Happy Friday! Do you have any fun Halloween plans for the weekend!?! We are having a Witches Night Out at our place this weekend that I am super excited about! I have not decided what I am going to wear yet, but I got a super cute Minnie Mouse Witch hat at Disneyland a few weeks ago when I was there, so I might wear that with whatever outfit I can find in my closet!
Jake and I saw these cute ghost tops on ASOS and knew we could not pass them up! We are all about cute clothes that look normal, but when you look close up, have really fun details to them! We are excited to mix up these tops for next year's Halloween as well!
Thank you so much for stopping by today! Hope you have a great weekend!
Halloween is right around the corner! We have a lot of fun festive activities we are doing this week that we are so excited to do and check off our October Bucket List! We feel super lucky to live in a community that likes to celebrate all occasions and that there are always so many fun activities to do year around!
Since Halloween is less that a week away, we have been wearing festive clothing everyday to celebrate! I was cracking up when I saw this shirt online at Asos and wanted it right away! It was only $21 so that's a steal in my book! I also like having a few items like this shirt lying around during the holidays incase we have a party or something to attend and I don't feel like dressing up in a costume!
Are you planning on dressing up for Halloween this year?! What are you going to wear?! Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you have a great one :)
P.S. Have any of you seen the movie The Witches?! If so you will know why I wore a mouse purse with this outfit!
We made an October bucket list and of course pumpkin carving was on it! It was super rainy and windy out, so we decided it was the perfect day to stay indoors and get our pumpkin carving on! We both could not decide what to do on our pumpkins so we both went with pumpkin faces. We are big fans of doing holiday activities all month long! We have been trying to watch a few diffrent Halloween movies every week and it has been getting us so excited for Halloween! Do you have any Halloween Traditions you like to do?
P.S The dress I am wearing is only $27, super comfy and comes in several colors! I got it in a few colors and have been wearing them all the time! It is seriously the perfect house dress to be comfy, but still dressed and ready to get things done!
Here is a little vlog from our pumpkin carving adventures! Thank you for stopping by today! Have a great day!!!
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With Halloween being our favorite holiday, we decided it would be fun to have a little Halloween get together before the holidays started getting to busy! We wanted to have party favors for our guests, but thought it would be fun to do something that our guests could give to their neighbors and share the Halloween spirt. We have heard about BOO Kits before, and thought that would to give a try!
I set up a BOO station for guests to add fun goodies to a basket. I wanted to make sure there was not only tasty treats but also items that were not edible. We found some super fun Halloween cards and stickers from American Greetings® that went perfect in the baskets! They were great because they also added some height to the baskets and created a great backdrop to add the rest of the items. It ended up being a hit with our family and they really enjoyed putting together the baskets!
We have found when we throw parties it's helpful to have everything ready and set up for a party a day in advance, so then the day of the party you can pick up catered food, or do any last minute details. I have also found by setting up for a party earlier, if I am missing anything, I can still have time to run to the store.
If you want to make your own BOO Basket to share with someone, here is everything you need to make one. You can add more or less to your BOO Kit, but this is everything we had in ours. We got all the supplies for this BOO'ing Kit from Walmart! They are a great one-stop shop to grab all the essentials to assemble a BOO'ing bundle at home!
-Basket or bucket
-Tissue Paper. This cute candy corn and pumpkin one is from American Greetings®
-Tasty Treats! We got a MARS and WRIGLEY candy bag mix with M&M'S®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, Skittles®, Starburst®, Life Savers®
-Stickers and Halloween Cards
-Pencils
-Pumpkin Light
-Spider Rings
-Pumpkin Bubbles
-Fangs
-Sticky Eyeballs
-BOO Printable card. You can print out your own at BOOItForward.com.
Directions:
Start by adding tissue paper to the inside of the basket. Then add the cards, stickers and pencils to the back of the basket. Use candy to fill up the bottom of the basket to desired height. Then layer in your in pumpkin light since it is the biggest item and then start adding the smaller items scattered around. Next add some treats in the areas that need a special touch. If you want to make your BOO Kit super awesome though, add the new Ghostbusters® Blu-ray and DVD that is available on October 11th! The movie can also be preordered here and here. After you're done with your BOO Kit, secretly deliver it to a co-worker, friend, or neighbor.
A party is not complete without a cute food spread! Jake and I wanted to get crafty in the kitchen so we decided we would make some treats! My favorite thing that we made were the SNICKERS® Bats, so I thought we would share how we made those with you all! If you want to see them coming together in action, make sure to see our party vlog below!
-Start of by melting the chocolate. Read the directions on the chocolate packaging for the best melting instructions. I have found it helpful to add a spoonful of Crisco to the chocolate so it makes the chocolate thinner. Also make sure to not stir your chocolate with metal and only use plastic (not a plastic spoon that will melt but like a spatula). The metal with mess with the constancy of the chocolate. I like to use a chocolate melter that makes melting chocolate super simple!
-While your chocolate is melting, unwrap the SNICKERS®. Lay the Silplat (or wax paper) on the cookie sheet and lay out the SNICKERS® so there is space in between them for wings and ears.
-Add eyes and a mouth/fangs to the SNICKERS® to create your bat face with Black Writing Gel. Use your Black Writing Gel and also add a small dot on the back of the Eyes to make them stick to the bar. Then add a mouth. You may want to practice on some wax paper first.
-When the chocolate has finished melting, add it to a candy bag. If you only have a small sandwich bag make sure the chocolate is cooled off a little bit before you put it in the bag so it doesn't melt any holes.
-Cut a small corner on the bag so there is an opening for the chocolate to come out. Draw on your bat wings and ears. Make sure to add chocolate directly onto the SNICKERS® edges so the bat wings and ears will stick after they cool off.
-Put your finished bats in the fridge to cool off.
-After the bats have been cooled, peel the off the Silplat. Be careful to pull them off slowly so your bats do not break. If you happen to have a wing snap, use any left over chocolate to reconnect the bat.
-Put your SNICKERS® Bats on a cute plate and add them to your Halloween spread!
Here are some pictures of our finished treat table! We sure had so much fun having everyone over and making BOO Baskets! I think our guests really enjoyed thinking about who they could surprise and drop off the basket they made! We got all our supplies for the party at Walmart.
Here is a Vlog from our adventures from setting up the Halloween Decor, making treats in the kitchen and putting together BOO Baskets! Thanks for stopping today! Have a great week :)
Anyone else loving October!?! There is something so magical about fall time! Jake and I knew we had a lot of things scheduled towards the end of October so we wanted to make sure we got our pumpkin carving in early so we didn't miss it! Last year we missed out on carving pumpkins, so this year we wanted to make sure we got it in!
On Saturday it was rainy out, so it was the perfect day to carve our pumpkins! We both picked out our big pumpkins from a local pumpkin farm. I was so surprised at how heavy the big pumpkins were, even with all the insides scooped out! We used giant medal spoons to scoop out the insides of the pumpkin, and I was so shocked how easy it was to get everything out!
I seem to do the same thing every year and carve BANG into a pumpkin. Jake mixed it up this year and did a smiley face! I thought he did such a great job and it turned out so cute! We loved seeing our pumpkins at night time glowing with the candles in them. I am always so amazed at how much light a little tee light gives off in the dark. Pretty amazing to me.
When we woke up, saw the rain outside and decided to carve pumpkins we knew we wanted to wear some denim. Something about denim seems screams pumpkin patch vibe! I wore a Shabby Apple denim maxi dress, and Jake wore a Levi's denim vest.
Are you planning on craving pumpkins this year? How do you like to carve your pumpkin?
Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!
On Monday we went to Disneyland all day and ended the night at Mickey's Halloween Party! Whoop, whoop! If you haven't noticed already, Jake and I are a little Disneyland obsessed and we go anytime we can!
Out of all the holidays, Halloween is my favorite and so Disneyland in the fall time is a must! Everything from the darling halloween decorated treats, to the amazing Mickey pumpkin decor is so fun!
I wore this geometric print fit and flare Donna Morgan dress Disneyland. I loved how it was super comfy and easy to move in. For some reason I love to wear dresses to Disneyland. I like my legs to be free so I can run around and feel like a little kid again :)
Jake and I spent the day together at Disneyland by ourselves. We enjoyed looking at the shops, trying out new treats and eats and going on rides. At Mickey's Halloween Party they had some specialty foods that they do not always have on menus.
We tried a jalepeno fried chicken burger on a potato bun at Carnation Cafe. No joke, it was off the charts AMAZING! We also got fried pickles, which they always have on the appetizers of their menu, and they were fantastic. When you bite into the pickle it didn't spill juice on you, and had the perfect amount of crunch to them. If I made a Disneyland top 10 foods you must try, I would put the fried pickles on them!
Thanks for stopping today! Hope you have a great day!
