I love food. I love eating. I love Halloween. Why not bring these things together. I think food costumes are hilarious and practical. Halloween is chilly, these costumes are toasty roasty warm. Your Halloween costume could be a hotdog, a banana, an ice cream sandwich, a bunch of green grapes, a bunch of purple grapes, a lemon, an apple, a package of bologna, a can of spam, a carrot, a deviled egg, a gingerbread man, a bottle of beer, a condiment like ketchup or mustard, maybe an orange, an m&m candy, a pod of peas, a tootsie roll or a tomato! The options are really endless. With all the fruit you could do a costume as a group and be the fruit of the loom crew. You could be a family idea and go as ketchup, mustard, and a hotdog. If I were in charge of judging a Halloween costume competition, I would hands down pick the food costumes. Especially a deviled egg costume, this hilarious vision is so clever. The most creative food costume I ever saw was a group of young men who decided to be all the pieces of a bacon cheese burger. There were two buns, a beef patty, lettuce, cheese, tomato, and of course bacon.

Everyone always goes straight in to the dark side of Halloween. We seem to forget the innocence it has for us as children, the mischievous side. Like April Fools Day, Halloween is also a great day for pranks. Halloween allows for darker practical jokes like, severed fingers, nails in the head, extra fetuses growing out our bodies, you know really gross stuff. Other practical jokes fun for everyday occasions are jokes like, whoopee cushions, fly in the ice cube, sill string, snake in a can, invisible dog on leash, spilled nail polish, and the ever classic fake poop. Practical jokes remind me of leprechauns, the little mystical Irish fairies who loved to create confusion and chaos. I think that this Halloween I would want to dress up a toddler in a little leprechaun costume and get him to play practical jokes wherever he went. It would be hilarious and devious. If I could get him to sit still long enough, I would put some special effects makeup on him and make him look like the character from the leprechaun movie.. Maybe I would even teach him to recite some Irish poems and riddles everywhere he left his chaotic trail. Sigh, just a thought. But practical jokes play their part in Halloween too!

So many celebrities have died recently. Most recently the very talented but tortured Amy Winehouse. Amy not only had a very unique look, her voice was also different and beautiful. Here is some info about her suspected cause of death from wikipedia

Winehouse’s battles with substance abuse were the subject of much media attention. In various interviews, she admitted to having problems with self-harm, depression and eating disorders.[18][169] In 2005, she went through a period of drinking, heavy drug use, violent mood swings and weight loss.[21] People who saw her during the end of that year and early 2006 reported a rebound that coincided with the writing of Back to Black.[21] Her family believes that the mid-2006 death of her grandmother, who was a stabilising influence, set her off into addiction.[21] In August 2007, Winehouse cancelled a number of shows in the UK and Europe, citing exhaustion and ill health. She was hospitalised during this period for what was reported as an overdose of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and alcohol.

Amy’s life was a complicated one and the world lost a talent too early. I think this year we will see a lot of Halloween costumes for people dressed in Amy Winehouse costumes