Halloween

Hi, I haven't posted in a while so this is what has happened...  I have been away at Kuratau, Taupo.  My neighbours house burnt down the mining we were leaving so we left after it had been put out...  5sos added NZ to #tnbs but we can't actually register because they don't have a sponsor for us they just know that they might be getting one.  This morning I was voting on twitter for #VMAFanWars5sosFam we are up against harmonisers, again.  As I am typing this we are at 50% all...  I reached my twitter limit for the day so I can't help, but if you are on twitter, everything you post or retweet with #VMAFanWars5sosFam is one vote towards us!  So anyway this post is about halloween.

Every year I have a halloween themed birthday party, and since this is my last year at my current school, I thought I would invite everyone from my year group.  Don't worry there are 25 of us in my year not like 50.  Today I went to spotlight and bought some decorations, cutlery and useful stuff for my party.  I have a book of everything about my party, there is a to do list, shopping list, RSVP list, food list, decorations list, designs for diy decorations and a list of activities.  I have planned everything in this little book.  I thought I would share with you the dos and don'ts of planning a halloween party.

Do: Plan, plan, plan.  Write down activity ideas, food ideas, to do lists, everything.  You never know what fantastic idea you could think of and then the next day not remember what it was, or buy something not knowing what you bought it for.

Don't: Get stressed over decorations.  Yea everyone wants to have the coolest decorations, spookiest labels for food and chic table ware, but decorations can distract you from the bigger picture.  Today I was planning to make tomb stones but I had put it off for a couple of days and I was so stressed thinking I would never have them done by the end of the holidays, but when I went to spotlight, I found tomb stones for $3.50 each so it was fine.

Do: Do everything at least a week before your party (except food and stuff).  This way you know it is done and you don't have this huge pile of stuff to do 3 days before halloween.

Don't: Send invitations out late.  If you leave sending your invites out until a week before your party you will find that people have already received an invite to other halloween parties or special things that they have already RSVPed to.  With me, I am on holiday right now so I can't give people invites until school starts, the people will only have 2 weeks notice.  What I did is I texted my friends, the essential ones that I need to come, and asked if they could reserve halloween for my party.  For one of my friends, she was on her computer ready to buy tickets to this thing that her mum had begged her to watch.  I called her so she got out of it just in time, she didn't want to see it and she couldn't find an  excuse so I gave her a reason to miss it.  Also don't freak out if your best friend can't make it, it just means more pizza for you, you can wear twinning outfits with someone else, or its just an excuse to not wear twinning outfits at all if thats not what your into.

Do: Try and make the decorations yourself, especially if you live in a place where halloween isn't really a thing.  If you make it yourself you can add something personal to it.  And remember, if you run out of time to make something, its not the end of the world, you can always go without it or buy it from the 2 dollar shop or somewhere.

Costume:
Try and have your costume all ready wayyy before the night.  Try out your makeup before hand so you know you can do it, and if you can't you can find other makeup you can do.  Go simple with your costume, you don't need to go overboard with accessories or makeup, unless that's a requirement of your character.  You don't need to dress for someone, just dress up for fun and for you.  If you want to be Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz than do it.  Don't spend too much money on a costume that is only going to be worn once, wear what you have at home or can get from the op shop or 2 dollar store.

Other tips and tricks:
Before the night, get your makeup, wig, and anything that you will be wearing on your head and neck on and practice your selfie faces.  It sounds really narcissistic but it is good to see what faces you should and shouldn't make when someone pulls out their phone and takes a pic with you.  try different angles and lighting, you might find that putting your phone at an angle so it looks up at your face will give you a double chin, and for some people a kinda birds eye view will make your forehead look huge.  Don't stress to much and it doesn't really matter, its just so that you don't look back at your photos and think, omigod I look like a shiny duck.  You don't want to draw attention to the face you are making, just to what's going on in that scene.

Dance a lot, and keep other shoes around for dancing or even go bare foot, who cares what is on your feet.

If someone is wearing the exact same costume as you, or pretty close, take photos with them, you could be zombie twin sisters.  There are limited costumes that people can wear so don't be surprised if someone shows up in yours.

Be polite, even if everything goes wrong and people don't show up or certain people do show up, be polite.  If you are rude than word gets around and people won't want to come next time.


Thats all for this post, I will post more halloween posts and RWC2015 posts later.  Byee