I have no idea why really. I never used to go trick-or-treating or have parties when I was younger.
I have a little tradition every year, that on Halloween, I snuggle up and watch Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas. I love Tim Burton, and Nightmare Before Christmas is definitely my favourite! Followed closely by Corpse Bride, which I also watch every Halloween.
For the past three years our friends have hired out a room at a cricket club in Bolton. They decorate the whole room which always looks absolutely brilliant. After the first year (when we didn't really make a huge amount of effort on our costumes, having never really done Halloween parties) we realised we had to up our game. So the second year we went, we really did up our game. There is a theme emerging here if you hadn't noticed...
Jack and Sally! I loved dressing as Sally :) Will be keeping that one safe for another year! My sister dressed as The Crow, her makeup looked really cool. And she helped us with ours too.
Last year I went as a corpse bride, but for some reason we don't have any pictures!
There was no party this year, as our friends who usually organise it all have just had a baby. So we just had a chilled one this time, and hopefully the party will be back next year!
This year just consisted of a little decoration and the films mentioned above.
One of our clients from work invited us to join in with their pumpkin carving competition. No one was really bothered, but we figured we had to at least show willing. So I said I would have a go, even though I had never carved a pumpkin before. I was really pleased with how it turned out, especially with it being the first one I'd ever done.
Again, definite theme..
When asked to do a pumpkin for Halloween, there was only ever going to be one character I was going to do now, wasn't there? And Jack won a prize. Woo! There were a few different categories they were judging for. He won the 'loveliest pumpkin'. Now, he definitely wasn't supposed to look lovely... But I'm not complaining. Glad they liked him, and the hour and a half it took to carve him didn't go to waste! We have won a kilo of Thornton's chocolate, which I will be sharing with the office on Monday.
I look forward to next Halloween, and hopefully some new cool costumes to show you!
Happy Halloween (better a day late than never!).
Sarah x
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