Thursday, October 21st, 2010
I’m managing to get on top of the art of starting things early. If I want to make the babies stockings for Christmas then I start them in mid-October. And if I make Halloween Trick or Treat bags and want to show you how to make them too then we have to have Halloween a [...]
Friday, October 30th, 2009
For many of you with children this will be the last day of the half term so we thought we would share a really great but simple recipe with you that you can make with the help of the kids; however, these little ghostly treats are also a winner with the adults as Robert the [...]
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
How To Make A Halloween Cake For The Kids I can’t tell you how funny it’s been here in the office sorting through the pictures of this cake. We’ve been comparing the shape of our sugar paste spiders to crab and octopus anything but spiders of course! And then there was the case of the less than [...]
Friday, October 16th, 2009
I’m going back to my crafty roots today and making something I used to make with my Nana whenever we’d visit. Super simple, GREAT to make with the smaller versions of you and I think they are wonderfully retro too. What are we making????? Pom – Pom Spiders!!!!! How To Make A Halloween Spider Start [...]
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Halloween is a great time of year, especially for children. Trick or treating, dressing up, apple bobbing, carving pumpkins… it’s all so much fun for the small ones. But let’s be realistic, not all towns, cities and villages are as safe as we would like to think when it comes to allowing our children out [...]
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Chocolate And Orange Halloween Cakes WARNING: DO NOT MAKE THESE CAKES IF YOU ARE TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT, FEELING A LITTLE SAD AND NEED A CHOCOLATY PICK ME UP, ARE TRYING TO FIT INTO SKINNY JEANS FOR ANY CHRISTMAS PARTIES YOU ARE PLANNING TO ATTEND, DON’T LIKE CELLULITE, DON’T LIKE CHOCOLATE FILLED CAKES OF SHEER [...]
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Bewitched By Bunting This Halloween Halloween is fast approaching and although I love and adore decorating with pumpkins and gourds I also wanted to go slightly off piste and inject a little bit of sexy kitsch into All Hallows Eve this year. Most halloween crafts can be a little ghoulish, mainly because that is what [...]
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
OMG!!!!! It’s OCTOBER and we can officially get as cosy as we like whenever we like!! Jeez, I was only just out in the garden swanning around in maxi dresses and now I’m hunting around the bedroom floor in the dark for a thermal vest (I feel the cold). I can’t quite believe that this [...]
