Homemade Fall Wreath

I have always wanted to have a fall wreath to hang on the front door, however every year by the time I start looking at Autumnal themed wreaths, fall has passed and it's already x-mas.

I bought my x-mas wreath several years ago. It is a Martha Stewart Everyday brand wreath from Kmart. The wreath has frosty fake snow and is stringed with white lights. to this day I have not had to replace a single bulb. I like that all the things I buy from Martha Stewart always have some recipe or idea. I got some bows last year that said the first Christmas card appeared in London in 1843, however sending holiday cards did not become popular in the United States until the 1870s.

So this year I decided no matter what I was going to have a fall wreath. I looked at some stores but did not like the prices. I could wait until after Thanksgiving when they would likely be discounted but by then it's time to put the x-mas stuff up.

Looking through my decorating stuff and found I had several fall garlands that I used last year for work that I was not using this year. I got my crafty gloves on and cut a circle out of a cardboard box and then spray painted it. I cut up several of the garlands into smaller usable pieces and then hot glued them onto the cardboard box. The finished wreath looked awesome.

cupcakes...

Last week Armandzraven's sister asked if he would make some desserts to donate to their school. The school was putting together a fund raiser by asking parents to donate homemade desserts to sell so the kids could have a Halloween party on of course Halloween. So he made a sugar-free lemon cake with sugar-free frosting, cinnamon rolls, and cupcakes.

About a week earlier I had bought the Martha Stewart Holiday Halloween Special magazine. Her magazines are always full of ideas. In this one there were ideas on how to make cupcakes fit for a Halloween party.

So he made all the desserts and then I helped him decorate the cupcakes to look like witches and used the idea on the magazine as reference. We skipped the licorice that the magazine suggested for the hair and eyebrows and instead just piped out the hair and eyebrows for the witches from chocolate frosting. We also used Hershey's Kissables instead of M&M's for the eyes as their little peaks make better for sticking into the cupcake. Our cupcake witches did not come out as perfect as the ones pictured on the magazine, but they were good enough, and that's a good thing. :)

Around noon we dropped off the desserts at his sister's. It was fun putting the witch cupcakes together. This was this past Saturday, 10/20/2007.