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Post by Eru on Oct 25, 2004 13:48:35 GMT -5
Do you "celebrate" (for lack of a better word) Halloween?
If so, what do you do?
If not, do you do anything in it's place?
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Erineth
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Post by Erineth on Oct 26, 2004 6:11:35 GMT -5
Slovaks usually don't celebrate Halloween. We are doing the same thing as every day - working or sitting in front of the TV and eating. ;D Anyway, let me wish You all to have a very scary H.
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Post by Beren Erchamion on Oct 26, 2004 6:45:40 GMT -5
i do celebrate Halloween, but its mainly my parents who do all the decoration and such. yes, i still trick-or-treat at 15, this year i am going to dress up as santa claus or maybe a klingon... last year i was Vash, it was a lot of work because i have shaggy brown hair.
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Post by Eru on Oct 26, 2004 9:42:26 GMT -5
We don't "do" Halloween at our house. We used to go to church for a Family Fun Night (penny carnival style without the pennies). Play Games - Win Tickets - Buy Candy! It was great fun!! But our church rents the building out and it's never available to use. Now we go out to eat and then to our friend's house who has a giant, fire-breathing pumpkin. I'm not really comfortable with the whole "scary" thing. With 2 young children, I really notice it even more now. Most of the stuff people decorate with are really gory. This is stuff which gives movies AA and R ratings but it's okay for Halloween. Anyway off my soap box now.
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Melime
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Post by Melime on Oct 26, 2004 17:55:14 GMT -5
I do celebrate Halloween and i have been trick-or-treating every year..until this year. i think i'm doing something else considering i am 18. but i will be celebrating all weekend and i am excited! i love halloween, but my mom has decided she doesn't like it anymore because it's an evil holiday..which i see, but it's still one of my favorites.
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Post by dwarvesrule on Oct 27, 2004 8:13:18 GMT -5
Well, I was going to say that I would be handing out candy, like last year (I'm 25 and the last time I "trick or treated" I was told that I was getting too old for it ) That was about 6 years ago... But now that I think about it, my daughter just turned 1 year old last week and I think my wife is going to dress her up, so maybe I'll be walking the streets with her (gives me an excuse to trick-or-treat again )
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Post by Goblinglow on Oct 30, 2004 21:22:32 GMT -5
I celebrate Halloween. I usually go trick-or-treating, but it's gonna be hard this year, since the houses are kinda scattered.
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Post by varda on Oct 18, 2005 15:15:02 GMT -5
We just go eat, come home, and watch scary movies.
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Post by verbena on Nov 8, 2005 10:52:11 GMT -5
I guess I'm a bit late on this one, but I LOVE Halloween. I am obsessed with making costumes anyway, but I have always had an appreciation for the dark and mysterious as well. I don't go trick or treating, but take my little girl to the "Boo The Zoo" in New Orleans every year. There was no 'Boo' this year, but we still dressed up and attended Halloween celebrations in our handmade costumes.
My little one was "the princess of the dragons"(her idea). We don't do TV, so she is not obsessed with cartoon characters like her little friends. We spend a lot of time drawing and making up stories, and her latest obsession is DRAGONS.
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Mineralady1
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Post by Mineralady1 on Nov 9, 2005 23:39:19 GMT -5
I'm also into Dragons! Started collecting them, drawing them & reading about them (Eldest, right now)! Mineralady
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Post by verbena on Nov 11, 2005 12:22:34 GMT -5
My little girl just turned 3 in September, but is already making up her own fairy tales about princesses and Dragons.....her favourite is about a princess who can turn into a Dragon whenever she gets scared. Whenever my daughter is afraid of something that she sees or hears, she will say something like "I'm a Dragon! Dragons are brave!" Or, she will pretend to breath fire at whatever it is that she finds disturbing. I am so proud of her creativity and imagination!
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Post by Lomadia on Nov 22, 2005 17:02:49 GMT -5
It's great that you're raising your daughter to be so creative, Verbena. I love Halloween and costume-making, too. I'm a sort of senior leader at my high school, and we sponsored a costume contest this year. I dressed up as Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series, which amused many people because I'm a huge bookworm and have bushy brown hair. On Monday I went to a friend's Halloween party as Lucy Honeychurch from E.M. Forster's A Room with a View, which I recently finished reading. I was especially proud of this costume because, even though I made it in about thirty minutes out of old tablecloths and such, it looked very pretty and quite Edwardian. For anyone who's read the book, I used as inspiration the picnic scene in the hills above Fiesole - and I even found some little violets to wear in my hat!
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Post by ania on Oct 9, 2006 22:29:05 GMT -5
I'm going to be a ghost - original, eh? At least I'm putting more effort into it than a cut up sheet, though. I'm doing a gauzy white and grey layered dress I'm making myself and some fake black roses
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Post by Lomadia on Oct 10, 2006 11:39:41 GMT -5
I'm planning to reprise the Hermione Granger costume this year- I had a lot of fun with it last year. Last year, Halloween happened to be my school's picture day, so when I show my student ID for discounts, I always get asked, "you don't go to Hogwarts, do you?" Hee hee!
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[Aeria-Gloris]
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Post by [Aeria-Gloris] on Oct 11, 2006 3:53:15 GMT -5
Alas, I'll be away for Halloween this year. I'm off to Australia from the 17th of Oct for a month. I miss Bonfire night too! Oh whoh!
That means I cant do my drunken Jedi bit, but even worse, I don’t get to see my friends costume. He's paid £850 for… get this… a complete suite of movie accurate stormtrooper armour from star wars!! He's got too much money! Still, at least I'll get to see it when he brings it round on Sunday.
Well rest assured, I'll be thinking about everyone in the autumn weather as I'm led out on my beach.
JFW
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