My House for Halloween

This is just a fun blog post that I did of how I decorated my town house for Halloween.  Its pretty simplified, considering I havn't had much time as of late.  But I love it!  I went with the whole Vintage look in the living room, and then in the Kitchen I used some of my fun witch stuff.  Please pardon the raw images.  In order to get a post out this weekend, I had to do it before work today and tomorrow.  Next week I will be posting five or so post, so stay tuned!

 Festooning on the Witch lights adds a 1950's touch, along with a fun spray on the edge.

 This is my Kitchen table, I did it simply with a plaid tablecloth, and a glittery black tree to bring height into the room.

 The Kitchen cupboard, the black and orange bowl in the back is my candy dish, though I now wished I had moved it to the shelf below!

 This is my living room, I used a lot of black and cream decorations with a hint of orange.  The Halloween books will come as a tutorial next week!

 The living room from one angle, my color scheme is black, cream, silver blue, and a touch of purple.  Ill post pics in January of the actual town home.

 Halloween books that we made, easy to do. Posting tutorial next week!

 I was given this pillow as a gift from my dear friend Andrea, whos blog is: It's The Life.  The tutorial on how to make this, and a couple other pillows is on there, so check it out!

  This is book print from an old dictionary, with a cute Vintage image painted on top of it, and placed in a vintage frame that was painted black.  We found these at a local antique store! Favorite find of the year!

 This wreath you can find at Sam's club, I picked it up because of the Candy Corns and the tinsel fit my theme perfectly.  We embellished it a little more to make it work with my room, I will post a tutorial on that next week as well!

 As you can see, when you first walk in thats what you see, so I had Candy Corn mixed in with all the vintage items, to give it a fun pop of color!

These are some adorable cupcake pot holders and kitchen towel that my friend Andrea's Mom made.  There are links on her blog to purchase them if you would like.  They have them in every Holiday, and lots of fun color schemes as well.  So check them out!

Miss Lovett's Meat Pies

One of my favorite things to do with a few of my friends every Halloween is to watch Sweeney Todd.  Its a gruesome musical that brings in the Halloween Spirit, without being to scary.  Every time we watch it we make these pies.

Meat Pies 

The Ingredients:

1 pkg. Cresent Big Flakey Rolls

1 pkg. Jimmy Deans Regular Sausage

1 Medium Onion

1 pkg. of Cheddar Cheese

First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  In a saute pan, take a little drizzle of olive oil and spread it on the pan, heat the pan and add your chopped onions to the pan, saute them until they are golden brown.

 Next, add the sausage and saute them until it is completely cooked with the onions. Set aside when done.

 For the pies, take a cupcake pan, and peel apart all the crescent rolls.  Place one crescent roll per cupcake tin and push down into the tin.  You can do this two ways, you can either push it down and make it into a pie with extra on the side, or you can leave some left over with the extra strip hanging off the side.

 Next, fill each pie with the meat mixture.

Next, add a slice of cheese to each meat pie.  Then take the extra end piece and wrap it over the top, pinch it with the side to seal the top.

 If you decide to use one crescent roll for the whole piece, then tear off a third of an extra piece of crescent roll and play it on the top.  Pinch together the sides making it a complete pie.

This is what it should look like when its done, once finished place in the oven for suggested time and let cool for 2 minutes in the pan.  Take out of pan and serve!

October in Europe

This may come as a surprise to many of you, but I happen to love England, its probably my favorite place on earth!  So you cant image my excitement when my parents invited me to go with them on a trip back to England and the Netherlands.

 I have so many pictures and fun events from this trip, that I cant wait to share with all of you, but it wont be until November when I post all of it.  During October, I need to focus on some fun Halloween events! However, I did put together a little sneak peak of some fun pictures of places we went, that I feel relate very well to the month of October.

(Fun Halloween idea from Harrods. Alien Dust with a sucker, and Color changing popping candy rocks magic potion)

(Oxford University)

 Cotswolds in England, a few different towns that I will do full post about later!

An old Roman church in Siren Sisters, England.

 I must note, that my blogging has slowed down considerably because I moved, started a new job, and have been traveling a lot.  However, I set a goal to blog every Sunday night, so hopefully from now on, Mondays should have a brand new post. Thanks everyone for your support!