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24 Sep 2007, 10:38 pm

me me me me me me me me,

I love Halloween, I already have my costume and those of the kids. I have picked out my patterns to carve on pumpkins and will decorated the house on October 1st!


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24 Sep 2007, 10:52 pm

I love Halloween. Why? Because out family likes to give out a few different kinds of candy including skittles. I always make sure im the guy giving out the candy so i can not give out any skittles. That way i get a ton in the next week :D



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25 Sep 2007, 3:15 am

I love Halloween! My sister's Christmas present this year is a Halloween costume. I think this year I'll be making/modifying at least 5 costumes. One for me, two for the bunnies, my sister's, and potentially an entire Justice League family. I used to work at a fabric store and I loved helping people with their costumes. Since I haven't grown at all any direction for the past 6 or 7 years and my sister is gone forever, I have like ten costumes to chose from this year. At the fabric store, we got to dress up all week. That's when I got to use my whole wardrobe. I usually take my little friends trick-or-treating, but I moved away from them and I have to stay home. Fortunately my neighborhood has a little party for the kids at the gate to the community and I'll get to bring the bunnies in their costumes and stick them in their little pen. I'm taking the bunnies to Petsmart to get their picture taken on the halloween photo day. Hopefully I'll be better prepared this time, last year Logan's tuxedo wasn't even hemmed! During Halloween, people seem to appreciate me a lot more, probably because I'll make anyone who asks an awesome costume. The bunnies don't ask, but I own them, so they do my bidding. It's nice to be wanted, even if it's for only a month.



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25 Sep 2007, 5:42 am

I love it, mainly because it's a reason to eat alot of candy and also because you can dress up and act strange and nobody questions it. I also like the movies they play around that time.



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25 Sep 2007, 6:00 am

Halloween is my favorite holiday period. I love the weather, the candy and the parties. My favorite part is the costumes. Its a free pass to be someone else for a night or yourself only hotter. I already have the costume, the shoes and even the hair extensions. October is also the month of my birthday... one week before halloween. Its one holiday i cant grow out of.



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25 Sep 2007, 8:22 am

YES, absolutly, in fact fall is my favorite season all together. I work in a huge warehouse and I have been loading/unloading trucks full of haloween candy! You would not beleive the shear amount of candy we have, i wish I could take a picture, but security does not let ppl take pictures in here for whatever reason, heh.


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25 Sep 2007, 8:57 am

I regret that Halloween didn't find too much support in my country - it's catching on and one can find shop-windows decorated with pumpkins cut off paper, little witches, black cats and all that characteristic Halloween stuff when the day before All Saints Day is coming but we didn't adopt a tradition of visiting people and asking for sweets.



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25 Sep 2007, 9:53 am

Halloween is my favorite holiday bar none. I don't go trick or treating, but I go to parties, clubs and bars and there's always block parties around. A couple of years ago, I did drag, which I had never done, and an acquaintance of mine who is an amazingly talented make up artist did my make up and lent me a wig of real human hair he styled for me, and another friend who owns an antique shop and has original Travilla gowns (Travilla designed many of Marylin Monroe's dresses, including the famous white halter one billowing from the subway undercurrent), lent me a spectacular couture evening dress with long gloves and a real sable stole, and I won first prize, $1000 (!), in a big contest my friends urged me to enter. Let me tell you, in those heels and that outfit and new face, I had no problem working the runway for the contest. Well, after a couple of drinks that is. :P I split the money with all of them, we ended up drinking a LOT and buying a LOT of rounds to random people that night. That was one of the funnest nights ever, even if my shoes did KILL me. (They were 5'' high)

The weirdest part was when I bumped into a co worker who didn't even recognize me, and after, oh, at least 5 minutes of him flirting and asking me if I was a model and which movie star I was supposed to be disguised as, and I was cracking up, I finally burst out laughing and said "Carlos, it's me, Michel, from work", he did a double take, then a triple take, and his jaw dropped so far down, and he kept looking me up and down saying "Man, you make a hot woman; no, seriously, I never... wow...you... wow.." and he had the creepiest hungry look on his face so I left him very quickly after that. 8O

This year, if I train hard enough at the gym, I'd like to go as that blond muscle guy from Rocky Horror Picture Show, you know, Franken Furter's "Favorite obsession, with blond hair and a tan, and good to relive his tension...".

But my friend who has the antique store is only keeping the rights to sell the Travilla gowns until December, after which he is selling the rights to some big auction house, Christie's I think, so he wants me to come over to his storage place and pick out a couture gown so we can do a repeat of last time, he's asked all the same people to help me plan the look and get ready and style me, so we'll see...

Frankly, they're all much more excited about this than I am. I mean, the store owner, who is an older man and an artist, has already started sketching me in a few things. (?) I love Halloween, but going as a sailor would be just as fine for me too, and not such a mega production, and I also wouldn't have to worry about the obscenely expensive dress I'm wearing all night.

But I have to admit, I make a mighty fine woman after two hours of prepping. Just don't tell anyone it's me. :wink:



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25 Sep 2007, 8:10 pm

Oh yes, I love Halloween too. Every year I decorate my front path into a giant, long cobweb tunnel, then light it up with black-lights. In the trees to the side & over the tunnel I hang ghosts, the black light catch them nicely too. At the door (end of the tunnel) is a fiery cauldron with a witch sculpture stretching through the front door & over the cauldron. Of course the fog machine for effects too. The kids get a kick out of it.



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25 Sep 2007, 8:46 pm

Wrackspurt wrote:
Oh yes, I love Halloween too. Every year I decorate my front path into a giant, long cobweb tunnel, then light it up with black-lights. In the trees to the side & over the tunnel I hang ghosts, the black light catch them nicely too. At the door (end of the tunnel) is a fiery cauldron with a witch sculpture stretching through the front door & over the cauldron. Of course the fog machine for effects too. The kids get a kick out of it.


you should post pictures!!


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25 Sep 2007, 9:00 pm

I've been working on a Halloween costume since July :P I've scrapped several ideas part way through making them, but the current one is a keeper. Now I just need to make my second Halloween costume for the University party... so many ideas!



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26 Sep 2007, 1:34 am

I love Halloween as it's one time where you can dress up and not get weird looks. I find that it's actually better to make my own costume instead of buying one as the fabric isn't as good as it once was.


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26 Sep 2007, 3:20 pm

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I thought of an idea for a Halloween prank though I would never actually do it.

So I could go trick or treating as an adult in some incredibly undersized and juvenile costume and pretend to be severely mentally challenged just to see if people would give me candy and to watch their reactions and discomfort. Could potentially be very funny, or potentially (and most likely) very painful. ;-).


And how would you pull that off?? Keep going back to the same house over and over, pretending you don't know what yer doing??


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06 Oct 2007, 6:31 pm

Samhain :o

its sweet 8)



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06 Oct 2007, 7:06 pm

I haven't been very fond of Halloween since an unpleasant episode during my childhood, when I got scared witless by a bunch of guys at least twice my age - must have been about twenty-odd years ago now, at least. It happened when I heard a doorbell - and not being quite in-step with the time, I diligently went to open the door - only to be greeted with three guys in black sheets and skull masks who bellowed at me. I nearly wet myself and ran screaming to my mum.

She then proceeded to give the boys a lengthy talking-to as punishment for scaring her firstborn child :P


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