Archives for October 2010

The Tricks to Making Treats (Halloween cupcakes)

I’ve been looking for some great, unique ideas for cupcakes to take the the church Halloween party this year. I found some of the best ideas here: My friend Stephanie, recently filmed this appearance on a local TV show sharing some ideas for awesome fall cupcakes. I’ve got the stuff to make the chicken bone […]

Brooklyn Baby, A unique baby shower

I know it’s Halloween, and all, but there are still other things (too many things!) to blog about like this unique baby shower I threw for my sister-in-law this weekend, the furniture makeover project that is nearly completed (featuring the Dutch Boy paint that they were so gracious to send me some time back), and […]

Wendy’s Pick 2 Giveaway and Sneak Peek

I wish I could have you believe that I never eat lunch that doesn’t come out of a perfectly adorned picnic basket or a cleverly arranged bento box, but alas there are no magical mealtime fairies that live in my house. The truth is, I find myself pulling up to drive thrus, more often than […]

Hauntings of Halloween’s Past

Today over at the CSI Project, they are having a Halloween-themed challenge, judged by the always-amazing Stephanie of A Brooklyn Limestone.  She has incredible ideas for Halloween (in addition to the amazing renovating and decorating she does)!  Go here and scroll down to see some of them, like this creature survival kit that she actually […]

Costume Parade Parade — Fabulous Family Costumes

Pt. II I love all of you, who like me, go a little crazy about a family costume theme.  It is hard to orchestrate, but very impactful when you walk in to the party as a group!  If you are still working on coming up with a family theme for this year, maybe one of […]

Costume Parade Parade — Clever kids’ costumes

It’s time to Parade some of my favorite costumes from the Costume Parade Party!  They were really all fantastic, so you should go back there and visit them all, but in the meantime, I wanted to show you some of the ideas that caught my eye.  Since there were so many great ideas, I’m breaking […]

Festive FYI’s

Hey, Arizona peeps! Blogger and local party planner Michelle, has just opened her own party boutique in Glendale.  She is having a big Grand Opening party tomorrow (probably today by the time you read this) and asked me to help spread the word.  I’m hoping to drop by with my crew to check out what […]

My Halloween Mantle and other creepy decor

My Halloween mantle this year is brought to you courtesy of the creative people in blogland (and some Hobby Lobby and Target Clearance items). The “Eat Drink and Be Scary” download is from Craftily Ever After who also has some other fun download options.  It adds a fun punch of orange to my mostly black […]

Freeze Tag

You remember that post a little bit ago about how life happens?  Well, life keeps happening to me.  The latest in my series of unfortunate events (my daughter loves those book, btw), is that the breaker to our chest freezer somehow got tripped, and instead of a freezer we basically had a large ice chest.  Fortunately, […]

Hello Hanna Winner

It rained today, and the thermometer never hit the triple-digit mark! Finally, I feel like I can decorate and work on Halloween projects, and actually got some fun ones done today! But I cannot share anything like that with you yet, because my computer is very ill. I thought it was a goner, but it […]