Whether you’re planning a party with friends and neighbors at your charming and pet-friendly Renaissance North Bend apartment home in Austin, Texas, or making the ATX scene, Halloween season offers all kinds of opportunities for fun!
Either way, this month’s blog offers all kinds of suggestions for some seasonal fun! Including and especially the info on some of this year’s most popular costumes (yes, of course we’re talking about getting’ your Tay-tay showgirl and Trav-trav Chiefs uniforms on!)
For The Littles—An Historic Halloween Carnival
The Neill-Cochran Museum on St. Gabriel Street is putting out the call all to all ghouls and goblins, Travis Kelces and Taylor Swifts, KPop Demon Hunters, Wednesdays, and Capybaras!!
Your littles can expect to enjoy trunk-or-treat, scavenger hunts, games, and more at a FREE family-friendly Halloween Carnival at one of Austin’s most historic house museums! This year the annual event will take place Sunday, October 26, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Access to the lawn will be free and open to the public, and you can drop in any time to join the fun and tour the museum. Kids can explore Austin history with engaging seek-and-finds. Best of all? Free parking!!
For The Bigs
It’s field trip time! Pick a Friday or Saturday night this month and head on down San Antonio way to Bat City Scaregrounds in Buda. That’s where you and your crew will step into a 15-acre world of horror this Halloween and brave three terrifying haunted houses. You’ll explore a sinister castle, face an ancient evil, and navigate a gruesome slaughter mall. What could be more fun?
Oh, we know! Live music! Acts like Sin & Seraphim, Polybius Cabinet, and The Immortalz will crank it up at 9 p.m. on those nights, so come costumed and ready to rock! And take in some Vegas-style stage performances and indulge in seasonal eats and treats.
For Everyone!
Mexic-Arte Museum’s 42nd Annual Viva La Vida Festival and Parade is Austin’s largest and longest-running Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) event, and this year it’s taking place before Halloween.
Co-presented by the Austin Convention Center and the City of Austin, this year’s festival will take place Saturday, October 25, at 4th Street and Congress Avenue. The festivities will begin with a Grand Procession at noon, and activities will run until 6 pm. Plan to enjoy traditional foods, local artists and retail booths, a low-rider exhibition, and live performances throughout the day, as well as the Education Pavilion with hands-on art activities.
This year’s special section for Viva la Vida Fest will be flores de la ofrenda (flowers for the altar), which are important to Día de los Muertos celebrations because they symbolize the beauty, fragility, and cyclical nature of life and death.
Scary-Good Party Ideas
Brew up some sinister mock- and cocktails, prepare some frightful finger foods, and decorate with seasonal black and orange abandon—it’s time to have your very own howling good Halloween party! Both inside and out on your private patio or balcony, your Renaissance North Bend apartment home is the perfect setting both for feting—and frightening!—friends and family.
We asked * the Idea Specialists™ * for some tips and tricks to be the hosts with most. They pointed us to HGTV, which has some great ideas for decorating. One of their—and our—favorites is to use your fireplace as a focal point. Use a mix of mums and candles (unlit, for safety!) around it, and fill it full of pumpkins and gourds. So fun! As are these battery-powered holiday candles from Walmart, which come complete with their own remote control.
For goodies for gobblin’ (see what we did there? 😎😎), the site comes through again with snack ideas like Hairy Eyeballs (polenta poppers topped with corn silk and a few dribbles of blood marinara sauce), Poisoned Candy Apples (get out the black food coloring!) and more.
The Food Network isn’t any slouch, either, when it comes to yikes and yummies. You can make drawing “legs” with chocolate on the Scary Peanut Butter Spider Cookies a family affair, whip up a No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Brain in next to no time, and—of course—there’s no forgetting that all-time classic, a Dirt Cake topped with gummy worms!
One More—VERY IMPORTANT—Thing!
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Happy Halloween!
* The Idea Specialists™ *
The Idea Specialists™ is a group of design and inspiration professionals with a focus on communications for the multifamily industry, as well as custom lifestyle planning and more. They do not receive any sort of product or financial incentives for their recommendations in posts such as these.
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