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Monday, October 14, 2019

Elegant HALLOWEEN themed WEDDING/ goth dinner party centerpiece idea - black & silver - HOW TO MAKE tutorial - SKULLS & jewels table decor

I'm helping a friend plan a small wedding the end of the month on Halloween!

I made these cool centerpieces for her tables.

Here is the mock table set-up at my house.

I love it and I hope she loves it too!

I purchased almost everything at Michael's craft store and used their awesome coupons.

Ashland bamboo spray in the dried floral section.

I tested what it would look like at the store.

Do you remember the filing cabinet makeover post?

Graham & Brown sent me the most beautiful wallpaper 5 years ago. I love the design and thought it would be perfect for the centerpieces.

The photos don't do it justice. The paper is metallic grey and the skulls are raised and velvety. It'gorgeous!!!

Black Halloween floral spray

Ashland jewel decorative filler

I emptied the jar and attached it inside the vase with hot glue.

Then added the jewels around the jar.

I used one jar of the jewels for each centerpiece.

Black rose vines & coiled garland (wired)

I measured the garland around the base of the vase and left some room for the flowers.

I attached the little plastic skulls with hot glue first.

I cut the roses off the vine and removed the leaves. I hot glued 2-3 flowers between each skull.

I folded the leaves and hot glued together. I used them to fill any empty spots around the skulls.

I made one vase template with the wallpaper and traced the rest the same size.

I attached the wallpaper with hot glue just above the jewels so you couldn't see the top of the container.

I set the vases on silver chargers with jewels around the edges. Then added some loose jewels on the plates.

I can't wait to see photos from her wedding!

Creepy HUMAN EYEBALL deviled eggs - HALLOWEEN party food/appetizer idea - MONSTER eyes - Tutorial - How to - KID or ADULT parties

This was a trial run and I absolutely LOVE how they turned out! So cool! So creepy!

I originally made these for our Halloween party last year. Made the test run and then tried to make them look like zombie eyes but it was a total FAIL! I wanted the white part green and the food color looked green in the pot I was soaking them in but they actually came out more blueish. Reminded me of something from SpongeBob. Lol!

I wish I had made HUMAN EYES or test run the color prior to a party.

Video tutorial

Be creative! Blue, green, brown, red or a mix of colors.

Supplies: Jumbo black olives Food color Large icing tip Milkshake straw Paint brushes or tooth picks

Hard boiled eggs.

Cutting:

Cut off only a small portion of the narrow end of the egg. It might be a little harder to get they yolk out but slowly break it apart.

Make your favorite deviled egg recipe.

Large icing tip to remove the very center of the egg.

Milkshake straw (larger straw) to remove the"pupil"

Use the same straw to remove a piece of black olive.

Paint whatever eye color you want.

Put it all back together with the olive pupil.

Fill with deviled egg mixture.

And gently add red "veins" to the side of the egg. It will bleed so use a fine paint brush or toothpick. Try to make the lines as thin as possible.

Ta-da!!! I served the zombie eyes on spaghetti dyed black for the party. Looked awesome!

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Monday, April 2, 2018

April Fool's Day pranks/jokes - EASTER fun!! Sushi, ice cream sundaes, empty eggs - FAKE OUT FOOD

April Fool's Day is one of my favorites!! BUT THIS April Fool's Day was the best!!!! This year Easter and April Fool's day were the same day!!!! Oh the possibilities!!!

Started the day with an egg hunt ....and all the eggs were empty. SO FUNNY, well for me it was. They opened every single egg hoping one had something. All empty!

To make it even better, I filled smaller empty eggs inside the larger eggs so it felt and sounded like they had candy in them. NOPE!

I told them, "I thought you guys just enjoyed finding the eggs. We always have candy in the house so I didn't think it was a big deal I didn't fill them. Plus, the dogs kept messing with them and I thought they would eat the candy and get sick" {{academy award goes to me!}}

Ah, but I did have a REAL egg hunt. We have a small workout room in the garage and I hid all the eggs out there.

The challenge was to get them to go to the garage. First, I asked one of the boys to feed the dogs and even insisted it be now and before breakfast! He went into the garage but didn't see them!!!!! Next, I told my other son it was his turn to take out the trash. He did it and STILL didn't see them. Finally, I told them I had a new orange juice in the garage fridge BUT nope, there was still a tiny bit left and the other one didn't want any. UGH

I didn't want to make it more obvious that I needed them in the garage so I was just going to let it play out. After breakfast we started talking about this older game for the old Xbox. That Xbox is in the workout area. FINALLY!!!

We had such a good laugh after thinking back during the morning egg hunt with all the empty eggs. Huge success!!!!

I did some of the usual tricks from years past just to see if I could get them again. Here are links to past posts for more ideas.

2017 April Fool's Day Ideas
2015 April Fool's Day Ideas
2014 April Fool's Day Ideas - Dinner
2014 April Fool's Day Ideas - Breakfast and Lunch

Next was dinner and I told them we were having ice cream sundaes for dinner and sushi for dessert. :P

Dinner:

Ice cream sundaes were pulled pork and mashed potatoes layered with gravy.

I layered the mashed potatoes with an icing tip so it looked decorative.

Topped with a little cherry tomato and red and white striped straw. The straw sold it from a distance when I was walking to the table. The boys loved it!

Dessert:

Sushi was made from Rice Krispies Treats, Fruit Roll-ups, Swedish Fish candy, and sour gummy worms.

I didn't make the Rice Krispies Treats since I wasn't sure I could it without them noticing. The store bought ones are all the same size so it worked so perfect.

I cut one treat into 3 pieces.

Placed a Swedish Fish on top and wrapped with the Fruit Roll-Ups. The Fruit Roll-Ups are sticky so nothing extra is needed.

For the other ones, I cut one treat into two pieces with one larger piece.

I pushed the corners in to make it more round. Then used a large icing tip to remove a circle from the middle.

Then filled with cut sour gummy worms and wrapped the edge with Fruit Roll-Ups.

I love all the colors and so fun to make. I used the left overs in their lunch for school Monday and Tuesday and all the kids ooooh'd and ahhhh'd. I was named best Mom ever. :D

At this point it's hard to fool them but the sundaes were pretty convincing. Next year I should actually do what I say we're having and not switch it up. Lol!