Our annual Halloween party is this weekend...I said I wasn't going to plan one so I could concentrate on my studio, but I couldn't resist! I tried to keep it simple, but today I'm going to Momma's to pick out a place for our haunted hayride. It won't be anything elaborate or too scary since we have several little ones. Just a little spooky (think glowing eyes and ghosts). Then I'll spend tomorrow making my food and cat ears and paws for my costume. I'm pretty excited about it now!
I haven't written about my kitties in a while. I think it's because moved my office to my studio and my camera stays over here. I used to always have it at home and take lots of pics, but now I use my phone and post a lot on instagram. all the kitties are doing well right now. I don't think I blogged about it, but we lost Mr. Spock earlier this year. He was 17 and we've had him with us most of his life, so it is hard to get used to not having him around. Now Strawberry is close to his age. He has all but 4 of his teeth pulled (not all at once..) and just recently he lost one (and I found it!!). So now he only has 3 teeth! Besides that he seems to be well and spends most of his time in my lap whenever I'm home. We have 3 others in the house. Sissy, Pumpkin (in the photo) and Hadley. Rusty is still in my studio and there are SEVEN that live outside. Luckily none have shown up to stay since we got Hadley a few years ago. There have been some that I took to the animal rescue and they found new homes. There were 2 stray tom cats that I wanted to get fixed, but I guess they moved on before I caught them. I even had the live trap out ready to catch them, but they haven't been back. Studio is so close to being ready to open. I have a few little things to get done outside and I've got my flower beds starting to get full. Mostly I need to get my stuff put away inside. It will be such a relief to finally be done. But that won't last long...we have to get back to remodeling our home after this is done!
Here are some pics from our party last year.....First are some monster cake balls. I just made some simple cake balls (bake cake, crumble, mix with icing, roll into balls), them iced them with bright colored icing. My favorites were the neon green ones! I used candy eyes I dound in the baking department and put the in little mini cupcake liners.
This platter has a mixture of bones and mummy pretzels. For the bones, I put a mini marshmallow on each end of a pretzel stick and dipped them in melted white chocolate. For the pretzel mummies, I drizzled melted white chocolate onto pretzels and added candy eyes before the chocolate cooled. The witch hand is something I found at Cracker Barrel on clearance one year!
Closeup of our table--I drug out all my pumpkins, Orange & black Halloween serving dishes, etc. The skeleton head is one of my favorites, I use it to serve dip! I decorated with those black & orange wrapped peanut butter taffy candies. I put them in small ice cream dishes.
This shelf held all our "fear factor" specimens. Everyone got to check everything out ahead of time and think about what they wanted to try.
These pics are making me excited about this year's party! Only a couple of weeks away, on October 19!!
