Happy (very late shut up I had a cold) Halloween!
Let me take you on a tour of our happy little gingerbread cottage!
We love visitors, especially sweet children! (Before we were done setting up, a car with the windows pulled down slowed almost to a stop and a small child read the sign and excitedly shouted “FREE CANDY!” - on Halloween, when you always get free candy, mind you - and his mom just chuckled knowingly and asked him if he knew what fairytale this was from. Poor, innocent kid.)
Come up the path of lollipops that are certainly not human heads turned backwards!
Alright, yes, those may be our last visitors, but it won’t happen again, we swear!
Do take note of who what’s on the menu tonight, it’ll save time later. Oh, and don’t look to your right.
Why would you do that, I said not to! Well fine, welcome to the oven. As you can see, we have a fine meal on the way. (Alas, you can’t see the flashing orange lights and fake flame pots, nor hear the crackling fire and bubbling cauldron noises. Or the moving, motion activated crawling hand.) (Interestingly, we had one person come up the path, looking around at everything, before finally getting to the oven and setting off the hand and cauldron. Magneto heard a scream, went to open the door and found that whoever it was had actually run away. I call that a successful Halloween)
And here is your gracious host, the Witch (Magneto), with appetizers! (One kid said that the hollow book full of sweets she’s holding was “the most legit candy-holder [he’d] ever seen”. I like this kid.)
Ah, the dinner supplies have arrived…
In the kitchen proper, you can see a werewolf (Monk) and a witch who kept refusing to wear her hat (Stormy), hard at work on…
…meat pies! Served and supplied by the master himself, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (yours truly)!
Aw, was it all too much for you? Then you won’t want to come back next year. Especially if you’re arachnophobic…
More pictures here! I’ll probably upload a couple more separately with commentary later. Crossposted - surprise, surprise - to Tumblr.
We love visitors, especially sweet children! (Before we were done setting up, a car with the windows pulled down slowed almost to a stop and a small child read the sign and excitedly shouted “FREE CANDY!” - on Halloween, when you always get free candy, mind you - and his mom just chuckled knowingly and asked him if he knew what fairytale this was from. Poor, innocent kid.)
Come up the path of lollipops that are certainly not human heads turned backwards!
Alright, yes, those may be our last visitors, but it won’t happen again, we swear!
Do take note of who what’s on the menu tonight, it’ll save time later. Oh, and don’t look to your right.
Why would you do that, I said not to! Well fine, welcome to the oven. As you can see, we have a fine meal on the way. (Alas, you can’t see the flashing orange lights and fake flame pots, nor hear the crackling fire and bubbling cauldron noises. Or the moving, motion activated crawling hand.) (Interestingly, we had one person come up the path, looking around at everything, before finally getting to the oven and setting off the hand and cauldron. Magneto heard a scream, went to open the door and found that whoever it was had actually run away. I call that a successful Halloween)
And here is your gracious host, the Witch (Magneto), with appetizers! (One kid said that the hollow book full of sweets she’s holding was “the most legit candy-holder [he’d] ever seen”. I like this kid.)
Ah, the dinner supplies have arrived…
In the kitchen proper, you can see a werewolf (Monk) and a witch who kept refusing to wear her hat (Stormy), hard at work on…
…meat pies! Served and supplied by the master himself, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (yours truly)!
Aw, was it all too much for you? Then you won’t want to come back next year. Especially if you’re arachnophobic…
More pictures here! I’ll probably upload a couple more separately with commentary later. Crossposted - surprise, surprise - to Tumblr.