A FAST FUN Halloween Treat!

Make your own Halloween Chocolate Suckers!
Please visit my website for an AWESOME "How-to" slide show to see how fun and easy it is to upgrade your Trick-or-Treat Goodies! Here's the direct link to the slide show: For more great receipes visit http://www.thekendalcompanies.com/Recipes---DIY-Projects.html

Witches Fingers and Toes! YUMMY!

Halloween is creeping in on us....are you ready? I have tons of great ideas for Halloween fun including recipes, craft ideas and last minute decorating on my website but here is a little taste:
Witches Fingers and Toes1 Can Pillsbury Bread Sticks
Whole Almonds
Red Food Coloring
Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
Little Sausages
Melted Butter

FINGERS:
Paint the end of each almond piece with a little water and red food coloring, lay to dry. Separate each bread stick and lay flat on a cookie sheet. Push together to create "knuckles" in three places on each "finger." Put the almond on the end of each piece to create the fingernails. Brush each piece with melted butter and bake as directed.
TOES:
Unroll the crescent rolls. Cut each section into 2 pieces. Starting at the corner of each piece, put a sausage on the dough and roll up, leaving a little piece sticking out for the toes. Bake as directed. Serve with a basic marinara sauce and label it "Blood Clot sauce!"


WITCH WINDOW SILHOUETTE




I used two black foam boards (from Hobby Lobby) tapes together and a stencil I printed off the Internet (try ww.marthastewart.com). I simply enlarged the stencil and marked off where to cut with a piece of chalk. I then used fishing line and thumb tacks to hang it in the front window.


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On my website I even have a great slide show of how to make your own chocolate Halloween suckers and oreo balls. I got the oreo balls idea from http://www.bakerella.com/ so be sure to click over and check out her GREAT blog too!


Click over to http://www.thekendalcompanies.com/ before it's too late!

FYI - This week almost all of the candy coupons out there will expire on Saturday. CVS, Rtie Aid, even Ingles and Publix have great deals for Halloween candy. Check out http://www.southernsavers.com/ for the best deals. Use up your coupons this week for your child's school party, your trick-or-treater's candy, or donate the candy to your church fall festival or even just drop it off at the local children's or women's shelter for an added treat!

NOTE ON DONATING TO SHELTERS: For obvious safety reasons, I cannot post the addresses for these shelters. Please call the shelter for directions on dropping off the candies. Thanks!

Bartow County Children's Shelter - Call Patty @ ph 770-382-6180 (Advocates for Children)
Bartow Women's Shelter - Call 770-386-8093 (Tranquillity House)

Halloween Treats!

I LOVE Halloween. That's no secret - what is a secret is another one of my new obsessions: http://www.bakerella.com/ I've been making her Oreo Balls for awhile but she just keeps getting more and more great ideas. Check out what she does with her cake balls for Halloween: http://www.bakerella.com/trick-or-treats/

On my own website, I've added the recipe I use and a few photos of my own oreo balls and chocolate molds for Halloween.

You can buy the supplies and molds at Hobby Lobby and Michael's. Ebay has a HUGE selection of molds for about the same price (that's where I get most of mine). Don't forget to get the bags and twist ties too! Great for school Fall festivals and to give your Trick-or-Treater's! Make them ahead of time - they keep for months! Sometimes I even add a little tag to them (found in the card making section at Hobby Lobby) to personalize them. They are EASY AS PIE! Check out the "How-to" slide show on my website:

 

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Great Pumpkin Craft Idea

Here's a GREAT way to combine your football spirit AND help that pumpkin live past Jack-o-lanturn season!

Just take acrylic paint and paint the outside to look like your team's (hopefully it's UGA) helmet. The one pictured below even has a bulldog face painted inthe helment. CUTE! No need to throw these pumpkins away as they will last for weeks - at least until the DAWGS make it to the Sugar Bowl in January. For more great Halloween craft ideas, vivist: http://www.thekendalcompanies.com/CraftHowTos.html

Halloween Newsletter Released Today

The Kendal Companies Halloween Edition Newsletter came out today - if you aren't a subscriber, click the link below to view (and sign up for future editions). Enjoy!

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs042/1102176382703/archive/1102765101919.html

I LOVE October

Maybe it's because it brings College Football. Maybe it's the fall leaves. Maybe it's that Halloween is one of my FAVORITE holidays (after St. Pat's day - hey! I'm Irish!). OR maybe because it's my birthday!!! Anyway - I DO love October. Over the past few years I've really collected a huge Halloween decor and recipe collection. If you check my website you can find more great photos of past decor/food and craft ideas. My favorite is pictured above - My front door....all I used was a dead limb I found in the woods behind our house, one bag of fake spider web, a piece Styrofoam and a few fake roses from Hobby Lobby, and some black paint. Cutting the foam into the tombstone made a huge mess, so do that outside when you paint it and the roses. Use red roses and lightly paint the ends black (to make them look like they are dead). The kids loved it! They also loved the Witches Fingers and Toes I made from Crescent Rolls (see website for recipe). Happy Decorating!! BTW - I like real rose too - hint, hint!