Entertaining
Our Halloween Family Costumes 2024: I'll Give You One Clue
It was Professor Plum, with the knife, in the Conservatory. Happy Halloween from Clue characters: 1986 edition! Shop Costume Inspiration Over the years, we've dressed as everything from dolls and monsters to Peter Pan, E.T. characters, and The Wizard of Oz. But in the last several years, one of our kids has usually chosen our costumes. If you look back, you […]
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October 31, 2024
Holiday
Get the Look: Last-Minute Halloween Costume Inspiration
When it comes to Halloween, we typically go "all-out" in the costume AND the party department. Lately, though, we're trying to balance family tradition while not overwhelming ourselves with more to-dos. Easier said than done, right? I thought it would be fun to revisit our costumes from years past, along with how you can get […]
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October 24, 2023
Holiday
Our Candyland Halloween Costumes 2022
Happy Halloween from the Candyland Crew! We do not mess around when it comes to our family Halloween costumes. Over the years, we've dressed as everything from dolls and monsters to Peter Pan and E.T. characters! It's one of my favorite traditions, and we'll do it for as long as the girls are into it. Luckily, Greta (who's 12) is still very […]
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October 31, 2022
Casual Friday
Casual Friday: Halloween 2021, A Fun Game we Like to Play, Our Favorite Wreaths and More!
Happy Halloween Weekend!!! This year, our family decided to dress as ET, mostly because Polly looks so much like Gertie, Greta just got a new bike and we had almost everything for the costumes. Faye as ET has us all laughing so hard. She stayed in character the whole time and her face makeup […]
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October 29, 2021
Entertaining
Happy Halloween 2019! It's A Monster Mash!
Happy Halloween!! After Greta enthusiastically declared she wanted to be Dracula for Halloween, we decided to all throw it back to classic monsters--Werewolf, Mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula and a Witch. (Can you believe this is my first time EVER being a witch for Halloween?!) As per tradition, we like to rummage through our closets to put […]
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October 31, 2019
Entertaining
Our Halloween Family Costume 2018: The Wizard of Oz
Back in September, we watched The Wizard of Oz as a family (it's on Amazon Prime!) and the girls were instantly hooked. Almost instantly we all started planning our Halloween costumes around the classic film--and although it's been a favorite movie of mine my entire life--this was the first time I was one of the […]
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October 29, 2018
