October 29th Party Thread!

[HKitten]

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I know this might be a little early for some, but I'm having my Hogwarts Halloween party on the 29th and I've started moving things around and decorating, so the excitement has set in!

Who else is having a party in two weeks and have you done anything yet? Today I cleared out our conservatory and turned it into a graveyard - we only go in there to use the freezer so as long as that stays uncovered I can still get by until the 29th. Our entire downstairs is open plan as well so I've been moving the furniture that we don't use much, like bookcases and the dining table and chairs, into position.

I can't believe I've still got two weeks to go, can't wait!

[juju2408]

Hi we're also having our party on the 29th I've being doing a few finishing touches to some props for my graveyard not going todo any setting up until the 29th thou so just getting stuff ready. Not long to wait now

[HKitten]

You're not doing anything until the day?!

To be fair, my birthday is the 28th so we'll be going out for dinner that night and I don't want to be worrying about the house while I'm out, and I'm on holiday from the 27th, so I'm planning to get the bulk of the work out the way on those two days

That said, I'm going to do what I can but I can't do anything in the bathroom until we've showered and dressed on the day, otherwise anything I do will probably get knocked down or covered in water.

[ShannoninPa]

Mine is on the 29th, too! I have been decorating like crazy. I still have to work on the inside. My theme is disco so I need to get my scene setters up, lighting and disco ball and of course, cobwebs! My bathroom will be a Bloody Mary bathroom so creepy cloth, blood and cobwebs and red lighting. I still need to get my prizes together as well. So much to do!!!!

Food I will have to make morning of. I want all my decorations done by friday so all I have to is cook.

[Frankie's Girl]

My party is the 29th too.

I unfortunately have weddings to go to (one last night) and one next Saturday, so my party prep has been severely curtailed due to those... (never again ).

I need to get our backyard mowed, edged and patio scrubbed down this weekend, clean the fridge and do some test runs on recipes today, and finish up our haunted rocking chair for the creepy nursery. During the coming week, we've got to finish the party prizes, clean the living room, dining and kitchen and start decorating. I've got several things still to pick up and next weekend (working around the wedding), we have to finish all the decor except the bathroom and order the party trays (I'm ordering food to prevent my being stuck cooking all day the day of the party... also never again).

I'm freaked, but just trying not to think about it.. and sooo tired (who does weddings late at night?? Didn't get home until after midnight last night!!) so have to fit a nap in now so we can get today's workload completed without exhausting ourselves.

[HKitten]

Food is definitely a bother. I'm mainly doing finger food and snacks, the sort of thing that I can throw into a bowl five minutes before people arrive!

I am making chocolate frogs, but I'm hoping to do them on the Thursday before and just keep them in the fridge. The one thing I absolutely have to make on the day is jelly worms - I just read an instructable for them, you pour jelly mixed with cream and food dye into bendy straws that are all held upright in a container and let them set. But apparently they might start to melt after 3-4 hours!

[printersdevil]

I had my first party (Be WITCHY) on Friday night so we are already decorated. I will have to take some of the props down in the bathrooms, but the rest will stay in place until the Boo Bash on the 29th. It will be great to go into the next party not as tired. I injured my knee two weeks ago so I have had to really push to get through this first one. Hopefully, things will be easier newxt time.

[ZombieSlayerMummy]

Our party is on the 29th as well. We have 11 confirmed guests as of now. I expect around 17 - 20 total so we are well on our way to a fun time.

I have mostly decorated our family room. I need to add a few more touches, but most of our creepiness will come from lighting. All the lights will be switched out for blue or red bulbs. I cleaned the carpet today. I will put some more props together today and hopefully will get my big spider web up in the living room. I'm waiting for my castle walls scene setter for the bottom 4' of wall space. I need to dig into our halloween bins for some of our props. We had all of our props in our garage last year but had about 13 guests so we found we weren't in the garage much. Many of those will be in the house and we'll just use the garage if people want to play cards or beer pong. Yesterday I spray painted some props to creepify them, now we need to finish them up. It's really cold and damp today so it's hard to make myself go work in the freezing garage!

I'm not going to get too crazy about decor. If we had a bigger party I probably would want more ambiance but covered furniture, cobwebs and a few well-placed items are really all one needs if the lighting is right.

I need to finalize plans on the menu and start that shopping. We get to practice our costumes next weekend at a friend's halloween party so we will be pros by our party!

Happy Haunting!

[dippedstix]

My son's halloween birthday party is on the 29th. We're expecting about 55 people (25 kids + some parents). I've been working all weekend decorating and putting prizes together. Today I made some chocolate covered oreos with chocolate pumpkins and skulls on top. making chocolate pretzles now (resting my feet ) I am exhausted but having fun at the same time!! I don't have much time during the week to do anything so I have to cram as much as I can on the weekends.

[SasyGrl31]

Mine is the 29th too! Super excited! Only done a little decorating so far, waiting til the friday before to finish. I am guessing about 15 people will be there.