As most of you must know, 31 October 2013 it was that time of year again: Halloween. Although it's not formally celebrated here in the Netherlands, we'd like to dress up the house and the garden. Albert's parents lived in America for a few years, his mother fell in love with Halloween en thus she brought it here. :-) For us it's THE moment of the year to horrify the garden and house. Because it involves quite some work, we start getting our stuff out of the attic at the beginning of October. The pumpkin in front of our window tells the neighbourhood it's spooky time again. :-D
Previous years we've been using our uncovered garden and drive for our Halloween decorations. Last year we used a white party tent to put our horror scene in, but we decided it should it different this year. Because a white party tent on your drive doesn't exactly set the right mood, we decided to use our garden house. That would be a lot more fitting for this year's theme: Dracula. You be the judge: is a party tent the right place for a vampire cave? :-) Well, we didn't think so. Besides, everything is better protected from the weather (which was really needed with all the wind and rain we had) and it's easy to lock up. Slowly but surely the garden house became a vampire cave.
With a cosy vampire lodging as a result:
Until the day of Halloween itself details are adjusted. The thing we wait a little longer with is the carving of the pumpkins. They go bad so quickly after carving. Unfortunately we haven't found a way to preserve the carved pumpkins, so if you have any ideas, let us know. Albert always carves the pumpkins:
this year assisted by our friend Femke, who you can see below with her first carved pumpkin ever:
They have the patience that Marga lacks. But everyone has their talents and Marga's talent is making pumpkin soup:
For this soup, the flesh that is scooped out of the pumpkins is used. It's a waste to throw it away. Last year was the first year we handed out pumpkin soup to the interested people who came to see our creations on Halloween. That went really well because the soup was all done quickly, so for this year we made 18 liters just in case. :-D
Of course the house was Halloweened too:
Our next blog will be about Halloween itself.
Of course the house was Halloweened too:
That thing that will stay a while longer is Spooky Town because we also use that as our Christmas village. We can enjoy it for 3 months. :-)
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