If you know me personally or have read previous Halloween posts, you are aware that this is my favorite Holiday! I hate that Christmas stuff it being put out at this time! Halloween is a day that everyone, even adults can be whatever they want to be, they can escape the every day norms and just have fun! It lets the kids inside all of us be... well, kids! So this year since we didn't have a party planned and I'm the only one that dresses up at work (yes, I got to work in full costume EVERY year) I decided to go for something easy and that wouldn't break the bank. I purchased the wig for 9$ at Spirit Halloween and the dress on Amazon for 20$ which I plan on wearing often. It's nice, non costume material and it's a really cute dress! I had the rest at home- the tights, makeup and shoes. The skull is just one of my decorations for the house but it seemed fitting! I had a lot of fun being Wednesday Addams! It's one I haven't done before!
Chance even had his Halloween bandana on for the special day!
Brian and Bear waiting for Trick or Treaters- excuse the couch that's Bears blankets he cuddels in when we are away at work.
We love to decorate but only get 8-10 trick or treaters every year. It's the most disappointing feeling. We want to really go all out but it's so hard when there aren't a lot of people to enjoy it. Maybe we will go all out next year and REALLY decorate and just do it for us cause we love it and we enjoy it!
Here's a short little video clip of my Halloween day :) I hope you all had a wonderfully creepy day and did any of you dress up???
So I have a question- would you guys want me to film behind the scenes videos? I know I do the before and after photos but sometimes it's fun to see that! Please leave a comment if you would like to see something like that :) It would mean a lot to hear your opinion- sometimes I feel like I'm talking to no one on this blog and that I'm really just doing it for me (which it should be that way anyways but still...)
Okay so here's the latest!
I was so happy with this photo until I printed it. HA! I should have used more light- my other lens or my flash - just too low light and the print was only ..."eh". I can't wait to get my new camera. I am thinking of staying with Nikon since I have so much equipment from them (though I would love to take the leap to Canon!).
So I made my husband (who never seems to be wearing a shirt in any photo) help me out on this one! He was a little confused and it's always so strange explaining my ideas to people until they see the end product so we laughed a lot doing this!
I kept rearranging his hands and he would pull my head back too far by accident or pinch my nose (his hands were too big) and we just had the giggles. It was fun! I use to take my photos way too seriously and always be uptight when shooting but now I figure, what the hell- life is suppose to be fun- you are suppose to have fun!
So here are some before and afters:
Here is the oracle card - card 6 of 50 (Ahhhhhhh long way to go!)
I had my 85mm on for a hot second and got some nice shots of the dogs- I wanted to shoot with it in the garage but the space wouldn't allow it :( BOO!
How adorable are they!?
We has some friends over the other night and had some pumpkin carving fun - Tis the season! They turned out great and we just had fun hanging out, having a fire and drinking some pumpkin beers!
Mine is the moon and stars- first time I haven't done a face in years!
We also celebrated my "Seesters" belated Birthday this past weekend too! We went out her way (south of Pittsburgh) and went to eat at a really good Mexican restaurant. We then went to her house to have some cake and ice cream! Always a good time with her- check out Rocky in the background too!
So this year has been a bit different for us. We didn't get a chance to go to a haunted house, we didn't go to the pumpkin patch to get pumpkins (we got ours at Giant Eagle) and we didn't even carve them. We had a small party last weekend and it took a lot of time and energy to put everything together. This weekend we cleaned the backyard and had a mini photo shoot with Chance and Bear and all the leaves we have. We were so excited for trick or treating and we only got about 15 kids. It was sad. I'm use to my Mom's neighborhood where there are 120+. After trick or treating was over at 8pm (I remember trick or treating till people turned their porch lights off and that could be ten or eleven at night) we got ready to go to a friends party. It was a great time! She had the house all decked out and we have a few drinks and got to talking with a very nice zombie couple about dogs. We left around 11:30 and we decided since my friend Glenn lived so close to us, we'd stop by his party. Glenna and I have known each other for a long time and we have always been into Halloween. Glenn and I keep trying to get to each others parties but have been unable to do so since we usually have them the same day. Well, this year we finally got to go to his. It was amazing. WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE. He had a bar set up with bartenders, a fire dancer (I'll post the video) and a Halloween town that took up an entire room (I will post a video of that as well). He had scary music and a huge screen set up in the backyard with horror movie clips playing all night. I felt like I was in a movie. I seriously can not explain how EPIC it truly was. Anyways. I love Halloween and I'm officially sad that it's over and Christmas will officially be in our faces. Great. On another note: I have been working on too many things lately. Wedding stuff, house stuff, spend time with doggies stuff, work stuff, finding a new job stuff, Christmas gift stuff (sicne I make a lot of things) , finishing my photo book stuff.... A LOT OF STUFF. I'm trying to paint a chair and used Varnish as a finish and NEVER AGAIN. Varnish is the devil. Once I finish this project that was suppose to take me a few days and now it's been a week and a half, I will post it under my craft section. I want to redo my office and hope to post step by step of what I am doing. I want to post before and after photos and videos so bear with me while I try to get that together on top of all the other stuff. haha. That is, as long as I don't have a tantrum and burn this chair. I swear it is so frustrating to work with Varnish. I'm going to stop and get a different kind of sealant on my way home from work to try. I may have to sand the chair and start again. I am using chalk paint. Has anyone used that before? Advice? Suggestions? I had very bad last week at work and Friday was the worst of the worst and to top it all off the concert that we were waiting to buy tickets for stop selling tickets (there were no longer any left at the time) only a half an hour after they started selling them. Ticket master is fucked up man but Brian went out of his way and found them somehow and now we are going to get to seetwenty one pilots live! I am so excited! It was really the only thing that saved me from that hell of a day and week. The show is not until June so I have a ways to wait but seriously so happy they are coming here and so happy that my fiance is amazing. Ok- im going to post some photos. I'm starting to ramble... I'm tired and crabby today so I'm getting some rest <3 They are a bit mixed up but I will be sure to label them. My costume this year was a broken doll but I got sick of doing the makeup so I went as my favorite costume...a vampire.
work - my Brook <3
Our Squad at work!
Brian before trick or treat
Our Pad
Glenns Party
Brian now wants movie chairs at our house.
Spookytown
Bear warming up by the heater
Julie's Party
Fire Dancer
Spookytown
Amazing. Glenn, if you read this. THANK YOU for having us!
P.s. - Thanks for getting and posting these photos of us Glenn!!!- I had to put them on the blog!
