Halloween ...

Well Halloween is over for another year and we had a great night!! I really love Halloween decorations, they're so much fun but now that they're down I can't wait for Christmas!!

I made some cupcakes to take to work.

And then my some of my mother's group friends came over for Trick or Treating and some dinner. Since Halloween's not really celebrated in Australia I actually organise certain neighbours for the kids to visit and provided them with some treats for the kids. Here's the kids all ready to head out (from left, Sofie, Oliver, Jared & Jack), Charlotte didn't want her photo taken and unfortunately our little friends, Lauren & Hayley & Nicola & Heidi couldn't attend.The kids had a great time Trick or Treating. Sofie picked it up really quickly!! LOL, she was very cute. It was especially nice to call on our neighbours at the end of the street because they have a little boy around 2 and he was so excited to see all the kids. Jack was so funny, I made his costume and he was asleep at the time so I didn't really have a sizing model. Every time he bent over his little plumbers crack would show because he insisted on going commando (apparently leopard's don't wear jocks). LOL

Then we headed back home for dinner. The kiddies dined on bat nuggets and chips and we had a jack-o'lantern cheese ball for nibbles and then a delicious slow cooked roast made by the Williams's with veges and for desert the Bruckner's yummy trifle, spideweb cheesecake and sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce. It was all very delish!!Here's the dinner table...pretty spooky huh?!And for liquid refreshments, Zombie Virus (lime coloured lemon, lime & bitters) and Dracula's Delight (colour altered red creaming soda). Again I just have to say how much I LOVE the Martha Stewart website!! It ROCKS!!!

And thank you to Tricia and Jason for dressing up, Jason you looked very handsome, a great partner to your smoking hot redheaded wife. I don't think I got a photo of Owen unfortunately. He was dressed as Wolverine from X-Men and had grown his sideburns in especially for it.

Last night we went to my work Christmas party at my boss's house. They had the party early because they are going to be moving home soon. WOW!! Kaye sure knows how to cater. The food was devine. Pate, dips, sushi, onion and feta tartlets for nibbles followed by roast beef, chicken wings, salads and veges for dinner and delicious tiramisu, little friands and fresh rasperries for desert. Their home is so beautifully decorated and their tastes are exquisite. The party was Melbourne Cup themed and so I made this fascinator from from flowers and foliage I bought from work and some ribbon. It was a very enjoyable night and the weather was so lovely, perfect for a patio party.

This is just a random shot of some water trapped on a spiderweb that Owen spotted in the garden. Since I started scrapbooking it's really funny the things he notices to photograph.

And lastly...I'M PUBLISHED!!! My 'smile for the camera' LO is featured in the current issue of Scrapbooking Memories magazine (Vol 10 No. 8 in case anyone wants to rush out and buy it). I'm very excited, it's only my second LO ever published. I actually havn't scrapped in ages, lack of workspace at the moment but I'm hoping to get into it again soon. I owe some friends a couple of little projects that I've been incredibly slack with and I have to get moving on my SS pressie for EB.

Anyhoo, I better run. I did a Christmas photo shoot with Jack today and I've got a ton of photos to edit.

Catch you on the flip side.