{"id":8922,"date":"2011-05-04T07:38:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T11:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2011-05-04T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T11:55:39","slug":"creative-party-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8922","title":{"rendered":"Creative Party Invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/invitation-150x115.jpg\" alt=\"Invitation\" title=\"Invitation\" width=\"150\" height=\"115\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynlimestone.com\/\">Brooklyn Limestone<\/a> blog is primarily devoted to recording the renovations being done to a Brooklyn limestone (duh), but they also have a healthy interest in Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of their parties have included wonderfully elaborate invitations.  Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynlimestone.com\/2009\/10\/halloween-invitation-reveal-creature.html\">2009 party invitation<\/a> was a box which included a &#8220;creature survival kit:&#8221; Wooden stake, silver bullet, holy water, and so forth.  They followed up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynlimestone.com\/2010\/10\/halloween-invitation-reveal-come-one.html\">circus theme in 2010<\/a> with invitations featuring &#8220;preserved Siamese twins&#8221; in a little specimen jar.  I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d have the energy to come up with any other party details after devising the invitations.<\/p>\n<p>These really are a brilliantly effective means of immediately creating an atmosphere.  They probably wouldn&#8217;t be practical for a very large gathering, but they&#8217;re just perfect for small-ish parties or weddings.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to search &#8220;Halloween&#8221; on the site to turn up lots of other posts, like this great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynlimestone.com\/2010\/10\/inspired-halloween-spreads-studys-mad.html\">Mad Scientist decorating scheme<\/a> and these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynlimestone.com\/2009\/10\/eek-halloween-2009.html\">photos of the exterior covered with skeletons<\/a>.  Gorgeous stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Limestone blog is primarily devoted to recording the renovations being done to a Brooklyn limestone (duh), but they also have a healthy interest in Halloween. A couple of their parties have included wonderfully elaborate invitations. Their 2009 party invitation was a box which included a &#8220;creature survival kit:&#8221; Wooden stake, silver bullet, holy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-terror-in-the-aisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10756,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/10756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}