Thursday, October 31, 2013

happy trick or treat, smell my feet nite!

well, the day has finally arrived.
i am officially half a century old.

a crazy old lady who makes crazy stuff.
i will not argue the point.

this is proof of my insanity:
so if you are looking to get crazy with me, click on the picture so you can make this if you are a fan of pumpkins:
                              
                          
if you like cute treats and are ambitious, make these:
ok so you are not ambitious? well i do not blame you! 
try these then:
what? 
you're a little bit ambitious but not to the point of nuttiness and spending 7 hours in the kitchen making treats?
ok, try this:
 
huh? there is waaay too much sugar going on?
ok one final option to choose.
how 'bout these?
still not interested?
ok guess i will try to make more craziness for you next halloween.
in the meantime, have a wonderful fun holiday and remember, 
it's all about the candy.







Tuesday, October 29, 2013

silly pumpkin, bat and spider cake pops

are you like sick and tired of halloween yet?
are you like sooooo over the scary treats you could just die from redundancy already?

i mean, we've only had halloween posts since august on some blogs and it feels like halloween will never get here.

but alas, it will be here soon enough so i am gonna squeeze another halloween treat here.
so if you are sick of the holiday already, 
run, run as fast as you can!
but if you can stomach one more treat, 
well, then here ya go.
inspired by this scrapbook paper.
they come from the same line as these jars that i made a few weeks back.

i made these transfers for them not from royal icing, but from candy melt in a ziploc bag then kept frozen til ready to use.
you'll see in a sec that i didn't use all the transfers, as sometimes it was easier to just draw on the pops with a toothpick and melted candy melt than to transfer them. i just didn't plan too well ahead of time and apparently like to kill myself doing extra work :>P

anywho,
i used this frosting mixed with yellow cake mix and made the caramel bits rolled into stems.
made a bunch of irregular shaped cake pops in various sizes.

i didn't care about making them all matchy matchy same sized either. 

i often wonder how the heck cake pop people do that anyway without a mold?!?!... 

oh well, where were we?
oh yeah,
 then i got to work.
so you can see here, the candy melt transfers came to good use for the legs and wings. but when you attach them you gotta act fast so they don't melt from the heat of your hand.

and here is the finished project:
aren't they silly?

i messed up a little though, like on this one but was able to fix it by picking out the weird eyebrow lookin' eye, adding and smoothing out more candy melt and then drawing the right one using a toothpick..


guess there's nothing left to do now but say
what? is it gonna be halloween already?
why didn't anybody say something?
:>O





Monday, October 28, 2013

eyeball gumball necklaces

another one of a million trips to michael's and target is where all this came from...
extra set of eyes?
hey i need some myself!
especially since the ones i have now are getting quite tired along with the rest of my body...
dang it's heck gettin' old!



Sunday, October 27, 2013

haunted ghost tree centerpieces

like every single year that i can remember,
i have a halloween party.

like every single year that i can remember,
i cram soooo much stuff into having it.

like every single year that i can remember,
i make centerpieces for the tables.

like every single year that i can remember,
i cut pretty darn close into time and never seem to have enough of it.

soooooo,
 today i made centerpieces.
and they were quick!

so when it comes to craftmaking, 
these are on the easy scale. 
plus they are quick(did i say that already?)
aside from the drying time. 
ready?






and look you're done!

so if you're pressed for time like i always am, 
don't get scared,
and always






Thursday, October 24, 2013

frankenstein body rice krispies

let's go visit what dr. frankenstein 
is up to today shall we?

IGOR!!!
yes master?!
TODAY WE ARE GOING TO CREATE LIFE!
yes master?!
GO GET SOMETHING TO CREATE BODIES!
PERFECT!
NOW LINE THE BODIES UP ON THE TABLE!
PERFECT!
NOW GO GET SOME BODY PARTS!
DO NOT QUESTION ME IGOR!
JUST DO AS I SAY AND GRAB SOME GREEN SKIN COLORING!
WE MUST CREATE THE FACES!
PERFECT!
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL AREN'T THEY IGOR?
EVERYONE WILL ENVY THEM!
NOW GET SOME JACKETS FOR THEM 
SO THEY WILL BE PRESENTABLE!
NOW GRAB THE ARMS!
IGOR! DO NOT PLAY WITH THE BODY PARTS AND GET TO WORK!
uh sorry master...
NOW ATTACH THE ARMS TO THE BODIES!
AND GET THEM PANTS FOR GOODNESS SAKES!
REMEMBER TO BE CAREFUL WITH THE LEGS!
PERFECT IGOR!
PERFECT!!!








 uh oh.
Igor's in trouble.
he shouldn't of used that cheap hair dye...

sources for igor and doc here, here, here, here, here and here.