More party stuff

This morning I was up before the crack of dawn, just past 3:00 am. I have so many thing to prepare for Maelie's Halloween party that instead of sitting quietly in the living room at the computer, I started production right away! I am glad I did as I accomplished a lot in the wee hours.



Here are mummy's I made last night with some gauze bandages and taffy suckers. Those suckers were hard to find! I ended up getting them at a candy store near my mom's house. This idea comes from Fun Snacks 4 Kids.

This morning, I made these bones. I got the idea from "Ghoulish Goodies", a book by Sharon Bowers. It is FULL or wonderful ideas for Halloween.



They are made of small pretzel sticks, mini marshmallows and white chocolate. I think they make a nice party food.

White chocolate skull

I tried a new guy yesterday.... a 3D skull! He is about the size of a grapefruit, he is hollow and stands upright or reclined at an angle. I made him out of white chocolate and added a spider on his head.



The lady where I got the mold suggested inserting a gummy worm inside the hollow eyes. I may try that next time!

We have a bake sale at work today and so I made 3 of these. I baked like a mad woman yesterday making a double batch of sucre a la creme, which i HOPE is good... I will ask someone at work to test it for me this morning just in case it is gross! I made carrot cupcakes with cream cheese icing, and apple fudge. I really chose the easiest recipes I could find!

What ever will I do once Halloween is over?????

Candy cones

Another project I worked on today.... candy cones.



They are very simple to make and what kid does not like to receive layers and layers of candy!

Little matchboxes again

I worked on a few matchboxes today... I am slowly clearing out my kitchen table which has been covered with Halloween things for weeks now!



These little boxes have 4 Hershey chocolates inside, covered with Halloween patterned paper. I also filled some with homemade chocolates as I ran out of the Hershey's.

4 days to go to Maelie's party weekend....! Halloween party on Friday and on Saturday!

Gazillion Goodies

Have I ever professed my love for the Top Note die? If you look at these treats, it's the shape that cuts out these tags. I decorated them up a little. These are some treats that I will be handing out to my coworker's kids for Halloween. They are filled with 5 homemade chocolates.

Witch's hats

I found this idea on a nice blog I found. As soon as I saw this project, I knew I had to go get some of those little cups and make them! Instead of peanut butter cups, I found caramel ones. I ended up getting 40 of them and made them all this afternoon.



They turned out pretty cute! I am a bit disappointed that I had to retape some of them as the snail didn't hold it together permanently.



All in all it was a very easy and cute Halloween craft :)

Halloween suckers

Yesterday afternoon, I used my "mad woman" skills and made a whole lot of chocolate suckers. I decided to line them up to get an inventory of what I had and what I didn't have. New ones for this year include a mummy and an alien in a spaceship. I thought he was cute! and I have the perfect green for him. Since we can't see them all that well, I did a close up in smaller groups.



1- Skeleton
2- Cat
3- Witch
4- Mummy



5- Bat
6- Bat on top of pumpkin
7- Ghost and mini pumpkin
8- Pumpkins



9- Halloween cat
10- Ghost trick or treating with pumpkin
11- Pumpkin with a hat
12- Alien in spaceship
13- Cat



14- Spider web with spider
15- Skull with hat
16- Pumpkin
17- Witch on broom

When I look at the pictures, I find that they don't do them justice! They look much nicer in person. Also when I give them out they are all wrapped nicely with a Halloween ribbon, and the packaging makes things so much nicer!

So now when people ask me for chocolate suckers, they can see the samples on here!

Enjoy...