Halloween - The Preperations

Halloween in Denmark is a pretty new holiday. Halloween stuff is starting to pop up in stores, but in teeny tiny quantities, but it has a long way to go to get to the US of A. We have been having an annual Halloween party for the past few years with Mary and Jason and decided this year, even if they weren't here, we would still have a party....so we did! Most of our decorations came from stuff we already had and we made a couple trips to IKEA to get lots of black and orange decorations (candles, circular rugs, blanket and even a new orange shower curtain) to help set the Halloween mood. We had some American candy that you can't find here shipped to us along with some spider webs and other fun Halloween stuff. These pictures are all mostly taken during the day, but our flat looked so cool at night with all the candles lit. We had the AIM Halloween station playing all night long as well.

These are just some of our decorations, we had stuff all over the place.

Michael Carving a Pumpkin
Notice his earing's are back in his ears...its part of the Halloween costume.

Entrance
Window Sill
Candles You can see in the background our pumpkin and ghost candle holders glowing
Book case

And then there was our bathroom...AKA the Witch Kitchen
This took the longest because we had to make all the jars.

This is how we had it set up.

If any of our guests got curious and wanted to open the door to see what else was in there we stuck some more stuff in the other side. One of our guest told us she even checked in the shower to see if we had anything behind the shower curtain!
Our Witch Jars

Witch Warts

More Jars

I figured out what's wrong with the washer/dryer...apparently a ghost is living in it ;)

Drink/Dessert Table

The food all got to live in the sun room.
The plate and utensils table

And the food table
For dinner we had Chili, Crackers, Bread, Salad, Banana Nut Bread, and a Cheese Plate.
We had some vegetarians at our party so I attempted Veggie Chili. I just substituted my ground beef with lentils and actually turned out pretty good....(though not as good as the beef) :)

I had found these to make for desert about a month before the party. Then about 4 days before our party I saw that my "Cooking Light" magazine had put this recipe in their magazine as well. They turned out to be pretty sweet, but still managed to have a nice taste to them despite the sweetness.

Next post.....Halloween Costumes...