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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Halloween's A Comin


  • Absolute Best Top-Five Halloween Costumes Ever!
    It's never too early to begin planning your Halloween costume, especially if you are looking ahead to 2012's Halloween! By planning now, you can avoid the ultimate societal faux
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    Creative Halloween costumes have always been on the most wanted list. It might be because people like it when they come up with something quite unique, or simply because it is Halloween, one time in the year that you can simply


Halloween's A Comin

  • Absolute Best Top-Five Halloween Costumes Ever!
    It's never too early to begin planning your Halloween costume, especially if you are looking ahead to 2012's Halloween! By planning now, you can avoid the ultimate societal faux
  • 2of 21

    Creative Halloween costumes have always been on the most wanted list. It might be because people like it when they come up with something quite unique, or simply because it is Halloween, one time in the year that you can simply

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Halloween Ideas


Harvest Pumpkin Cheesecake :: Black Halloween Punch Bowl & Skeleton Ladle :: raven pair :: templates to carve pumpins :: halloween cake pops
I gathered a few cool Halloween ideas that I spotted on the Web today. These are my daily quickly links.
+ First, I visited Horchow. This shop never ceases to impress me. TheHarvest Pumpkin Cheesecakewould make a stunning effect on your dessert table. I would integrate it within your candy station. If you put it a little bit out of reach, your guests will be surprised when you slice into the cake.
+ The Black Halloween Punch Bowl & Skeleton Ladle is so pretty that I would imagine reasons to use it at other moments of the year. Complete your spooky Halloween scene with these pair of ravens.
+ I already showcased several options to etch and carve your pumpkins. You can get at Macys the Martha Stewart Collection Pumpkin Carving Kit. The kit includes all the tools you need, 6 carving patterns and instruction booklet. I wish Macys was delivering in Canada.
+ I dare you to resist these Halloween Cake Pops by Bakerella. She brilliantly decorates Jolly jack o’ lanterns, mouthless mummies, werewolves, Frankensteins, scary skulls, black cats, bats, witches, ghosts, one-eyed purple people eaters, spiders and Jason of Friday the 13th. You will get a list of what you need on Bakerella. Sadly, I fear that I am missing the skills to reproduce these. Via Hostess with the Mostess
SOURCING:
Harvest Pumpkin Cheesecake – $140 USD
Black Halloween Punch Bowl & Skeleton Ladle – $150 USD
Raven Pair – $45 USD
Martha Stewart Collection Pumpkin Carving Kit – on sale at $18.75 USD

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Halloween in School Disrespectful to Real Witches?

A Washington state school district is canceling its annual Halloween celebration, and the explanation has some parents baffled.
"Let them have their 30 minutes of dressing goofy and having candy," Silas Macon, a father of two school-age girls, said Wednesday outside Maplewood Elementary School after learning that the grade-school tradition of a party and parade in costume during the last half-hour of class before Halloween night won't happen this year in the district.
A letter sent home to parents Wednesday said there will be no observance of Halloween in any of the district's schools.
"We really want to make sure we're using all of our time in the best interest of our students," Puyallup School District spokeswoman Karen Hansen said.
The superintendent made the decision for three primary reasons, Hansen said. First, Halloween parties and parades waste valuable classroom time. Second, some families can't afford costumes and the celebrations thus can create embarrassment for children.
Both of those reasons seemed sensible to the parents who spoke to ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle. But the district's third reason left some Puyallup parents shaking their heads.
The district said Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to real witches.
"Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that," Hansen said.
The Wiccan, or Pagan, religion is said to be growing in the United States and there are Wiccan groups in Puyallup.
On the district's list of guidelines related to holidays and celebrations is an item that reads: "Use of derogatory stereotypes is prohibited, such as the traditional image of a witch, which is offensive to members of the Wiccan religion."
"I do lots of things that are not revolving around wearing a black outfit and stirring a cauldron," Wiccan priestess Cheryl Sulyma-Masson said in an interview with ABC News in which she explained that Wiccans, or Pagan Clergy, celebrate nature.