13 Days of Halloween: Day Seven

When the leaves start changing, the wind starts moaning, and the temperature drops to a deathly chill, we start craving pumpkin. There is something about sitting in your kitchen, watching leaves fall past your window that makes us want to make a big mess, and bake up a storm. Considering Thanksgiving has a monopoly on pumpkin pie, we figured it is the perfect time for pumpkin bread! Our recipe is adapted from Stonyfield Farms website, and will make your place smell delicious. It is moist, not too sweet, and tastes even better a day or two (or three...) after baking. Ready? Here we go.

13 Days of Halloween: Day Five

Halloween Inspiration!

13 Days of Halloween: Day Four

We love pumpkin patches. 

 

We really, really, truly do. Some may say it borders on obsession. We would agree. Why? Because we take hundreds of photos at each pumpkin patch. Because we go through them ( all of them) numerous times a year. Because we exclaim over pumpkins like each is a newly born child. Because we sincerely believe that we (and everyone else) are more beautiful while amongst pumpkins. Normally screaming children can annoying. Not in a pumpkin patch. In a pumpkin patch, they are delightful, adorable ghouls. The pumpkins, and the places where they grow, are magic. 

 

We go to pumpkin patches every year. For us it is one of the highlights of fall. We usually look for them online, and it's not hard to find patches with farm stores, hay rides, snack shacks, espresso, hay rides, petting zoos, roasted corn, corn mazes, crafts for children, and more...even in the city. There's still time to go find your pumpkin before Halloween! 

 

Here are a some ( well, okay, a lot) of our favorite pumpkin patch pictures from over the years.

13 Days of Halloween: Day Three

 

We've got monsters on the brain. Big time. All the time. We also have a year round craving for everything and anything antiqued, cobwebbed, and creepy. So, even though this photo shoot was done in the summertime, we thought now would be a good time to broadcast it here.

Back home, one of our mothers has the ultimate creepy garage, complete with an accumulation of spider webs that have taken our eight legged friends years, maybe decades, to produce.The light is dim, and the surroundings are altogether dingy. It didn't take much alteration to turn it into a Victorian scientist's laboratory (Luh-bore- uh-tor-ee, not Lab-ruh-tory).

We simply added candelabras, dried flowers, yards of wispy tulle, and a few spell books to complete the scene. In this shoot, a scientist with a taste for the occult studies his subjects: a new bitten vampire and a lady werewolf. Costumes were sourced from our own wardrobes and from our friend's closets (which, luckily, included exactly what was needed). With the makeup, we tried to create implications of the monsters rather than full-on B-movie special effects. We are in love with the results of this photo shoot. The lighting, the set, the costumes, and make-up all came together exactly as we had envisioned. Can you guess the storyline from these photos?

13 Days of Halloween: Day Two

Today is the second day in our countdown to Halloween! It might be a little earlier to start wearing a costume, but that doesn't mean you can't be festive! Nails can add a little spooky touch to everyday outfits. Here are a few Halloween nail tutorials, ranging from quick and simple to a little more complex. They were all done with a variety of nail polish brands, most of them drugstore brands (wet'n'wild is a cheap but nice brand; it goes on pretty opaque). They can be done with any colors, really, so you can use whatever you have on hand!

Step One: Apply orange polish to your whole nail (or black if you want to reverse it)

Step Two: Paint a line of black diagonally across the tip of your nail from left to right

Step Three: Paint a diagonal from the opposite side of your nail so that the tip is covered. You can go over the tip one more time to even everything out

There you go; a fast and easy way to add a little Halloween touch to your outfit. Want something a little more complex? Read on for mummies, candy corn, and more!

13 Days of Halloween: Day One

Welcome to the first post of our "13 Days of Halloween" countdown! Tune in for 13 days of ghoulish crafts, spooky adventures, creepy decor, and inspiration for your own October celebrations. To kick off the countdown, we'd like to share a couple of Halloween-inspired everyday outfits....