A Haunting We Will Go

With just a few days before the Annual Wilde Family Halloween Party we decided to be ghosts. Typical. I love how easy these costumes came together.

 The makeup? AMAZING! Thank you D.D. for doing what you do so well!

Scared? You should be!

Not So Halloween

I've been feeling all nostalgic as I contemplated writing a post commemorating Wilde family Halloweens gone past. This holiday has become increasingly more important in my adult years than it ever was growing up. I blame it on the competitiveness of the entire Wilde clan who strive each year to come up with the greatest costume year after year to showcase at Grandma's annual Halloween party.

I came across this photo. I didn't remember it from last year. We were so devastated by Dad's recent health news a year ago, that we didn't even consider dressing up. Then good ol' Dad started getting into the Halloween spirit and latched onto the idea of being Cyclops. The rest of us cobbled together our costumes to round out the Greek Mythology theme.

I decided on just this one photo because even though Dad wasn't feeling well, here he is in all his Cyclops glory with a smile on his face. What makes this picture even better is Mom's smile in the background. (And the majesty of her Medusa hair!) I will be forever grateful to Dad for toughing it out and helping all of us have one last fun Halloween memory together and for teaching us that life still goes on.

I'll be saving my Halloween trip down memory lane for another time.

This is the first year in nearly 10 years that I haven't dressed up. Maybe I'll just paint my nails black and call it a day.

BOO! It's a SALE!

Halloween is FAST approaching. So we decided to have a little SALE over at FlyAKite. ALL Halloween/Fall items are 20% off! The discount is already taken, just add the items to your cart!

p.s. We hope to have some new Christmas products soon. Stay tuned!

Dia de los Muertos

Happy Dia de los Muertos!

This won't be a long post. I don't want to steal my sister's thunder. And this is ALL her. (I'll post a LINK to her blog with the complete story.) Halloween has become a VERY big deal in our family the last few years. For anyone on our Christmas card list you'll know what I'm talking about. It's not unheard of to find us discussing costumes in February. This year has been different. With Dad in the midst of chemotherapy we didn't know if he would feel up to dressing up. As of the week before Halloween we didn't have a costume and figured we'd just skip it this year. 

D.D. came up with the idea. Steele was on board as long as he could have a cool hat. My makeup alone took over two hours! But what a FANTASTIC job! My sister is a makeup artist, and she really demonstrated what she can do. Especially what she was able to do on herself!

I LOVE the way my teeth turned out! And my eyes! At the end of the night I was reluctant to remove my makeup. I wanted to revel in it as long as possible. And yes, we did our photo shoot at the cemetery.

THANK YOU D.D. for being the creative force behind my favorite Halloween costume ever!

p.s. we really missed Dad and Mom

I'll Give You A CLUE

Last weekend was the Wilde Annual Halloween Party. What were we you ask?

I'll give you a CLUE.

We had a Colonel Mustard.

Mrs. White.

Miss. Scarlett.

Mrs. Peacock.

And Professor Plum.

We were the characters from the board game CLUE. (We needed a Mr. Green). We had all the weapons. And we even played a little bit of murder mystery at the party.

The party hostess: Cleopatra

A little post party silliness. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

PS: If you've never seen the movie CLUE with Tim Curry, I highly recommend it. It's hilariously one of my favorite movies.

Dress Ups Past

Its that time of year again. The Annual Wilde Halloween Party and costume contest is just about upon us. Our carefully guarded secret costumes are just about ready for the party this Saturday. I have a feeling the competition will be pretty tough this year. We have quite a bit of family traveling from out of state.  I was thinking about past years and thought I'd share. Some are award winning, and some are pure nostalgia.

1st Place Vikings

2nd Place Hare Krishna

1st Place Chinese Dragon

1st Place KISS

This wasn't Halloween, but a Christmas card.

No one won this year.

The first of many successive years as babies.

Cute little Casper the Ghost.

I'm not sure who has a picture of my dad as Chia Head, but it was really great!

HALLOWEEN SALE!!!

ALL Halloween Cards at FlyAKite are on sale! 

25% Off!

We are also still donating $2 from every Pink Ribbon Card purchased or 10% from all other cards to The Susan G. Komen Foundation the entire month of October.

Halloween has found its way to FlyAKite!

Our SPOOKY new designs just arrived in time for Halloween!

Check them out at FlyAKite!

Viking Victory

The annual Wilde family Halloween Party was a victorious slaughter for the vikings. Actually, there were so many great costumes that the first time the votes were counted there was a three way tie.  Our viking clan made an impressive entry. The great thing about this year's costumes was that everyone took charge of their own look. Dad and Steele took charge of collecting and crafting enough weapons for us all to carry. Look for a viking near you come Christmas card time!

Everyone looked great! And the pumpkin recipes were all delicious!

Thanks Grandma for hosting such a fun party!