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Posted on October 26, 2012 by

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 {carved my bow pumpkin last night}
My week was filled with tons of mini Halloween and fall get-togethers. My weekend will be filled with watching the Tigers and Giants game, mani/pedi girls day and venturing out around Pittsburgh. What are your weekend plans?
 {candy from last nights scary movie get-together}
 {current gilded nails}
 {loving fall}
{we\’re in the world series}

Halloween Signature Cocktail

Posted on October 25, 2012 by

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Having a signature cocktail makes the cocktail aspect of your party effortless and cheaper. I love picking a drink that ties into the theme of the party. To jazz the glasses up I melted pink colored chocolate and dripped it around the rim of each glass as well as added a small amount of Disco Dust creating a sparkly and spooky look. The perfect part of this cocktail, you can skip the alcohol and it still will look the same.
Halloween Signature Cocktail
4 parts Sprite (or any other lemon-lime pop)
.5 parts Grenadine
1.5 parts Cherry flavored Vodka (optional)
Mix all ingredients in a large pitcher and keep chilled. Place a cherry in every glass and let your guests pour their own drinks when they arrive and refill as desired.

Spider Web Cupcakes

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

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The Thirteen Nights of Halloween is in full swing on ABC Family. In anticipation of Halloween I invited a couple girlfriends over on Saturday to watch Hocus Pocus. I wanted to make a treat that would be thematic, but not too cheesy. I settled on cupcakes, but with a twist. They’re chocolate cupcakes with homemade chocolate buttercream, topped with a white chocolate spider web, a “bloody” cherry infused center and finished with a plastic spider on top.

Apple Crunch

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

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Ever since I went apple picking a few weeks back, I haven’t really made any recipes that feature apples besides apple fritters and gourmet caramel apples. However, the temperature dipped into the 30’s over the weekend making it the perfect opportunity to turn on the oven. I decided on apple crunch; a sweet and gooey inside like an apple pie with a crunchy cake-like topping, a scoop of vanilla ice cream from Sarris paired with pumpkin carving made for the quintessential fall evening. 

Apple Crunch
Ingredients
4 to 6 medium apples, peeled, cored and chopped
1 cup sugar + 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; combined
1 tablespoon butter, cut in small pieces

Topping
½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons butter
1 egg

Directions
1. Mix apples and cinnamon sugar mixture together. Place in a greased 8 inch glass baking dish and add at butters pieces.
2. Combine topping ingredeients, stir until blended and spread over apples.
3. Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes or until topping has cooked. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

How To: Create a Rope Braid

Posted on October 22, 2012 by

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Michigan’s weather is always unpredictable. With fall comes countless days of windblown hair. Braids are the perfect way to counterbalance a windy day. A rope or unicorn braid is my recent favorite; it takes only minutes to make, and still looks adorable after a breezy day.

1. begin with semi straightened hair (mine was very wind blown) and grab two small sections at your crown.

 2. place the right piece of hair over the left and repeat again.

 3. add some hair to the right and left section section, and then place the right section over the left.

4. continue adding hair to each side and crossing the right section over the left. add a hair tie when finished. 

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