Happy Costume Dance Party!

Although I may have turned 31, that doesn't mean that I don't have the energy to stay up until 4am dancing and partying!

It's been too many years to count since we've hosted (or been to even!) a costume party. We used to love Halloween partying in Surrey and I wanted to get back into some of that fun with a birthday costume party. Although they call it "fancy dress" here.

Not content with just costumes to make the evening, I secretly enlisted a few girlfriends to help me make it a dance party. Thanks to a spare room, a borrowed speaker and amp, and the strobe setting on a couple of headlamps, we made it happen. Check out the playlist here.

Now, some of us had our costumes planned and made ahead of time and others decided just 6 hours before the party. I will let you figure out which was which.

The skeleton is going to a pirate party. And this pinata doesn't need to be smashed to give out candy.

The dinosaur was friendly as was the suicide bunny even though his carrots were wired up and the clock was counting down. This poor little kitty was a victim of Gareth Morgan but at least she managed to get a bird!

Then our own Effie from The Hunger Games made an appearance with the lovely Audrey Hepburn. And we even hired an old timey bartender for the event and Micheal Jackson was there too.

Easy-E came around and lucky for us he left his gat at home.

Then I was too busy dancing to capture photos of everyone else. The evidence is in my shredded dress! Most of the top two rows of paper wore away with my fancy moves. And if I lifted my arms they were turning very smurfy from the blue crepe paper! Ah well, it might be a one-time use costume. I'll have to think of something else for Halloween this year...

My dress was not the only thing that got shredded. The carpet in the spare room sure got a good wearing out! There were little balls of carpet fluff all over. That's ok though, it was worth it!

So, happy birthday to me for another year!