My Favourite Things About Halloween| CarenzaOnBooks

Happy Halloween!
I've made it no secret on here how much I love Halloween and I was desperate to write a Halloween themed post, so I thought I would share with you guys my favourite things about Halloween!

Decorations

By now, it's no surprise how much I love decorating for Halloween. Last year, I bought some cheap Halloween decorations and decorated my uni flat. This year, I reused the same decorations and decorated my house on October 1st. It brings me such joy to be walking around and see the little decorations I bought. I spent £5, so it isn't that you have to splash out and buy lots of things. I've always been a fan of adding something a bit extra at various seasonal occasions. Plus, all the Halloween decorations are a really nice shade of orange and are on the cute side, so it just makes me very happy. 

   

Fun Food

In the past few years, I have become an absolute sucker (pun intended) for seasonal food. More and more shops are getting on board with this. I know that this year, M&S have lots of Halloween inspired food. Who doesn't love crisps in the shape of fangs? It's cheesy, but I can't help myself. As I'm away from home for Halloween this year, my parents have stocked up on some Halloween inspired food and we're going to celebrate Halloween when I go home. 

Having a Reason to Celebrate

With how busy I've been and how stressed I've been (so stressed), this year I am desperate to have a night off and have a bit of fun. This year I am going to a friends house, and we're going to have a chilled Halloween celebration. With the way things have been this year, sometimes you just need an excuse to let steam off. Halloween has always been a reason to celebrate in my household and I have no intentions of stopping that any time soon. 

Spookiness

I'm not sure how to phrase this, but I am a fan of how spooky it is at this time of year. I don't like horror or paranormal, but low level spookiness is good. Think Buffy, Nightmare Before Christmas, that kind of level of spookiness. I like it when it's dark and there's a bit of mist in the air. It's just a really nice vibe.  

Hanging Out and Doing Halloween Things

Again, this is one I'm not sure how to phrase, but I have such good memories to do with Halloween. Most recently, me and two of the people I live with bought pumpkins and carved them. It was really fun just walking to get the pumpkins and getting home to carve them. They looked so good and it's a memory I will cherish for the rest of my life. I also used to have loads of Halloween parties as a kid and I have so many good memories because of it. Just spending time with people I care about and doing loads of fun activities, I wouldn't change anything about it. 

 

I'm going to link you guys to a very old blog post of mine, but this is what Halloween looks like to me. Sadly, I don't have any photos of all the cool Halloween food.
Carenza :) x

Spooky Week 2016| Halloween Party| It'sCarenzaB

Hey Guys!
How are you?
Welcome to day 6 of Spooky Week! I can't believe how quickly it's gone! I've had so much fun writing these posts, I hope you guys like them. In this post, I am going to be giving you tips about how to have a fun Halloween Party/ showing you photos of a Halloween Party I had with my parents for fun.

Though this photo does these cute Pumpkin Fairy Lights no justice, I would say an essential at a Halloween Party is themed lights. A lot of places, like supermarkets, sell a wide variety for under £5. The ones here were bought last year from Poundland (I believe).

 I'll be honest, on a recent trip to Waitrose I went a little bit crazy on the Halloween decorations and bought some confetti. It was a small pot filled with pumpkins, ghosts and spiders for £3 and for some reason I needed it. I just think that confetti makes a fun addition to the table.

Firstly, please ignore the hideous curtains. I currently live in rented property and these are not of my choice. But the pumpkin bunting I bought from Waitrose were £2 and I thought they were fun. It allowed my to decorate my place without putting bluetac up (I used the curtain hooks to hold them up). You could always make your own if you are a creative individual.

 This boo balloon thing (not sure how to describe it) is also from Waitrose. It was £3 and didn't need helium. You just used the straw to blow it up and voila! I used bluetac  to stick these to my (my family) bookcase.

I have a whole post coming tomorrow all about my pumpkins. If, like me, you are living in rented property and don't want to use real candles, you can pick up LED ones. I got a pack of 4 from Waitrose for £3.50. This is quite cheap as I was looking on Amazon and they were around £10. I would say that no Halloween Party is complete without a pumpkin or two. Three, in my case.

Obviously at Halloween, you have to have sweets. I don't know where the bowl is from as my parents bought it and it's always been out at Halloween for as long as I can remember.
Marks and Spencers are the best place to buy sweets, they almost always go all out on the Halloween front. They also had Halloween crisps (I didn't get any) and popcorn.

You guys will have already seen my Nightmare Before Christmas Tsum Tsums, but you won't have seen the green ball on top. I bought him from Tescos for £1. The spider cup on the side is from a company called Meri Meri, but I bought it at my local supermarket a few years back. There were 12 in a kit, but we've used 6 over the last 2 years. The Spider mug was from Waitrose and cost me £2. I didn't need these, but I bought it.

Again, like the cups, the napkins were from Meri Meri, they were also purchased around the same time. I didn't get a photo of it but we had some cocktail sticks from the same company with similar designs. The cobweb plates were from my local supermarket. I always love getting fun plates and things like that. They're just something fun and cheap to add to the table. Alternatively, you could decorate your own. I used to love doing this as a kid and would have competitions with my friends.

Firstly, thanks to my mum for taking this photo for me. Secondly, I don't know why I am holding this mug so weirdly,  I promise you I know how to hold a mug. Obviously at a Halloween Party, you got to dress the part. But, for me, the age has passed were I can dress up. So I have settled for this cool t-shirt I found in the mens section at Tesco. It was £5 and it glows in the dark. Also, my mug is empty.

I forgot to get a close up, but we had some Halloween crackers left over from last year. Inside them you got a hat, a joke and a themed toy thing. Also, next to the purple cracker are the cocktail sticks I talked about. We did have more food than this but people were getting hungry, so I thought I should get out of the way.








So that concludes this post, if you have any tips or anything themed, leave a comment. For the final post in Spooky Week, I am going to be doing a photo heavy post all about Pumpkins!
Love,
Carenza x