Toga'Ween 2013

Our theme for 2013 is - Toga Party!

Okay, I know - me and most of my friends are closer to 30 than 20 these days. Isn't a toga party kind of a college thing, not an adult thing?

Maybe! But I'm convinced we can have a grown-up party, and still have a lot of fun with costumes and booze :) which are the essential ingredients of any Halloween party.

So far, I have the following plans: 

• The decorations will be minimal in terms of fussiness. 
• Lots of cream and white, with gold and green accents. 
• Hanging ivy, plastic grapes and gold masks for doorways.
• Plastic roman shields to hang on various picture hooks.
• Finger foods like chicken drumsticks, grapes and bread.
• Lots of wine available! Possibly watered? Apparently Romans did that.
• Toga costumes for me and Terry of course.
• Make the bathroom into a Roman baths with skeleton in the bath.
• Turn one of the bedrooms into an astronomy room.
• Turn the other bedroom into a shrine for the Gods.

I'm also thinking of making wreaths for people to wear in their hair when they arrive, but they might do that for themselves.

And of course, I want to do games! I think having activities makes a party even more interesting, and gives people something to aside from get totally hammered. I'm not 100% what I'll be doing yet though, so I need to go have a look at other party games and see what can be adapted!

The Big Update Post

I'm really terrible at this blogging thing. As soon as I get busy, I fold like a wet paper towel in a wet paper towel folding machine.

So! For the three or four people who might be wondering how the Harry Potter party of 2011 went, here are some photos. Not everything went as planned, but it was probably the best party we've thrown so far and everyone seemed to have a good time. And Ravenclaw won the House Cups!

Terry and I as Snape and Hermione.

The 'Guess The Potion' game, where people had to take a shot of a potion and write down their guess for house points.

The display of HP books.

The Honeydukes buffet.

Nearly Headless Nick grabbing a Sorting Badge.

My friend Holly and I - she came as Aragog! You can just see the floating candles above us, and the first HP movie playing in the background.

It was a great time. I did learn some things though - for a start, fishing wire is not as strong as you think it is. The floating candles kept sliding down into the centre.

Also, if you fill your bathroom with spiders and declare it Aragog's Lair, at least one person will refuse to go to the loo until it's made 'safe'.

But anyway! That was two years ago, so I'm on to the next theme. We skipped 2012 because we didn't really have the money or the time to put into it, but this year we're in a new house and I intend to do things properly again - and actually get decent pictures myself this year instead of forgetting like every other time.