Happy Halloween!

This year's Halloween desserts were chocolate cupcakes and Heath bar fudge! I wanted to go a less traditional route in terms of colors for the cupcake icing. I absolutely love purple and black together as Halloween colors, but we ended up with purple and grey which I think looks pretty cool!

Last year, I bought a Wilton cupcake kit on clearance after Halloween and was very excited to use it this year, however I only used the cupcake wraps this time. I think the wraps go very nicely with the choice of icing colors.

I've been obsessed with these Wilton Silver Pealized Jimmies for a few years now and finally bought some. I think they look great on the grey. I can't wait to use them more in my future decorating.

And, as I mentioned, we also made fudge using our Heath bar recipe which I blogged about here. Using royal icing, we made little spider webs to go on top which was inspired by this gorgeous Halloween Dessert Table. We were very nervous because we thought they would break when we took them off the wax paper but we were careful and they turned out fine (phew!).

I hope everyone has a delicious Halloween! Don't eat too much candy!

Silhouette Halloween Decorations

I'm a big fan of silhouettes, in general, so I thought I'd share some of the silhouette Halloween decorations I've done in the past. Both of these I saw on the Martha Stewart website. You can get the templates for the rats here and bats here. This is a really simple project, but it looks really neat!

Decorating Pumpkins

Here's another easy Halloween craft. I just love the look of black dot designs on pumpkins for Halloween, so I thought I'd try it myself. Here I used fabric puff paint because it's just so easy to use. (We've also used fabric paint on Christmas ornaments, here.)

The other pumpkin was decorated using white fabric paint and black tempera paint. There is also glitter on it as well (but it's hard to see in the photo).

Lack-o-Lantern Bag

I had this nice brown paper bag lying around and wanted to practice my (craft) knife skills. It's simple, but I think the bag makes a nice decoration. If you still wanted to use it as a gift bag just paste colored paper on the inside - black or orange might be nice.

Time to Decorate for Halloween

At the end of the season last year, I bought some super cute Halloween/Fall decorations on clearance! (Nothing like rediscovering things you forgot you bought!) This year, I finally get to enjoy them!

  

This cute Halloween tree was originally $14.99, but I'm pretty sure I paid at most $1 for it. My favorite features of the tree are that it is glittery, but there is a coating over it so the glitter doesn't fall off and get everywhere. I also love that it is two pieces so you can take it apart to store it flat. Although, I do like the paper ornaments that it came with, I'm trying to think up new ornaments that I can make for it. (I bought this at Michael's.)

I fell in love with this delightful pumpkin and couldn't just leave it in the store. It also came in black and white, which I loved too, but I decided to go with the orange one so I could leave it out through Thanksgiving. (I bought this at A.C. Moore.)