Beware of Dinner Tonight

The front doors slowly creep open

You have been warned!

Even the butler tries his best to

scare you off

and Thing is on the piano playing

his spooky music,

but you're not scared off,

you know this is Grandma's house

and this is her annual

Halloween Dinner.

Grandma has set up her 

kitchen counter as a buffet

with lots of

creepy/funny 

foods for everyone to enjoy.

You know there will be candy

and goodies tucked in everywhere,

after all,

THIS IS HALLOWEEN!

She has her wonderful 

BOO PLATES

out

which come in an assortment

of four wonderful Halloween colors 

Purple (so glad they included that color!)

Black

White

And of course, orange.

They are stacked at the end of the

buffet before the creepy food

gets set out.

Shredded Dragon Tail, now that one got

some questions from both children and adults.

Rolled Snake, doesn't everyone want

bright green bread to go along with

their Dragon Tail?

Ahh, there's something not so scary.

No one could be fooled

by the title of this.

Barf Dip is one of their

favorite dips -

just 8 oz. cream cheese with

1 16 oz. can chili.

This one is a little scarier

because it is served in a ghost pumpkin.

A simple salad with

lovely salad talons,

I mean salad tongs!

It wouldn't be Halloween Dinner

without 

Grandma going out to the swamp and

collecting some of her 

Swamp Water Punch.

And dinner hasn't even begun before

the little ones are helping themselves

to Poison Candy.

Again, you have been warned.

Ooh, yum, gummy fangs -

you are warned again and again!

There are even treat bags

to take some Poison Candy

home if you don't have a

stomach ache by the time you leave.

If you get thirsty later and you want to

try something a little more filtered

than Swamp Water, we have some

spooky drinks (Lanette's Apple Ciders

with Martha Stewart Labels glued on over

the original labels.)

We have to finish with some creepy crawly

treats.  These huge spiders are

carrying their eggs on their backs.

And they appear to be migrating.

Not into arachnids and egg sacks,

you say?  How about gummy mummies?

Or pick up one of the brooms

that our friendly witches have parked.

The Newsies group were here

as well as a gory beast and his innocent victim.

This girl has a frying pan and she knows

how to use it.

Do you think Rapunzel has used that 

frying pan to defend herself a few times with

those characters?

No one knew who this character was supposed

to be (all assuming he didn't dress in a costume)

but he proudly said he was his brother 

(the missionary) - he had taken the glasses, 

shirt, jacket and knife in his belt from his

brother's closet.

Now that was a funny one!

Beaulah loved every minute of the

party.

One of my little granddaughters said wistfully,

"Dad, it was a wonderful night wasn't it?"

That little one deserves a witchy kiss!

It made this witch want to get on her broom 

and fly around the house!

We will continue the party with

Let's Dish

Tablescapes Thursday

Pink Saturday

Seasonal Sunday

Sources

Boo plates - Tai Pan (several years ago)

Talon salad servers - Target (this year)

Spider cupcake holders - Home Goods (this year)

Thing - Tai Pan (last year)

Door signs - Home Goods (this year)

Witch leg treat bags - Target (this year)

Scary jars - Home Goods and Tai Pan (this year)