I recently went to a fantastic sugar skull decorating party hosted by a coworker with excellent taste in music. While giving my skull a pretzel crown, I heard Swedish sisters First Aid Kit playing out of the stereo, and was hooked. So much, in fact, that I have plans to quite this whole museum-thing I’ve got going and start an alternative bluegrass band. Want to join me?
“Walk the Line” – First Aid Kit (Johnny Cash cover)
“You’re Not Coming Home Tonight” – First Aid Kit
“None of the Above” – Paper Bird
“Ohio” – Dala (Neil Young cover)
Hold the phone. You can’t just toss out ‘sugar skull decorating party’ and ‘pretzel crown’ and then veer off into tunes. I demand an explanation for these wacky antics.
Well, we decorated sugar skulls in the spirit of Dia de los Muertos. My coworker is pretty fantastic, and she made the skulls herself using sugar, meringue powder and skull molds. Along with a mustache and some sparkly sideburns, my skull also had a crown made out of broken pieces of pretzels. I’d show you a photo, but The Rocket Scientist ate most of the evidence already.
http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/sugar_skulls/
THIS IS A THING THAT PEOPLE DO!??!?! I have been missing out for 28 years. I love me a good skeleton, especially the skull part (it is always grinning!), and I like to decorate things with other things. Ok so what else does one decorate with besides tiny pretzel crowns? How do you get the sparkly sideburns? Shoot me an email or something, yo. I am surriously doing this next year, lack of Mexican heritage be damned.