Busy day! Story time and a costume parade for my baby at the library this morning. My Halloween episode of Mom Time TV airs in just a few minutes (you can catch the uncut version at momtimetv.com, later, if you miss it). And tonight I am teaching a class on Thanksgiving Tips and Tricks for the ladies at my church tonight. If you want a preview of what I will be showing them and talking about, you can click here to see my past Thanksgiving posts.
But before we get to Thanksgiving, there is Halloween to celebrate this weekend! I have to get a few things to finish up our family costumes for this year. But considering my current state of health and everything else going on, I am glad it is my friend that is hosting a Halloween party (not me) and all I really need to worry about are costumes (mostly done), and a dessert to bring to her party.
There have been lots of fun ideas on the web for Halloween this year, but only a couple have really caught my attention and almost made me want to host so that I could use these ideas:
These amazing candy apples found here, are breathtaking. I don’t know if it is just how they are photographed, but they are so creepy and stylish at the same time. If I can find small enough apples, I am considering taking these to the party on Sat., but I’m afraid that may be a little too ambitious for this year. My other front runner is the brain cupcakes from Martha Stewart. What would you do?
The other project I thought was amazing is this spider web placemat from Eddie Ross (Edit: Oops! I was crediting Matthew Mead for this placemat. It is actually from Eddie Ross. They both have brilliant ideas). It looks expensive and fancy, but he makes them out of paper and glitter. Very doable, and again, that elegant kind of creepy that I am drawn to. I can almost imagine a dinner party with these and my walls lined with Halloween trees, like the one I put out front…
…each tree filled with dollar store birds (that I can’t find at my dollar store any more), and bats dangling at different heights from the ceilings. Almost, is the operative word, here, this year. Maybe next year!
For more party inspiration you might want to look at these posts:
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Hi. Those candy apples look great. I'm going to make for the Halloween party two recipes I found on the internet recently. They are Halloween chocolate cupcakes and Halloween pumpkin pie. I'm little bit afraid because I haven't tried these recipes yet. But I know that at least my husband will be satisfied because he loves any kind of cupcakes.
Happy Halloween,
Ella
Wow – those apples are really creepy looking but elegant at the same time. It's one of those things that leaves me saying, "how do they do that?!?!"
LOve the apples! How did they do that?