Halloween: cupcakes

As I said in my last blog, my wife doesn't really love carving pumpkins but she does some creatives things though: making cupcakes. It's a hobby she recently picked up and tries to expand. Her first go at the cupcakes was this:

Everything was bought in the supermarket so if she didn't like decorating them, this would be it. But she loved making them and wanted to try more. Her second chance came when we had a family fishing trip and the next day was my birthday. She decided to make special cupcakes for everyone so a trip to the cake shop in town it was. :-) This was the result:

With Halloween coming up, a trip to the cake shop was needed for new molds and stuff. Everything's home made: the buttercream, the decorations are made with the molds and painted on with edible markers and chocolat was melted and poored into a mold to make the chocolate bats. Here's the result:

Again, if you want to see more click here. You'll even see the ghost visiting Spooky Town. :-) Have fun!

Halloween: pumpkins and garden

Halloween is a while ago, but we were busy with all kinds of things, so I only had time to blog about Halloween now.

This year we were late with everything. Normally, we start Halloweening the house at 1 October, but now work and time got in the way. I don't know about you, but man, time's flying lately! Then, the local newspaper called: they wanted an interview. Twitter actually works :-) because we followed the local newspaper on Twitter and then they contacted us for an interview. So now we had to speed things up to get everything ready. Maybe for the better because who knows what we made of Halloween otherwise.

First thing we did is build up Spooky Town after a little shopping for new figurines of course. :-) I have to get better pictures though, so I'll upload them in a few days.

Then it was time to cover the parking place next to our house with sods. Someone was so generous as to donate them to us, so many thanks go out to them!

Then it was time to turn it into a graveyard:

All of the stones were made by me (Albert) a few years ago for an event. Of course it's a shame to only use it one weekend, so we decided to use it again now. We made it more realistic with fallen leaves:

Of course it's more creepy in the evening:

What's a Halloween garden without carved pumpkins? My wife thinks they're a pain in the ass LOL, but for me it's relaxing to do and I love how I can make the pumpkins look. My wife loves how they look and thinks they're really beautiful, but she's just not into making them. Here are the ones I'm most proud of:

It was a really bad pumpkin year this year. We had to go through a lot of trouble to get big ones and then we had to find out the pumpkins were going bad the day after we carved them. We never had so much trouble with them and so I had to carve more pumpkins to change them and have beautiful pumpkins untill Halloween. Usually the pumpkins begin to rot after a week, so it was really bad. Hopefully next year will be a lot better.

If you'd like to see more of our Halloween 2011 click here. There's even a little movie which shows some grave stones actually move! :-)