Wednesday 31 October 2012

Happy Halloween

Just a short post to wish you all a Happy Halloween / Blessed Samhain and show you a few of the things we have been doing. We have brought in our Halloween tree, this is usually made from some spooky looking sticks which the children decorate.


I had to squeeze it on the window ledge between our ginger and turmeric plants that we have been growing. It looked a little sparse so we thought we would make a few extra decorations, one of these was a twig star.


As you can see in the photograph these are very easy to make, I have used some small twigs saved from when my husband pruned a shrub recently and copper wire. Any wire or string would do, I have used copper wire as we seem to have loads of it about, my husband saves it from broken appliances to use in craft projects. If you are interested in salvaging your own copper wire you can read about it at the bottom of this post.


The twigs are just tied in the shape of a star and hung on a piece of thread onto the Halloween tree. We also made some ghostly cupcakes.... my daughter thought they looked really cute. We added blueberries to our cake mixture to represent 'eye of newt' and desiccated coconut for 'bat toe nail clippings'. The ghost shape is just formed from icing. Very tasty.


We have been really busy and my husband has been doing some crafts too for Mexico's day of the dead (Día de los Muertos),  If you would like to see his sugar skulls, cupcakes and pumpkins you can read here. They look really cool.



6 comments:

  1. I did, they do, and I'd love a cupcake! lol

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    1. LOL... if there were any left I would have sent one over :)

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  2. They look great!

    Question - what's your attitude to pinterest? I'm trying to publicise blogs I enjoy but don't want to do it in ways ppl don't want. Pinterest is supposed to be a big driver of traffic, but does have some copyright issues. Thoughts? (Would appreciate if you'd tweet me a yay or nay as I don't know when I'll be passing by again ;) )

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  3. Love your halloween decorations. :)
    We tend to celebrate Día de los Muertos rather than halloween so am heading off to look at your husbands blog.

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    1. Thank-you, we have done both this year....many decorations around the house :)

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