I’ve been wanting to do a Halloween buying guide forever. Like, since I started my blog in 2006 forever. All I needed was 5 years and a swift kick in the butt from my good friend Cuppy from Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others. If you follow her blog, you already know that Cuppy wears the cutest outfits, has the craftiest friends and the coolest tattoos. So who better to help me put this guide together?
And since it’s just not Halloween without treats, I’ve decided to give a Bake and Destroy coffee mug (goat or classic logo, your choice!) to one of my readers. Just leave me a comment about your Halloween costume this year, your favorite Halloween candy or your favorite scary movie to enter! (Please note this contest is now closed!)
Without further ado, here is your official guide to Halloween cuteness from me and Cuppy!
Frankenstein's Monster Mary Janes
Want to get in the Halloween spirit without looking like a total dingus? Cuppy suggests a pair of adorbs Mary Janes from Em & Sprout. Vampires, monsters, ghosts, pumpkins and more – each one cuter than the last. Em & Sprout also makes handmade Halloween masks, tote bags, accessories and other things – in plus sizes, too! Order by October 9th for Halloween delivery!
Ciao bella!
Pay homage to the one and only Bela Lugosi on Halloween (and all year) with this amazing laser cut stainless steel pendant. Fable & Fury also features the gorgeous Vampira, the Bride of Frankenstein and lots of other spooky icons you’ll love! “Like” them on Facebook for special deals.
It was a graveyard smash!
Halloween is simply not Halloween without the Monster Mash – and I prefer mine in apron-form. Pair this Cupcake Provocateur apron with heels and a Bride of Frankenstein wig and it’s a monster housewife costume (especially when paired with matching dish-washing gloves!) After Halloween, it’ll still be our favorite apron. Save 10% with the coupon code over there to your right!
Never seen Mad Monster Party? Ok. Well when you’re done reading this post and sharing it with everyone you know, go over to Amazon, order it, and then don’t do anything important until you’ve seen it. Two words: Phyllis Diller. Once you’ve seen the movie, you’ll probably want to hang this Mad Monster Party print from Hen n’ Chicks on your wall.
Harold and Maude
Cuppy and I would like to remind you all that Halloween *is* a holiday, and therefore, can be considered a gift-giving occasion. Perhaps you’d like to gift one of us this two-headed bat from Devout Dolls? Aw, thank you! You are SO sweet.
Know what else every girl wants? Scary ass hair bows from Lucky Cupcake Hairclips! All your favorite slashers, crazies and spookies are featured on cute, handmade bows. Too much of a scardy cat to wear a Chucky bow? Joy’s got you covered with rassler bows, video game clips and all kinds of other cuteness. Check out the coupon to your right for 10% off!
Dexter's coffee mug?
Without my morning coffee I will for real kill someone – so I reach for this Circa Ceramics mug as my daily reminder to…you know, not murder. Blood and guts not your thing? Check out these cool zombie mugs featuring artwork by Matt Cipov!
Instant cute!
Looking for an instant costume? Try these Hello Kitty-inspired sunglasses from Guilty Free Candy! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve considered getting my prescription put into these babies, but I already look like a big enough asshole.
Bonus instant costume idea: this nerd alert shirt from Sick for Cute. Pair it with hiked-up floods, taped-together glasses and a dopey look on your face. When people ask what you’re supposed to be you can say, “I’m a mirror.”
For spooky sweetness you can wear all year, check out Little Miss Delicious’ Halloween collection. Candy corn earrings, vampire cupcakes Frankenstein ice cream cones… squee!
Eye love candy.
Let the little kids have their Now n’ Laters, because these gorgeous, hand-crafted candies and cookies from Sweetniks are just for you. With flavors like rose, salted margarita, cardamom and more these treats put the “ooh la la” in lollipops.
But what about FREE stuff?
So glad you asked! Why, right here on your friendly neighborhood Bake and Destroy you can download DIY cupcake toppers that are sure to radical up your Halloween party! Try some shark attack toppers on red velvet for a gory treat. Get fReAkY with these vintage circus cupcake toppers, or honor your inner slasher with these Friday the 13th toppers! Keep it evil with my black metal cupcake toppers, too! Hosting a Halloween party? Download my FREE zombie cookbook The Joy of Cooking Humans and print one out for each of your guests!
And of course, don’t forget to enter my giveaway! Leave your comments by October 13th – I’ll randomly select a winner then! Until next time, Hallowieners! (This contest is now closed, thanks!)
Update: Thanks to everyone who entered & congrats to Kelsey for winning!
fun stuff…forwarded it to some friends.
best scary movies for halloween time…halloween (obviously), evil dead 1&2, and trick r treat (so good).
pretty excited for halloween this year. was super sick last year and stayed in. gonna go as chris farley from the snl superfans skits. da bears!
mega cuteness! i was planning for several months to be Macho Man Randy Savage for Halloween (conceived this plan before he passed away) but i have noticed a real shortage of neon spandex prints at my local fabric store. so then i was thinking maybe Fionna from the backwards-y episode of Adventure Time? but that almost seems TOO easy… decisions, decisions…
Thanks for all the tips. Love the Lucky Cupcake bows. Already put my order in for some.
Those Hello Kitty glasses are absolutely adorable! I’ve never been big on Halloween but this stuff is the right blend of adorable/quirky/hilarious. I can get into this!
Totally adorbs!!! My 3 kids, me and the old man are going as Mario, Princess Peach, Yoshi, 1up, & Bowser! I love Nightmare before Christmas! Thanks for another great post Natalie & Cuppy!!!
Gotta love The Joy of Cooking Humans. I can’t believe I’ve never thought of that. Fantastic! I can’t wait til Halloween.
It’s awful really.. I buy the candy that I like for halloween.. and then make sure that we turn off the house lights early so that I get to keep the last half of what’s in the bowl.
Tootsie Rolls are like crack to me.. I can line them up and eat them like pac-man. I can also down handfulls of candy corn with the best of ’em.
🙂 LOVE that blood print mug…
these are some seriously awesome halloween finds!! i especially LOOOOVe the kick ass bloody prints mug! i might have to buy it, strategically place it in an open area and squirt the floor and my hands with ketchup (or something more believable) and let my hubby stumble upon his murderous wife 😉
OMG! I love the Mad Monster Party print! That would stay on my wall year round…
You were right, major cuteness! I did download the Joy of Cooking Humans, my BF saw it in my bag and said, “Uh, what’s that?” nothing dear just my new cookbook. Followed by evil laugh! 🙂
You always post the best stuff. This is exactly why I and everyone else here have followed you for so long. I’m super excited for Halloween, especially with this awesome guide!
I found a size small child’s jiggly puff costume at a thrift store so I modified it to fit a medium adult!! Hocus pocus is my favorite Halloween movie and every year I buy a big bag of mini white chocolate reeses cups all to myself! Woo, I’m an 8 year old trapped inside a 22 year old body!
Every Halloween, my mom and I pick costumes for each other. This year I decided my mom is going to be a mutant ninja turtle and she picked wonder woman for me. I’ve decided that instead of buying a costume, I’m going to make it myself. So far my costume is coming along nicely!
Also, in honor of Vegan MoFo, I do believe I’m going to use those kickass black metal cupcake toppers for a post!
Nicole – I hope you realize I’m going to want to see that post!
I just had a Halloween-gasm!!! <3 I love it alll! thanks for sharing this awesomeness with the world!!
Killer list. Because you asked, my favorite Halloween candy is the peanut butter(?) candies wrapped in black or orange wax paper. You know, the stuff that old people give out. Or, Bit O Honey. Yum
Also, I need that bloody mug.
Halloween isn’t really celebrated in Australia, however on the day I will be attending a zombie themed suspension event in Melbourne held by the Hanged Man Team.
I’m going dressed as a zombie supermarket check out chick. Anyone who has worked in retail knows how much customers and the company suck the life out of you, so it’s a fitting costume.
My favourite scary movie would have to be Halloween; no one can build suspense like John Carpenter.
I could easily spend a months wage at Em & Sprout, Sick For Cute and Fable & Fury. There are no stores/items like that available in Australia.
I’m going as Sexy Dumbledore!
I have a few events I’m going to so I have a few costumes this year!
I am going to be a bearded tattooed circus “freak” then little red riding hood, then snow white.
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I love that mug, and I’ve always wanted the monster apron. Once again a great gift
This year will be my first time dressing up! I’m going to be Miss Piggy. I’ve got a glam black dress, some vintage rhinestone jewels, elbow length gloves, a blonde wig, and a pig snout. I want to find a little Kermit doll to really complete the look. 😀
My goal is to be a zombie minnie mouse, just jope I can get the make-up right.
This Halloween I’m going as a female version of The 11th Doctor from the t.v show Doctor Who. Also my favorite scary movie is the original A Nightmare On Elm Street, and this is a great post! the cupcakes I plan on baking later on this month are definitely going to be topped with the Friday The 13th toppers!
I’m going to be a shark this year. Yes!
Not sure I’ll be dressing up this year as I’ll be on a plane to Orlando on Halloween. I doubt the TSA would approve of my showing up in costume but I’m sure I’ll get good use out of one of my many Halloween t-shirts.
The whole family is doing it up this year:
My daughter is going to be the witch from ‘The Wizard of Oz’
My wife is going to be ‘Wonder Woman’
and yours truly is going to be ‘The Prince of Darkness’.
We were possibly thinking of dressing up our dogs as the flying monkeys from ‘The Wizard…’ as well.
Its one of my favorite times of the year.
Can’t wait to make bleeding heart cupcakes!
I haven’t got a specific costume in mind this year – chances are I’ll ramp up the spooky factor on one of my gothier outfits. No matter what I do costume-wise, I’m already gobbling up my favourite – the mini Mars bars.
My costume this year is going to be Pris from Bladerunner. I’m going to have a blonde wig, black eye makeup, stockings & boots and a sheer black top + black bra combined with shorts and a belt.
Iam going to see the dwarves dressed as wonder woman!! The best Halloween movies are house of a thousand corpses and devils rejects. Hillbilly murders are always scary. The best Halloween candies are peanut butter cup pumpkins with there tasty xtra peanutbutter!
My family is going as The Addams Family! My 4 year old daughter will be Cousin Itt, my 6 year old daughter will be Wednesday, my 5 year old son will be Pugsley, and of course I’m Morticia and my fiance is Gomez! It’s going to effin rock!
Halloween has to be one of my favorite holidays and things like this are exactly why! The cupcake toppers and zombie cookbook are sure to be a hit with all my friends!! Thanks!! 🙂
I am going as a witch, not to far from my nature. However I am a pretty good witch…. Halloween is my favorite holiday to knock the socks off the trick or treaters; so I go nearly in hoc to stock up on high end, over the top, candies that make the kids’ eyes bug out when they see me placing the goodie in the bag.
Oh how I love the “Seriously??” and “Oh Cool!” exclamations.
I have made the holiday something special for my son, with the home decor, the special dinner menu and place settings themed for the night… I know I am passing on a special tradition I am sure he will carry on.
My boyfriend and I went to epcot in Disney and we bought Asian costumes. We have really Japanese looking shirts, Chinese hats and slippers and we will be doin some cool make up. He does a great Chinese impersonation – and hopefully no one will take offense to us at the parties we will be attending. it’s all for good fun 🙂
Favorite scary movie has to be Motel Hell. Not too scary, but very gross and creepy lol
gummy body parts are the best things ever. the whole fam covets them!
Natalie, you’ve outdone yourself once again. I’ll definitely put some of these ideas in use for the Halloween party, I’m hosting.
For Halloween this year, I’m going as a sorcerer. Not just any sorcerer, an evil sorcerer, because being bad and evil, is just right. Maybe have a Bellatrix Lestrang hair thing going on. Who knows.
Halloween costume – Harley Quinn – Dark Knight and rock n roll style 😉 (modified 2 years ago, was a success!)
Horror movie has to be Scream trilogy. Not because it is scary but just as its that funny I almost cry and wee!
And as for Halloween candy, homemade toffee apples for the win and rotting teeth 🙂
xxx
Isn’t Etsy the best?
Thanks for the info and the great Joy of Cooking download.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and you’re never too old for Halloween candy. I may not go out trick or treating anymore, but that doesn’t mean I don’t horde mini chocolate bars. They truly are a (satanic) blessing!
My boyfriends birthday is in october (lucky guy) so were celebrating his bday and halloween together. Im gonna be a zombie slayer and my boyfriend is going as freddy kruger. My fave scary movie is the paranormal activity series, im so excited for sept 20!!!!!
I’m obsessed with halloween. Like plan as soon as it’s over obsessed. This year I’m going as a steampunk lady. I made my own top hat and outfit 🙂 Plus I’m turning my husband into a steampunk chef. My goal was to make giant tentacles to come out of our front door but i dont know if ill get them done in time.
My favorite horror movie has got to be clowns from outer space..if you can consider it a scary movie. Freaks me out everytime yet makes me laugh. AHHHH can’t wait for halloween and to tell my kids half there candy just magically disappeared
My favorite Halloween candy has to be the classic. Candy Corn. When it comes to favorite Halloween movie I go back to the classics like Universial Monsters series of films. The Mummy,The Creature From The Black Lagoon,etc. Or other classics like The Blob.
Those Franken-shoes and many other of her designs have been on my watch list for actual years, oh my! I shoul just cave in to my needs and buy them all! XD
I love the zombie mugs! I might have to order a few since it’s finally hot chocolate weather.
Favorite scary movie has to be Night of the Living Dead, 1968, hands down. I like my zombies as Romero intended: Slow, shuffling and preferably in black and white, but Linnea Quigley in Return of the Living Dead has a small piece of my heart – er, brain – as well. Send more paramedics. 😀
gonna be frankenstein coneheads!