It’s the first day of October! Time for the best month of the year. I thought we would kick things off right here at Funtober by joining the SPOOKtacular Giveaway Hop hosted by The Review Wire. From October 1st to October 15th, you can enter the SPOOKtacular Giveaways at more than fifty blogs. The minimum […]
Before having kids and getting married, pumpkins served a single purpose for me. They were meant to be gauged and poked and scraped into some semblance of a Jack’0’Lantern (I’m terrible at carving pumpkins, by the way. Something about the “guts” and the icky sticky feeling. Yuck!). After that, in my wilder years, they were […]
One of the more unexpected effects of Hurricane Irene last August was a shortage of canned pumpkin puree on the local supermarket shelves. Flooding had evidently destroyed a significant portion of the commercial pumpkin crop on the East Coast, and as a result, my husband, Keith, has been deprived of pumpkin pie, pumpkin butter, pumpkin […]