Those who really know me, know that I have always been a lover of Halloween. This is my time of year, as far back as I can remember I loved autumn the most. It all goes back to those favorite childhood memories... and still making them.♡
Still love all the old cardboard cutouts and paper decorations to stick in the windows and on the doors. Just something about them that keeps those times alive for me. I think too that it cheers things up when the days get shorter and dark too early.
I so loved working with construction paper and paste making black and orange chains to hang, and really cool haunted houses out of shoe boxes and milk cartons. Cutting out little jack o'lanterns, ghosts, spiders, witches, skeletons, Frankenstein, gravestones. Creating crooked windows, shingles and fences. I would get so lost in this. I still have one I did in the early years of my marriage.
Mom making jack o'lantern cookies and cupcakes with the orange frosting and faces. SO yummy! Probably my love of it all came from her, she was always so festive and young at heart. Well, and of course the candy! The one time of year besides Christmas that mom would keep a dish of candy on the dining room table. Snickers, Baby Ruth, Mounds, Butterfingers, Milky Ways, Paydays... Nom Nom Nom! What a cool mom. ♡
Our little skeleton and Frankenstein masks with glow in the dark features that hung in the attic. That even when it wasn't Halloween, Scottie and I'd sneak in there when we were supposed to be in bed and hold them up to the light bulb to get 'em glowing..lights off and waalaa... too fun! Probably from Woolworth's. And the Blow Form lighted figures, that awesome orange!.. We still have several of those, the ones from the 60's, we put up each year. All that kind of stuff that hasn't really existed since that era. Oh how I miss all that! I always loved the dime stores.
One time even when we were camping in early October, in our quasi camper with home made bunk beds in the back of the truck making jack o'lanterns with construction paper only by the light of our pop up lights, listening to the radio and the rain on the canopy. Mom had chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for us in the trailer. How good that tasted on a rainy fall night camping at Kopachuck State Park. It didn't matter the weather for us. Every weekend we could swing it we were in the campgrounds.
Mom going out and getting cool material to make costumes for us even when I was 21 and heading to my first Halloween legal age at the bar... what a fun drunken good time that night was! Swinging around to Robert Plant's "There's Good Rockin' At Midnight"
Mom going out and getting cool material to make costumes for us even when I was 21 and heading to my first Halloween legal age at the bar... what a fun drunken good time that night was! Swinging around to Robert Plant's "There's Good Rockin' At Midnight"
Some of the best memories carried up through the years after I was married. Dressing out the hubby as Dracula, about a 4 hour job of make up and hair perfection that garnered him the top costume prize in 1987 at Leslie's Dance Club-- $500 big ones! And lots of high fives for "my man Count". At home at 3 in the morning, drunk, he wasn't too into the washing it all off, and I was not about to let him wreck our bed with the temporary dye and Vaseline in his hair--huh uh!!
He had one of his rare flare ups with me and went from Dracula to Mr. Hyde, LOL. His hair wildly sticking up in spikes still half black and greasy. Make up only half washed off, black rings around his eyes. He was quite the sight as he was hugging the porcelain. In the end it is one of our most hilarious squabbles. LOL!
Ѽ HaPpY HaLLoWeeN!! Ѽ
