FINAL REVEAL: Our Labyrinth Christmas Party Video!

For those who aren't sick of hearing about it yet, good news! I finally have all our photos and videos together to show you EVERYTHING John and I made for our big Labyrinth Christmas party earlier this month.

And for those who ARE sick of hearing about it: good news! This should be my final Labyrinth party post. 

So come on in!

 

And here's our big video tour:

One thing NOT included there is the food, and I think you'll appreciate our oh-so-punny menu:

 

 (We originally planned to serve "Jareth's (Meat)Balls in Junk Lady's Chunky Gravy," but our friends Thom & Jess brought Ludo's Tasty Rock Friends instead, which were indeed tasty, and also more family-friendly, ha.)

 Our bog punch was delicious, if I do say so myself:

 

We made it with ginger ale, frozen OJ concentrate, a little Blue Curacao, and floating lime sherbet. Then for an extra brackish color we added a drop of red food coloring.

Here comes my favorite punny creation:

 

Those are dates stuffed with goat cheese and almonds, and let me tell you, gang, they were DELISH. Considering we made them purely for the pun, I was delighted by how quickly they disappeared.

And finally, the star of the table:

These stunning peach cookies tasted as good as they looked! Our friends Kevin and Katie made them using this tutorial, then hollowed out each half slightly so they could fit more peach jam.

Now let me throw some pretty detail shots at you from around the house. Starting with the Bubble Ballroom Photo Opp:

 This area was especially dreamy in low light.

 Here's a reminder of how it looked while we took photos:

 If you missed it, be sure to check out my post on all our guests' costumes here.

Most of the front room wasn't very Labyrinth-y, but I want to show off my Christmas decorations anyway:

 Now let's head through the wall into the Goblin Room, which is very VERY Labyrinth-y:

 We had real pots hanging inside the fireplace, so the fire illusion was pretty convincing! The throne room clock with its dagger hands is overhead, and there's a crystal ball inside the garland.

There are more of Jareth's crystal bubbles in each of the two window wreaths. Here's a daylight shot so you can see them better:

 

 Those are just glass Christmas balls with the tops removed, hot-glued together to form a pyramid.

The goblins' Christmas tree has eyeballs like the Labyrinth's eye lichen. It's decorated with a cannonball goblin topper, swords, daggers, helmets, and lots of Jareth's necklace pendants:

The weaponry and armor are all kids' sized Halloween accessories from Walmart and the dollar store:

 

 The tree is sitting in a giant cauldron - the same one we usually use for our Harry Potter party:

 On the other side of the room is our goblin suit of armor:

 

And of course in the back of the room is my beloved Junk Lady, Agnes:

 I completely understand that she's nightmare fuel, but I love this grumpy gal more than I can say. Thanks to her John and I met Karen Prell and Brian Henson, and before that we won Best in Show at MegaCon, which has to be one of the top ten moments of my entire life for sheer joy. She represents all good things to me: love and laughter and hard work and falling on John's neck crying happy tears.

So yep, I love my dear Agnes, and it made me so happy to have her out of the garage and whole again for this party.

 Right, moving on, here's a tiny detail I think maybe one person noticed:

 

"It's so stimulating being your head."

 This back table has a color-changing potion, a Skyrim goblin(?) dragon, and a mosaic lantern:

 

 

The hashtag lives!

Now let's head through the french doors onto the deck:

I took some shots at dusk so you could see it better. Because we had about 35 party-goers (and a 1400 square foot house!), it was essential that a lot of folks were out here at all times. The deck could comfortably seat about 20 people, so it worked out really well.

 

I love this shot.

Beauty pics of Jareth's throne:

(The throne now lives at Jareth's house, btw! I'm so glad; it would have been awful to tear it apart.)

Here's the setup at night:

 It never got cold enough for a fire, sadly, but the twinkle lights were lovely.

These next two are not my photos; I stole them from some of our guests: 

I'm actually still editing a lot of our guests' photos, since we took so many! Eventually I'll post them all in my Flickr gallery, so watch that space.

I haven't shown the Toby Toss target waaaaaaay overhead in the purple tree's canopy yet, which was all lit with green flicker lights:

 "Toby Toss" was a hilarious hit, pun intended. We required everyone to actually catch the baby on the way down, so there was minimal fall-out damage - and Toby only landed on the roof 2 or 3 times. :D

Our other party game inside was just as hilarious, but more NSFW:

 Yes, you had to throw the blue balls into Jareth's... pouch. Which was stretchy.

(HI MOM & DAD! See what you missed?)

Ahem.

Speaking of general hilarity, let's head into our Bog of Eternal Stench for a few detail shots:

Ludo's Rock Friend is made of stacked pink insulation foam:

 

 On the walls we have Sir Didymus' favorite sayings:

As well as a portrait of Didymus himself with his noble steed, Ambrosius:

 (That's an original James Hance I've had for years, y'all. Of course it has a place of honor!)

Over the toilet I made this official certificate:

"Prince of the Land of Stench, as decreed by Jareth, King of the goblins, in punishment of an unwarranted act of friendship"

Over on the cabinet we have a boggy Christmas tree, a giant toad, and a leafy bog monster:

This is a handmade plush from The Monster Cafe - I think it's called a Tiggy Willow?

 

Seems appropriately swampy, right? And she's sitting on another pink insulation rock.

And last but not least, can't forget our monstrous Christmas tree!

His face cracks me up every time.

 Believe it or not, there's still a little more, gang. o.0

While not as elaborate as last year's Harry Potter Escape Room, we did put together a Sarah's (Escape) Room challenge. Here's a look at the playing area:

It was fun filling out the shelves with all our 80s-era plushes and toys! We only had to buy a few things at the thrift store; most of this we already owned.  (I joked with John that it was a little too easy to turn his game room into a 14-year-old girl's bedroom. :D)

The other side of the room:

It's not Labyrinth themed, I just thought you'd like to see. :p

Here's the Firey plush we made using Kristi's free template:

 And of course we had the Hogwarts mascots tucked around the room as an Easter egg from last year's party.

Rather than walk you through it with photos we put together another quick video, have a look:

Like I said, it's not super elaborate, but given how quickly we had to put it together I'm pretty pleased. Next year I hope to start a lot sooner, so we can do more!

 And that, my friends, is finally a wrap on our Labyrinth Christmas party. Thanks for being patient and coming along for the ride! I hope it gave you as many smiles and giggles as it did for us.

Now, do me a favor, and always remember:

You remind me of the babe.

*****

This is far too appropriate of a time to link one of my favorite tees:

Babe with the Power t-shirt