Pumpkin Carving 2012

Finally getting around to posting my pumpkins this year. I swore with the way everything was going I wasn't going to get around to carving anything. Thankfully I did. Now only one was done before Halloween, the rest were actually carved the following days. I figured what the heck. We had them, might as well carve them. LOL We still have some left, including a white one. We are thinking of holding them and carving one for Thanksgiving and Christmas. ^_~  Anyways! Here we go!

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Family Pumpkin Carving 2012

Cannibal By Jason

Finally starting to get all these images together to show off. Those that have me friended on Facebook have been getting bombarded by these this week, lol. Going to start off with the ones that the family did this year. I will post all mine later on. Still getting those images together. >.>

What can I say, I went a little overboard this year, heck the whole family did. Here is it November 3rd and honestly we are still carving. With everything that happened this past month we really got behind in what was supposed to get done. We had a lot of pumpkins left over after Halloween and figured, what the heck! We can still carve. So we have continued to carve a couple each day and rotate them out on our display out front while we toss the ones that are ready to meet their pumpkin god, lol.

First three are Corporate Logo's Jason of Cynical Cuisine did this year. You can find more of his work on Deviant Art under the screen name Sigil79.

And now for the rest....

Demon Spider By Jason

Cannibal By Jason

Penguin By Jason

Gir By Jason

Skelly By Jason

Mr Moustache by Jason

The Patio On All Hallows Eve

Now granted all those were created by Jason but I have 3 more to show off....

This is Phoenix, King Heartless and Spider Mania. These were created by the kids - Rhi, Alex & Jack. Instead of using patterns this year they pushed those aside and all three of them clamored into the kitchen, spread out their own tarp and went to work on their own. Mommy nor daddy were allowed to help in any way. Needless to say this is one proud mama seeing her kids bloom artistically. ^_~

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A Silhouetted Scene Halloween Cookies

I thought I had posted these here but it looks like I hadn't, so here we go right quick!

~*Silhouetted Halloween Cookies - Large Version Set*~

~*2 other versions of the sets - One Coffin and One Small Set*~

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Pumpkin Patch!

Can you tell I already have Halloween Fever? Yeah, don't expect this to let up anytime soon. We already have 4 large pumpkins perfect for carving sitting in my living room right now.

So what better way to keep it going than Pumpkin Cookies! Simple little design that was rather fun to do. Figured these will be perfect for the kids classmates this Halloween. Probably going to end up handing these out to Trick Or Treaters. ^_^

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One Black Night

Yeah, as you can tell I have Halloween on the Brain! These cookies re more for those that want minimal icing on their cookie. So instead of giving the cookies a base of royal icing I just dyed the dough. It came out as a beautifully rich black that when paired with the white icing came out so much better than I thought it would. If you like these you can pick them up at my Etsy Store.

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So it begins....

That time of the year. The time of the year I wait for on baited breath until that first chill of air rushes in from the Arctic and I grin...Fall has arrived, kids are in school and for me that means....

Halloween!!!!

You see, for my family, it just isn't a day of candy. It is bigger for us than Christmas. For many many reason, from heritage to just refusing to grow up, it is our most favorite time of the year! And so it started, the first Halloween Cookies. Trust me, there will be many more to come!

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Happy Halloween Charlie Brown!

Finally, just walked in the door. I was not expecting a cake drop off to turn into 3 hours at school but it did.

Turns out the class was a bit short on the parental volunteers today. So instead of me just dropping off a cake and running, leaving Jason to carve pumpkins with the kidos, I ended up staying as well. Jack in tow. lol.

Was a lot of fun in all honesty but I am beat. I do not know how teachers do this kind of thing day in and day out. I would go positively mad!Don't get me wrong, love the kids but being around that many kids that young all excited like that....Ugh, no thank you!

Karin, my hat is off to you! 

On the non pumpkin carving side of things, all the sweets went over swimmingly! The kids just adored all the cookies, especially the ones with their names on them.... Not to mention the cake! It was a smash hit!!!!!

God I am so relieved! With all the royal icing transfers breaking and me having to fall back to a back up, back up plan I was not expecting it to turn out as well as it did but hey! The look on those kids faces when they walked into class and saw the cake was evidence enough that it was going to be a good day. 

And now that is all taken care of, more to do! We still have trick or treating this evening and from what I am hearing all over town it is HUGE here! 

Rhi has a Zombie School and Dance on Friday, the churchs did their stuff this weekend, the highschool is doing a haunted house tonight, all the businesses on the Square will be open handing out candy, the neighborhood around the school is just decked out to no end and our neighborhood is sure to be a hot spot! (And then I find out from others just a little bit ago that there are even more places to hit! Oh yeah!)

Now it is time for us to get dinner together, well Jason is doing dinner for me (yay!), and then it will be time to Trick Or Treat! So on that note, gonna leave you with pictures of the cake and dart off. 

Happy Halloween!

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Monster Cookies

First off - Happy Halloween!

Now, I will post pictures of the cake later on today but these are just too adorable, in a gross way, not to post about.

I had a few cookies left over from the last batch that I didn't want to go to waste but there wasn't enough to do the next series I have planned. So, I started scouring through all the wonderful blogs I read and saw something just perfect!

Eyeball Cookies By Sweet Sugar Belle <---Those! Perfect! (Sugar Belle is just wonderful and comes up with the most creative ways to make cookies!)

So, a little bit of green, some extra cookies and a little bit later I have my very own. Granted hers are much better but hey! I love mine! Jack devoured one already, Rhi grabbed one and ran out the door to catch the bus.

Happy Halloween everyone! Be back later with the cake pictures!

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A Punkette Halloween

 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Okay, I feel better now. It has been one heck of a day and it doesn't look like it will get any better before the day it out.

I woke up this morning, sick but ready to go. Time to take all those royal icing transfers that I did for Alex's 1st grade class cake off the wax paper....1st one crumbled.....Okay, deep breath, this is why I made so many. I knew this would happen! K, try again....2nd one crumbled.....No worries, it happens, keep going! No matter how many break we have plenty, that is why I made close to 3 dozen, because I only need like 6.

Yeah well....All of them broke....well I am not sure all of them broke but I am sure they would have. I stopped about half way through them all because it was just too heart breaking. Thankfully 1 did survive! The one that is the cake topper, the most important one. So hey! Ahead 1. Back up still hasn't been touched and it will remain that way till I get the cake to the school in case the first one breaks!

Now, what in the heck am I going to do with the rest of the cake. All my border images are shot! Plan B was going to be making more transfers but there just isn't enough time to make them and hope they dry enough to remove. Not to mention if those break!

This is why everyone that decorates sweets has not only a back up plan but a back up plan for the back up plan and even sometimes a back up plan for that! So, what have I been doing all day so far? Working on that very back up plan for the back up plan.

And what is that? Fondant, lots of fondant. I am not the best fondant sculptor in the world but I can manage to do a few things. With a little patience I have managed to make a few houses and the characters. Going to be adding in fencing along the top tiers.

Thankfully I had done some fondant work yesterday. Made the two for the pumpkin patch and the pumpkins themselves. So I am not totally screwed! The cake will get done and it will look freaking fantastic for those kids tomorrow!

So, why all the pink and black? And why am I here? I needed a break that's why! Don't judge me! LOL Anywho, I did some cookies for Rhi to give out to her closest friends for Halloween tomorrow. What else could I do but Punkette! What can I say, if it is skulls and pink she adores it. Finished the actual cookies yesterday, had to let them set overnight before I bagged them.

See, they are sooo freaking cute and I HATE pink, ask anyone that knows me. I LOATH it! But hey, when something looks neat, something looks neat. Even went so far as to take a pumpkin and ribbon it up for her to carry to school tomorrow.

Not sure if she is dressing up for school tomorrow but if she is, this will match her costume perfectly - Abby from NCIS, complete with lab coat. (Should have seen her eyes light up when the coat came in.)

So, on that note I need to get back to work, and probably should actually eat some lunch. See you tomorrow!

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