Oct 29: Halloween Party!

Since Halloween is on a Monday this year, Tiny and I decided to celebrate a bit early with a party on Saturday night! Face paint, dessert eating, and, most importantly, pumpkin carving was the order of the evening. This major get-together included three other pumpkin designers who were not at all afraid to get their hands dirty. J Between shoving gummi worms, ladies’ fingers (decorated to look like real fingers by the incomparable Tiny), dark chocolate, and Mars bars into our mouths, we covered the floor with all the junk flyers we received in the mail so that we could take out all the pumpkin guts with minimal damage to the floor. ;-) By the end of the night, we had two very tiny Jack O’Lanterns, grimacing gruesomely into our cameras. While Tiny and I did remember to pick up balloons for the evening, we forgot tea lights to put in the pumpkins, but fortunately A from Taiwan brought her flashlight, which did a marvelous job in illuminating the pumpkins from the inside. And since it wasn’t a candle, uniform light shone out (better than seeing candle flame through the smile...). J

Before the party, Tiny was kind enough to let me loose on the facepaint. What she didn’t realize was that she would be transformed…into a wood nymph! We had a lot of fun taking pictures. Tiny drew bats flying over a castle and across the moon on the left side of my face. The most important lesson of the evening? Don't touch the greasepaint!!

Tiny's pumpkin.

The wood nymph's gaze...

And the mischievious smile!

A (TAI) and the caramelized apples (well, kind of...)

M and her bat face.

R (USA) from downstairs and another M (USA).

Drawing faces.

The drama face. Unfortunately, I can't make my mouth go in opposite directions...

Eew, pumpkin guts!

Tiny at work.

Winky emoticon.

Winky.

Drama.