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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Alise in Underland - Part 2


The first gave the date. This, the time. All will be revealed in the third invite.
Apart from the invites we are progressing with the many props and costumes for our themed event. Check these out.
The beginnings of two Cheshire cats that will be black lit. One for the front of the house and one for the back yard. We're trying to figure out how to get the black light to fade in and out as opposed to flickering.



An adult 'Drink Me' Potion (Chambord and Blue Curacao)


The crocquet ball for our game on the front lawn.

A gathering of crocquet mallets. What would you call these? A flock?






The White Rabbits over-sized pocket watch made from a plastic plate sprayed gold, a blow up of an illustration of a watch face and yellow foam sheets to form the chain, which was also sprayed gold.


The White Rabbit's hat. Foam hat from the Dollar Store and bunny ears also from the Dollar Store. The most expensive thing about this was the chequered paper. (12" x 12" sheet from Michael's).
More to follow.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Our favorite time of the year is Halloween. Every year we have a themed Halloween party to promote our business, and more importantly, to have fun! In the past some of my favorites have been our
Voodoo Party
7' tall bottom lit with black light. Strings of cardboard bats coming out of his mouth and orange flame light in the fireplace behind it.



Our Witchsmeller Pursuevant Party (Thank you Black Adder). No pix but we had stocks in the back yard set up as a photo op! Our Mad Scientist Party a

Venetian Masked Ball
One of many hand made masks we created for this event


Hand made gift box for bottle of wine with matching label. A best costume prize!

The Raven

And our
Carnivale Macabre





This year our theme is "Alise in Underland" and I decided to post our thoughts and ideas as our plans progress.

This year we decided to send out a series of 3 invites designed to tantilize and perhaps puzzle our guest list