🎃👻 Things are getting Spoopy 🎃👻

"Oh hiiiiiii guys!!!"

October is finally here and with it comes all the halloween decorations and ungodly amount of fun-sized sweets and chocolate 🍬🍬🍬 I don't know about you, but Halloween and Fall are one of the best parts of the year for me, not just because my birthday falls in the middle of October. I always get excited waiting for the decorations to pop up and our Halloween section at work to pop up and the time has finally come!

At work, we've definitely gotten a lot of decorations, both indoor and outdoor, as well as a giant mountain of Halloween sweets, which everyone has been eating like no tomorrow lol it's been raining, so I haven't put up my outdoor decorations yet, but I've already hung my wreath up!

It was only $15 and is huge! I had an old wreath that was made out of wood, but when I went to put it up last year, it was missing and after tearing the house apart looking for it, I decided to buy a new one and I love it! Jack o' Lanterns are one of my favourite parts of Halloween and I love how the black and orange go together, not to mention I love how it looks really fancy and seems like it'd be way more expensive than it really is. From the look and feel of it, it's plastic, which makes it very durable and gives me peace of mind if it were to fall off the hook it's on. 

Another thing I've always admired were those plastic flamingos, so imagine how excited and surprised I was when I found Halloween ones! Instead of the normal pink, these flamingos are black with a skeleton outlining and it's just Halloweeny enough that it's a little spooky while also cute! I loved that instead of just painting on an eye, it came with googly eyes instead, which definitely upped the cuteness factor for me. I had to have one, and at only $6 a piece, I decided it was budget-friendly, especially since it'll last for a while. After showing one of my friends, I was told that some people call these flamingos "skelamingos", which I thought was a little funny lol.
 

A skelamingo in all its glory

Growing up, we had a Jack o' Lantern that would light up and cackle, but I think one of my brothers "borrowed" it, so for the past few years, we haven't had one, so I decided to treat myself and replace the old one with one that was a little less scary. I went looking at all the ones we had at work, including lightable and non-lightable ones, and even one that was three Jack o' Lanterns piled up on top of each other like a snowman. Most of the ones I saw had the standard expression, and I was getting a little discouraged until I found just the Jack o' Lantern I was looking for:

I love how it's so goofy and the teeth really made me laugh! It also lights up, and was everything I wanted in a Jack o' Lantern!! I know most people will say it's not scary enough, but I don't really want to wake up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom just to get scared by one! So I think a goofy smiley one is perfect. 

I think it fits in nicely with my fall hedgehog

I always make sure to put in for Halloween so I can be off, and the last five years, I've only worked on Halloween once, and that was because I forgot to put in for it. This year, since I'm in a different, much smaller department, I knew it was key to put in as soon as possible before anyone else, so I put in for it six months in advance! 🎃🎃🎃 Although I normally stay home and watch movies and eat sweets all night, it's still something I love and hope I always get to do, in sha Allah 🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻. 

Although I'm definitely too old to dress up for Halloween (and like I said, I stay in all night), I got this cute little spider headband and I'm looking for a spiderweb hijab or bandana to wear with so it looks like it's resting on its web! How cute is that?! I'll post some pictures once I get the hijab/bandana, in sha Allah!