Pictures from Halloween Night

My son was Anakin Skywalker (from Star Wars) and I did my Dh's makeup.

My top 10 fave movies for Halloween

I stayed in today watching horror flicks and it got me thinking of some of my favorite movies to watch on Halloween. Some of these might not be necessarily scary but I still love to watch them every year. Here are my faves in no particular order:

1)The Lost Boys




2)The Omen



3)The Birds



4)Halloween



5)Alien



6)Amityville Horror



7)Invasion of the Body Snatchers



8)Jeepers Creepers



9)Carrie




10)Practical Magic




What are your favorite movies to watch?

Halloween Fun and... Snow?

At around 12:30 this afternoon it started snowing! Say it isn't so! It's way too early for this! My son of course is thrilled. I'm just hoping it won't stick to the ground. It's mixed with rain so hopefully it won't stay. It's NYC, by the way.




Last week my son and I painted these little pumpkins. Every year we do something crafty like this or bake cookies or a cake for Halloween. He can hardly wait for Halloween which is Monday. Here are some pics I took:





SPOOKY





Last year's pumpkins:

Halloween Lovely: Yvonne De Carlo

I remember Yvonne De Carlo mostly from the tv show "The Munsters". I recall loving the way she looked, her long black hair with white streaks, her black nails, her pale pink vampire ankle length gown and most of all, her bat necklace. She was in her 40's when she started the show. Years later, I watched "The Ten Commandments" and was stunned to find out that the beautiful woman who played Moses's wife was the same Yvonne De Carlo from "The Munsters". Since then I've seen pictures of Yvonne De Carlo when she was much younger in her acting career and can't believe how gorgeous this woman was! I loved her in "The Munsters", but I would never have known how beautiful she truly was under all that "monster" makeup if I hadn't seen the "The Ten Commandments" or found her pictures on the internet.
Other movies she made include, "Salome Where She Danced", "Criss Cross", "Slave Girl", and "Sombrero" just to name a few.
Here are a couple of pictures of her as Lily Munster and a YouTube tutorial if you want to be Lily Munster for Halloween. The rest of the pictures are of her gorgeous self:

Halloween is over!

When you have kids they count the months, weeks, days, hours and minutes until Halloween. Well, it's over. This Halloween was FREEZING! It was windy and cold and I felt sorry for the kids whose parents didn't make them wear a coat over their costume! I couldn't believe the little teen girls in playboy bunny costumes (worn with a tiny skirt)!
My boy and hubby were zombies and I was suppose to be a vampire but my teeth didn't work out. So I just look like a goth. But it was fun. I was good and didn't eat too much candy ;-)









Michael Myers!

I love Halloween!

I love Halloween! I loved it as a kid too, of course. Not only for getting candy, but for choosing a costume, the excitement of going out at night was like a little adventure, and looking at other people's costumes. It was fun. Now I get to take my 5 year old boy trick or treating. In the past few years, I wasn't really getting into it because I felt I was too old to put on a costume. But now my kid gets me excited again. He asks me, "What are you going to be this year, mom?" This year we decided to do makeup instead of masks. My boy wants to be a zombie, hubby will be a skull face, and I can't decide whether to be a sexy she devil, a sultry vampire or an evil skull. What do you think? What are you going to be? Do you go trick or treating or do you go to parties? I really haven't seen anyone posting about Halloween. Well, whatever you dolls do, I hope you have a Happy and Safe Halloween!
Here are some pics of my baby boy through past Halloweens. I couldn't find one picture where he was Elvis! :-(

Betty Boop: Halloween Party (1933)