A BIG Thank you to Tania at Chicken Ink. Creative for doing a great job at the Apex Kids Stuff Market - selling and promoting Lulu froufrou pretties at her stand.
Much appreciated - it looks so lovely, I wish I could have been there.
Halloween blog party
Welcome to my Halloween Party! Thanks to Vanessa at A Fanciful Twist for hosting such a great party. I have been blogging about Halloween for over a week now and thought I would show you today what is still to come. There is also a giveaway (see below for details)!
Free crow pattern and instructions on how to make them.
Halloween table cloth stretched over canvas and embellished!
Glitter skulls and bones floral display!
Halloween candles!
Halloween cocktails!
Blackberry Cupcakes!
Strawberry Cupcakes!
Now for the giveaway... So how can you get your name entered to win a dozen of these delightful cookies from The Fancy Lady? Simple! To enter....
- Become a follower of my blog! OR
- Leave a comment by Thursday October 22nd.
A winner will be picked at random on Friday October 23rd.
Also, please make sure to check out The Fancy Lady's shop on Etsy for more of her yummy sweets.
Oh, and tell your friends!!! Any questions? Send me an email.
Good luck and enjoy the party!
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in the diary!!
I have enjoyed flicking through my copy that arrived last week & look forward to a new year full of inspiring crafters & artists I will come across each day - & hopefully share with you too.Halloween candy jars
Skull Marshmallows
Licorice Allsorts
Blackberry Domes
Jelly Skulls
Pink Glass Candy Jar, Poison Label.
Having admired Amy Atlas candy tables for a while now, I really wanted to create one for Halloween. The top image is of my experiments with what it could look like.
I did a post back in July called Candy Jars. I used the same candy jars this time, but changed the ribbons to match my colour theme. I also strung "Happy Halloween" alphabet beads onto pink elastic and tied them around the middle of the jars.
Don't forget the Halloween party tomorrow!
Have a sweet day!
Sunshine
So here are some of my favourite pics to inspire the creativity in you all, over the weekend. Happy Friday!
Skull candy
Skull lollipop mould
Lollipop wrapping kit
Skull chocolate moulds. To get the different colours, I used white chocolate, white chocolate with natural pink food colouring, and dark chocolate.
To get the shiny, flawless appearance of chocolate you must temper it, otherwise you can be left with dull chocolate that has white streaks running through it. It also makes for better melt-in-the-mouth chocolate.
How to temper chocolate
- Finely chop 750-1000g (1 1/2 to 2 pounds) of chocolate; with any less than this it is difficult to control the temperature.
- Place two thirds of the chocolate in a metal bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Place a candy thermometer in the chocolate and stir frequently with a rubber spatula. Do not let the temperature exceed 105 deg F for white and 120 deg F for dark chocolate.
- When the chocolate is fully melted remove from the heat and add the remainder of the chocolate gradually whilst continuing to stir.
- Let the chocolate cool to 82 deg F, then return to the heat until it reaches 86 deg F for white chocolate and 90 deg F for dark.
- Remove from heat and carefully pour into moulds. For the lollipops, add sticks when you have half filled the mould, then fill to the top.
Easy alternative
- Finely chop 750g-1000g (1 1/2 to 2 pounds) of chocolate, and place in a microwaveable bowl.
- Microwave on 50% power in 10 second increments, stirring after each interval till chocolate is almost melted.
- Remove from microwave and stir till chocolate is fully melted.
Packaging for skull cones
You will need:
Cone wrapper
Double sided tape
Cellophane
10mm Ribbon
- Print cone wrapper (choose a "cone wrapper" below which you can save and print).
- Cut around cone wrapper and along lines to give 3 wrappers.
- Roll one of the wrappers into a cone shape and, using double sided tape, fix in shape.
- Place a second piece of tape inside the cone along one side and peel off backing.
- Cut out cellophane (use the "cellophane pattern" below as a stencil to cut out your cellophane). Note each straight line is 24cm long).
- Roll cellophane into a cone shape and place inside cone wrapper. Press against the tape to fix in place.
- Fill with candy.
- Tie ribbon around the top.
Packaging for Poison Candy Bags
You will need:
Shocking Pink Candy Stripe bags
Double sided tape
Poison labels
Masking tape
- Print the "Poison" label below.
- Using double sided tape stick the label to the front of a bag
- Fill with candy
- Fold the top over towards the back and masking tape in place.
If you don't have time to make your own skull candy my new affiliate, A Quarter Of... has some great ready-made skull candy that can be packaged as above.
Skull crushers from A Quarter Of...
Psycho skulls from A Quarter Of...
Check back tomorrow for my Halloween candy table ideas!
Have a sweet day!
~ International Baby Loss Day ~
Today is International Baby Loss Day - a day particularly close to my heart after the loss of our precious Laura 6 and a half years ago. I would love you all to watch this wonderful presentation we put together earlier this year for our annual ball and remember all our precious angels in heaven.
In addition to raising funds for stillbirth research, the Stillbirth Foundation Australia also aims to increase public awareness about stillbirth. We have recently created this video which beautifully demonstrates the reality of stillbirth whilst highlighting the need for further funding and are thrilled to be able to now share this with you.
The Stillbirth Foundation Australia would like to thank all of the families and photographers that have kindly shared their photos with us in order to make this possible, as well as Emily Bird for helping us to create this wonderful video.
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