The Saturday before Sandy, my roommate and I threw a Halloween-themed housewarming party at our new apartment. Everyone came dressed up in their best costumes and helped us christen our new place. One of the things I wanted most for our new apartment was to have the space to have friends over and I was thrilled to be able to entertain our friends last weekend. I turned to Pinterest for food and decor ideas and spent the whole day leading up to the party baking lots of tasty treats for our guests. I think I can say that our party was a success and I’m looking forward to the next bash we decide to throw!
Treats galore!
Watch out- zombie zone!
A sailor and Big Bird
Spiderwebs and streamers
A doll and a flapper
Alex near the candy corn and AC (prime spot!)
My roommate as a sexy fireman (yes, that is a child’s costume)
The gals
Sampling a finger cookie
Tell me: What did you do for Halloween this year?
![It's a very belated book haul! These are the four books I picked up on my trip to Australia back in May. Of course I had to check out some bookstores on my first trip to Sydney and I think I ended up visiting 9 in total (check out my stories to see the mini bookstore vlog I made)!
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It was so fun book shopping over there since majority of the covers are different from our US covers. I couldn't resist this pretty edition of PACHINKO, which I've already read. And when I picked up this copy of PEOPLE PERSON, I was so excited to see it because it wasn't out yet in the US at that time. I also bought two books that I hadn't heard of before I discovered them in the bookstore: IDOL and LOVE AND OTHER PUZZLES.
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Do you tend to prefer US or UK book covers?
[P.S. This is an old photo that includes a HarperCollins UK title, but please note that I support the HarperCollins Union.]
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[ID: A stack of the following books sits on top of white bedding in front of a white wall (from top to bottom): PACHINKO, IDOL, LOVE AND OTHER PUZZLES, PEOPLE PERSON.]
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Everything looks so cute, Nnenna! Wish we could have made it. :(
Thank you Hope! No worries, there will be future parties! :)
Aw you look so cute! What a fun housewarming party. I didn’t dress up this year because Sandy kinda threw everything off :/
Thanks Kim! Yeah, I think Sandy definitely messed up everyone’s Halloween’s plans. I’m glad we did this the weekend before though, because we put a lot of time/effort into it!
Pumpkin shots! That was so cute and clever. I’m so bad with little details like that.
That was the only candy corn I had this season! Next year I’m totally buying bags just for myself.
I bought 4 bags of candy corn total this season and ate 3 pretty much by myself… #candycornaddiction
O you are so adorable!!! Love all the costumes. I didn’t do anything for Halloween this year besides bake pumpkin cookies and carve a pumpkin. I don’t know what it was, wasn’t feeling it this year. But now seeing your pictures makes me wish I had a Halloween party lol
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Aww, thank you Heather! Yumm, pumpkin cookies sound delicious and I wish I had carved a pumpkin this year! That and apple picking (two things I didn’t get to on my fall list!).
I love a great Halloween shindig! Did I see jello shots?! Holla!
We went to a Halloween party the Saturday after Halloween..which was great because we bought our costumes 1/2 price YAY! (would have rather made my costume but we were oops invited LOL)
Haha, yes you did! And that’s awesome that you got your costumes 1/2 off! What did you go as?
One of these years I’ll do something fun for Halloween. I didn’t do anything… :(
One year, one of my friends dressed up as Sexy Bob Ross.
I don’t always go all out like this for Halloween, but since it was the first party I’ve thrown since I moved here more than a year ago, I had to! :)
looks like a fun party! glad you had it before sandy struck!
Thanks Lydia, me too! I would have been pretty sad if all my hours of party planning had gone to waste!