BOO!

Gotta love a good "trashy" vintage Halloween card!

What's not to love about Halloween?  It's really just a big party with lots of fake blood, pumpkin guts and sugar.  Bring it!

DECOR
I tend to go a little over the top with decorations, voila my mantel:

Love this vintage inspired Halloween garland from FernEllaDesigns on Esty:

STEP AWAY BORING ORANGE PUMPKIN!  Look at these chic squashes (squashi?). You can make them too, check out the Glitter Guide.

CRAFTING

If your are feeling crafty and/or want some great on-the-cheap recycled Halloween decorations, try these votives!  Super fun for kids.  We made these on a playdate last year.  For materials and directions, check out skiptomylou.

TREATS and LIBATIONS

These little OREO-ish darlings made by Butter on Dunbar in Vancouver are perfect for Halloween parties.  Just add orange or green food colouring to the icing to ghoul it up a bit.  Thanks to the Vancouver Sun, you can make these layers of deliciousness yourself with this recipe.

For the adult Halloween party, there are some awesome red wines all done up for Halloween:

Evil, The Velvet Devil, Moon Curser, Killer Cab.

And for a perfect November 1st sugar (and wine) detox, try Kimberly Snyder's GLOWING GREEN SMOOTHIE.  They're awesome!

SPOOKY STATIONERY

We have tons of scary Halloween cards for sale in our online BOO-TIQUE!  10% off all cards until October 31st at FLAUNT SHOP!

Have a great time Trick-or-treating!

Boo, 

Shannon

Will leave you with a Halloween flashback!

Me and my big bro Steve clownin' around circa 1980.

HALLOWEENY TIMES

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!

It's nearly here!  Time to get your ghoul on!  Halloween is definitely my favourite holiday.  It's the no stress, no gift pressure and no huge dinner to cook holiday. There are so many fun elements about Halloween - here are some of my picks.

DECOR:

Paper Source, one of my faves (if only we had it in Canada) has tons of great spooky ideas!  I bought this spider garland when I was in NYC, but you can order on-line.  Brianna (my 4 year old) and I put it together! So easy!

Pumpkin carving has come a long way from cutting out triangles! For some great tips check out this link.

www.today.msnbc.msn.com

TREATS  

I need to make some Halloween treats for both of my daughter's classes.  I dream of bringing in the treat that all mother's swoon over, envying my baking and creative prowess.  So I did a little Google search.

How cute are these witches?  I love them.  Could I make them?  No.  For these and a ton of other Halloween treats that less than 1% of the population can pull off, check out Parents. (How ironic is that?)

Now I can probably do these.  The owls maybe, but I could totally kick the fruit skewers and cheese & crackers out of the park.

One Charming Party

GREETINGS

Don't forget to send some spooky wishes to friends and family.  Here are some of our Halloween designs.  Available on www.flauntshop.com

So as it stands (this inevitably will change on the day of) we have a strawberry short cake and a tiger hitting the Halloween streets.  Dave and I will be gunslingers, though I am a tad worried that the costume I ordered is sluttier than anticipated.  Must find a way to tone that down for the kiddos:)

And alas, the best part of trick-or-treating is to have wine in hand - it's become our adult tradition.  See, red wine can look scary:)

Happy Halloween Everyone!

-Shannon