GIRLS AND WOMEN COSTUMES
Costumes are expensive especially for small children and adults of any size. So try making your own.
Remember old, shabby, torn, dirty looking are scary! After all how many dead corpses-zombies are wearing nice clean crisp sparkly outfits. Horror movie women are in night gowns, old ball gowns, (slips can look like a ball gown if you add some artificial flowers to straps and bosum area or even bows or shawl, old cheer leader outfits, witches can be simply an old sheet drapped with an old lace curtain or shreaded sheets or any solid color. Or old dresses that are long and full topped with either a wig or old hat of any type as long as it looks scary, with cob webs, or birds or feathers or lace etc. Even old house coats can be used, with fuzzy slippers, big old purse, curlers in hair and lots of blush (rouge) on cheeks and bright red lipstick (The mother in law look). Lots of cheap jewelry (even madigras beads), big rings, scarves, shawls (can be made out of old table cloths or twin sheets or lace or sheer curtains (torn okay) it all depends on what you are, gypsy fortune teller, witch, old lady, zombie, vampire. Pretend your five years old playing dress up in your mother or grandmothers clothes or your big teenager sister's clothes and go for what ever you can put together. Don't forget hats, scarves, wigs, glasses. Beads glued on hair bands can be crowns. Earrings and rings, bracelets, necklaces all can give you ideas when tried on. Try on hats for ideas such as models, queens, ghosts etc.
LOOK AT ME ON MY PICTURES PAGE AND LOOK AT MY COSTUME IDEAS THERE........
ALICES PICTURES AND COSTUME IDEAS
COSTUME IDEAS
BOYS AND MEN COSTUMES
Costumes are expensive especially for small children and adults of any size. So try making your own.
Remember old, shabby, torn, dirty looking are scary! After all how many dead corpses-zombies are wearing nice clean crisp sparkly outfits. Horror movie men are in moth eaten, web covered suits which can be found either in someones back closet or good will store and fixed using store bought spider webs, baby powder for dusty and dirty look and plastic bugs glued or tied on. Old torn tee shirts or flannel shirts are also great with jeans. And of course work boots. Hats of all types will dictate the clothes for outfits. Painted or purchased beards and mustaches, wigs, also jewelry if you wish depending on costume picked, such as dracula needs rings and necklaces. Or royalty such as kings. Don't forget your hands, use make up tips for hands and nails.
MAKEUP TIPS
Use green, purple, red, pink eyeshadow for sunken eyeballs look or bruises.
Use dark brown, black for also darker sunken eyeball look.
Use bright red lipstick for fake blood on face or bright red nail polish on skin, both will wash off easily with soap and water.
Use mixture of oatmeal and water and makup foundation (for color) to make your skin appear burned or scrapped off, such as from dragging across the road.
Use lots of bright red for nails or black or white polish, of course if your a corpse you could use combination to look as if you had to scratch your way out of the grave.
Petroleum jelly on face coated with baby powder gives a whitish pasty dead face, no matter how dark your complexion.
A streak of dark eyeliner with small lines going across looks like stitches, add lipstick or nail polish or red makup and you have a bloody cut. Make it even more real by first using blue, purple, green, pink, eyeshadow for desired age of bruise then add streak of eyeliner stitches and blood.
To make cheeks look sunken in or skinny neck or forhead use darker color makeup on those areas. For really sunk in like skeleton then use black, and use in tringle shapes, look at a skeleton picture, good makeup tips on my links page.
Nails you can combine different colors on your nails, let one color dry then use other colors letting each try before continuing. Or while wet stick on glitter or cutouts or small gems such as the stick on tatoo gems.
Nails and hands for men or more dead people must have bruised looks, (look above) also nails need to be dark. And if you wish add some red nail polish for blood.
For quick fangs that also taste good use candy corn, Walmart has geen (green apple) and red (cherry) ones this year 2006
Rememeber let your immagination run wild, you can buy stick on nails, stick on tatoos, stick on almost everything.
Party food ideas
Standard party food can be used for your scary parties also. All you have to do is just modify them some, punches can be made using food colors such as red or green or even purple.
Get some POWDERLESS surgical gloves pour water food color mix into gloves and lay in freezer overnight. Peel off glove and let ice hands float in punch. If a finger breaks off so the better, let it float also.
Let ping pong balls float in punch or grapes or olives depending on drinks used for eyeballs.
Make popcorn or rice krispy balls decorate with candy or icing like eyeballs or shape like hands and decorate with fingernails out of candy corn etc.
Potatoe salad or cole slaw can have few drops of food color added for gory look. green for brain stuff and red for bloody stuff. You name it.
Dolly Madison brownies or cakes or store bought cookies or etc can be decorated with a few placed candies or marshmallows with icing glue. You can make spiders, snakes, ghosts etc.
AGain let you immagination flow free, let your kids help.
Alice's personal RECIPES RECIPES FOR ALL OCCASSIONS BELOW
My easy basic recipes to make your own by adding your favorite items.
These recipes can be made for one or 100 people just depends on amounts you add the basic recipe is the same. You make it your own by adding or deleting what you enjoy eating. The secret to being a good cook, is to COOK THE WAY YOU ENJOY EATING AND WITH THE TASTES YOU LIKE!
YOU CAN ADD MUSHROOMS (FRESH OR CANNED) BLACK OLIVES ETC. IT'S YOUR RECIPE NOW!
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TOMALE PIE
ground beef or my favorite ground turkey (one to ? lbs depending on # people (I do 3 lbs for each 10 people)
whole canned tomatoes or diced canned tomatoes (plain tomatoes) (1 or more lg cans)
onions
cheese shreadded (lots... any types your choice, I like motzarella in mine also)
parsley dried
garlic powder
spaghetti sauce (plenty any type- I like hunts green onion and mushrooms)
Dorrito chips (cheesy naucho flavor I like) or use store brands two large bags or more ? people
1. cook ground beef or turkey until done, add onions parsley, garlic as you cook done
DRAIN COMPLETELY IF BEEF
2. add sauce heat completly
3. add corn chips to bottom on pan
4. top with sauce mix
5. top with layer of cheese
REPEAT UNTIL PAN IS VERY FULL
HEAT IN OVEN 350 DEGREES UNTIL CHEESE ON TOP IS MELTED SERVE WARM
TAKES ABOUT ONE HOUR TO MAKE OR MAKE AHEAD AND PUT IN REFRIG AND THEN HEAT TO MELT CHEESE ABOUT 30 TO 45 MIN AHEAD OF SERVING TIME.
CHILI
ALMOST SAME RECIPE AS ABOVE
cook ground beef or ground turkey, add onions, garlic, cook done- drain off oil
add diced or whole canned tomatoes
add Frenches brand chili mix (or any) (hot or mild) may take up to four or five packs if using 4 lbs of meat
Let chili mixture cook slow for approx ten min or longer
(If you like your chili thick you can add mixture of corn starch and water (4 tablespoon cornstarch with few drops of water make paste then add more water gradually, no lumps) Let cook slow, low heat until chili thickens some. don't let it stick or cook to long.
Add LIGHT KIDNEY BEANS (your choice of amount I use about 6 small cans with 3 lbs meat)
DO NOT GET CHILI BEANS GET PLAIN LIGHT KIDNEY BEANS ,,,,DARK BEANS ARE TOUGH.
Let beans heat up completely do not cook long just get really hot, SERVE HOT
COLE SLAW
Good quality slaw mix, with carrots (also good broccoli slaw mix added)
trick to good slaw... dill weed and dill relish...dry diced onions....garlic powder....salt/pepper to taste
Good mayonaise such as Krafts.
BEEF STEW
Small beef cubes (?depends on # people)
cooked in very small amount of oil so it want stick to pan
when almost done add chopped onions or dry diced onions
add garlic, parsley dried, salt , pepper , TRICK add 5 -7 beef boulion cubes or add one can of beef stock
Add water to cover plus more to almost or more of 1/2 of pot
Let cook about 30 mins .
After meat is done or so add chopped celery, carrots, potatoes let cook until potatoes are almost done
add cornstarch and water mix like in chili recipe for thickener
let cook slow stiring so it want stick.
Take off stove and let stand covered for about ten min to continue thickening, Serve
CORN BREAD
JIFFY CORN BREAD MUFFIN MIX
ADDED CHEESE OR CORN FOR A CHANGE
POTATO SALAD
Peel two large potatoes for each guest (more or less)
Cut into cubes, size is your choice
Boil in salty water until tender then drain water (watch the amount of salt , you add more later)
Cut up celery, green olives, onions (any color or type) , (and - or black olives) dill pickles (or sweet)
Mix together celery, olives, onions, pickles , ((( boiled eggs diced if you also wish)))
Add a little garlic POWDER not salt, add a little parsley
Add large GLOB of MAYONAISE (not salad dressing and NO SUGAR)
Mix together with small amount of salt and pepper, (you can add more later)
Pour mixture over cooked potatoes, MIX GENTLY and refrigerate
Salad is good cold or hot from first cooking (but do not reheat, you want veggies crunchy and mayo no heat))
For a special treat add parmasian cheese or shredded cheese (after salad cools)
TUNA CASSAROLE KIDS LOVE TO MAKE THIS ONE
ingrediants; tuna, chips, peas, campbells mushroom soup
Open one large can of tuna for each two guests
One or more large bags of potato chips, (thin type LAYS )
Lay chips in bottom of deep dish (prefer glass dish)
Sprinkle on top layer of tuna
Sprinkle on top layer of cooked small green peas (no juice)
Spoon on and spread gently Large can of CAMPBELL'S mushroom soup
Repeat until you run out of room, top with soup
Cook on 350 degrees in oven until all layers are heated through.
Can be eaten HOT OR COLD KEEP REFRIGERATED
MEXICAN CORNBREAD
Great and Easy
ingrediants; Jiffy cornbread-muffin mix, ground beef or ground turkey, spaghetti sauce,
frozen corn, fancy shreded cheese (your choice flavor)
Cook meat until done, drain off oil if necessary, mix in spaghetti sauce
Mix Jiffy mix, add frozen corn (as desired), pour 1/ 2 into baking dish
Spoon meat -sauce over corn bread
Sprinkle meat-sauce with cheese
Top with remaining Jiffy mix
Cook 350 to 400 degrees until Jiffy mix on bottom is done about 25 - 35 min.
Cooking time depends on amount made
Serve hot or cold
THESE RECIPES ARE TO MAKE YOUR PARTY EASY, INEXPENSIVE, AND VERY
DELICIOUS, YOUR GUEST WILL WANT TO COME BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN!
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