Personal Pies

I saw this cuter than cute idea on {Our Best Bites} and I wanted to save it on here so I can use it over and over again.

Using these squatty half pint jars, she filled them with pie dough:

Then used the jar lids to cut out tops for the pies.Then she filled them with pie filling.

And put the lids on.

All different kinds of lids. :) And then she froze them. All of these directions are layed out on her site, which is linked to this post above.

When you're ready to eat them, bake them frozen and they turn out like this:

I love this!! I think it's a really cute gift idea since the Holidays are approaching, but really this is something that could be done all year, right? You can give it to them frozen with the baking instructions. She says you can eat it right out of the jar, or turn it out and put it on a plate. They remind me of those cookie in a jar gifts that I used to see all over. But I like this better. So cute, huh!?

Children's Art Smock

Want to learn how to make one of these for your little arteeest!? {Make It And Love It} has a great tutorial.

More Shirt Texture

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Using this lovely from JCrew as inspiration, the gal at {My Momma Made It} has made an awesome textured shirt using two shirts she already owned. She cut some strips out of one that was stained and some strips of gossamer.

Then she layed the gossamer on top of the tshirt strips and sewed them around the collar of her other shirt.

Doesn't it look awesome!!? She did two rows of it for more texture.

Seriously easy, too, if you know how to use a needle and thread and some scissors. Click on the link above for her tutorial.

She and I must be on the same wavelength, but she's actually making stuff and I'm still just ooohing and ahhhing.

Here's another lovely that {My Momma Made It} has done recently.

Isn't it pretty!?

She's amazing.

Thanksgiving Advent Calendar

There are tons of Christmas Advent Calendars out there. Why not have one for Thanksgiving as well. I love this idea. I think you could really get your family to appreciate the value of giving thanks and having gratitude by doing this. {The Polka Dot Chair} had this idea and on their blog they have SEVERAL ideas for what to do on each day. My favorites are the gratitude quotes and projects. You should check it out. There is a tutorial for how to make this calendar on {Moda Bake Shop}.

Ruffle Collars

As you know, I'm on the lookout for diy shirt texture ideas. Here are a few from {Say Yes To Hoboken}. She tells us how she did them also, so for the tutorial for this one, click {here}.

And to get this one, you can go {here}.

Isn't it lovely!!?

And since we're on the subject, here's another great one from My Momma Made It.

She's on a roll!

More Quiet Book Ideas

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Another Quiet Book with some GREAT ideas from {Homemade By Jill}

I've been wanting to do a dressing one and thought how she did it was such a good idea! Isn't it so cute!

From Shirt to Dress

Do you love this dress?

You can make it if you have a shirt like this:

Just go to {Make It And Love It} for the tutorial.

Cut a front and back for the dress.

Cut strips out of the scraps and braid them.

Attach them as straps.

And pat yourself on the back! Such an easy idea with such a cute result!

Thankful Countdown

Thought this was a super cute idea from {Blue Cricket Design}.

She just downloaded {This Template} from {Sugardoodle} and put them in a jar. Take one out every day until Thanksgiving to remind you what this holiday is about!

Ghost Pancakes

Here's a great breakfast idea for Halloween. Pancakes in ghostly shapes with chocolate chips as the eyes and mouth. I love it! And I'm sure the kiddos will, too! So there you go, Breakfast and Lunch and Dinner and Desserts for Halloween day are on previous posts this week. I hope you have a great one!

Metallic Pumpkins

{Thrifty Decor Chick} made these metallic pumpkins for herself!

She got cheapie plastic ones.

She spray painted them with oil rubbed bronze spray paint.

And then brushed them with glaze. Aren't they pretty!!?

Witch Treats

Here's a great idea from {Our Best Bites} and they have many more, so check them out!
Love these witch wands. Just long pretzels dipped in white chocolate - dark would be good, too though. And sprinkled in Halloween colors. She says those little buckets are from the dollar store, too! I love how they're sitting in candycorns. Cute!

I've always wanted to make these:

These are fabulous! They are seriously easy to make also. All you need are:

-1 pkg hershey's kisses

-1 pkg keebler's fudge stripe cookes

-orange frosting or caramel

Just turn the cookies over and attach the kisses using frosting or caramel. I do think the frosting looks cuter especially with the bow, but that looks kinda hard. The great thing about these is that they are so easy!! No baking or anything. I'm sure it's good both ways.

And another one of my favorites:

My mom's birthday is Halloween, so she was always a self-proclaimed witch. She dressed up as a witch every year and she also made witch's brew every year.

Witch's Brew aka Homemade Rootbeer

5 gallons cold water (also equal to 80 cups)

5 pounds white sugar

1 (2-ounce) bottle root beer concentrate (you can buy it in the spice section of most stores)

5 pounds dry ice

Place 4 gallons of the cold water in a large container. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Pour in root beer extract and mix. Add the dry ice and put the lid on loosely so the gas can escape. Be sure that no one touches the dry ice with bare hands. It can freeze-burn skin in less than 5 seconds. Let it brew for about 15 minutes. Add the last gallon of water and let brew for another 15 minutes. Serves about 30 thirsty people who come back for seconds and thirds. You can also cut the recipe in half to serve about 15. If you want to really keep that dry ice going for a long time, I would recommend buying even more than 5 lbs! It's actually really easy, and looks awesome brewing out of a cauldron.

Yummy Mummy

Check out these awesome Halloween Food ideas from {The Idea Room}!
To make these Mummy Dogs, she just tears dough (Pillsbury crescent or something similar) into strips and wraps it around hotdogs, just like pigs in a blanket. She puts dots of ketchup or mustard on for the eyes and then bakes them at 350 for 12-15 minutes. I think it would be fun to serve them with a bowl of ketchup called blood also. :)

To make these Mummy Pizzas, she just uses bagels, spreads spaghetti sauce on them, and all other pizza toppings you'd like. Then she takes a stick of string cheese and tears it into strips and lays it on top to look like a mummy. Then she places olives on top for eyes. Since she uses bagles, she just broils these personal pizzas for about 5 minutes. In the past, I've made personal pizzas using Pillsbury biscuit dough and rolled them out so their flat. Then, I just add toppings and bake as long as the directions for the rolls say. Either way, I'm sure they'd be so yummy! Love these ideas for a Halloween Party - especially since even the kids could make their own.

Along with your personal pizzas, these would probably be good. I saw this on {Our Best Bites} and they have so many other ideas, but these were one of my favorites! Bones and Blood:Just roll bread dough out like you're making breadsticks and snip the ends then roll them backwards to make the bone shape. Serve with marinara sauce.

As long as we're on the mummy topic, I also saw these from {The Celebration Shoppe}

They're mummy cupcakes. She frosted them using M&Ms and then ran strips of frosting over by piping from the bottom up. You could do this to cookies too, I'm sure. So there you go - Lunch, Dinner and Dessert. You're set for Halloween!

Feeling of Fall

{Hooked On Houses} just posted about how she switched up just a few things in her living room to give it that Autumn Feeling.
Instead of torquoise pillows, she put out orange ones on the couches.

Instead of the torquoise tray, she pulled out a brown tray and books with a pumpkin on top for her coffee table. Why is it that collegiate things like books remind us so much of fall?

In stead of the yellow wire basket, she placed a white ceramic bowl full of pears and pinecones on the coffee table.

Instead of her yellow frame and torquoise accessories, she put a fall floral arrangement with some books and pumpkins on her mantle.

Great and easy ideas that make a big difference.

A Little Autumn Glamour

I LOVE my glitter pumpkins. They are my favorite decoration for this time of year! I love the way they look and I love the glam they bring into this season. It's kind of like the same feeling you get from Christmas decorations. And I'm also partial to them because I made them. It's so easy! You need:
-plastic pumpkins
-glitter
-spray adhesive
-clear coat spray sealer
-brown tole paint All you do is spray the pumpkins with spray adhesive. Then you sprinkle glitter all over them. I usually do it over something to catch the extra glitter so I can use it again. I sprayed the adhesive on then sprinkled glitter in sections because it would dry before I got glitter all the way around. It takes a LOT less glitter than you'd think! Then, when you're satisfied with your glitter coverage, spray the clear sealer on to make the glitter stay put...for the most part. Then, I painted the stems brown again because they got glittered up, too.
There you have it. Autumn Glamour. Go have some fun!