Celebrate the Day of the Dead with your OWN Sugar Skulls!

TGIF! I've never been one to know much about the Day of the Dead celebration. A friend of mine is hosting a swap celebrating this event, which is also part of her heritage. I did a search for images and found the greatest website. Click the photos and you'll be transported right to it. It's just FUN! They sell funky day of the dead skeletons, chocolate & sugar molds...I want a sugar Frida skull!! For those of you who might not know...and I'm probably going to get this wrong...but, from what I understand, the Day of the Dead is NOT some demonic, gross, yucky celebration. It's a time when the living celebrate the lives of their loved ones who are no longer living. There is a big celebration celebrating these lost loved ones. I read that they often have big "pot luck" dinners, parties, etc at the burial sights...*read: graveyard* and it's NOT spooky...it's not at midnight with lit candles and whoopie goldberg doing a little "communicating"...it's just celebrating the lives of those who they can no longer touch. oxox

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[Rubber-Sol]

I used to live in México, and for Día de los Muertos, we went to a cemetary in the evening. It's not as spooky ooky as one might think. It was actually very spiritual, and it was nice to know that people were celebrating deceased one's lives, not deaths. And you're right, people bring food and other ofrendas (offerings) for the dead. The sugar skulls (calaveras) are also offerings that people leave out too.

[naomi]

...gosh I'm glad you explained that cuz I've always wondered what it was all about and of course remembering and celebrating your loved and important ones is so special.