Halloween Party. Lots of pictures!!!

Tonight was our Trick or Treat pre-party with some of our neighbors and close friends. What a blast! The kids had a great time. I had a fabulously fun time planning and executing this party. I think I successfully did my part filling the kids up with as much sugar as I possibly could in the short time I had! :)

Grab a cup of coffee, perhaps a snack and get comfortable, because below are a TON of pictures! Lots of the dessert buffet, complete w/ toothbrushes. ;) Some of the menu which included mac n cheese for the kiddos as well as grapes served out of little treat buckets (everything is better when you eat it out of a mini bucket!). And there are even a few pics of the kids table.

Enjoy (if you dare)!!

All our sweet babies eating their dinner!!

Spooky night!

Bats and Bones..... A Halloween Dessert Table

I've got another fabulous Halloween party table today from Sandra Downie Event Designs .

Don't you just love that bat backdrop? And the black cheesecloth....

I think I've even seen this at the Dollar Tree this year --- fantastic!


Details DO make the difference. Sandra delivers a dessert table packed full of

spooktacular styling.... a purple glittery skull, strategically placed spiders, some candy corn and

sparkly haunted houses all add to the festive ambiance of this fun party table.

One of my favorite details is the "Bat Juice" label on the party drinks --

a fun way to "spook" up your Halloween bash.

Mixing paper wrapped boxes in different heights for food displays with lots of Halloween colored candy in jars is a great way to add interest to your table.

Sandra featured lots of different dessert items including these tombstone cookies

from The Flour Pot in NYC.

The Flour Pot also made the fondant bat sugar cookies - love these!

This I LOVE, too! Sandra found these paper coffins at AC Moore,

added a crushed up store-bought chocolate cookie pie crust and added a few skeletons for effect.

Poisonous Candy Bars..... you can't fool me! "Poisonous" or not, there's chocolate in there -- I'm in!

Such cute ideas! Sandra did an amazing job with her party table. Be sure to check out her other parties on her blog.

Gorgeous Halloween Dessert Table

It's getting close to the witching hour, as they say. And there is no shortage of amazing Halloween displays circulating on the web. This table from Sweets Indeed has to be one of my favorites. Chic and still a little creepy, too. Vintage with touches of Victorian elegance..... impeccable styling.... It's simply gorgeous. Makes me want to have a cocktail party!

The team at Sweets Indeed say they "tapped into their inner haunted mansion" in
designing the details of the desserts and props, even seeking out a
vintage rental store for many of the decorative pieces. Just revel in all of these details.....









The exquisite cake by Rebecca Lehman at Heaven Scent Cakes
with intricate designs of black lace.


Spooky cocktails

Candy bar wraps

And amazing party favors. As I said before, simply gorgeous.

It makes me happy to know there are designers out there this passionate about their craft! Wouldn't you have loved to be invited to THIS party??

Candy Corn Cupcakes

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!! I'm getting so super excited for the big night, but the next best thing to watching the kids go trick or treating is Halloween parties! Today my friend Shannon is having a little costume party for our playgroup (average age is about 20 months) and I can't WAIT to see all our babies in their costumes!! :)

I made some special treats for the little monsters to devour. They're mini cupcakes, the perfect size for little mouths.

I love the way these turned out. So simple, but totally cute! :)

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And here is a sneak peek at my girls' costumes this year. An angel and a devil. You have no idea how appropriate the costumes are for these two!!!!

Crazy, Spooky Cupcakes (and more)!

I can't stop grabbing great ideas from the internet (it's a problem..... I know) but there's still time before Halloween to get a few treats in! And I'm figuring there are probably lots of you out there who relish in all these spooky little treats, too. So go ahead..... let these cute ideas inspire you to whip up a zany treat for a class party or even a fun dessert for your family this week.




How about this creepy, crazy monster cupcake from My Sweet and Saucy ?
Who wouldn't want to did into that? And it's chocolate!
You can't possibly go wrong with chocolate.

Candy Corn Cupcakes from the Curvy Carrot - Yummy!!
These are so pretty, but really a pretty simple idea.




You might even win a few 10 year old boys over with this Zombie Hand Cupcake
from Sweetest Kitchen featuring green, rising from the grave hand sold at Bake it Pretty. At the Sweetest Kitchen, she's even got a bloody finger cupcake...... if your interested in that kind of thing.





Right up my alley.... easy and effective -- super sweet ghost cupcakes from Life of the Party .


And these yummy brownie-ball icky spiders from Bakerella. She is truly the most amazing talent. And I think she could inspire just about anybody to ball up some cake and dip it in chocolate!


And these yummy bat marshmallow fondant sugar cookies from Sandra Downie Events.


And these aren't cupcakes, but you could put these Monster Eyeballs on a cupcake.
Or better yet, don't go to all that trouble - just serve them skewered on a stick
like she did at Bee in the Bonnett. Cute! Cute!

I hope these ideas are as fun to you as they are to me.....
now if there were only a few more hours in the day!