[ooojen]

I'm not a Twilight fan (too old for that! lol!) but I searched for food images on your recommendation, booswife. You're spot on! There are some really gorgeous, elegant table spreads under that heading. Good suggestion!
Personally, I'm a bit of a foodie, and presentation matters to me. I want a Halloween buffet that looks Halloweenish, but I don't want the food to look unappetizing. There'll be no flayed faces or bloody intestines for my buffet, even though I can admire someone else's creativity with that sort of thing. It can be difficult to combine spooky, with elegant and delicious-looking!

 

[Mogwai]

ooojen: I know what you mean. I've seen quite a few people, on here and elsewhere, discussing their disappointment when their guests wouldn't touch the themed food because it looked too gross! The only thing I would consider making a bit more 'scary looking' would be the desserts. You can use Jello molds and other things to make some interesting stuff. You just have to make it look edible and tasty too, haha.

 

[Ani's Horror]

first prop looks awesome

 

[Mogwai]

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't updated in a while. Things are coming along nicely. I've ordered a few props, have been working on a few DIY projects and have nearly completed my costume already. I'll photograph what we have so far when I can and keep everyone up to date with the progress.

We're considering calling the party 'Vampires, Villains & Victims'. The decor will still be mostly focused on vampires, but we'd like to give our guests the opportunity to create costumes based on all kinds of dark and monstrous figures from history and classic horror stories, stuff like that. I'd still appreciate any suggestions you might have! We still need a lot of ideas for props, food... basically everything, haha.

 

[Mapleton Manor]

OMG .....Let my son pick our theme for this year and he chose Vampire slayers. I am going as VanHelsing and the wife as Anna Valaria....and my son is going as Blade. I made the swords for both of them and they turned out great. And I am also going to hand make VanHelsings crossbow for me. Found a great Leather Trech coat at the good will and it will all look great.....MAN I CANT WAIT UNTIL HALLOWEEN to post pictures of us.

 

[Mogwai]

harboe: That sounds fantastic. Would love to see your costumes when they're ready

 

[Edward]

This was my wife and I 4 years ago at our party. We took a break from the horror scene and went with different types of themes for 3 years, this year we will once again resurrect our inner vampire and come up with a new twist for our costumes.

 

[ichasiris]

I'm thinking that I will be doing Victorian Vampires as my theme for 2016. Hopefully I can refer back to this thread then!

 

[Mogwai]

ichasiris: I hope there's something here you find useful. I'm starting to build props now so there'll be a lot more photos and ideas here when they're done

 

[girl77]

Here are some photos of my first Halloween Party. It was "True Blood " themed. but might give you some ideas for Vampire stuff.

 

[Mogwai]

girl77: Looks great! We're definitely going for a similar style and colour scheme.

 

[Mapleton Manor]

Here is a picture of our vampire theme from 3 years ago.

 

[booswife02]

Harboe I love that pic! Looks like you guys had fun
Girl77 your party looks awesome. Especially love the fangs on your little one haha...

 

[Mogwai]

Harboe: I love those costumes! It looks great.

 

[Mogwai]

Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been quite busy. Here's my most recent purchase:

He's about three feet long, so definitely one of my bigger store bought props. I ordered him on monday and received him the following day. His eyes light up bright red, his claws move and he makes an evil laughing sound. I'm very happy with him and think he'll add some scariness to our theme. My only complaint is that there is very obvious messy glue on the fur around his face. Fortunately my guests shouldn't be able to see that, as they won't be too close to him and it'll be reasonably dark, so I don't mind too much.
What do you think of him?

 

[ooojen]

Very creepy-- good find!

 

[Mogwai]

Just another quick update. Made this to stick over the window in the toilet to make it appear like a stained glass window.

It's just a sheet of A3 card, cut into a design and covered with black duct tape for sturdiness and to make it look a little neater. Then just purple cellophane taped onto the back. Just a quick little prop. I'll be making some more of these on a much larger scale later for our front windows.

 

[Mogwai]

Found these in the Halloween decorations we have stored away. The raven has red light-up eyes and the owl hoots loudly and turns it's head, it's motion activated. We're going to have the raven in a bird cage, and the owl will probably be perched on the window sill above the toilet, so it will be activated as people open the door / enter the room

 

[Mogwai]

Got a couple more props the other day:

Hope I'm not posting too much on here haha

 

[ooojen]

Hope I'm not posting too much on here haha

Not at all! It's always fun to see what others are gathering for their decorating setups! It's good to see that the options are increasing in Australia (and the UK, too.)
Do you have an equivalent of TJ/TK Maxx?