Happy Halloween!
October 31st, 2008
Theme Party eBook
Get this ebook, and throw a tween Halloween party, Camp Rock party, Hannah Montana party, Cheetah Girls or High School Musical theme party that your tween and her friends will be raving about for months!
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Last Minute Halloween Costumes: DIY Ideas!
October 29th, 2008If you’re one of the spontaneous types that enjoys the last-minute rush, here’s a video for last-minute Halloween costume ideas!
Ten Last-Minute Halloween Costumes - Watch a funny movie here
Tween Halloween Crafts: Make a Skull Bracelet
October 23rd, 2008Happy Day 23 of the 31 Days of Tween Halloween! I love Halloween crafts, and today’s Skull Bracelet is a very cool project for a tween Halloween party project.
Check out the how-tos for No Mold Polymer Skull Beads at Creative Kismet
Day 22 of Tween Halloween: The Story of the Halloween Candy Competition
October 22nd, 2008While surfing the net for cheap Halloween candy, I found this little story from Candy Warehouse, which also reads a bit like a fable, complete with moral. I found it perfect for Day 22 of “The 31 Days of Tween Halloween” Perhaps the Alpha moms in the audience can relate, hmm? 
The Story of the Halloween Candy Competition
Kitty and Susan had been neighbors for over fifteen years. Kitty lived alone and always wore her fine chestnut colored hair in a big bun; Susan had two daughters and wild blonde curls. The two women were very friendly, chatting almost every morning on Kitty’s porch and sometimes running errands together.
Their friendship was not a perfect one, however, and sometimes competition reared its ugly-but-amusing head. During the holiday season, they both constructed eye-catching Christmas light attractions. Each, for fifteen years, had tried to outdo the other. There were the high points: an all-pink light up present on the front of Kitty’s ranch; an array of not one, not two, but six light-up Santas on Susan’s front lawn. And then there were the low points: Kitty had once found Susan stealing a Santa; Susan suspected Kitty of knocking over her flashing strobe light reindeer.
There was one holiday they loved even more than Christmas: Halloween. Both Susan and Kitty loved to delight the neighborhood kids with outrageous costumes and the most sought-after treats.
A few weeks before the big night, Susan’s oldest daughter Nina walked into the living room to find her mother crouched under the window with a pair of binoculars.
“Mom! You’re totally spying on Kitty!”
“Me! No! What? I was watching Kitty’s garden to make sure there were no…animals.”
“Kitty doesn’t even have a garden anymore, Mom. She took it out last year to make for the singing metallic pumpkin. Why are you spying? Some weird Halloween thing?”
“No, no. You’re so silly. Nobody’s spying, you…bananahead.”
Nina resented the bananahead comment and walked away haughtily.
Susan put the binoculars down and stood up, embarrassed. As she stood up, she saw the mailman walking a package over to Kitty’s doorstep.
“I’ll just take a peak…” She ran over to the porch and saw that it was a package from CandyWarehouse.com- the same site she used (the selection was unbeatable, and the catalog was SUCH a joy to read). She looked around guiltily, grabbed the package, and took it back to her house.
She stared at it for hours, unable to do the right thing and bring it back. Just a peak, she thought to herself. One peak.
Kitty was facing a similar dilemma. She paced frantically around her dining room, trying to decide what to do with the large box she had stolen from Susan’s doorway the day before. For the time being, it sat rather conspicuously underneath a pile of towels on the dining room table.
I’ll just take one peak, she though to herself.
The next morning, Susan walked over shamefully to Kitty’s porch, carrying a rather ripped box. The cardboard looked like it had been attacked by a wild animal.
On Kitty’s porch there was the box labeled for Susan, with layers of electrical tape covering the rips she had made to open it.
Both women sat next to each other, avoiding eye contact. Kitty cleared her throat.
“So…I see you went with the candy corn. That’s a classic.” Susan smiled.
“Well, gosh, you really have it all in your Deluxe Halloween Candy Mix. The kids are going to love it.”
They both stared at the ripped boxes, nodding.
“You know,” Kitty began, “We could do Halloween together this year. We could do a big haunted house!”
“That sounds perfect!” Susan exclaimed. “We could both be witches!”
They talked more and even hugged, agreeing never to let competition get the best of them again.
THE END
Source: Candy Warehouse
Halloween Pajamas
October 21st, 2008Day 21 of “The 31 Days of Tween Halloween” is for the moms out there whose tween will be sleeping over someone else’s house this year.
What will you wear? If you are planning to take it easy for Halloween, but you still want to celebrate, how about Halloween PJs?
You can find these Family Halloween PJs at Nikki Knits Clothing Co.
Or if you’d like to go “old school” with regular one-piece adult pajamas, you can just dress them up for Halloween and wear them again during these cooler fall and winter evenings.
For old-fashioned adult-sized PJs and more, check out Pajama City
Tween Halloween Crafts: Gravestones
October 16th, 2008Those of you seeking to create a yard haunt this year will enjoy making gravestones that are easy and spooky looking
How-to’s are available at Mourning Cemetary
Make Magazine is Having a DIY Halloween Contest!
October 15th, 2008Hey all you Crafties, here it is:
Says Make Magazine:
We teamed up with our pals from Instructables for what is the biggest Halloween contest on the web. In honor of the best DIY holiday ever, we’re having a party — and everyone’s invited! Elaborate costumes for the whole family, gadgets that go “zzzZAP!,” gross-looking foods, creepy decorations that turn your house into a forbidding castle, and spooky jack-o-lanterns guarding your front door: these are the things we look forward to all year.
We want to see what delightfully frightful items you’ve made and we have dozens of awesome prizes to give away! You can enter an Instructable, photos, or video, just make it amazing and it will be eligible to win in one of our six categories: Hack-o-Lantern, Costume, Gadgets and Gizmos, Decorations, Food, and Green, or our Photo and Video categories!
For prize info, as well as further info, check out Make Magazine’s DIY Halloween Contest page.
You can find Make Magazine on most newsstands
Halloween Recipes: Mummy Fingers
October 14th, 2008Here’s a creep recipe for Mummy Fingers, thanks to HalloweenRecipes101.com
Ingredients:
1 can of Crescent Rolls
1 package of Hot Dogs or Miniature Cocktail Franks
1 bag of blanched almond slivers
The point is to make these look like mummy fingers. Take the crescent rolls and lay the dough out flat. Cut strips and wrap them around the hot dogs or mini cocktail franks but leave about an inch at the end sticking out, this is the tip of the finger.
Place on a cookie sheet and bake according to the directions on the crescent roll package. When done, you can cut a small tip off the finger and place a slice of almond into the wiener to create a finger nail. Now you have your wrapped mummy fingers with a dried out looking nail.
Serve on a platter with dipping sauces, you can use red or green ketchup, or a mixture of both to make an icky looking sauce. ranch dressing is popular right now to dip anything into, so make sure that you have plenty of “putrid puss” on hand! Just add some green food color paste to it to give it an awful color! Food color paste works better then liquid food color because it doesn’t water down sauces and adds no flavor. You can find it wherever cake decorating products are sold.
Source:HalloweenRecipes101.com
Halloween Recipe: Pumpkin Bread
October 13th, 2008Here’s a recipe for traditional Pumpkin Bread from HalloweenRecipes101.com
Ingredients:
3 Cups Sugar
1 Cup Vegetable Oil
3 Eggs
2 Cups Pumpkin Puree (canned or home made)
1 Cup Walnuts (optional)
3 Cup Flour
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Cloves
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
Directions:
Mix together oil, sugar and eggs, stir in pumpkin. Sift together dry ingredients in separate bowl and add to wet mixture. Stir in walnuts (optional). Pour into a greased bread pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Test by sticking a toothpick or bamboo skewer in the center of the loaf. If it comes out dry, it’s done. Allow to cool and serve slices with butter or honey-butter.
Source: HalloweenRecipes101.com
Halloween Recipe: Candied Apples
October 12th, 2008Here’s a recipe for Candied Apples from HalloweenRecipes101.com
INGREDIENTS
2 Cup granulated sugar
2 Cup corn syrup
1/3 Cup cinnamon candy
1 Cup water
3/4 Tsp. cinnamon
1/2 Tsp. vanilla
1/4 Tsp. ground cloves
3/4 Tsp. red food coloring
6 Med apples
PREPARATION
Remove stems from apples, wash, and pat dry. Insert a wooden skewer in each apple, running through the apple from stem end to base without protruding all the way through the bottom end.
Combine sugar, corn syrup, cinnamon candies, and water in medium-sized saucepan. Cook until the candies dissolve, stirring constantly. Be careful not to boil. Add cinnamon, vanilla, ground cloves, and food coloring. Mix thoroughly. Boil mixture to 300 degrees using a candy thermometer without stirring.
STORAGE & SERVING
While mixture is boiling, generously prepare a baking sheet with cooking spray or waxed paper so it’s ready ahead of time. As soon as mixture reaches 300 degrees, remove it from heat and quickly dip each apple - one by one - into the mixture until it is thoroughly coated. Set coated apples, standing on their bottoms with skewer pointing up, on baking sheet until mixture hardens. Let apples reach room temperature before eating.
Source: HalloweenRecipes101.com