Wishing everybody a scary Halloween!

The kids had friends coming around during school holidays and we made those really easy to make last minute tea light holders.
We used yoghurt pots, glued orange paper on it, painted scary faces (more or less) on it and on top wound ivory, we found earlier in the garden.

A new mini pumpkin had to be painted, since the boys were playing football with the previous one and he did not look happy any more :-).

 

Together they make a great deco for today!

With Halloween only a few days away the kids and I have been busy with decorating the house and garden.

This year we made a giant spider:

which also looks nice in the garden:

and painted some pumkins:

I am in the middle of preparing my little girl's forth birthday party.  So far I got the dips ready, baked the cake and will get started on the icing soon.

Earlier this week I made already some flowers out of gum paste.  Of course they do not look great, especially since I do not roll the paste thin enough to avoid it flipping over etc, nor am I willing to invest in any more baking tools, since I do cakes twice a year (= two children).

However, I do like my flowers, so I thought I stick them on my blog.  I really did not do much, just rolling it flat and sticking it all somehow together.  Perfectly all right for a little girls birthday :-)

these are my favourites

those ones I made for the impatient sweet theeths who can not wait

like those ones - just for fun!