Lunch Bag Friday: Dead Man's Party

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!  We kinda get into Halloween around here... just a bit.   We don't really like to wait until October to start celebrating and neither do our lunch sacks.  :)   Oingo Boingo's song "Dead Man's Party" was the inspiration behind this deadly lunch bag duo.  A week ago our youngest begged and begged to have our family watch "Monster House" one night after decorating for Halloween.  She felt like watching something Halloweeny and was proud that her daddy helped animate that movie back in 2006.  We warned her over and over it was probably too scary, but finally we caved to her pleadings.  Sure enough she was freaked out and got after her daddy for sometimes animating scary movies.  hahahaha   (fyi- She's fine now, by the end she liked it).

For fun I thought I'd share some of our Halloween decorations this year that we have up so far....

Witch's Brew in the fireplace.  I loved our daughter's idea to put lights in the cauldron to look like it was hot and boiling. 

Front Entry way.  The kids love to play and decorate with that huge, hairy spider and put him in different places- so it feels like he wanders around the house when we aren't looking.  For now, he's guarding the stairs and admire the little Halloween silhouettes I made of our family this last week.  :)

Close ups of our silhouettes I made.  They were a lot of fun.

Family Room-  I love sewing and that dress in the corner was my oldest daughter's Halloween vampire costume she helped me sew last year.  I also designed and made the little felt advent calendar countdown to Halloween on the right side of the photo.

The real beauty in all of our decor is the family painting that Seth made of us a few years ago.  We love it so much we just keep it up year round!  :)

Top of entertainment center.  These Disney BigFigs have a place in our home year round too.   hehe

Our girls like animating like their daddy.  Nothing like some spooky decor to inspire a little stop-motion animation.  They are currently saving up for an ipod to create much better animation than their 3ds, but they still have fun.  They did this bit last Sunday and they figured out all on their own how to make it look like she was flying.  We were so proud.  :)

Well Happy Haunting this next month!  Enjoy the fall and think of us.  :)  More spooky lunch sacks to come!  

The Winning Bag!

This is the bag Seth drew for the winner of our contest that we had on our facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/whizbangbags.  When we contacted Kori (the winner) she said that it would be tough to narrow down one funny story because she has four kids (I guess she doesn't play favorites lol), but said that she loved elephants... so this is what Seth came up with. 


We know Kori from church so Seth thought it would be fun to reference the writings of Paul to the to Philippians (Philippians 4) also one of our articles of faith (number 13). It's a funny saying that Seth and I always say when we are talking about that particular Article of Faith (the real words are "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent...). Kind of like a hymn that we sing in church that we changed the words to "High on a Mountain Top, a badger chased a squirrel" instead of "a banner is unfurled" or "I Am a Child of God... with parents kind of weird" instead of "with parents kind and dear" or my personal favorite from Primary which Seth believed were the words for many many years "Give Seth the Little String" instead of "Give Said the Little Stream". We haven't been struck by lightning yet.  (knock on wood)

Well Kori, you didn't have to play favorites, he threw the whole family in! I think it's fabulous! He's never turned a bag sideways for the design. It's very charming.  We'll pass it along to you soon.

Congrats again on winning! We'll have to do this contest again soon! In the meantime, only one more day until new "Lunch Bag Friday" drawings are posted. He was sketching out fun ideas last night.  Please share this site with your friends and family. We'd love to get a big enough fan base of people following the page to be taken more seriously by book publishers or companies that could print these sacks.

Monster of Frankenstein and His Bride

Well even though it's not October yet... we have been decorating for Halloween.  :)  It's one of my favorite times of the year!  I'm creating some Halloween silhouettes of our family for the staircase.  Seth and I will be this couple.  :)  He drew these bags in Oct. of 2011

Lunch Bag Friday!

 Old Friends

City Birds  :)

Best Friends

There's something so charming about this bag that Seth drew in 2012 for Kendyl.  So sweet.  I sure hope his buddy is ok...

Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel

Seth drew this lunch bag duo Fall of 2012.  I LOVE it!  I love the story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman…. even more I love the history behind the story.  We use to live just a few miles from the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY where Washington Irving sang in a choir as a boy and is buried on the grounds of that church. I use to go there weekly and just wander around.  There was another old man there named Bill that would “haunt” the place as well and would give me little histories lessons.  For Halloween this year one of my daughters wants to be Katrina Van Tassel.  Seth is excited now about the idea of being the Headless Horseman.  I’ll need to see about finding a huge suit to make him look headless.  We’ll see. :)

Contest!

If you are on Facebook here is a link to our Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/whizbangbags where you can find the details of how to enter and win!  :)  Happy Lucky Friday the 13th!~