The Extreme Halloween Network Celebrates 10 Years of Selling Online Halloween Costumes

Annie’s Costumes moved from a Halloween boutique offering Halloween costumes for toddlers, children and adults to a Halloween website.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) September 26, 2006 – Harold Maxwell has never been afraid of change. When his Hallmark business wasn’t doing well in the 80s and he noticed that the few costumes he had in stock were selling better than the cards, he closed his store and opened Annie’s Costumes in South Florida. So, when his daughter wanted to start selling online Halloween costumes in 1996, he figured he would give it a try.

Now, 10 years later, what started as an adult and children’s Halloween boutique has expanded into an online Halloween costume superstore offering costumes, costume accessories and Halloween decoration supplies. AnniesCostumes.com is part the Extreme Halloween Network -- 13 websites with seasonal and year-round costumes and costume-related merchandise.

“We’re so excited to be celebrating our 10th year selling online Halloween costumes,” said Shari McConahay, Vice President of Marketing for the Extreme Halloween Network. “We pride ourselves in offering quality costumes and great customer service. When customers buy from any one of our 13 Halloween websites they know they’ll be getting exactly what they ordered at an affordable price.”

Extreme Halloween Network strives to protect its customers with a safe and secure online Halloween costume shopping experience, is a member of the Better Business Bureau Online Reliability Program, the National Costumers Association and is a BizRate.com customer certified gold site. The company also recently expanded to a new 14,000 square foot warehouse to better serve its customers.

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Shop for Costumes in Your Own Language

The Extreme Halloween Network now has site translations for all 13 of the sites in its network. You can now browse or shop on our websites in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German & Japanese! See our translation page for links to the language of your choice. The Google Translator Tool is what we used to help us with these translations of our entire sites.

Extreme Halloween Network Announces New Multi-Tier Affiliate Marketing Opportunity

Ft. Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) September 19, 2006 -- Extreme Halloween Network today announced the launch of its new multi-tier affiliate marketing opportunity designed to reward partners for referring customers to the Extreme Halloween Network of sites. Prospective affiliates can get information about the Extreme Halloween Network top money making affiliate program online at www.extremehalloweennetwork.net/affiliateprogram.htm

Participation in the Extreme Halloween Network's top paying affiliate program is free. Extreme Halloween Network will reward top affiliates with payouts of up to 15% when a customer purchases costumes, makeup, theatrical supplies and other items for sale through Extreme Halloween's 13 sites.

"We're excited to launch this new top paying affiliate program and to share the profits directly with our partners," said Shari McConahay, Vice President of Marketing for the Extreme Halloween Network. "With our multi-tier affiliate marketing opportunity, affiliates can earn 10% on all sales, 12% when monthly sales reach $750 and 15% when monthly sales reach $2,500."

The Extreme Halloween Network is made up of 13 websites with seasonal and year-round costumes and costume-related merchandise. Affiliates have access to all of these websites with just one program. While AnniesCostumes.com is one of the most visited web sites during the months of September and October; the Extreme Halloween Network also has websites that cater to every other holiday, as well as year-round sales.

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StageandTheaterMakeup.com Introduces Kyolan Derma Color

StageandTheaterMakeup.com, one of the web's leading sources for theatrical makeup supplies, has added Kryolan Makeup's Derma Color product line. Derma Color and Derma Color Light are the leaders in hypoallergenic corrective makeup. These two brands of corrective makeup can easily camouflage a number of different skin imperfections. When properly applied, Derma Color can seemingly erase skin abnormalities of both color and texture caused by any number of things from scars, surgery, and even genetic skin disorders. Kryolan Derma Color is also a great tattoo cover up. Visit www.stageandtheatermakeup.com to see the selection and detailed instructions on Derma Color makeup application.

American Idol Halloween Costumes

There is one way to ensure your baby girl will be an American Idol: this Halloween she can wear an Official American Idol Halloween costume! This cute little number includes: the asymmetrical metallic top with the American Idol logo, pants and the ever important "contestant number". Available in two sizes for babies: size 0 - 6 months and size 12 - 18 months. Sells for $19.95.

Children's Halloween Costumes Get New Twist

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (PRWEB) September 12, 2006: Extreme Halloween Network & AnniesCostumes in the news: Children's Halloween Costumes Get New Twist.
3 in 1 costumes allow kids to change their look without having to buy new Halloween costumes. Buying new children's Halloween costumes every year can seem like a waste of time and money. However, with Halloween less than two months away, there's a new way to get more bang for your buck with a three-in-one costume that recycles the outfit without recycling the idea.That’s right, it’s three Halloween costumes for the price of one.Shari McConahay, Vice President of Marketing for leading Halloween Costume website www.anniescostumes.com, said these childrens Halloween costumes are the perfect solution for kids who have more than one Halloween event to go to.“It's a girls' prerogative to change her mind and now she can without having to run out and buy a new Halloween costume,” McConahay said, “These 3 in 1 costumes are also great for playing dress up girl games all year long.”These versatile new childrens Halloween costumes can be worn three different ways in one season or spread out over the year for three unique costumes on three different occasions. With only one Halloween costume, a lucky little girl can be a Princess, a Fairy or Zarina. Other 3 in 1 children’s Halloween costumes for girls include a Devil, Spanish Dancer and child Mouse costume in one and a Devil, Blue Witch or Orange Witch in another.These great costumes aren’t only for girls. Boy’s 3 in 1 costumes include a Cowboy, Indian, Peter Pan combo, a Ninja, Spanish Bandit and Cat or a Devil, Pirate and Vampire.For more 3 in one childrens Halloween costumes and other costume ideas for children, babies and adults, visit Annie’s Costumes at www.anniescostumes.com.

Elmo Baby Costume for Halloween

This adorable plush Elmo Baby Costume will make sure that your little one is not only cute this Halloween, but warm and cozy as well. Make your own Tickle-Me-Elmo out of your baby boy or baby girl. Babies and adults love this time honored Sesame Street character. Available online at www.AnniesCostumes.com. The costume includes the red plush bodysuit with front zipper and attached character hood. Available in two sizes: Size 0 - 6 months and Size 12 - 18 months. This Official, Licensed Sesame Street Costume sells for $37.95.

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Halloween Pumpkin Carvings

Pumpkin carving is as much fun as sprucing up in monstrous and spooky gears for the Halloween night. So much so that umpteen pumpkin carving contests are held all over the nation on Halloween. Kids get all gingered up to get the right tools for their Halloween pumpkin carving and make the best pumpkins ever ! The stores stock their shelves with special pumpkin carving tools too. You get the pumpkin carving tools like the Sawzall, jig-saw, scrapers, lid-cutter saws and so on.

Choose your pumpkins right. You’ll find green, white and orange pumpkins in the market. Get the right ones home. If you plan to carve out a mummy pumpkin, it’s best to go for white pumpkins and if a green ghoulish face is on your agenda, you’d of course pick the green ones. But orange pumpkins are the brightest and commonest for Halloween.

Halloween Gift Ideas

Add a little spook to the weather, carve out a pumpkin, get donned as a vampire or a super hero or a mummy and just bewitch your friends, family or beloved with some happening Halloween gifts ! Here are a bunch of Halloween gift ideas that are going to knock the socks off your folks this Halloween !

Getting your friend or sweetheart some candy ? Just get a colored paper gift bag and draw some spooky creature on it. Give it two beady eyes that glow in the dark. Put the candies wrapped in tissue paper in the bag and there you are -you just finished making one ‘evil’ bag of ‘goodies’ !

One of the fanciest Halloween gift ideas is the super hero costumes for the little kids. Young children dressed up like superman or batman make an adorable sight on Halloween. Young girls spruced up as witches or sorceresses are equally bewitching.

Wizard hats and other costume accessories like fake swords, devil’s forks are good Halloween gift ideas too. These will help the young ones stand out in the crowd and can easily make them the spotlight of any Halloween party. T-shirts with Jack O’ Lanterns printed on them, pumpkin tattoos, pumpkin or witches’ broom earrings are also peachy ideas for Halloween gifts and will help foster the Halloween look further.

Halloween Trivia

Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is the color of Fall, of harvest and black stands for death, decay and darkness.

Black cats are believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers. It’s also believed that witches sometimes move about in the guise of black cats.

If a person has a joint brow, hairy palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger, it indicates traces of a werewolf in him/ her.

For many decades, the United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF) has given out boxes to children so that they can collect money on Halloween. During the 1950's, some US public schools prohibited these boxes, because they suspected it to be a Communist plot.

An old belief in England is that the best time to spot fairies is between twilight and midnight with the best days Halloween (October 31), May Day, Midsummer Day (June 24), Lady Day (March 25) and Christmas (December 25).

The school board of Hillsborough NJ shuns all religious observances in its premises. They have replaced Halloween with a ‘Fall Festival’ and Valentine's Day with ‘Special Person Day’.

Halloween Treats

Guess what makes a Halloween recipe stand out ? Simple. It has to be yucky to the eyes and yummy to taste ! If you’ve achieved that, your Halloween recipes have just struck the right chord, because that’s exactly it. Any Halloween party table will be laid-out with edible human hearts or brains or may be a pumpkin pie topped with eyeballs to name a few. And you’ll surely beat back at the horrific Halloween fare at first glance. But then if you don’t dare to sink your teeth in, you miss out on the fun and the delectable Halloween recipes specially reserved for you. So whether you are the guest or the host on Halloween, keep your fangs ready to taste the recipes with gusto ! For one thing, you’ll remember the spooky relish forever.

Eye these Eyeballs
3 oz lemon gelatin (sugar-free will also do)
1 cup hot water1 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup tiny marshmallows
8 oz cream cheese (low-fat will also do)
1 cup mayonnaise (can be fat-free)

Mix lemon gelatin in 1 cup water in double boiler, add marshmallows and stir till it melts. Remove from heat. Add pineapple juice and cream cheese. Beat until it blends well. Cool it and fold in mayonnaise. If you have a round ice cube tray or truffle candy molds, pour the mixture in the molds and put it in the freezer to settle. Otherwise pour into a deep ceramic dish and chill until it is thick enough for scooping into eyeballs. Using a melon-baller, scoop out full balls of the mixture and set aside for decoration. For decoration, use liquid food coloring and paint creatively on them with a paintbrush. Use black food coloring for the pupils.

Halloween Party Invitations and Party Decorations

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Halloween is a time to have a frightfully fun celebration with spooky Halloween decorations and fa-boo-lous Halloween parties ! Now if you’re a party animal, Halloween’s your day to have a total fling. And to pep up your party spirits, here are some Halloween party Invitation ideas for you .

The first step of all party planning begins with the right invitations. Creative and apt invitation cards will help set the right mood for your Halloween party. A bat-shaped invitation, a bare-jawed wolf, a haunted house or may be some cute Jack O’ Lanterns glowing in the warmth of your cordiality will tune your folks into the Halloween fever. Alternatively you can send hand-made invitation cards with personalized freaky messages. Design the party invitations totally on your own in any Halloween shape possible keeping in mind the theme for your Halloween party.
Halloween decorations are great fun to indulge in, so anyone would probably love to share the spooky spirit of hanging plastic spiders all around or laying a webby table-cloth for your Halloween party or sticking paper skeletons in the walls. If your guests fall in the adult age-group, you can get a little adventurous and weave a horrific Halloween décor
The front steps of your house or the front porch would look just great on Halloween with an entire family of Jack O’ Lanterns staring at whoever enters, won’t they ?

You can let helium-filled balloons with spooky faces drawn on them float all around the Halloween party area or you can cover them with fluorescent papers and stick them on the floor of your Halloween party room with long strings to create the effect of ghosts and monsters all lurking about the party people in a festal perkiness.The carved pumpkins indeed make a good show for Halloween parties and are great choices for Halloween decorations too. Then for an adult party decoration, you can fix a bucket of fake snakes and lizards above the door in such a way that the creepy critters fall all over as soon as your Halloween party ‘victim’ enters the freak-zone of the Halloween party !

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Best of Halloween Costumes Ideas

Typical Halloween costumes have traditionally been monsters such as vampires, ghosts, witches, and devils. If you are looking for a new way to experience Halloween, all you need is a love for Halloween and a desire for fun, and there will be many things you can contribute to a haunted house, hayride, walk-through, or any other type of haunted attraction. Why be the same old plain ghost? Some unique costume ideas I came across while searching in a few Halloween websites that I can suggest are:

Frank Einstein: Get a Frankenstein mask and attach an Albert Einstein wig, spray the wig with green hair color and wear a lab coat with pocket protector, pens, etc.

The Umpire: Wear an umpire outfit. Rip some holes in the clothes. Place fake scars, bruises and blood where skin is showing.

Static Cling: Wear any kind of mismatched clothes, pin one pant leg up, pin dryer sheets on you as well as socks, small towels, etc., and then use hair gel to make your hair look like it has static.

Catcher in the Rye: Find a set of (baseball) catcher's gear and wear it. Then take a clear garbage bag, and draw or glue labels on it to duplicate a bread bag from a loaf of rye bread. Cut holes for your legs, arms and face, and put it on over the catching equipment. Twist tie the bag on top.

Blood Sucking Attorney: Dress in business suit, and carry a brief case. Wear vampire makeup and fake vampire teeth. Pass out business cards that say "B. Sucking, Attorney-at-Law."

Pirate: Form a fake wooden leg by wrapping your bad one in brown felt. Wear sailor pants or jeans with a striped top. Tie a bandanna around your head, wear an eye patch, carry an empty

bottle marked XXX (for the "rum") and mutter "aargh" a lot. Ask for "Trick or treat, !"

Cereal Killer: Attach little cereal boxes to a shirt, cut a slit in the boxes, glue in plastic knives into the holes, drip red paint running down from the knife hole in the box.

Halloween Tricks and Treats

The main event of modern US-style Halloween is ‘trick-or-treating’, in which children dress up in costume disguises and go door-to-door in their neighborhood, ringing each doorbell and yelling "trick or treat!". The occupants of the house will then hand out small candies, miniature chocolate bars or other treats. Tricks play less of a role in modern Halloween, though Halloween night is often marked by vandalism such as soaping windows, egging houses or stringing toilet paper through trees. Casting flour into the faces of feared neighbors was also done once upon a time.

Halloween History and Origin

Halloween has its history and origin way back in antiquity, in the Celtic New Year’s festival Samhain. Now Halloween and its various aspects have evolved over time. If you’re interested in digging out the roots of Halloween in detail, you got to read its history and origin.

Now today's Halloween isn't the same as it was 2000 years ago. The history and origin of Halloween lie way back in centuries in the ancient Celtic New Year's festival, Samhain So much so that the customs of today’s Halloween are also rooted in the ancient customs of the Celts during Samhain, which was said to mark the end of Summer. Samhain, the Celtic New Year was celebrated every year on October 31—the day, which the Celts believed, was a day of the rise of the dead, when the deceased would wander the land to possess earthly souls. To keep these spirits at bay, the Celts dressed up as ghouls and monsters and put out all lights in their homes. With that, they ventured out as mischievous and wayward undoers willfully wantoning peace and property. The Celtic priests or Druids also built bonfires on this day and offered sacrifices. The idea behind all these was, of course, to scare away the spirits of the dead and avoid being “possessed” ! Now if you're brainy enough, it won't be hard for you to guess that the modern tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween traces back to this ancient Celtic practice !

Welcome to Halloween for all

It's Halloween ! Time to shock and chill out your friends. Nothing gets more scary then this . Fasten your seat belts and ger ready to get scared .The spooks are flying 'n the ghouls are haunting everyone to a frightful fun time

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