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Halloween stuff

I hope you had a lovely Halloween! I helped make a party. Some featured projects:

Zombie Cake!
I was poking around the internet, looking for some Halloween baking inspiration, when I found this. Holy crap. Now there was an idea that needed stealing.

Although my cake is far less astonishing than the original, I'm still pretty happy with it considering that my main cake-decorating triumphs to this point comprised "making a cake that did not lean severely to one side" and "avoiding crumbs in the frosting."

Hair Garland!
The party was hosted by a co-worker who has very strict Halloween aesthetics, and an aversion to anything that could be considered cutesy, or kitschy, or pretty much anything ending with eee. So, crepe paper was forbidden. I will confess that I kvetched about this rule, but look what it hath wrought! In an effort to satisfy my urge to hang things from the ceiling, I came up with Hair Garland. It was quite satisfyingly creepy.

This year, I was A Magic Trick Gone Horribly Wrong. What did you dress up as?

(More Halloween photos, including an obsessively detailed making of the zombie cake photo shoot, can be found here.)

Posted by hilatron at November 4, 2006 01:05 PM | TrackBack