Looks like a Haunting Good Time

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Customer photo: Candy corn centerpiece with three of the polka dot shop's wands.

 Take a look at this gorgeous buffet table.  bewitching

Customer photo: Take a look at that cupcake stand.  It is full of candy corn goodness added to jars and stacked with silver cake rounds.  SOOOO darling.
cupcake toppers by The Polka Dot Shop

Painting Pumpkins

I was going to have tons of posts for Halloween but using my phone to take pictures stinks.
Anyway here are some pumpkins we painted last night.  Look at the one with a bloody knife stuck in it.  That's my daughter's.  Her Halloween training is coming along nicely.  We like a nice blend of cute and creepy around here.

In The Doghouse

Well my computer has bitten the dust-again.  I was practicing using the camera on my phone since I have nothing to upload new pictures to.  I took a picture outside on my patio table.  It seemed okay.  I went inside after I emailed it to myself to check the picture on the ipad.  It looked okay.  Too bad for me I left this cute guy outside with my two dogs, Rotten and Rottener.

I returned a minute later and this was all that was left.

RIP cute pumpkin lantern.

This Really Works

I saw a tip on pinterest that said to soak paintbrushes that have dried acrylic paint on them in Murphy Oil Soap for 24 hours.  I have quite a few brushes around that needed this treatment- you know how you get in a hurry and forget to clean your brushes.

Now some needed an extra couple of days and some came off after two, depends on the paint I guess and maybe how long its been dried on there.  If it doesn't come off just keep soaking them.

I Love This TiP!

Witch Hat Swap Spoiler alert Sandy, look away now

Oh yeah its almost Halloween, sorta. And I was in a witches' hat swap.  My partner was Sandy and this is the darling hat she made me.  It has plenty of vintage details and a really kool black glittered skeleton.  I love those things.

 

I don't have a picture yet but the hat is sitting on a silver glittered skull.

And here is the hat I made her.

You can check out her blog here http://521lakestreet-sandy.blogspot.com/.  She's taking a break but will be back soon.

Dog Treats

My Pokey Little puppy recently had surgery.  To our delight he has been cooped up in the house with orders to be still.  mmmm hmmmmm He's a dalmatian- hence jittery.  We decided to make him some tasty doggie treats for his convalescence.  I remembered I had a recipe for dog biscuits and it seems I made some just a couple of years ago.  Anyway I found the recipe.  It was from a 1995 issue of Good Housekeeping.  Yeah that was just a couple of years ago.

We made up a batch, they were really easy and, well almost tasty.  Yeah we sampled one.  So?  Here's the recipe in case you want to try.

1 1/2 c flour
1/4 c uncooked oatmeal
1/4 c honey crunch wheat germ
1/4 c peanut butter
1/4 canola oil
1/4 c honey
1 t baking powder

1.  In a large bowl, with mixer at low speed, mix 1 cup flour with remaining ingredients and 1/2 c wateruntil well blended.  With spoon, stir in remaining 1/2 c flour.

2.  Preheat oven to 350.  With floured hands on a floured surface knead dough until it holds together.  Roll to 1/4 inch thick.  Cut out with bone shaped cookie cutter.

3.  Bake on large ungreased cookie sheet for 20 minutes; turn oven off.  Let cookie sheet remain in oven 1 hour.

4.  Cool on a wire rack.  Store in an airtight container.


NOTE:  They were a little overdone so I would shut the oven off after 15 minutes.

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