I wanted to make a yummy treat for Halloween this year and I have been seeing tons of cute cupcakes, so I decided to give it a try. I must confess...I've never decorated cupcakes before. I'm sure I've made them and slopped some frosting on top (I actually don't even remember doing that), but I know I've never tried to decorate them cute.

To get into the Halloween spirit I went with monster cupcakes. They tasted good and looked OK, so I was happy.

Filled with a little orange cream cheese filling.

Since we already had a Halloween dinner early with the family I didn't go all out on the food, I just decorated a little.

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Strung a creeping spiderweb at the table and hung 3 balloons...haha nothing fancy.

And guacamole Frank joined us at the table to make us feel like it was Halloween!

Acorn Owls

Do you happen to have acorns laying under all your trees like we do? You better pick a few up...they are sure to entertain the little ones for a while.

Hot glue the felt pieces right onto the acorn, the possibilities are endless.

We may have to go gather a few more, who knows what we could come up with for the Christmas season.

Nail Art

Check out this rockin' new way to paint your nails. It probably would be fifty times cooler if I had tons of bright colors, but since my nail polish collection consists only of shades of PINK and 2 tiny bottles of silver, I had to work with what I had.

Water Marble Nails!

Ignore the fact that my nails are nonexistent (no I don't bite them...I tear them. I know it's awful)

First, put multiple drops of nail polish in a cup of water, dropping the polish directly in the center of the previous drop that now has spread towards the outer edge of the cup.

Take a toothpick and make your sweet little design, pulling from the outside of the polish circle to the center (the polish will dry so you want to do this part rather fast).

Dip your nail in the water...While your nail is in the water take your toothpick and clean up polish that is floating, lift your finger out and.....tada!!

I suggest taping your finger (see above) so the polish sticks to the tape and not your finger, or you'll have a slight mess all over your skin like so...

Looks pretty cool, until you realized you misplaced your nail polish remover and you walk around with not only your nails painted but your finger painted, then you feel kinda silly....I wouldn't know but I'm just guessing ; )

So if you have extra cool colors and beautiful long nails, you should try this, and show me pictures...I won't feel bad when your's looks SO much cooler than mine, besides... it is only my first try!

P.S. it kinda takes forever, so make sure you have a spare minute(X)30.

Bow Pillow

I have been in the process of changing colors in my family room, so I decided that matching pillows would definitely help out my cause (My red pillows were really throwing the colors off like crazy).

First I made the top portion on the bow. Hemmed the edges of a rectangle, sewed a loop around the center to make it look more like a bow and sewed the ends into the pillow.

Slide this little strip in the loop and...

You have yourself a beautiful bow on your pillow.