This year we are off to Alton Towers to partake in their annual Scarefest. We love the horror mazes and the themed decorations and characters that can be seen throughout the park. We are getting the pre-bookable all-you-can-eat wristbands (at £29.50 each) enabling us to enjoy as much food and drink from the restaurants as we want: unlimited hot chocolates, veggie burgers, fries, cakes and pizza, without worrying about the cost on the day! Given that a cup of coffee alone is over two quid, I'll definitely be getting my money's worth from this investment, enjoying breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner at the park. Then we are staying at the hotel overnight. I love it when Halloween falls during half term!
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| Scarefest 2012 |
We have lots more planned over half term. Kizzy is having a belated Halloween themed birthday party. It is nice to make loads of homemade themed Halloween food, but it really lightens the load to use some shop bought goodies too. Asda have a really great range of sweet treats that will look great on a Halloween party table. They will definitely save a lot of time and effort for me, the party host, and they will delight all the little monsters!
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| Halloween Treats from Asda |
We bought a selection of Asda's Halloween food range using a gift card we received.
Grusome Gooballs - fuzzy marshmallows with an orange gooey centre.
Perilous Pumpkins - orange marshmallow shapes.
Shocking Shortbread Bats - delicious choc chip shortbread bats.
Weird Witch's Hair - colourful candyfloss.
Exploding Eyeballs - individually wrapped chocolates filled with strawberry ooze!
Scary Skeletons - chunky chocolate shapes.
Graveyard Ginger Ghouls - box of 18 gingerbread biscuits.
Funsize Bags of Maltesers, Twix , Mars and Milky Way perfect for Trick or Treaters
Fiendish Fancies - Mr Kipling's fondant fancies get a Halloween makeover with orange and black icing.
Witch's Cauldon - A brilliant black, handled witch's cauldron which makes a great container for keeping all the sweets in!
When it comes to dressing up, I have collected a whole box filled with costumes ranging from witches to vampires to the Grim Reaper! The girls love glamming up the outfits to create a fashion forward scary character! This year my son's girlfriend Jade has got coloured cosmetic contact lenses in terrifying plain black. They look really demonic! She is working an outfit around them - a demon mermaid was one of her ideas!! They will really make a huge impression this Halloween and take dressing up to a whole new level! Just look at this photo with one black and one blue eye...it's a bit freaky! But jade is definitely rocking the look. (Thanks to my lovely future D.I.L for the photo!)
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| Jade wearing her Colour Contacts |
As for Freddy I could not resist this mummified Halloween Bandage Onesie from George. At £9 it is a real bargain and is thick and warm with a zip up front. He'll be wearing this to his first school disco tomorrow night! It's cosier and more practical than flimsy fancy dress costumes so I won't worry about him getting chilly - and he looks so cute in it!
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| George Mummy Onesie |
Ian and I have got World War Z on 3D Blu-Ray to watch on Friday night. That will start our Halloween half term off with super scary bang. We'll wear our Evil Dead and Hellraiser t-shirts, crack open a bottle of red wine and let the horror fest begin!
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| World War Z |
Happy Halloween to everyone...however you plan to celebrate it!