Since I saw Zombieland a few weeks ago I’ve been obsessed with all things zombie. I wish I had planned to have a Halloween party this year, but it becomes bigger and bigger and therefore more involved every year. Every other year is my limit. If I’m still into Zombies next year I might make it a zombie party. How cool would that be? It would be even better if it was warm enough to do it in your yard. I could just imagine driving by someone’s house with a whole bunch of zombies walking around in the yard and spilling into the street. Every Halloween there are quite a few cities that do a zombie crawl. If you haven’t been to one they are lots of fun. Usually it’s just everyone showing up on some city street dressed as a zombie and walking around for a few hours. People get very creative. That idea got me looking around at zombie costumes. Probably the best ones would be homemade, but I did find a couple of good ones. A good portion of them are quite lame, though. My one problem with most of the costumes is that they include a mask. I hate masks! I never where them. They look great, but they are so hot and sweaty. No one can ever understand what you are saying and you can’t hear anything. I’m not a huge fan of wearing lots of makeup, but it’s still better in my opinion.

I love sarcasm and I am probably more sarcastic in my every day life than I should be. I often get looks from certain people who I forget have no sense of humor. I can’t control myself. My father always says that everything I say sounds sarcastic because that’s the way my voice sounds. We do not share the same sense of humor. For T-Shirt Tuesday I found this little snarky t-shirt: Just Give Me the Damn Candy. I know I’d crack up if some teenager came to my door in this t-shirt. Probably even more if it was on a little kid. I know that would be wrong. Admit it though, it would be funny to see this on a toddler that couldn’t even speak yet. I think it would be funnier though if it was followed by: “and Shut Up.”

Years ago I visited a restaurant in New York called the Jekyll & Hyde Club. I go back everytime I’m there. It’s my fav. If you haven’t been there it’s a theme restaurant, but one for the scary minded like myself. It’s Halloween year round, it’s a total tourist trap and I love it!. The food is okay, but you don’t go for the food. You go for the ambiance. It’s decorated like a haunted house with a different theme for each of the 4 floors. Throughout the day they do live shows on the main floor and it’s a riot. Well, anyway one time I was there I sat near the werewolf head and it taunted me throughout our meal. I absolutely loved this effect and have desperately tried to recreate it for the store without success. The problem is you have to have someone on the other side of the wall that can see who is in front of the head at all times. I can’t hire someone just for that! I’m still waiting for an animatronic one that will at least say some different things, but so far nothing. I found this website where you can build your own Werewolf Head that doesn’t talk pictured bottom right. The directions are so involved though. You would need to be an artist to pull this off or you could buy the Werewolf pictured below left and be done with it. It’s expensive, but I know I’d screw it up if I tried to make one.

A while back I blogged about some wall mounted hand hooks. I found these Spooky Wall Hands the other day and they are far superior in my mind. Either ones are very creepy, but these are just a couple of steps up on the creepy scale. This reminds me of the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. If you remember when the kids and parents originally go into the factory they have to hang up their coats. When they go to hang them on the hooks the hand hooks grab them. I always thought that was so cool and I still desperately want them. This is the closest I’ve seen. Well, visually anyway. These look like they are ready to reach down and grab your coat. They come in a set of two hands for $29. One palm-up and one palm-down pose. Personally I’m going to cover my wall in them!

There are many things that we have tried to do over the years for parties and have only been moderately successful with. Every year I get some crazy idea and then it’s a challenge to come up with a way to do it. My poor husband is often stuck doing the more mechanical type things since he’s better at it than I am. A few years ago I got the idea to make a ghost that looks like it’s going through a window. We finally got it to work with a cut up light weight prop and heavy-duty suction cups. The only problem was the weight. Trying to get something light enough that the suction cups could hold it. Everyone was always impressed with it, but I was never quite satisfied. Well, lo and behold they now make this exact prop called Light Up Ghost Through Window. This one even lights up! There are some mixed reviews of this product on various sites. Honestly though if people knew how difficult this is to make they would keep their big pie-hole shut and be happy it exists. I know I am!

What is with all of the shit costumes? Is this new or did I miss it when they came out? Who in the world wants to be shit for Halloween? There’s Holy Shit, Bull Shit, No Shit, Crock of Shit, Chicken Shit, Tough Shit and Poo Poo Platter. There may be others, but that’s all I found and frankly that’s more than enough. First off I find it really strange that some of these were sold out on a couple of the sites I went to. Is there really that big of a demand to be shit? Don’t get me wrong I’d laugh if I saw someone dressed as some sort of shit at a party. That’s not my point. Who is the person that actually wants to be the shit. It’s like the classic horse costume where someone has to play the back end. Nobody ever wants to wear that part of the costume. To me this seems like the costume that would be the last one at the costume shop. The one that would go on clearance on Halloween. I’ve seen some degrading costumes in my time, but this is the shittiest costume I’ve ever seen.

If you’re going to decorate for Halloween you need spiders and lots of them. The more the creepier I always say. Anyway, some years ago we decided we wanted to find 2 giant spiders to put on the roof of our store for Halloween. We wanted to make them look like they were crawling down the outside of the building. After spending a lot of time on the internet looking around we found that scary spiders of that size just didn’t exist. My husband proceeded to make some out of black PVC that turned out really cool, but probably wouldn’t last beyond the one season. Of course that was a year that we got a lot of snow, so who knows. I still wish I could find the perfect spider, but it just doesn’t exist. The few that are available are more cartoony than scary. Now I have a new idea. I saw these Monstrous Spiders and they are the creepiest ones I have ever seen. They are 3′ long and the eyes light up. Not as large as I would like, but they’ll do the trick. A few of theses hanging down the side of the walls will creep everyone out and piss off the neighbors. It’s a win win situation.

Everybody loves games, right? Well, I don’t really care if you do or not. The important thing is I do. Actually my whole family is game crazy. Here is a website called Halloween Arcade. It satisfies my need for a fun little spooky game during the day when I need a break from work. They have been kind enough to link to us since the beginning, so I figure it’s time to give them a plug too. I have played all of them many times, but my favorite is probably Coffin Creep or Undertaker. Be sure to check out The Pumpkin-Left-Me-Blues. This always makes me crack up.

We are getting really close to Halloween. I’m so excited. The whole month of Halloween I wear all of my scary t-shirts. I start with the tamer ones and progressively get scarier as the month goes by. Even though I have so many I can never get enough. I have just found one to add to my collection. It is pretty scary, so I might be wearing this one on the last day of the month. I can’t believe I have never seen this Glow-in-the-Dark Zombies and Ghosts T-shirt. The best part about this t-shirt is that the zombies and ghosts don’t appear until the lights go out! Until then it’s just a creepy mansion and graveyard. How could you not love that? The t-shirt is hand dyed. This means there is no iron-on that will crack and flake off. The ink is embedded in the 100% cotton. I wish it came in a girl’s t-shirt, but for $17.95 who cares? I ordered one anyway.

As I have said I feel scary costumes are the best for Halloween. I do enjoy the occasional funny costume if it’s clever. This Caught in the Rain costume made me laugh out loud. In my book that means it passes the test. I would really like to see if it’s as funny in person, though. For some reason I am reminded of the costume that Daniel-Sahn wore in The Karate Kid. You remember that right? The Polkadot Shower? I loved that costume. It’s perfect for the shy person. I would imagine though that it would be kind of hard to get around in it. If I remember correctly Daniel-Sahn had a hard time going through doorways. That does bring up a good point though. Make sure you can get around in your costume easily. I’m sure a lot of you remember Donna’s mermaid costume in 90210. Nobody wants to spend their whole night not being able to move.