Wednesday 31 October 2012

Halloween In My Home..


Hi Darlings,

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I've had such a busy couple of days so I thought I'd show you some of the highlights!

The night before Halloween:

 Alex Baking her Witch Cake

Decorating Halloween cupcakes

 Some of the finished results

 My favourite winter jumper, so cosy and homely for crafty projects

 Alex bringing our stash of pumpkins in

 Yes we really did have that many!

Carving out the pumpkin houses

 One of the finished results

 Outlining the freshly carved Jack o Lantern

Halloween:

 Zombie fingers - made from chocolate fingers, pumpkin seeds and blackcurrant jam

 Some of the fun cakes we made including Luce's Rocky Road Spiders

 The Jack o Lantern in action

Luce, having just drawn her spider on (it is now somewhat smudged)

The Witch Cake

 Snacks table

Spiders! 

 Toes - made of hotdog sausages, tomato sauce and tortillas

Our pumpkin village 

 A close up of one of the pumpkin houses

Frogspawn jacket potatoes for dinner

We've had so many Trick or Treaters tonight, some of them had put so much effort into their costumes and were lovely - it was so much fun to see them all. A group of 13 year old zombie schoolgirls (read tarty schoolgirls) not quite so nice, but you can't have it all!

Now I'm off to watch The Witches, (it's something we do every year) and eat a massive amount of sugar.

See you all tomorrow lovelies, I hope you had an awesome night!

Lea
x

61 comments:

  1. It all looks awesome! Very jealous! Invite me next year? :P xxx

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  2. WOW! I love the pumpkin village, I've never seen anything like that before and it looks sooo good :) Happy Halloweeeeen! xx

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    1. We found it on spoonful.com, it's nice isn't it! :) Thanks hun! x

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  3. Oh wow it looks like you had an amazing Halloween! Love all of your Halloween-inspired food! The witch cake looks great.

    Hope your night was as fun as it looks! :)

    Lola xx

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    1. It's been a great night :) Thanks hun :) x

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  4. Happy Halloween lovely! Loving all your pumpkins! <3

    Jennie xo | sailorjennie.com

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    1. Happy Bonfire night now! Thanks, I think we won the best pumpkins on the road title haha x

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  5. Hello Dear! I like your blog so much! This is my first visit here but definitely not the last :) Would you like to follow each other? :)


    XOXO,
    Monika

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  6. i never celebrate helloween because it's not really a holiday in holland. but looking at these picture's i wish i had haha.
    xx

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    1. I've never been big into it before either, but Alex loves it so I had to get on board haha x

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  7. Nice pictures!
    It's so sad they don't celebrate halloween here!
    xx

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    1. Awww :( Maybe you could break the mould and have your own halloween next year? x

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  8. Aw looks fun! Love the watch cake :) xx

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    1. I'll tell ALex, she'll be so pleased you said that! x

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  9. i like your post! great pics!

    kiss

    http://alazne-apieceofme.blogspot.com.es/

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  10. I love this post, looks like so much fun. You look beautiful as always! xx

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    1. Thanks hun :) We had loads of fun, I'm so pleased Alex talked me into doing it all! x

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  11. The food looks yummy, hope you had a great halloween :)

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  12. Oh how fun!!! Our halloween was a total bust with hurricane sandy but we are grateful to be alive and ok. Essentially that's what's important. Thank you so much for your sweet comment and for following my blog. I"m happily following back! xoxo

    www.fashionmavenmommy.com

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    1. Oh I'm so sorry to hear that, but I'm glad you're safe. You're right, thats whats important. Thanks hun :) x

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  13. Lea,
    This looks like a wonderful time. I really love all the crafty treats. Happy Halloween.
    Thanks for visiting my blog. I look forward to many more.
    Tarah Danielle
    Take me toTarah.com

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    1. We had a lovely time, and such fun making all the halloweeny things! x

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  14. Aw you look like you had such a cute halloween. I wished I made the effort and did little treats like you had :) They are beautiful
    LaceyLoves

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    1. It was the first time we made any sort of real effort and it was s much fun! I feel a tradition coming on! x

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  15. Nice blog :)

    Im holding a Blog Hop if you'd like to join? Everyone is welcome :)

    Http://northernbeautyblogs.blogspot.co.uk

    Thanks
    X

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  16. Love your pumpkins.*_*
    Maybe follow each other on BLOGLOVIN and GFC???
    My Blog


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    1. I'd love to on GFC. I don't really use Bloglovin x

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  17. Following you now dear :)
    I'm sure your Halloween night was quite fun!
    Kiss

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    1. Thankyou very much, we had a lovely time! x

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  18. Those zombie fingers looked almost too real for me, I admit, I kinda made a face when I saw them...I'm sure they were delicious. That elbow patch sweater is gorgeous.

    -Ezi

    ikintoo.blogspot.com

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    1. Haha they do a bit don't they. I was quite pleased that they turned out so well!
      Thankyou so much, I really like that jumper :) x

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  19. love the pumpkins !
    oh and i loveeee your hair ..

    xx Liyana

    Liyanasadvice.blogspot.com

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  20. Looks like you had such a fun Halloween!

    creamyclothes.blogspot.com

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    1. We really did, I'm sure you had loads of fun with your boys :) x

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  21. You're halloween looked incredible! Those cupcakes look particularly yummy too x

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    1. They're still keeping us going now haha x

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  22. Oh my that witch cake is AWESOME!!!
    Love the fingers as well, spooky.

    x x Stace

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    1. I'll tell Alex you said so, she'll be so pleased! Thanks hun! x

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  23. I love how festive everything is! You 2 really know how to do Halloween! This looks so much fun - adorable pics :)
    <3
    katsfashionfix.blogspot.com

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    1. I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was my first Halloween doing something more than handing out sweets and it was so much fun! x

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  24. Great photos! It must be fun with those creative pumpkins. Halloween isn't celebrated much in my country - but it always been fascinating whenever I watch tv or read stuff involving halloween. :)

    Keseven
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    1. Pumpkin carving is so much fun. You should hold your own little halloween next year! x

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  25. OMG the Witch cake is soo cute <3 I see u had a fab Halooween <3

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    1. I'll pass this message on to Alex, she'll be so chuffed haha. Thanks hun :) x

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  26. Aahh you're so pretty, like a doll! Love your hair color also. <3 And the photos are great. Wish you a nice weekend, Lea!


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    1. Thankyou so much, although I've actually just dyed it a little lighter! x

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  27. Your pumpkins turned out great. And I love all of those creative treats. Looks like so much fun. :)

    I would love if you could stop by my blog and check out my latest outfit!
    www.fashboulevard.blogspot.com

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    1. Thanks, we had a great time carving the pumpkins! x

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  28. Thanks for the heads up! x

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  29. Love the pumpkin carving, I'm sure it was such a lovely party :-).

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    1. Yeah we had a great time! Thanks hun :) x

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  30. I LOVE all your Halloween ideas and have to implement some of them next year! And your pumpkins are really adorable. :) I feel like i haven't *seen* you in forever - whenever I tried to access your blog (from your url that you leave in your comments), my work computer blocks me saying there is some kind of "dangerous" html - I realized it's because there is a little typo in your address (www.shebeginstosee.BLGOspot.com) that takes readers to an ad site - I wanted to let you know in case it's happening to others. Hope you are well!

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    1. Oh no! Thankyou so much for letting me know! I'll make sure I check it much closer next time. Once I write out my signature I copy and paste it on to the end of my comments so that would be why it was consistently wrong. I'm so sorry hun! x

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  31. Food looks delicious. I wish Australians got more into Halloween :(

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    1. Maybe you should start a trend around where you live! x

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  32. this looks like it was awesome! you guys are so cute :) xx

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    1. Aww thanks :) it's always nice to hear that hehe <3 x

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