Freaky Friday Halloween Fun

by DanicasDaily on October 29, 2010

Happy weekend & almost Halloween all!!!  This has been such a fun filled week loaded with Halloween Treats, creating our “Haunted House” in the office and of course our Costume Contest.  I honestly never knew that there were so many ways you could decorate a cubicle until my co-workers busted out their creativity!

Before I start, I just have to say Thanks so much to all of you for being patient and waiting for me to post a recap all at once.  I am definitely working on getting back to my daily rambling schedule with you all now that I have a little room to breath.

Get ready because this post is long, corny, a little gory, but, totally fun :D   If you see anything you want the recipe for, just leave a comment and I’ll post it for ya.

TREAT WEEK HIGHLIGHTS!!!

We figured the BEST way to get people over to our “Haunted House” was through FOOD!  I don’t know about you all, but, I can easily be bribed with food :D

DAY 1 ~ Decorate your own Halloween Cupcakes & Sugar Cookies complete with homemade Butter Cream Frosting.

Halloween Cupcakes & Cookies

DAY 2 ~ Mummy 7-Layer Bean Dip (So easy to make!)

Mummy Seven Layer Dip

Complete with Red & Green Salsa in Pumpkin Bowls

Pumpkin SalsaHalloween Salsa

I served it up with Purple & White Tortilla Chips and Wholly Queso on the side.  I couldn’t find “GREEN” tortilla chips so I made my own using Halloween Cookie Cutters, Spinach Tortillas and baking them at 400 for 8 minutes.

Halloween Appetizers

DAY 3 ~ MONSTERS!!!

Halloween Monster Chocolate Pretzels

These are so easy to make – you can find the recipe here.

Monster Pretzels

My co-worker made Pumpkin Cake Pops a la Bakerella ~ sans the faces though.

Pumpkin Cake PopsHalloween Treats

DAY 4 ~ Checker “Bones” Cake

Bones Cake

My co-worker makes these cakes using a cool pan insert , I need to find one – so fun!

Checker Cake

Zesty’s Caramel Brownies with a Marshmallow Halloween spin.

Caramel Marshamallow Brownies

Can you believe I used an entire jar of Orange Food Coloring and this is as orange as the caramel got?  Oh well – you can go wrong with brownies, chocolate, caramel and marshmallows!

Halloween Brownies

After “bribing” everyone with our Ghoulish Eats, it was time to bring them into the Haunted House.  We had so much fun decorating and my co-worker has so many cool things!

Cemetery

Yup, we totally put up black sheets with pvc pipe to hang our black curtains!

Keep Out

Then, used fishing line to hang lots of creepy things from the ceiling ~ totally safe ;)

Red Eye Spiderjust plain creepyBig Halloween Spiders

We waited until the final day, to tell the story of the “Massacre at our Haunted House”.  We divided our cube into 4 separate rooms ~ The Dining Room, The Living Room, The Bedroom and The Kitchen.

You all ready to follow along….you just have to use your imagination and pretend to hear the Friday the 13th Theme Song as you read ;)

How to decorate your office cubicle

It all started when the “Grim Reapers” girlfriend invited him to dinner.

The Grim Reaper

We had everyone put their hand in the box to tell us what was for dinner….we told them it was brains, guts, fingers, eyeballs (but really, it was cooked spaghetti, green olives and pickles) :D

What's for dinner

After dinner, The Reaper’s Girlfriend scared him by jumping out from behind the couch while they were watching “Friday the 13th”…..It didn’t end well.

Friday the 13th Living Room

And, he decided he needed a nap after all the “fun”.

The Bedroom

When he woke up, he headed into the kitchen, grabbed some eyeballs and

Green & red eyeballs

Prepared himself a snack…..

The KitchenWitches Brew

Before grabbing his “trick or treat” and heading out the door with his new friend!

Trick or Treat Prizes

Bernie The Crazy Bunny showed up at our door.

Crazy Bunny

And told us to follow the trail of “Bunny Snacks”

Trail of Bunny Snacks

Waiving us into their “creepy” cube.

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Cubicle #2 ~ The Creepy Hansel & Grettle Gingerbread House!

  Hansel & GrettleThe Gingerbread House

How wrong is it that they changed the wording on our Annie’s?! So FUNNY!

Scary Annie's

That bunny did some “crazy” things in the Gingerbread house.

The Crime Scene

Dried Cranberry Bunny Poos LOL!

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After that little trip, the Reaper and Bunny became BFF’s!

Bff's

I really LOVE how much my co-workers get into decorating their cubicles for Halloween!  I work with such cool people.

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Cubicle #4 ~ Brujas Brew!

Flying BroomWitches BrewWitch Hat

Our Haunted House won the contest ~ I am pretty sure it was the food ;)   I am so excited because it’s the first time we’ve ever won and we now get to keep the Fancy Best Decorated Cubicle Trophy!!

After the decorating contest, we had a costume contest.  The Husband made my costume ~ I was a Cow-Girl complete with Chaps, a “Dani” Buckle and Chaps! <3 him!

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But, my favorite was definitely the “Starbuck’s Cup ~ how cute is she?!

 

 

Here was our Halloween Crew! 

Halloween Costume Party

The day ended with the coolest carved pumpkin ever ~ Bernie the Bunny is the Mascot you see on all our boxes!

Bunny Carved Pumpkin

Wow ~ who knew I could actually summarize why I’ve had NO TIME all week in one post :)   I definitely am ready for life to get back to normal a little….that is until the Holiday Party festivities begin :)

Just a few more hours to enter to WIN A WHOLE LOTTA GUACAMOLE!

Night all!

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

andrea October 30, 2010 at 4:23 am

thats sooo awesome…thank God I don’t work there food I’d eat everything!!!

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Marisa @ Loser for Life October 30, 2010 at 4:45 am

What a crazy fun crew you work with! Looks like a great time!

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Lauren October 30, 2010 at 5:43 am

LOVE the office Halloween Fun!!! Our office does the same and goes all out. Such a fun day to celebrate!

Happy Halloween girl!!!

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Christine October 30, 2010 at 7:16 am

That looks like soooo much fun! Glad to have you back. :-)

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Andrea (Off Her Cork) October 30, 2010 at 8:28 am

Oh my goodness what a blast! I’m so happy to see work places having such a great time plus it puts everyone in a good mood! Yay!

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GiGi October 30, 2010 at 6:36 pm

My goodness you guys go all out!!! I am not quite the Halloween person… which is why I am sitting in on a Saturday night! ha ha ha! OHHH WELL!

I wrote an article about healthier options for Halloween snacks… check it out if you’d like: http://www.examiner.com/nutrition-in-boulder/tricky-treats

Have a wonderful Holiday! I am going to have a spooky night… my dream(s) better work it! ha ha!

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janetha October 31, 2010 at 2:06 pm

OH MY GOSH, can i come work with you?!? Everything is so festive, I love it!! So many great ideas here. And I LOVE your getup, totally cute!!!!

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Sami November 1, 2010 at 8:54 am

SOOO cool….our workplace is SO boring compared to yours! :) no one really even acknowledged halloween here!

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