Much like myself, my good friend Franny (from The Curious Professor Z) is one of those people who absolutely, positively eats, breaths, sleeps and lives for Halloween!
She recently tapped me to answer the Halloween tag, which she was nominated for by Ramona from Just Keep Brains, and given my unending love of October 31st, there was no way I was going to pass up this fun blog tag!
So without further ado, let me jump (skeleton) head into the thirteen delightfully spooky questions in this great seasonal questionnaire!
Thirteen Spooktastic Halloween Tag Questions!
1. Favorite Halloween song? There are a lot of faves in this camp for me, but top billing to goes to Thriller from Michael Jackson. I have an annual tradition wherein I try to listen to it at least once a day throughout the full month of October and then multiple times on the big night itself.
2. Witches or Vampires? Love, and have gone as both for Halloween over the years, but at the end of the day, I've got to give my vote to witches.
3. Favorite thing about Halloween? Everything!!! :) Not even kidding there - but for some of the top reasons why this day makes me off-the-charts gleeful, see this fun post from last year.
4. Halloween party or scary movie marathon? Halloween party all the way!!! We usually host one for our nearest and dearest each All Hallows' Eve and will be doing the same again this year. I can hardly wait!!!
5. Skeletons or Zombies? Both are fun, but as a perpetual goth girl at heart, I'll take skeletons, please.
6. Favorite Halloween candy? Caramel apples all the way (they're a staple at our Halloween parties) - I even have a Pinterest board devoted just to them! If we're talking more like candy bars and the like, then I've always really adored Crunchy Bars (which are a cinch to make a home, too, if you have a good recipe for sponge toffee), Reese Peanut Butter Cups, Aeros, and Milky Ways, amongst oodles of others.
7. Favorite Halloween movie? Hands down 1993's Hocus Pocus. I've easily seen it fifty or more times over the years and can't let a single autumn go past with out at least a couple additional viewings.
8. Favorite Halloween costume? That I've worn? Hmm, that's a toughie. Last year's Sinderella (pictured above) is definitely way up there!!!
9. Favorite Halloween store? We don't have Halloween shops around these parts that are open year round and Penticton is too small, the companies that run such deem, to have a pop up Halloween store. Luckily though, the nearby city of Kelowna, an hour away, gets at least three each year, of which Spirit Halloween is my favourite. Beyond that, I always really enjoy the seasonal offerings at Home Sense and Winners, Michaels, Hallmark, Value Village, and Canadian Tire.
10. Jack-o-lanterns, yes or no? Epic yes!!! Classic, painted, intricately carved, faux, light-up, you name it, I adore a good jack-o-lantern!
11. Bats or Black Cats? Uber love both, but darling little chat noirs are going to win here (especially since I've wanted a black cat my whole life!).
12. Is Halloween your favorite holiday? Absolutely, one million percent, no two ways about it, always and forever, yes!!!!!
13. Pumpkin spice latte or hot chocolate? The best of both worlds: Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate!
I’m tagging the following five people to play along and answer these questions, too, if they'd like:
Ally from Shy Biker
Bianca from The Closet Historian
CiCi from CiCi Marie
Jessica from Zella Maybe
Sylvie from Little Corporate Goth Girl
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This month I also thought it would be fun to do the YouTube Halloween challenge, and just put a video with my answers to the question (which I found online here) in it up there yesterday.
Check it out and definitely feel free to play along with this or the other tag above as well, if you'd like. The extra fun thing about these enjoyable online tags is that they're open to anyone and everyone!
With little more than half a month to go until October 31st rolls around again, you can bet you bottom dollar that this is not going to be the last festive post you’ll see from me this year in the slightest.
In fact, most of my entries between now and when I write about what I wore on the big night itself (that will appear sometime in the first week of November) will be heavily Halloween related.
This magical, thrilling holiday comes but once a year and you can rest assured that both Franny and I are making the very most of it while it's here!!! :)
*PS* Truly happy Canadian Thanksgiving wishes and blessings to all of my fellow canucks who are celebrating it today!
