It’s the day before Halloween, and most likely you are reading this on Halloween. Perhaps you have a Halloween party to attend. Perhaps you need to bring a treat to this party, but you don’t have a lot of time to make something because you are too busy putting together your last minute costume. Some people go all out with their costumes. My family does. Every year they have a huge Halloween party with a theme. Everyone comes up with awesome funny costumes, and then there’s me. This is how I usually go about making my Halloween costume:
1. Walk through the dollar store trying to get ideas.
2. Walk through the thrift store trying to get ideas.
3. Spending the last few hours before the party trying to assemble something out of my dollar store and thrift store findings.
This was a few years ago when the theme was “Out of This World”
I was a Super Nova. You know, one of those really colorful exploding stars. I was literally walking around the dollar store a half hour before the party trying to get an idea for a costume. I bought a bunch of glow sticks and wrapped them around me. That’s how I roll.
We went to a Halloween party last Friday and it was no different. I wandered around the thrift store and got the idea for this:
Yup. I was a lamp. I’m wearing a card board party hat covered in white paper with a thrift store lamp shade balancing on the tip. I have a plug coming out of my pocket and a little flash light hanging up in the lamp shade. Yes, I did walk around balancing a huge lamp shade on my head the whole night.
Anyway, if you’re like me and you take all the time before the party putting together an incredibly cheap, corny costume because you have procrastinated until the day of, then this is the recipe for you. It is so fast and easy. Its unique and it is pretty disgusting (looking, not tasting). You only need three ingredients. No baking or slaving away in the kitchen. Just a quick assembly and you are good to go.
Ingredients:
- 1 can lychees (you can find this in the Asian section of any grocery store)
- Strawberry, cherry, or Raspberry jam or jell, as needed
- 1 raisin or blueberry for each lychee
Directions:
1. Open the can of lychee’s and drain out the syrup. If you have never had a lychee, you are in for a treat. They are delicious little white fruits common in Asian cuisine. They grow inside of a red spiky casing and have a pit in the middle. The canned ones come shelled and pitted.
2. Spoon a little bit of jam into the whole where the pit used to be.
3. Put a raisin or a blue berry (flower end facing out) in the middle of the jam.
4. Put a tooth pick through each eye ball and serve on a plate with a little sign saying “Bloody Eyeballs” or “Fresh Eye balls”
Happy Halloween!!!
wish I had seen this before the party! I did your eggs, and Shawna did a cookie one that was really good that looked exactly like eyeballs too. Hope you got the family pics. love you tons and heaps forever and always!
After those eyeballs, I thought I read: One can of leaches (like those blood-sucking worms)… And I thought, "I know the Asian's are famous for raw fish, but this is just a little toooo much Halloweening for me." You are such a festive lamp! Indeed, you light up the world! We love your sweet smile and big brown eyes.