Milk bottle Ghost Lights

These decorative lights were made simply with repurposed empty (and clean) 4 pint milk cartons. A hole cut in the bottom to feed fairy lights in (about 5 per bottle) and black paper spooky eyes and mouths stuck on with pritt stick.

We got a LOT of trick or treaters and loads of comments on the cool ghost lights!

Cobwebs - snowflake style!

We made some Halloween decorations. I was thinking how to make cobwebs and it struck me that you must be able to make them the same way you make snowflakes at Xmas time.

I spent a while thinking about what pattern you had to cut out, but figured it out in the end. They looked quite effective.

Halloween feast food

Spider bodies (black olives)

Chopped intestine dip (salsa)

Vampire Teeth (Apple and mini marshmallows)

Sick dip (Houmous with bits of carrot and sweetcorn)

Witches toenails (almonds) and Zombie Bogey Dip (Guacomole)

Bat droppings (chocolate raisins)

Snake Pie (snake shaped sausage roll!)

This year's Pumpkins

A Witchy with a Parsnip nose, hat and a green glowstick instead of a candle

The Witches cat with kebab sticks for whiskers, the stalk for the nose and other cut outs for the ears.

These were from designs the children drew on paper and recreated by their Dad's. The staple gun was particularly successful as scar stitches.

Halloween wreath

The husband asked me to make an Halloween door wreath. I didn't have time to go and get anything so I knocked something together with what I had to hand.
I made the ring with aluminium foil then wrapped it in grey yarn to give it a base. I used some black netting and bunched this around the ring using black thread which I then used to 'weave' a sort of spiders web in the centre for the toy spider to live on.
I felt it needed jazzing up a bit and so used orange felt to write the word BOO. Not the greatest effort but better than nothing I think.

4 types of Brownies

This week I had the first true test of my baking, baking for the W.I. cake stall!!!

Oh the pressure!

So I went for something I knew was a winner. Brownies and then I thought I would mix it up a bit and did 4 types:

Roasted Hazelnut (with a dash of Hazelnut syrup, usually used in our Saturday Lattes!)

Mint Choc brownies ( with a dash of peppermint extract and some green food colouring)

Regular Brownies (with white choc chunks)

Mocha Brownies (with some instant expresso powder)

The good news is that the ladies of the W.I. liked them!