Thread: Coraline themed party

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Hey there everyone!
It's been a year and I'm glad to be back on these forums...

Anyway, I'm in the very early stages of planning my second Halloween party, this time, a Coraline theme.

So far, the invitations are the only things that are set in stone.
The invitees will recieve a parchment envelope with a black wax and black button seal with a letter reading:
Hello there, Dear.

I’m your other mother. Didn’t know you had an other mother? Everyone does. It’s only natural, you see, for anyone who has ever wished for a better life to find me. I have created a special world just for you. I can be whatever you need. In our other world, I’ll make you a home where everything is right. Me and your friend, the other Robert, have been waiting for you, [name]. Trust me, this world is exactly what you’ve been wishing for.
Perhaps you’re wondering how to get this dream-come-true. What would it take? You’ll be happy to know there’s just one teensy, tiny thing you’ll have to do... So sharp, you won’t feel a thing.
You could stay forever, if you’d like.
Love,
Your Other Mother

... and a key with a paper tab of actual party information, this key is necessary to attend the party.

I have some decoration ideas such as my foyer being decorated as the passageway between the other mother's world and the real world, and the ceilings to be covered with draping gauze and blue lights, to symbolize spiderwebs...
And also a circus tent in the backyard with a DJ, dancing, fairground food, etc


Does anyone have suggestions? Because I'm drawing a blank here

It's much appreciated!

OH, by the way this party will play host to those around 15-19

Love this!!!

What a great theme!

I think you need some of those stuffed scotty dogs with the angel wings. That's always the first thing I think of when someone mentions that movie. Haha.

If you're good at sewing (and insane enough to do it), you could custom make a doll for each person you're inviting. It will watch them to make sure they attend!

Lots of buttons.

Wow great theme idea! I love Coraline.
Please post photos of your decor when you've done it!

I think it would be cool (if your yard is big enough) if you did part of it with a garden theme, using glowing "flowers" and things. I love the garden (the Other World one). Or I guess you could do that indoors but that would be more difficult.
You could do one room like a theater, with red cloth around the walls like curtains.
If you can make replicas of Coraline's toys that fly around you could hang those from the ceilings.

Oh my goodness! I love love love Coraline!! So I'm no help right now, I was just so excited about your theme I needed to tell you.

You couuuuuuuld... glue buttons on clear plastic cups so they line up with people's eyes when they drink from them... if you have a mantle, set it up like in the movie with sno globes... spray paint some dolls white with button eyes... you could take the door off a closet, hang a sheet with a mirror shaped hole, put a semi reflective film over it, set it up like the mirror Coraline was trapped through and set up the dolls in there... make your bathroom look like a circus with sheets pinned up in the center of the ceiling draping down to the walls... make a little door to nowhere to put on a wall... make a cake that looks like the garden... y'a know... stuff like that!

Are you going to be dressed as the other mother? The black sclera contacts would be perfect for that costume! Take lots of pictures of your work and post! This sounds like a great theme!

Originally Posted by HauntedHorror

Wow great theme idea! I love Coraline.
Please post photos of your decor when you've done it!

I think it would be cool (if your yard is big enough) if you did part of it with a garden theme, using glowing "flowers" and things. I love the garden (the Other World one). Or I guess you could do that indoors but that would be more difficult.
You could do one room like a theater, with red cloth around the walls like curtains.
If you can make replicas of Coraline's toys that fly around you could hang those from the ceilings.

Love this idea... or maybe make it like Mr. Bobinsky's circus and have like a spooky carnival outside? INSPIRATION!

Originally Posted by Xane

If you're good at sewing (and insane enough to do it), you could custom make a doll for each person you're inviting. It will watch them to make sure they attend!

Lots of buttons.

I think I may actually have to do this for a few select people!
Maybe their challenge will be to act like their "other" self for the length of the party, and they will have buttons over their eyes?
MORE INSPIRATION! thank you!

Originally Posted by kallie

Oh my goodness! I love love love Coraline!! So I'm no help right now, I was just so excited about your theme I needed to tell you.

Haha thank you!