Costumes • Cocktails • Pets • Delicious Things • A Deliciously Fun Life

Halloween understands something the rest of the calendar occasionally forgets:

Grown-ups need to play, too.

Wear something ridiculous. Dress the dog. Put eyeballs on perfectly respectable food. Drink sparkling water, cider, coffee — or a grown-up beverage — out of something wildly inappropriate.

Nobody gets to ask questions.

It's Halloween.

Welcome to Nomad Essentials, my collection of things I love, things I've discovered and things so magnificently unnecessary that somebody simply needs to own them.

Let's go shoppingIf you're accompanying the trick-or-treating expedition, you need provisions.

The children have buckets.

We have glassware.

For the porch or Halloween party, I love ridiculously dramatic skeleton hands, skulls and gothic stemware.

💀 Skeleton Hand Champagne Flutes
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☠️ Skull Wine Goblets
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🍸 Skeleton Martini Glasses
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If you're actually walking around the neighborhood, perhaps we don't take Grandma's crystal.

🦴 Unbreakable Halloween Goblets
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Because Halloween is fun.

An emergency-room deductible is considerably less festive.

☕ DON'T FORGET THE CAULDRON

Not everybody wants wine.

A cold Halloween night practically begs for hot cider, cocoa, chai or coffee.

And naturally it tastes better when you're drinking it out of a human skull.

That's science.*

💀 Skull Coffee Mugs
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🧙 Cauldron Mugs
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🎃 Vintage Pumpkin Mugs
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*It is absolutely not science.

This Halloween, the Fairy Pet Mother will be spending some time in Berkeley with the ridiculously adorable Malcolm X.

Which means Malcolm needs a costume.

Obviously.

The trick with dog costumes is finding something that's funny when the dog moves.

🕷️ Spider Dog

Eight furry legs + one confused dog = comedy.

Find spider dog costumes on Amazon

🤠 Tiny Cowboy Riding the Dog

The dog runs.

The cowboy bounces.

I don't make the rules.

Find cowboy rider dog costumes on Amazon

🦁 The Instant Lion

One furry mane. Ten seconds of preparation.

MGM.

Find lion-mane dog costumes on Amazon

And if you'd rather browse according to the actual creature living in your house:

🐶 Small-dog Halloween costumes
🐕 Medium-dog Halloween costumes
🐕‍🦺 Large-dog Halloween costumes

🐾 A Fairy Pet Mother Reminder

The joke ends when the animal isn't having fun.

Nothing should interfere with breathing, vision, hearing, walking or bathroom access. Watch anything dangling that can be chewed or swallowed.

If your dog absolutely hates costumes?

Put on the hat. Take the picture. Pay the model in cheese. Release the talent.

🐈 EXCUSE ME. THE CAT WOULD LIKE A WORD.

We haven't forgotten you.

Although judging by your expression, you wish we had.

🐈‍⬛ Browse Halloween costumes for cats on Amazon

May God have mercy upon whoever attempts to put the tiny witch hat on you.

👻 COMING FROM THE NOMAD KITCHEN

We're cooking our way toward Halloween, and I've already got some experiments planned.

Coming this season:

🍕 Monster Pizza Pockets
👁️ Mozzarella Eyeball Bites
👻 Pink & White Ghost Cookies
🕷️ Black Widow Baked Brie
🦐 Golden Demon Shrimp Toast
🌙 Midnight Mushroom & Gruyère Hand Pies
💜 The Purple Potion Cocktail & Mocktail
💀 A Halloween Tiki Cocktail

Stay tuned.

🐆 HALLOWEEN, THE NOMAD WAY

This Halloween we're playing with:

🧡 Burnt orange
🩷 Vintage pink
🤍 Cream
🖤 Black
✨ Gold
🐆 Leopard print

Add amber glass, fairy wings, black cats, atomic stars, tiki skulls, candles and a little old-Hollywood cocktail glamour.

Basically:

A Palm Springs cocktail lounge accidentally opened a portal to the underworld.

Perfect.

🎃 LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY

Halloween gives grown-ups something we don't get nearly enough of:

Permission to play.

Dress up.

Dress the dog.

Make something delicious.

Turn on the music.

Invite somebody over.

Compliment the six-year-old dinosaur.

And carry something completely unreasonable to drink from.

The children have their buckets.

You have your goblet.

Happy Halloween from Nomad Essentials, The Nomad Kitchen & The Fairy Pet Mother.

Love • Music • Food • Art • Fun

Tré Taylor
tretaylor.com

Shopping note: These are simply things I'm having fun discovering and sharing. Links are not currently sponsored or affiliate links. Products and availability can change — especially during Halloween season.