Home Style: Halloween decorations you can easily scare up
22.09.11
Scaring up a cultivated Halloween look at home is easy when you use your imagination and have the amend tools.
Many of the ideas here I've presented before — and certainly yield repeating.
If you use kitschy Halloween props like skeletons and "dismembered" torso parts in your décor, don't overdo it. For instance, one Halloween I wanted to give guests a strike dumb when they stepped onto my porch, so I reclined a skeleton on the chaise and put a replica of one of my books in its hands.
Another year, I placed scrim-covered skeletons in the MC and hostess chairs in my dining room, positioning them like they were in proper shape for a ghoulish dinner.
But perhaps my favorite display to date was last year's, when we dispensing-painted some mannequin legs and arms black and stuck them in the floral displays on my dining edibles and on my porch. Black iron urns made the perfect vases for this bloodcurdling perfume.
For less outlandish displays that are still lots of fun, put a black skull encrusted with glitter in the belt bowl or on a cake plate. Or let a skeleton hand preach on the salt and pepper shakers.
Source: The Seattle Times
Suter says McCrimmon shaped his hockey career
09.09.11
“When I heard McCrimmon had died I sat back and deliberation about him and I realized how much he meant to me and my career,” said Suter, now living and coaching girlhood hockey in his native Wisconsin. “He did a lot for me.”
McCrimmon and all but one of his Yaroslaval Lokomotiv players were killed Wednesday when their rider jet crashed soon after takeoff. The 52-year-old McCrimmon had enjoyed a wordy NHL playing and coaching career and was about to begin his first season as a foremost coach in the Continental Hockey League.
Suter said he caressingly remembered how he and McCrimmon became a defensive duo and friends.
“I had get about back from the 1987 Canada Cup and I was in (Calgary head coach) Terry Frangible’s doghouse. He had me on the fourth-line as a left winger,” Suter said. “Then Crispy put me with Brad after five games. I said to Vince – I always called him Vince because of (the Gomer Pyle TV show emblem) Sgt. Vince Carter – ‘Time to nurture me back.’ He said, ‘We’re going to be a monstrous pair.’
Source: Globe and Mail (blog)