Halloween trick or treat in the village!

Due to my recent week without internet I was unable to post these images as intended after the Halloween weekend, but here they are anyway. A week late, but no less cute.

Luna was keen to be "une sorcière" for the occasion (a witch) and the outfit was great but I felt like she needed some make-up on that amazing face of hers.

Esteban also still looked too cute to be scary, especially when he smiled like that ;)

So we hit the internet in our usual way and checked out some ideas to get the juices flowing.

Am not accustomed to having a human face as my canvas but I did my best and hey presto it was done!

Her magic eye seems quite fitting in this situation. Only a sorciere could have such skills!

Some dripping vampire teeth for Esteban (with less of that smile!) and we are good to go.

Looking at him now I realise I probably could have done better with those shoes!

By this time the sound of screaming children was growing louder outside our house in the village square where everyone was collecting for the occasion. This is the view from my office.

It was quite a scene down there for the first ten mins, calmed in this moment for the sake of a group shot.

My wrigglers excitedly clutching their candy baskets here ;)

Then off around the village we went...

Luna wasn't great at keeping her sweets in the basket, excitedly swinging it around her head all the time ;) Bless her. I collected the ones she dropped and returned them to her.

Esteban was very happy to see one of his girlfriends from school (the girl in blue) and I noted how she couldn't keep her eyes off him and when her parents weren't looking she wanted to hold his hand.

There were many people in the village (who have obviously lived here for a number of years) ready and waiting for that knock on the door, with a bucket of sweets to hand out. While others seemed quite taken back by the sudden arrival of 30 dressed up children at their door, all of them demanding sweets! No question it is a super weird tradition which doesn't make a lot of sense, but it does at least provide opportunity for the parents to chat.

We don't have these kind of sweets in the house normally, so needless to say Esteban was up in the night vomiting. But will he learn his lesson? Unlikely. If I were to give them the choice today, they would gobble them all down at once. So instead they will remain in these pots and get handed out, just one or two a day. And in this way our Halloween sweets will last us long into 2022!

Love & Light everyone 🌱