Over last weekend, my daughter and I created this haunted house. We got the idea from the Halloween edition of Better Homes and Gardens. The great thing is, it only thing we paid was $1 for a can of black spray paint! We had a shoe box and had saved a few cardboard tubes, and other food boxes. Everything else came from our craft box, scrapbooking stuff or we printed off the internet. Oh, a few sticks from the yard!We started with the boxes and put them together in a way that we though … [Read more...]

Why was the vampire race a tie?They were neck and neck! … [Read more...]

Good morning all! Happy Friday! Hope you are all having a wonderful day so far. As you can see, we have two new wonderful prizes up today! Good luck to everyone!Tomorrow is Saturday, so I'm not sure that the prizes will be up quite so early as the rest of the week - look for them around 9 AM or so.Also today, check out the new Creepy Craft - my daughter and I had a ton of fun creating it! And of course there is a new joke of the day and poem of the day for the little witchlets! The jokes … [Read more...]

From Mrs. B.: Life's Too Short For Mediocre Chocolate is one of my favorite cooking blogs of all time. If you haven't checked it out, do so immediately! There are some amazing recipes there. Here's one that you'll be dying to try! And join Anna for her very first Cheesecake Challenge this month! The challenge ingredient is, of course, pumpkin! Thanks, Anna, for letting me share this recipe!Pumpkin Cupcakes withCaramel Icingby Anna atLife's Too Short For Mediocre ChocolateIt was one of those … [Read more...]

MONSTER STEWby Judith Kinter If you are getting tiredOf plain old witches' brew,Next time you have a partyTry gourmet monster stew.Put on an old black apronBorrowed from a witch;Then scoop in murky waterFrom a brackish ditch.Pond slime is the next thing,A bucketful or two;But if you don't have pond slime,Some moldy soup will do.Now measure in an owl-hoot,Two grumbles and a groan.To make it really tasty,Add an eerie moan.Now if your guest are monsters,You cackle while they eat.They'll say your … [Read more...]

What kind of mistakes do ghosts make?Boo Boos! … [Read more...]

This picture is from Eva, who doesn't have a blog, but she does have a myspace. She actually makes tin foil top hats! How cool is that? Thanks for sharing, Eva!Travel over to Angela's blog, Inner Musings of An Eclectic Pagan to see pics of her and her kids from last Halloween!Sabrina, from Goddessaday.com posted pics of her kids ready for Halloween last year!Randilin, from Between the Ticks, has posted a beautiful picture of himself and his wife.Dyane over at Words from a Witchy Woman … [Read more...]

Because there is no way I'll go a month without blogging, lol, and I want to keep the main page for the generous vendors who have donated (for no other reason than that they love Halloween as much as I do!), I've made this little page for me and my daily blogging! Hope you weren't too disappointed to just find me here, lol!I think the first day of the Halloween event was pretty cool! I saw a lot of familiar faces and a lot of new faces, too!Thanks to all my bloggety friends who gave me a shout … [Read more...]