Halloween is coming!

Hehehe.. I'm kinda ashamed to admit that I don't decorate our condo at all. We moved here July last year, and we spent both Christmas and New Year in the US (LAX and SFO respectively) because of work and it's a good thing we were able to get the same flights or else we'll both be extra lonely. For Halloween, since we live in the middle of the city, we don't have any trick or treaters so I don't bother at all. But hopefully, if all goes according to plans, we'll have our own house in a nice village in two years and then I'm planning to go all out in the decorating department!

Halloween is not celebrated in my country. It's a normal day to us. There's no parades, no kids running around for 'trick or treat'. However, some restaurants/pubs do have Halloween parties on 31st October. Hope you will have a great Halloween.

I love to decorate for holidays. I haven't had the funds for the past few years though. When I was in high school, my mom came home one day with this skull mask, some skeleton gloves, black fabric and a scythe, she asked if there was any way I could put together a grim reaper in the front yard. I built that and it was fabulous. The next year we added assorted graves all over the yard. That was the tradition for several years. There were a couple of years where the moon and weather conditions were just right to make the younger kids a little afraid to come up to the door, while making the older kids think it was the coolest yard on the block. It was awesome. I'm actually back at my mom's for now, and I asked her a few days ago if she still has the stuff in the attic. I'm thinking that the reaper needs to live again.