12 Days of Halloween ~ 8 Troublesome Testtubes

On the eighth day of Halloween my true love gave to me:

1 Hounted Castle
2 Faced Suit
3 Eyed Carved Pumpkin
4 Spooky Spiderwebs
5(0) Shades of Orange
6 6 6 Devilish Dips
7 Deadly Sins Punch
And 8 Troublesome Testtubes

Besides food and drinks I only bought two things for Halloween decoration. Syringes for Day No.9 and test tubes. I found both of these items on amazon and got a set of 100 test tubes and stoppers and 50 syringes for some boozy party fun. Here's what I did:

I filled about 20 test tubes with fizzy powder and another 20 with some good vodka.


To get the chemistry experiment effect you add the vodka to the fizzy powder.

Now try not to let it overflow and make a mess everywhere!

Happy Halloween!

12 Days of Halloween ~ 7 Deadly Sins Punch

On the seventh day of Halloween my true love gave to me:

1 Hounted Castle
A 2 Faced Suit
A 3 Eyed Carved Pumpkin
4 Spooky Spiderwebs
5(0) Shades of Orange
6 6 6 Devilish Dips
And a 7 Deadly Sins Punch

Punch is my favorite party drink. For our Halloween party I used some homemade plum and pear preserves form my parents garden and the only canned fruit I had at home at that time: lychees. Fortunatly the lychees also fit the Halloween theme as they look like eyeballs floating in a bloody pit.
I used all the fruit juice with with 1 litre of wine and 1 1/2 litres of sparkling water. Usually I would have used sparkling wine instead, but I forgot to get some at the grocery store when we got all the supplies for our party (as well as other fruit).
The punch was still a success and was gone within like 2 hours.

Happy Halloweeeny!

12 Days of Halloween ~ 6 6 6 Devilish Dips

On the sixth day of Halloween my true love gave to me:

1 Hounted Castle
A 2 Faced Suit
A 3 Eyed Carved Pumpkin
4 Spooky Spiderwebs
5(0) Shades of Orange
And 6 6 6 Devilish Dips

That's not even true. It's only 2 Dips I made... and the photos I took didn't turn out very well at all so you get an old instagram picture from one of our game nights.

Hummus
200g cooked chick peas
30g dark tahini paste
1tbs lemon juice
1/2ts ground cumin
1/ts sea salt
40ml water

Throw all ingredients in a mixer/food processor and you're done!

Artichoke-Cashew-Creme
150g antipasti artichokes in oil
40g dried tomatoes in oil
240g cashews or cashew paste
70ml water
black pepper as needed

Throw all ingredients together again. Wroom wroooom. You got a lovely dip.

Serve both chips with corn chips or bread or veggie sticks. Whatever floats your boat.
Happy Halloween & good night out there. Whatever you are!

12 Days of Halloween ~ 5(0) Shades of Orange

On the second day of Halloween my true love gave to me:

1 Hounted Castle
A 2 Faced Suit
A 3 Eyed Carved Pumpkin
4 Spooky Spiderwebs
And 5(0) Shades of Orange

I was planning to do make some kind of decoration using different shades of orange, like these spray painted Candy Corn Bottles. What I ended up doing was searching Pinterest for the most fun Halloween prints and printing a bunch of posters to hang up for the party. I still like the title I wanted to give to this post, so I just left it. Deal with it!

Here we go:

Hallway Decoration.

Bedroom Door Decoration (the bedroom was off limits for the party).

Kitchen Decoration.

More kitchen Decoration.

Bathroom Decoration (so cute!).

12 Days of Halloween ~ 4 Spooky Spiderwebs

On the fourth day of Halloween my true love gave to me:

1 Hounted Castle
A 2 Faced Suit
A 3 Eyed Carved Pumpkin
And 4 Spooky Spiderwebs

I got this idea from pinterest (where else?) and traced it back to the wonderful design and diy blog How About Orange. All you need for these playgrounds of your favorite creepy crawlers are trashbags, preferably black or another dark colour.

The first thing you have to do is to cut off the sides off the trashbags and try to make a square. This way you can do 2 spiderwebs at a time.

Next you fold up the square 3 times until you're left with this shape. Then you can draw one 8th of your spiderweb, it's totally up to you which size it will be and how thick the web is, just like when you make a snowflake craft.

You can cut away the most part of the trashbag now and the result should look something like this.

And the end result then looks something like this.
Repeat this process for multiple spiderwebs. I created 4 in total as the post title suggests.

Now you just have to hang them up in spiderweb-appropriate places. If you've been lazy with the dusting this diy is probably not interesting for you as you already have pretty realistic halloween decorations on your walls.

Happy Halloween & good night out there, whatever you are!

This post will be part of Nina's Upcycling Tuesday and the Creadienstag.

12 Days of Halloween ~ 3 Eyed Carved Pumpkin

On the third day of Halloween my true love gave to me:

1 Hounted Castle
A 2 Faced Suit
And a 3 Eyed Carved Pumpkin

What's Halloween without a carved pumpkin? I've always loved to cut a gruesome face into a beautiful pumpkin head. Even though we didn't really have the trick or treat walkarounds when I was a kid I've always been fascinated with the horror and fantasy around this holiday. And the pumpkin is the most recognisable symbol for this spooky time of the year.

I always start by cutting a zig zag pattern with a long and sharp knife to create a lid for the head.

Then I carve out all the pumpkin brains. I saved the pumpkin seeds and put them in the oven for about half an hour to dry with some spices and salt for a quick snack.
I always carve out the edible pumpkin flesh as well. I know that a lot of people don't do this when they carve a pumpkin for decorations, but I think that is such a waste of an edible vegetable. The flesh is good for a yummy pumpkin soup like the one displayed on the bottom of this post.

The actual carving design of the pumpkin is up to you. I chose to carve three triangular eyes with pupils, two slits for a nose and two connected zig zag patterns as a wide mouth.

I placed the pumpkin outside on the balcony rightaway, put a candle in its belly and lighted the candle to make it feel warm inside. And to give us a great view when looking outside in the dark. Doesn't it look handsome next to our castle?

I bid you farewell now. Happy Halloween & good night out there, whatever you are...
This post will be part of the Creadienstag.

12 Days of Halloween ~ 2 Faced Suit

On the second day of Halloween my true love gave to me:

1 Hounted Castle
and a 2 Faced Suit

We bought the future husband a shiny suit from the second hand store and were planning to bleach half of it to make it look like it fell into acid like Two Face from the Batman Universe. It turns out that not all cloth is able to be bleached, so what happened after I drenched half of the suit jacket in bleach? Nothing!

So now we had to figure out a different way to alter half of the suit.

And here's what he did:

He used three different cans of spray paint. A white on eas a base and then yellow and orange to get the acid look going on. Not too much work, but smelly if you use the spray paint outside.

For our Halloween Party this last Saturday I painted half of his face with various make up and theatre face paint to get the whole Two Face look.

The elephant hat is for the future husbands Halloween party at his Kindergarten. Too bad he's got bronchitis and won't be able to go..

Happy Halloween! And good night out there, whatever you are.