Make-Over your Wine Bottles for Your Halloween Party!

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In the News tonight---something to wine about. What a bloody story!

Let's get to it!

If you want an all-around awesome Halloween party without leaving a single thing out, then be sure replace the labels on your wine bottles with crafty Bottled Blood labels. For older kids and teens, use grapejuice or non-alcoholic wine bottles. These labels are bloody terrific! Your guests will get a blood curdling kick when they notice your serving up your best reserve of Red and white Blood for the vampires to feast on! The puns are never ending: Taste this one: A Bloodeaux from the Veinyard...with a Full Body aroma!

We have created 13 labels for you to freely download. Mix and match. The more labels, the more entertainment for the guests!

Choose from favorites like:

Thurston Bledwell Veinyards' Bloodeaux or  Capillary SauVEINuan. 

Or perhaps Count Bloodstone's Hemo Noir.

We also have white wines covered like:  Lilly of the Valley White Corpulsel reserve and Sparkling Plasma!

All you need do is download the labels from 

www.BooItYourself.com/wine

Print your favorites with an inkjet or other color printer. Print the labels on either inkjet paper that has the adhesive on the back (for making labels) or you can use spray glue or spray mount to attach regular paper. If you do not use the adhesive label paper, you will have many types of paper to choose from. You can choose different colors or fancy paper with textures. Most copy shops will even sell these to you in individual sheets and they will have a little binder full of selections to choose from.  Once you’ve chosen your paper and the labels, simply print the labels,  cut them out, and  paste them on.  What a marvelous display and surprise they will make to top off the party! This is an extra “bite” of entertainment that will be a real scream at your “you’ve thought of everything” Halloween party! BLOODY Amazing, mate!

Remotely Controlling all of Your Halloween Lights

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Here's a remotely interesting lighting tip for every holiday.

Did you know you can easily turn on or off  all of your holiday lights with the push of a single remote control button?! It's true! I've watched people run from room to room all over the house indoors and out bending over and plugging their illuminated decorations into wall sockets. You won't have to stoop that low if you want to invest in a set of X-10 Control Units. They're not dirt cheap, but you can use them for Halloween, Christmas, parties, or all the year long.

You can get started for around 50 to 75 bucks...and these devices will serve you for years to come! You'll need at least one PLUG-IN RF UNIT. This is the "Base" module. You can plug one set of lights into it. This is usually ($20). You'll also need the a remote control which may be 12 to 20 dollars. You can usually buy the base with 1 remote as a package deal. for around 30 dollars. For each area that you would normally plug lights into, you will need another different type of module. We recommend an  X10 Appliance Module 3-Pin . These are typically ($10).

Nowadays for all you super geeks... You can even get an Iphone or I-pad apps to control these babies...and you can get really fancy controlling different rooms and adding other modules like dimmer modules and timers. But let's get back to our story for us simple boys and ghouls.

When you have your base, remote control, and appliance modules, Just follow the instructions that come with each device. It should be as simple as

1) put batteries in the remote.

2) Plug in the base module into a wall socket. You may also plug in the lights in that room that you want to control INTO the base module.

3) Go to another room or location. Plug the appliance module into the wall socket. Plug the lights that are nearby into that module.

4) Make sure that the control dials on every device are at the same settings so that your remote will control these devices.

Now...with the press of the on or off button, you can control all of your lights!

A tip on where to get these:

Locally at Radio Shack, Fry's electronics, or most electronics centers.

or, search on-line for the best deal. X10.com and Smarthome.com are two popular sellers.

I love these things! I never have to leave the couch or my candy bowl!

Make a String-O-Lanterns: Halloween Lights for Cheap

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In the news this season I can't stress enough the bountiful fall harvest that you can get at the dollar store. It's the most boo-per-buck out there! You can get stuff for Halloween Illusions, Halloween Parties, Halloween Effects, Halloween Lights, Halloween multi-media! Need I go on? Most of the dollar stores (or 99 cent stores) will have those cheap jack-o-lantern treat buckets. (This application is probably far safer than using those things to hold edible candy!) They're usually close to a foot in diameter with the usual orange plastic container, black eyes and a black carrying strap. We can covert a pile of these into a great walkway illuminator! Get maybe ten or so. Take one of your strings of clear C7 Christmas lights. You're going to use these to make a string of illuminated pumpkins. Get the tool wielder of the house to drill some 1/2 inch holes in the bottom center of each plastic jack-o-lantern. Then unscrew every second or thrid c7 bulb from the string, put the jack-o-lantern on the string, and rescrew the bulb back in. With the light sockets in between, either insert orange c7 bulbs, or unscrew the lights so they do not light up.

Place your string-o-lanterns at the edge of your sidewalk or driveway for decoration and safety illumination! Hey, those guys look like my cousins...the octuplets!