Hallowe'en has gone for another year and much fun it was too. The highlight of our evening has to be playing Banana Pinata, that little known game where you and the children spend much time glueing and sticking endless torn pieces of newspaper to a balloon in order to create a skull to fill with aweets. The general idea is that the pinata - should be a squiggly thing over the 'n' but can't do that on my keyboard - should be hit by all present till it breaks revealing the sweeets. In our case Dave decided we should take it in turns hitting it with a banana...hmm. It was very funny if extremely messy and a perfect game in the lead up to our favourite one of Bite the Apple which always provides plenty of shots for the family album where we apparently torture our children.
As to dressing up, we had a monk, a devil or two - very cute ones in the form of Lucy and Isabella though her outfit lasted all of two minutes before she stripped off the dress and accompanying Father Christmas hat! - Rasputin and verious other witchy people present. I was a black cat, though as usual I left getting ready to the last possible moment and then rushed so had no tail or ears.
All good fun, but now I must turn my attention fully toward Christmas as I always do when the half term holiday is over, and judging by my order emails I am not the only one. A Christmassy picture as I head off on the school run before settling down with the sewing machine and Radio 4.
Bye for now x
Pipany, no ears or tail indeed, you just didnt want to ruin how sexy you looked in your little black dress! An easier way to play your banana pinata, but possibly not so much fun, is just to put sweets and mini-gifts into a big paper bag, then suspend from a string and each allowed 3 bashes with a wooden spoon in turn. Harder than it sounds! When the bag bursts everyone scrambles for the goodies! Sounds like you had a wonderful time. Now going to your website to look at Christmassy stuff! I love that dove heart.
ReplyDeleteha ha at least you made the school run we had a terrible start to the term with both the kids getting horrific photoreactive burns from plants yesterday! I'm stressed at the mo and last man standing in our house!
ReplyDeleteDid you play bite the apple? Because It looks more like torture to me. Lou x
ReplyDeleteLOL...such wonderful, spooky fun! Love Halloween! Thanks for sharing yours...Happy Days ((HUGS))
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. You sound like me with the rushing at the last minute job! The games sound like fun, I asked Amy if she wanted to play any but then realised I didn't have any apples.
ReplyDeleteCJ xx
What a very pretty, whiskerless black Manx cat you are!! And I love your 'bleak midwinter' heart. There are so many people making hearts (I do, but mine are knitted) and I just suddenly wondered... why? Why has the heart suddenly become the must-have home acessory in recent years. I know that to people like Amish, and in American generally, a simple heart has been popular as decoration for much longer than it has here, but why? Is it because it symbolises love, is it because it is a pleasing shape and there are endless permutations as to colour, fabric, decoration on the heart and so on. Who cares why anyway, they are all, well most of them, lovely. Have you lots of different designs for Christmas?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if you click on my name at the start of my comment, you get a weird website coming up on screen. I think I should have put pfgs.blogspot.co.uk, not com - whoops. Having one of those days where my hands won't work properly....
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos. I do love your hearts.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a fab time. I had 8 screaming witches and skeletons trashing the house as we had torrential rain the whole day. There was a 20 minute gap where they rushed into the garden to let off a bit of steam. Mud, glorious mud everywhere, but such fun! Dev X
ReplyDeleteGlad you had some spooky fun. Love your little heart, it's soooo pretty.
ReplyDeleteTwiggy x
You look so gorgeous! Amazing how Halloween has become so popular-like the thought of a proper party.
ReplyDeleteI bet you are so busy now on run up to Christmas. take care and love those hearts.
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