Thread: Party theme idea: Bloody Bayou

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[QUOTE=moocheex55;668754]I'm re-naming this party...it's now going to be "Voodoo on the Bayou". What do you think?

I absolutely LOVE it!!!!

A traditional cajun desert is beignets. They're square, fluffy doughnuts covered in powdered sugar and they're famously served a the Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter: Cafe Du Monde - Original French Market Coffee Stand New Orleans - Our Beignets
Here's a recipe: Cooks.com - Recipe - Sweet Louisana Style Beignets

Another idea I have had for a while is voodoo cookies. Set up a station at your desert bar for people to construct their own voodoo dolls out of something yummy. Simply make sugar cookies and cut them out with a basic gingerbread cookie cutter, let the guests ice them with a couple of colors to choose from (Blue for security, purple for riches, etc.) and assorted candies to add for spells (add candy hearts for love, sour patch kids for fertility, etc.) and label each bowl with what each one symbolizes.

If you're at odds with how to make your house look more bayouey (yes, it's a word. and it's fun to say. say it out loud.) a common architectural feature of homes in New Orleans are shutters.

You can buy them at a home building store, or you can salvage some. The more broken the better!

oooh...SHUTTERS!!! I love this....I live in an apartment, so putting these on the walls would be easy and look reallly cool....

ugh...I love this forum and hate that it makes me want EVERYTHING!!!

here is an invite design I made...I don't know if I like it...ugh. Suggestions? the white space at the bottom will have date/time/place/ect info. Thanks!

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The invite looks awesome! Nice job.

mooch, that is FABULOUS!! I think it looks gerat the way it is, but I know you'll be tweakin' it until you send them out!!

oooh...I had another cool idea...

as a gift to my guests, I think I'll have a small table w/ empty "gris-gris" bags and lots of stuff to put in them...I'll also put a sign that tells people what the different things mean and what to do...then they can fill them with things (for love, for money, for luck, ect)

this will be cool

You MUST put a severed limb in the tub with the gator.

Another common, and creepy, architectural element in NO is broken glass or broken bottles along the top of a courtyard wall to keep people out or to keep people in (not sure which.)

Neat idea! Hand painted signs would work great as many things in that area are folksy and created by po'folks.

If you could get a floating gator with some sort of silent toy boat motor attached that would let him "prowl the waters", that would be even awesomer. (The LEGO boat motor) Oh, and add washable black paint to the water in the tub to make it yucky. And don't clean your toilet between now and then, (...kidding). I had food poisioning down in ol' NO back in 1997 and let me tell you... those bathrooms AIN'T CLEAN!

As for branches, I usually got to the dollar store and buy cheap wire hangers. They make great improvised anything. Hold stuff together, hold stuff up, make limp stuff (like rope brances) stiff, etc. There's not much you can't fix with a wire hanger and a Leatherman!

This is such a fun theme... I would do it if I still lived in VA or MS, but somehow it just doesn't seem right for WA. Especially since it is likely to be 40 degrees and raining on Halloween. Maybe a Halloween in August party though...hmmm.

Have fun and go crazy!

I was thinking, I might just do our bathroom in this theme, that would probably work. I like the gator in the bathtub idea.

Originally Posted by IslandCryptKeeper

You MUST put a severed limb in the tub with the gator.


This is such a fun theme... I would do it if I still lived in VA or MS, but somehow it just doesn't seem right for WA. Especially since it is likely to be 40 degrees and raining on Halloween. Maybe a Halloween in August party though...hmmm.

Have fun and go crazy!

Well, I live next to Chicago, so it will be cold in October, but I like to take my guests to someplace eles...especially when the weather sucks!