Over at The Green Phone Booth I guest posted about how I like to decorate for Halloween using live pumpkins. This year I put a pumpkin on some brown crinkle paper I saved from a gift basket in my giant martini glass. I layered live pumpkins in around this ceramic spooky cave I bought a long time ago to make a nice little green Halloween vignette on my side table.
A festive pumpkin martini!
After the holiday, I’ll bake the pumpkin seeds. I’ll also bake, puree, and freeze the pumpkin for later cooking.
Very green, right?
Not if you live with my husband.
Husband likes animated Halloween decorations. I’m not going to even pretend that they are green, but they have staying power and last forever (they should because they are resin. You know the stuff that does not break down in landfills? Yeah, that.) We don’t have a lot because we don’t have the room to store the kooky life size talking whatever we just saw in the store, but it would be a lie to admit that we don’t have a few.
This is Husband’s contribution to our Halloween decorations. You can’t fully appreciate it unless it’s dark.
The red skull lights up and makes mist while the eyes on the stack of three skulls light up and sing.
My Not So Green Halloween Decorations
The eyeball candles are paraffin wax so I don’t burn them because I don't want to contribute to poor indoor air quality. I only leave them out as a decoration.
The smoke from the skull isn’t from dry ice, it’s some sort of motor, we fill it with water and plug it in on the front porch for Trick or Treat. I have to admit I like that it doesn’t use dry ice because I’m afraid a kid would try to touch dry ice and burn themselves.
The piéce de résistance is the three stacked skulls.
They sing Shout.
And light up.
Blitzkrieg barks when the two top skulls sing the backup, “shout.”
It's not very green.
At least it’s entertaining.
Before I could make Blitzkrieg a costume for this year's charity Halloween Pet Parade Husband bought Blitzkrieg a dog bandanna that says "Security." Fitting given Blitzkrieg's watchdog abilities but again, not very green.
Blitzkrieg is moving his head so I can take a picture of his bandanna because he's that smart. It's a good thing Blitzkrieg doesn't have opposable thumbs or he'd take over the world.
*sigh*
Some days I wonder why I even bother to eat through the restraints.
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I really like your pumpkin martini. It's creative, earthy, and green. I also ...can I say... LOVE you hubby's decor? You see I made a witch wreath (video on my blog, which never sold in my Etsy Store -- actually nothing sells in my Etsy Store --haha, so I have it on my front door). It's motion- activated and whenever someone approached the door that witch starts grabbing with her hands, screaming, eyes light up bright orange...what a ruckus. I cannot wait to horrify the children on Halloween. Did I really say "horrify"? Not me!
ReplyDeleteHaving said all that -- I am definitely going to follow your blog, if I can find where to do so, otherwise I will subscribe to your feed. I would love for you to do likewise at my blog.
Thank you so much for sharing this link on the Boardwalk Bragfest!
TOO CUTE! Thanks so much for linking up to gettin' crafty on hump day! :)
ReplyDeleteLOL My decorations are far from green- And I use the same excuse as you- well justification, not excuse- I don't like carving pumpkins for decoration, as I feel it is a food source. So my Jack O' Lanterns are made from "foam" pumpkins that I bought years ago and re use every year. I know there are greener alternatives, but like I said I re-Use them year after year. Along with the skulls with led lights to emulate strobe lights
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