Halloween Date Night In

Each week, hubby and I try to carve out

time away from electronics and interruptions

to catch up on life, just be together and have fun!

"Dating" your spouse is key to

a good marriage. 

Last night I came up with a fun 

Halloween themed "Date Night In"

All you need is the following:

Beverage of Choice (ours was wine :)

Haunted Gingerbread House Kit 

(found mine at Target)

Photo Credit

 Snacks

If you have time, maybe bake or stop

and get your sweetie their favorite treat.

My sweetie loves mint so I made him

MINT BROWNIES.  

 

I decorated the bottle of wine

and wrapped it up like a mummy somewhat like this:

Photo Credit Here - I was too busy having fun on my "date" to take photos!

Then we put together the House.....

Hilarious.

It doesn't take much effort and you

can surprise your sweetie with some fun!

I highly recommend it!!

FYI: 

I just LOVE the website

The Dating Divas....it is full of awesome

date ideas that are sure to inspire. Check it out!

    

         

Pumpkin Poop!! Easy Halloween Treat + Printables

PUMPKIN POOP!!

Here is the EASIEST and QUICKEST

Halloween "appetizer" that everyone will love!

I mean...who doesn't LOVE cheeseballs??!!

Silence.  Thought so. 

The poem is not my creation but the printable sure is, so if you

want a copy of the file email me (better to print in my opinion) or right click on the image below and copy/paste into word. 

Sophia will be handing out these little Pumpkin Poop 

goodie bags at school this week. HILARIOUS!!

I have a generic bag topper for use as well, so let me know!

I tried to find the original person who created this clever poem but was unable to pin it down, so if anyone has the credit - let me know!!!!!   

Looking for some other FUN and EASY Halloween Treats and Crafts?  Check out my previous posts!

Googley Eyed Monster Cupcakes

POST HERE

No Bake Skeleton Puzzle Cookie

POST HERE

Starlight Mint Eyeballs

POST HERE

Mint Oreo Witch Legs

POST HERE

Brains in a Jar Halloween Dinner

(aka cornbread, meatloaf and mashed potatoes) 

POST HERE

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Heaven through the eyes of an 8yr old girl......

Last night we had a fun family

movie night which involved snuggles on the couch.

As we started to clean up dinner, my daughter

noticed the sunset out of our patio window. 

She ran over and got her ipad to take

a photo....she was so inspired. 

I asked her to send me the photo and this is

what she sent me (her dad and others).............

Glorious Heaven.

  

We are definitely doing

  something right.......

Heaven is Glorious indeed, Sophia.
It is a place of NEW, not ENDS.
A place of Wonder, Magic and New LIFE! 

      And YOU are my HEAVEN on EARTH.  

         (I think that iPad just paid for itself!!)        

 

Pinterest Inspired Halloween Crafts & Sweets ~ Memories with my daughter!

I love Pinterest...I really do.

I get so inspired.

I took a couple of days off of work

this week as it is fall break for my daughter.

We invited a couple of friends over and 

had a Halloween Craft Extravaganza!!

Here are some of the fun things we did, most

of the inspiration came from my Halloween Pinterest Board.
Some projects actually DO work out!!

Halloween Footprint Flying Witch!!

Inspiration can be found Here at Sweet and Lovely Crafts! 

FLAMIN BROOM!!

One of Sophias' friends added some FLAMES to 

her witch broom.....OH YA!

 

We also decorated our drinking cups. 

I had a bunch of googley eyes to put all

over the cup, but they wanted to make happy faces!

I guess that says a lot...they are happy girls! 

I got the straws at the Dollar Tree.

Then we made these CUTE skeleton Graham Crackers

So easy for little hands!

Inspiration from Party Pinching! 

This was MY idea....we decorated white

pillow cases with fabric makers to use

as Trick or Treat Halloween bags!  This was a HIT!

 Next we put together these cute guys!!

The girls just LOVED doing this.  It was

quick and easy and they just giggled like crazy.

I know the packaging here is LAME but I ran out

of orange ribbon so I just used what I had on hand to

send it home with them. Who cares! We had FUN!

Inspiration from HERE!!!

And LAST but not LEAST, I took the 

girls to see Hotel Transylvania.  It rocked.

FUN!

What a great day off of WORK and SCHOOL. 

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BRAINS IN A JAR - HALLOWEEN DINNER IDEA!

BRAINS IN A JAR FOR DINNER!!

Ok, well not exactly.....

More like meatloaf, potatoes and cornbread in jar!

Remember those awesome

desserts by Kristin @ 

Confessions of a Cookbook Queen

she made for Amy @ Living Locurto last year??

If not you HAVE to check it out HERE! 

I was inspired to tweak the idea and

make a fun Halloween Dinner for my family!

So I baked up some cornbread (Jiffy box)

Whipped up some meatloaf

And made some mashed taters out of the box!

(Note, I did use a drop of "copper/flesh" americolor

food coloring to the potatoes but not totally necessary)  

Now onto the easy assembly!

Shove some cornbread in bottom of mason jar.

Next cut out some meatloaf and place on top of bread.

Then pipe your taters on as the 'brains"

So what you will need:

Mashed Taters

Cornbread

Meatloaf

Piping bag with tip or use ziploc bag w/ corner cut

Mason Jar

Copper/Flesh colored food coloring or Pink with a touch of Black

Serve with RED BLOOD JUICE!

FUN!!

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No Bake Skeleton Puzzle Cookies + Halloween Treat Bag Topper!!

NO BAKE

SKELETON PUZZLE COOKIE + TREAT BAG TOPPER!

I just loved the skeleton cookies I saw
made by one of my favorite gals, Sue
at Munchkin Munchies but time is tight so
I came up with a fun No BAKE way 
to make this happen for my little "ghoul"!!!

This is what you need:

*Nabisco 100 calorie Oreo Thins

*Marshmallows

*Black Edible Food Writer

*Frosting (either royal icing or buttercream)

 *A way to pipe the frosting either by

placing in a ziploc bag and cutting the tip

or using a piping bag and a size 1 or 2 piping tip. 

Either way will work just great!

 

Pipe your white frosting on the cookies 

as you see here, or any way you want!

Now have your super cute ghoul

arrange the bones in order!!

HOW HUMERUS!  (ok, sorry that was lame....)

I think it would be so fun to put these into a
treat bag with this cute Treat Bag Topper I made
from PicMonkey.  This was my FIRST try at making treat bag toppers myself and it was fun.  

The only way I could have done it was with a 
great tutorial from  The Barefoot Baker HERE! 
Stop by and check it out!

You can copy and paste from BELOW into word and print
or email me for the file, I think it prints/looks better 
with the original file, honestly.

No Bones about it...Happy Halloween!

 

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Persimmon Tree Tea Giveaway + Honey Nut Endive Savory for Tea Party Tuesday!

Persimmon Tree Tea 

for Tea Party Tuesday!

I just LOVE the handle on my new cup!!!

It has been a long time since I have 

posted for Tea Party Tuesday, but I am

back this week with a fun little giveaway.

I am so excited to present an amazing

organic tea as well as a lovely fall savory 

that is so easy to prepare, looks elegant & tastes divine!

As many of us tea enthusiasts know,  
The Persimmon Tree Tea Company

 always offers the most favorable, 
decadent tasting tea varieties around! 
And, they are all 100% organic - how wonderful!!

The tea I chose to sample was a white tea called
Coconut Creme'.  The aroma and flavor was quite lovely.
Just PERFECT for fall. 

My husband asked what I was baking when I steeped this

amazing tea as the aromatic scent filled our house.

If you leave a comment you will be entered to win

a tea of your own choosing, just visit their site by clicking HERE, and let me know what flavor you would enjoy to try!

The Persimmon Tree Tea Company was nice enough

to send this sample to me for no cost, but I am sponsoring

the giveaway because I just was very impressed with their tea.

I paired this yummy tea with a
Honey Nut Endive Savory that
was just out of this world tasty!!

Savory Honey Nut on Endive

For the easy recipe click HERE!

It is a wonderful mix of pine nuts, bacon,
Gorgonzola cheese, honey, walnuts and raisins. 

So YUMMY. 

Have a great week. 

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