Category: Holidays

Pumpkin Granola

Pumpkin, maple syrup and applesauce bind the oats together in this oil-free granola recipe. Easy to customize to your taste, with your nuts and fruit of choice. Pumpkin Granola sounded like it would be the perfect answer for Thanksgiving weekend with family in town! You can make this now and store it in an airtight…

Ghostly Spirits & Halloween Peeps

In anticipation of some Ghostly Peeps Fun, I went in search of Halloween PEEPS® but these apparitions were nowhere to be found. . . I searched my favorite haunts~ Target, the grocery store, Walmart. . .it wasn’t that they had disappeared, rather that they had never made an appearance at all~  I was happily able to scare…

Animal Instincts

I am following my Animal Instincts at the table, inspired by Tiger Stripe Pumpkins and Animal Prints~ My Animal Instincts led me on a mini safari to World Market, where I spied Giraffe-spotted napkins in tan and in black~ And to Hobby Lobby, where I rounded up Zebra chargers to accompany Leopard chargers I already…

Halloween Oreo Brownies

  I’m a sucker for seasonal products & packaging. . . the temptation, scary~ their frightening pull too much to resist! Especially when Halloween Oreos come in 5 BOOrific shapes, one a witch :) I’ve seen Oreo Brownies all over Pinterest. I found a recipe from Picky Palate,  dipping the Oreos individually in brownie batter and baking them…

A Jolly Halloween

Vintage-inspired pails are filled with assorted Treats~ To make your Halloween Jolly, with their Spooky Sweets! Ravens have flown in, landing on pumpkins at the table, Conjure raven snacks up here, inspired from a Halloween label! Lanterns dress in scrapbook paper, in time for Halloween~ With haunting double images, how-tos here can be seen. Tinsel-woven placemats, add…

A Spooky Incarnation~ Haunted Lanterns

I’m scaring up a Spooky Incarnation for my lanterns for Halloween~ courtesy of scrapbook paper from K&Company from Michaels~ I saw this lantern at HomeGoods recently~ its creepy image kept haunting me, but I couldn’t justify buying a lantern  for the ghosts & goblins who would come calling~ Scrapbook paper pads at Michaels were 40%…