This is Halloween!!

This was our first Halloween party we threw for friends at our first house together. I went all out for this and although it was exhausting it was worth it. This is where my love for throwing parties began.

Firstly we started with our skeleton in the garden. Our cat Ninja was very interested in what we were up to for this whole day. With some nice lighting it really proved the focal point to the garden at night.

I got the glue gun out to make a nice door wreath as I couldn't find anything I wanted or that I liked. I bought a Black glitter skull wreath and then I hot glue gunned to it a wonderful Halloween bow I have used in previous years and then places orange LED lights behind the skull so it would give it an orange silhouette glow. Its lasted many years from this date so far.

I am a massive fan of outside decorations and really from this point wanted to up my game with them as this was the sum of my 'outside the front door' decs.

We made so many pumpkins this year!

And then I started to decorate the inside.

Cooking and making started at 6am on the day of the party. Again Ninja was there watching over what I was doing and happily sat on a stool so he could see on the counter top in case there was something he wanted.

Red velvet cakes with a tri-colour vanilla buttercream, black pearls and candy bones.

More American products that I would not be without for Halloween and another wonderful gift from my American brother (Trader Joe's Pumpkin Spice). He knows the things I would love so well!

Once the food table was arranged, time to finish decorating the kitchen area.

That was a lot of food but I was so happy with it all.

Cupcakes on a nice creepy stand along with some shop bought Halloween French Fancies...one of the few Halloween offerings from Supermarkets this year....ergh.

Clementine pumpkins with little celery stick stalks. Babybel eyeballs with olive iris' and ketchup veins. Nice!

Houmous/Hummus dip in a hollowed out little pumpkins with assorted veggies.

Black and White melon and blueberry kabobs.

Green caramel popcorn. Berry Blue and Grape Jello mixed together with eyeballs.

Chocolate mousse pots with crushed Oreo dirt patches, Peeps Ghosts and Cats with a Brachs Mellowcreme Pumpkin at their feet.

Banana Twinkie mummies.

Mummy dogs (hotdogs split to look like they have limbs then wrapped lightly in puff pastry). Spider eggs (Olive spiders and egg and mustard middles).

Decorations in the hallway. I loved when the Trick or Treat-ers came to the door and I opened it and they went "Trick or...wooooaaahhhhh". They all wanted to come in and have a look around but their parents didn't look so sure. Fair enough haha.

This was the pièce de résistance of the night. Most of my partners friends who came to the party that night are Engineers of one variety or another. They had made a fire-breathing dragon prop for the garden using an old remote control toy car, a gas powered lighter and a air fresher spray can. It was so cool to watch them setting it off in the garden.

Even more decorations inside the house. These dust sheets cost a fortune but will be used for so many years, so...worth it!

The outside of our house looking in. At this point only the front rooms of our house had Hue light bulbs in. This meant we could change the lighting color for each room to be a bit more spooky for Halloween. This particular year I choose green for each room apart from the hallway. That was a UV light as it really makes the spiderwebs looks super creepy.

Then the party got started. This is my partner James (L) and his friend Seb (R); Mario and Luigi.

This little group are the Engineers responsible for the awesome dragon.

More guests in their fancy dress.

And lastly me. Can you see why the parents at the door were a little uneasy about letting their kids into my hallway?!