Or, the Day of the Dead to us Americans. I first learned about this holiday when reading Ray Bradbury’s “The Halloween Tree” (which, if you haven’t read it, I suggest going out and getting a copy ASAP). Although we usually associate this holiday with Mexico, it actually is found throughout Latin America. It is closely [...]
Archive for the ‘Holiday Ideas’ Category
Dia De Los Muertos
Posted: 23rd October 2010 by Megan in Halloween Fun, Halloween News, Holiday IdeasTags: day of the dead, skeleton, skeleton bride, skeleton groom
Comments: No Comments
Freak Out the Neighborhood
Posted: 5th September 2010 by Holly in Halloween Fun, Haunted Houses, Holiday Ideas, New ProductTags: facebook, mummy, pac-man, scary clown, skeleton
Comments: No Comments
Have you been on the FrightCatalog.com Facebook page lately? Fans from all over are sharing photos and videos from Halloweens past — especially the amazing yard decorations and home-based haunted houses. Envious? You too can create an awesome haunted room or yard! There are more cool decorations on FrightCatalog.com than anyone could ever cover in [...]
Yummy
Posted: 3rd September 2010 by Holly in Halloween Fun, Holiday IdeasTags: cakes, cupcakes, halloween food
Comments: No Comments
Cupcakes are hot. The best part? Cupcake artists go all out to create the cutest, cleverest and, sometimes, creepiest cupcakes possible. Case in point: I attended an event for the Fringe Wilmington Festival a couple of nights ago, and among the extreme cuisine offerings were ghoulish little cakes like these: Mmmm… body parts! These are [...]
Halloween Night Event: The Walking Dead
Posted: 25th August 2010 by Holly in Halloween News, Holiday IdeasTags: the walking dead, TV, zombie apocalypse, Zombies
Comments: No Comments
AMC wants to be on your Halloween night schedule, hoping folks will follow the evening’s celebration in front of the TV, for the premiere of the long-awaited “Walking Dead” series at 10:00 PM. My initial reaction, honestly, was that October 31st seems kind of late. I was hoping the show would launch earlier in the [...]
Wrap Yourself in Neon for Halloween
Posted: 21st August 2010 by Holly in Halloween Fun, Holiday Ideas, New ProductTags: glow, neon, tron
Comments: No Comments
Of all the new items for 2010 in the FrightCatalog, I think I’m most excited about this: No, it’s not a weird top hat with glow sticks taped to it… the item is the glow strands, but they’re not old-fangled temporary glow strands that you crack to mix the mysterious chemicals that make it shine [...]
Feeling Med-evil? Dragon Slaying Party!
Posted: 30th July 2010 by Cara Maria in Halloween Fun, Holiday IdeasTags: cake, costume, dragon, how to train your dragon, kids, knight, medieval, party, princess
Comments: No Comments
Here’s the plan. Go with me on this one. It’s the kid’s birthday, or you just got a raise at work, or you got a divorce, or just any excuse in which a party can be thrown. Go with a medieval theme. Due to the popularity of the movie “How to Train Your Dragon” the [...]
“Kill Me” Elmo
Posted: 27th July 2010 by Cara Maria in Halloween Fun, Holiday IdeasTags: america, children, conspiracy, costume, death, die, elmo, iraq, oscar the grouch, sesame street, terrorist, tickle me, toy
Comments: No Comments
That furry red body, those crazed bug eyes, and that high pitched deceivingly innocent baby voice… it’s just not right I tell you. I did my research on the little critter we’ve all grown to hate… Sesame Street’s own red devil, Elmo. Elmo may seem innocent, but we know better. If you remember back in [...]
To Independence!
Posted: 3rd July 2010 by Holly in Holiday IdeasTags: 4th of July, Independence Day, USO
Comments: No Comments
May your 4th of July be explosive. Try not to lose too many fingers this year. And since it’s Independence Day, get some holiday drinking ideas and help Bacardi donate $100,000 a buck at a time to the USO via 60 Second Cocktails on Facebook.
Fulci’s Zombie vs. Shark All Over TV
Posted: 18th May 2010 by Holly in Halloween Fun, Halloween News, Holiday IdeasTags: dawn of the dead, windows 7, zombi 2, zombie apocalypse
Comments: No Comments
I was knocked over when I saw the new Windows 7 ad, which features a clip from Lucio Fulci’s 1979 film “Zombi 2″ (aka “Zombie” and “Zombie 2: The Dead are Among Us” in the US). The Italian “zombie vs. shark” scene is a cult classic, but the clip’s relative obscurity made it possible for [...]