Getting in the mood…

Sorry for the lack of posts this week but as you’re probably in the same situation you can guess it’s been a little manic. Can’t work out where the time has gone, it only seems like it was September and I was thinking “great a month to go, no problem”!

I have spent this week changing our altar from our Mabon offerings to our Samhain offerings (we like to keep the altar all the time adding things throughout the days as the time changes). We’ll add the last part on Samhain when we have our feast, our friends around us and I’ll post some photos and thoughts on this another time that hopefully you might like.

We’ve also been desperately constructing the props for mums Hallowe’en do. To get some more inspiration (and as an excuse to be a kid again) I took Littleun to a farm in the next county which had laid on all sorts of Hallowe’en treats for general amusement. Immense fun was had running around the maize maze a ghoul, ghost or pumpkin at every turn.

We met several skeletons including Femur who was a “dog hungry for a bone”, strangely the Littleun who is normally scared of dogs (long story that one) sat down and petted this dog!

We also had a right laugh catapulting pumpkins and shooting corn cobs at targets ridiculously far away and getting the backlash or pulp as we realised how useless we were at it.

Think the best part must have been the “scary hayride” which during the day was tempered for the Littleun’s but still spooky enough to get the heart going. A really funny bit was the Christmas shop tucked away in the corner; it had a little Nativity with the barn and animals etc, now I’m used to seeing these all over the place with Crosses or Stars of David over the manger but this was the first time I’ve ever seen one that had the pentagram on it. Strangely enough they didn’t like me trying to take a photo to show you!

Anyway a brilliant day, now I’ve just got to work out how I’m going to carve 23 pumpkins, buy several sacks of compost & a couple bales of straw, make cakes, biscuits and other goodies for mums Hallowe’en thing as well as getting the food prepared for our feast, visit my Grandmothers graves and my time for quietness all in tomorrow!

Hallowe’en celebrations, part one

This year my mum wants to celebrate Hallowe’en for the neighbourhood children and said to me “you do it all seeing as you’ve gone that way”. Trying to convince her that Hallowe’en and Samhain aren’t quiet the same thing is somewhat pointless though, so with gusto I’ve thrown myself into the type of decorations she wants and I am currently in the middle of her green witch.

I have found a dress that should fit it and am going to spray paint it glittery so when the candle lights glimmer against it you can see it shinning. The only problem I have is trying to get it to stand up. So far everything I have tried has been top heavy but will get there, trying drainpipes next.

I’ve also found some lovely biscuit cutters shaped like bats and pumpkins for us to make and some cup cake cases for the buns which have spiders and webs all over. We’ve been doing all this for a while but looking at the dates my lazy speed will have to pick up else I’m not going to get it all done on time! On to the gravestones next…