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QUICK HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS (Glamour)

Bedbug: What you’ll need: fangs, head-to-toe brown clothes, eye mask, bedsheet and shopping bags from infected stores

Why you should try it: Halloween is one big fright fest after all. Make a mark by giving everyone the creepy-crawlies.

The Walk of Shame: What you’ll need: men’s shirt, short skirt, messy hair, smeared makeup and heels in hand

Why you should try it: Completely unexpected, completely hilarious. And we bet you know someone who’ll think it hits a wee bit close to home.

Lady Gaga in “Telephone” What you’ll need: caution tape

Why you should try it: It’s easy: just wrap yourself up! While everyone may be dressed as Gaga, we doubt they’ll pick this incarnation of the wacky songstress.

A Tweet: What you’ll need: white shirt with “140 characters” written on the front

Why you should try it: Because everyone’s on Twitter (including Glamour, hello!), and the whole costume takes less time than it does to Tweet. Bonus points for writing your @ handle on the back.

House Hunter International: What you’ll need: real estate book, passport, stressed out expression

Why you should try it: While we should all be so lucky to be agonizing over which Italian villa to buy, you can at least fake it for a night.

Haunted Cookie Cups

Spooky Graveyard Pie

Ghost cookies

Three spider recipes

Fun ones to get the kids to help with 

Deluxe Halloween Mud Bars 

Spiderweb Munch

Check out this yummy link for your halloween party

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1. Meat Dress & Butcher (a la Lady Gaga at the VMAs)

Butcher: White T-shirt, white pants, white apron with blood stains (use red food coloring or fake blood), meat cleaver (can be real, or for a safer option, one made out of cardboard and tin foil).

Meat Dress: Take a plain white cotton dress and use red markers to create a “meat pattern” a la this outfit. Wear a long white wig, a sparkly necklace and bracelet, and any other over-the-top, Gaga-esque accoutrements.

2. Eat, Pray, Love

Partner one (Eat): Chef’s hat, apron and mixing spoon, or any food costume. For example, wear brown, carry Hershey kisses and be chocolate; wear green, carry a bag of arugula and be lettuce, etc. To be authentic to Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, be a bowl of pasta by wearing a red shirt festooned with several yards of pale yellow yarn and balls of mixed brown and red yarn.

Partner two (Pray): Any costume with religious connotation — a priest (long black coat, white collar, cross, bible); a Franciscan monk (brown bathrobe, brown hood, rope around your waste, cross around your neck); or a sari with a bindi on your forehead to represent India (where the “Pray” portion of Eat, Pray, Love took place).

Both: Then, when someone asks you what you are, kiss and say, “We’re Eat, Pray, Love.”

3. Justin Bieber & Fan

Bieber: Unless she or he has anything like The Bieb’s hair, the Bieber half of this couple must buy a Bieber hair wig, happily available at justinbieberwig.com. Pair that with a hoodie, jeans, some bling, big sneakers and a spot of fake blood around the temple where a bit of hair has been torn off by an adoring fan.

Fan: In addition to the costume’s requisite lock of Bieber hair in hand, doll yourself up in fan-girl gear: a Bieber concert T-shirt, denim mini and an arm full of silly bandz.

4. House & Cuddy from House

House: A lab coat, cane and a perpetual scowl. Bonus: Limp and indiscriminately shout out obnoxious comments.

Cuddy: A skirt suit, high heels and cleavage.

5. Rachel Berry & Finn Hudson from Glee

Rachel: Borrow a cardigan from your grandmother’s closet and pair it with a white shirt, a plaid skirt, black knee-high socks and a pair of loafers a la this outfit.

Finn: A red football jersey, jeans, and a firm conviction that a girl can get pregnant in a jacuzzi.

6. Don Draper & A “Skirt”

Don: Parted hair, tamed with gel or wax. Clean shaven face. Dapper, slim-fitting suit or tux. White shirt, tie. Shined shoes, of course. (We’re not going for Don Draper, the farmhand-from-his-past here.) Bonus: Cigarette (fake, preferably), glass of whisky and briefcase in hand.

Skirt: Given Don’s indiscriminate penchant for ladies of all varieties, why not be his catch-all companion, a “skirt”? Wear a nude or black tank top and leggings (or a bodysuit, if you’re ambitious) and an eye-catching, brightly colored skirt. Minimal makeup and accessories, as the focus should be on the skirt. Alternatively, if you’re really digging the Mad Men style, pick one of the female characters and channel her. Check out Bravo’s interactive “Mad Men Yourself” feature for ideas. Remember the basics: coiffed hair, red lips and nails, pencil skirt, heels.

7. Edward & Bella from Twilight

Edward: Gray peacoat, black Wayfarer sunglasses, scruffy RPatz hair, y’know, if possible. Fangs. Bonus: Glitter!

Bella: Bella’s style channels the grunge era that ruled Seattle in the ’90s. Think: flannel shirt or hooded jacket over a plain gray T-shirt, corduroys or jeans, sneakers. Leave your hair down and wear your best brooding face. Add some big headphones to up the “too cool for school” ante.

8. “I’m A Mac” & “I’m A PC”

Mac: Let your hair be scruffy. Wear a T-shirt and a zip-up hooded sweatshirt, unzipped. Straight-leg jeans and hip sneakers, like Vans. Draw or stencil a fake tattoo of the Mac logo on your wrist or neck, somewhere visible, just in case you’re at a party with a lot of “PC” people who may not understand your costume.

PC: Get nerdy! Get a pair of the wireframe glasses that hipsters are wearing these days, plus a bland, ill-fitting suit, an overstarched white dress shirt and bland burgundy tie. Bonus: Add a pocket protector with a Microsoft logo to your coat pocket.

9. The Last Exorcism

Him: A priest’s collar and a shirt with a Jesus fish.

Her: A blood-spattered nightgown. Bonus points if you can score a cross that spits out smoke.

10. Toy Story 3′s Jessie the Cowgirl and Buzz Lightyear

Buzz: A purple hoodie worn beneath a white sweatshirt and white sneakers, with green wristbands, knee pads and spats, and a wide, black belt as accents. For the coup de grace, make wings out of white cardboard striped with red and lavender tape.

Jessie: Booty-hugging blue jeans and a white button-down top, brown riding boots with a matching brown belt. Yellow bandana, wristbands, and bow (for your French braid). Top it all off with a cowgirl hat. You get extra kudos if you can find faux-cowhide chaps.

http://www.costumecauldron.com/Adult-Halloween-Costumes.html

From Jersey Shore characters to the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job in a rather memorable way, here are the trendiest Halloween costumes of the year.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39460728/?slide=1

The National Retail Federation has released its annual list of top Halloween costumes for the year.

Adult Costumes

1. Witch
2. Vampire
3. Pirate
4. Nurse
5. Wench/Tart/Vixen
6. Cat
7. Zombie
8. Fairy
9. Tie between athlete and Batman
10. Dracula

Children’s Costumes

1. Princess
2. Spiderman
3. Witch
4. Pirate
5. Disney Princess
6. Action/Superhero
7. Ghost
8. tie between pumpkin and vampire
9. Batman
10. Star Wars character

 Pet Costumes

1. Pumpkin
2. Devil
3. Witch
4. Hot dog
5. tie between bee and cat
6. Dog (?)
7. Superdog/supercat
8. Ghost
9. Pirate
10. Bowties/fancy collar/bandana

Make trick-or-treating a safe and happy time for your kids by following these simple personal safety tips:

1. Ensure costumes are fitted
Make sure your child’s Halloween costume is made of flame-resistant materials and is well fitted. Costumes that drag on the ground can pose a tripping hazard, which can be a serious danger if kids fall while crossing the street. Masks, hats and other accessories should also fit your child properly without inhibiting their vision. Halloween makeup is a safer option.

2. Make sure your children can be seen
Visibility is a very important safety consideration. Flashlights with fresh batteries, glow sticks and reflective tape are must-haves on Halloween and will enable drivers to see kids as they scout from door-to-door.

3. Always trick-or-treat in groups
Accompany your children when they go out trick-or-treating. Older children may want to go with friends. If so, plan a route and make them carry a fully charged cell phone in case they get separated from the group.

4. Check Halloween candy carefully
Treat your kids to a Halloween snack before they head out so that they are less likely to eat the candy they gather before you have a chance to inspect their loot bags. Teach your children never to eat treats that are in packages that have been opened, show pinholes or have other damage. And remember, avoid homemade treats or fruit unless they are from a family member or close friend.

5. Find help
Teach your children to find a police officer if they are lost or need help while trick-or-treating. The Timmins Police and local high school students have teamed together to form Operation Ghostwatch, the students will be patrolling in pairs and keeping an eye on all the little ghosts and goblins this All Hallow’s Eve.

For more personal safety tips and fun games for kids, visit www.pumpkinpatrol.com.

If you need a last minute Halloween costume here are some ideas you can throw together with a few items found around the house. Plus instructions on how to fold an origami bat and other cool things.

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