Frankencups

For Halloween, draw faces on cups with a black Sharpie. Add vanilla pudding tinted with green food coloring. Crush some Oreo's to sprinkle on top of the pudding. Frankencups! - cute

 

Billie C.

Every day, when I wake up, I give thanks that I have been given another day to enjoy my life.

Glow-in-the-dark Cupcakes

This is from the Better Recipes website...

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Glow-in-the-dark Cupcakes


Servings: 24
Prep Time: 30 min
30 minutes
Cook Time: 20 min
20 minutes
Total Time: 50 min
50 minutes
Ingredients:

1 Recipe of Your Favorite Cupcakes, baked and cooled

Frosting:

1 cup Real Butter

4 - 6 cups Powdered Sugar

5 Tbsp Tonic Water

1-2 Tbsp Vanilla

Glow-in-the-dark Icing Dip:

1 Small Box Lime Jello

1 cup Boiling Water

1 cup Tonic Water

Directions:

Prepare your favorite cupcake recipe (I use red velvet for Halloween.)
Frosting:
Beat butter until smooth, gradually add powdered sugar alternately with the 5 Tbsp. tonic water. Stir in vanilla. (Frosting should be stiff for these cupcakes.) Frost the Cupcakes, using lots of icing and swirling to make high peaks. Place the frosted cupcakes in freezer until ready to dip.
Glow-in-the-Dark Icing Dip:
Mix jello and boiling water, stir 2 minutes until dissolved. Add the 1 cup of tonic water and stir. Place the bowl of jello in a large bowl of ice water and stir until jello is cool to the touch. Continue to stir. You want the jello to cool down, but not begin to set up. When the jello is cool to the touch, remove it from the ice water.
Remove a couple cupcakes at a time from the freezer and dip in jello mixture.
Place the dipped cupcakes back in freezer; repeat this dipping and freezing process 4-6 times.
To serve, display your Cupcakes under a black light for an extra glow.

Helpful Tips:
Be sure to stir the jello each time and watch it so it doesn't start setting up. If it does get thick, dipping the cupcake 4 times will work as well, but 6 is better.

 

Billie C.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen ~ G. K. Chesterton

Check out Preschool Crafts for Kids*: Halloween Spider Lollipop Craft

Preschool Crafts for Kids*: Halloween Spider Lollipop Craft

 

Billie C.

Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice ~ Steve Jobs<

Chocolate spider cookies

 

Billie C.

making suncatchers

A while ago I posted in my crafts newsletter about making suncatchers by melting pony beads.. and how I wanted to try it. I finally got around to doing that this past weekend. (after a reminder that I had said I wanted to try it) and Well my results are intresting.

I put my table top oven outside because, well, let's face it, melting plastic stinks.

 

I started off with just some random colors.  But I changed my mind and just picked out a few colors to work with. I went with yellow, blut purple orange clear and red or pink. I had bought some black beads as well, to see why they said only use the clear ones.. Well they are sun catchers so you want to sun to shine through, I wanted to be able to do outlines and black beads will do just that.

 

 

Here they are just going into my oven

 

 

 

 

All melted

 

and all done and cooled again

 

 

I'm going to save these for Halloween  and hang them in my front window.

Billie C.

Check out Pringles Can Crafts For Halloween | Rustic Crafts & Chic Decor

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Billie C.

HALLOWEEN WREATH

http://www.rookno17.com/2009/10/boutique-chic-diy-cheap-series.html

 

BOUTIQUE CHIC DIY CHEAP SERIES: HALLOWEEN WREATH

ASSEMBLY TIME: approx. 15 minutes

TOTAL COST: approx. $15

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• HALLOWEEN SPIRIT (without it, what's the point?)
• (1) A grapevine wreath from the craft store (got mine at Michael's for $4)
• (2) Silk Japanese Lantern Stems (got mine at Pier 1 Imports, $2.99/stem)
• (2) Silk or dried cattail stems (on sale at Michael's for $1.67/mixed fall bunch)
• Dried Corn Stalk fronds (picked mine up off the ground in the pumpkin patch parking lot)
• wire or hot glue
• A few vintage inspired Halloween ornaments. If you don't have any cute little ornaments just laying around your house, here's a tip: Download some free vintage Halloween images from Matthew Mead. Cut out an 8.5" x 11" piece of cardboard from a cereal box (recycling ~ love it!). Most printers will print on this thickness of cardboard. It gives a nice vintage look, and has a good weight to it. Print on blank side (obviously). Cut out. Cover commercially printed side with craft glue and coat with glitter ~ voila! Your ornament is complete!

Start out with ye olde grapevine wreath, available at any craft store. Begin by sticking a few cattails into the wreath. Bend to shape if necessary. Secure with wire or hot glue. Pretty boring so far...I know...

Next, stick in some of your corn stalk fronds. Secure with wire or hot glue. We have a little contrast going, but how about some color?

That's where the japanese lanterns come in. Snip from bunch into smaller clusters and arrange by tucking in to wreath. Secure with wire or hot glue. Ahh, now that's starting to look better...

Dry-fit decorations, then wire or hot glue into place. Fill in gaps with additional corn stalk, cat tails, or Japanese lanterns as you see fit.

Ready to hang and greet guests with Halloween cheer!

 

Billie C

Each leaf on the four leaf clover represents one of the following:



1st leaf is Hope
2nd is Faith
3rd is Love
4th is Luck