Beginnings of Halloween
What I love in August is the start of Halloween lines creeping in! Craft suppliers have released and are releasing beautiful stamps, papers, washi tapes and also shops are selling spooky garlands ornaments and decorations. A few years ago in the UK you never really saw any Halloween items until October and even then it was only a token effect of a few rubber bats, masks and sweets. Going back further to the 1970's and Halloween parties were really unusual! So it was quite a thing that my parents did a few. We used used to have home made punch or elderberry wine, jacket potatoes, and lots of things on sticks. Mum used to organise apple bobbing and Dad used to wheel people around the garden in a wheelbarrow which was hilarious. W e would set up a disco in the front room playing records such as Alice Cooper feed my Frankenstien and Black Magic Woman by Santana! Costumes were handmade from sheets and binbags, pumpkins were a rarity so my Mum used to carv...
