And then there was Halloween...

[wraithfodder]

Well, this basically went to waste due to the emergency vet clinic visit, but I figured I'd post the photos...


Yes, you too can make colorful brains out of Jell-O.. I got the eyeballs at a party store. Only time of year you can buy them, of course.

 Here are more!   

The orange brain, with high-end antanne ;)


The blue one didn't jell as well - maybe too much water? My god, blue Jell-O tastes soooo ... fake..WEll, I had to do something with the jell-O that I dug out in order to place the eyes.


My favorite, due to gummy worms leaking out and well, it's red. It was someone's favorite too, as you'll soon find out.

 
Obviously, from Springfield (The Simpsons, home of three-eyed fish) ;)


The porch.


The crime scene, with the teddy bear who's head nearly came off when I was taking it to tag sale. Blood was made of jell-o and flour. One girl touched it and said "gross! what is it? I touched it!" and I told her. I swear, the girls are a lot more fun than the boys, who seem into getting candy more.


Long view of artistic placement of Jell-O brains. Oh crap, I just remembererd, the giant spider is still outside...



.The remains of the red Jell-O. When I got home from the vet on Sunday  night, it was late and my brother had brought in the candy I left outside and turned off the light. Hm, maybe for 20 minutes. I went outside and went "who the heck vandalized all the brains?" The orange one was shoved off the porch, the blue one torn up, ditto for the red. The green was basically untouched, but all the eyeballs had been removed and scattered. Then I saw it, Sitcky little footprints. A raccoon or maybe possum, but probably former.

When I came out the next morning, this was what was left of the red one. I still have to dispose of them so have to boil up some water to remove the residue, unless some sugar-hungry squirrels come along...

 

Comments

[gyri.livejournal.com]

OMG those are awesome! Gave me a chuckle. Thanks for sharing the pics!

[stella-pegasi.livejournal.com]

As a Halloween fanatic...I love these. How clever and the crime scene? To die for... OH...well, I guess teddy bear did.

I bet the kids loved it.

As for little girls liking yucky stuff...I used to work in a large hospital in Miami and dealt a lot with public school students who came to tour the hospital to look at careers in healthcare. In this day of CSI...the girls wanted to see the morgue...not the boys...the girls. I never let them look in the refrigerated unit if it was occupied, and I would ask a chaperone for permission before I took the kids in at all. The girls...loved it and I loved dealing with the kids.

[ga-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Love the brains! Especially the wandering eyeballs.

Bet it's that pesky squirrel who vandalized the brains. Better protect that pumpkin.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Now that is cute and funny!

[luveskane.livejournal.com]

hahah I love it! gonna have to remember this for next year :D
All I did was the cobwebs this year and those were destroyed by a huge storm we had :( they looked terrible by the end of it so I took them down intending to put up more and never got the time, sigh..

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it was zombies with a sweet tooth. Or zombie raccoons! Darn those zombie raccoons *shakes fist*

But that's awesome :D I totally envy your ideas. Next year I want to really go all out and do something fun for Halloween.

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

Oh my word!!!!!!!!!
***stares*** and then chuckles.
:D

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

awww thats awesome!!

i am sorry about the emergency vet visit though!

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

zombie critters ate your brains?!?!! =O

better than awesome! =D

(vet visit? not so much) =(

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Now your house is what I think of when Halloween. We don't participate in Halloween which I think I've mentioned before. It drives a lot of Australians nut that the shops are trying to make something of it here.

[fififolle]

They are awesome!! Mmm, made a tasty snack for some little critter :)

[strange-magic.livejournal.com]

Ahahah! You're so goofy. :) I love the orange one.

[jeyla4ever.livejournal.com]

Adorable...and all that work!!!

[icecream-junkie.livejournal.com]

How did you get the Jell-O to look like a brain?

Just figured I never used my Halloween icon this year. Well, perfect place to do so. ;)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You can buy molds in shape of brain. I added milk/condensed milk to make them look that way.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I need to some day do party with brain molds. Folks at work alas would NOT appreciate.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I did a crime scene a couple years ago with remains of Zombie Bambi (bones) which the kids really liked. Yeah, and I'll sew the teddy bear back together ;)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

since it was late at night, bet it was raccoon. I'd like to think it wasn't squirrels out after dark! ;) and yeah, they'll get the pumpkin eventually. They did last year. I have a video of that, in fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9783c_neqNk

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Thx.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was REALLY windy, which made me change what I was going to do. in fact, my cobwebs will come down, well, on the weekend.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

oooh, zombie raccoons... I'd love to make jello brains that move. hmm....

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Thx :)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Thx. yeah, vet visit was no fun.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I'm liking that zombie critters idea more and more...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I hear that the UK is slowly getting assimilated into halloween. you guys will be next! ;)