Happy Halloween Hello Kirsti Readers!!!!

I’ve got a special Halloween treat and recipe for you today.

As you know, I’m a teacher, and from time to time I like to surprise my co-workers with a sweet little treat to help them get through the week.

The recipe I used is a Christmas candy recipe. There are a million different ways to doctor this recipe. I’ve added sprinkles to make it more festive for different holidays and it’s all about the packaging (isn’t it!?!?!).

I’ve got to warn you---this candy is addictive, hence why I call it Candy Crack. I cannot confirm nor deny that I’ve eaten an entire batch on my own! (You won’t tell, will you?)

Candy Crack Recipe

2 bags of White Chocolate Melts (or 2 bags of white chocolate chips)
1 cup of peanut butter
4 cups of Rice Krispies
2 cups of marshmallows
2 cups roasted peanuts

Before you begin, you’ll need to get out a large (read: GIANT) bowl. Place the peanuts, rice krispies, and marshmallows inside and mix them together with a spatula. At this point you’ll want to lay out some sheets of wax paper. Enough to cover about 2 cookie sheets.
In a separate, microwave safe, bowl combine the chocolate and peanut butter. Microwave for 1 minute. Remove and stir. Continue microwaving at 20 second intervals until chocolate is melted. Be careful not to overheat the chocolate. It will still look like chips, you’ll need to stir it to make it smooth.
Immediately pour chocolate mixture over cereal mix. Stir until coated.
Drop mixture by the spoonful onto the wax paper. Do this quickly as it will harden within about 10 minutes.

Once cool you can place it in a plastic zip up bag and it will keep for up to a week (if you can resist it for that long!).

I packaged mine in cute little orange craft boxes I purchased at Target. I placed a wax paper liner in each before putting in the treat. Figured I should put some cute labels on them to get people in the spirit.

You can get those labels here: LABELS

Hope you’re Halloween is filled with tricks and treats!

-Bestie

Do you remember the Nickelodeon cartoon Doug? Do you remember his imaginary super hero self, Quailman?

One of our friends had a “Super Hero” themed birthday party, so I helped one of my BFF’s Kelsey make her costume. I went as Edna from the Incredibles since I made her costume.
I was working on this pretty quickly before the party, so I don’t have step by step photos, nothing was too complicated though.

We swapped out Porkchop for Quail-Squirrel, since the Alpha Gamma Delta mascot is a squirrel. Quail squirrel was outfitted with a red jersey scrap “Q” and a scrap cape fastened with a red ribbon.

We decided that a leather belt would be to heavy and uncomfortable to wear all evening so I whipped up a belt using 2 small d-rings and some webbing. I sewed the d-rings on first, then had Kelsey try it on, once we had the size right, I doubled over the excess webbing and sewed a pipe cleaner folded in half sandwiched between the two layers. To make it stand up I folded it up and tack stitched it so it would stay upright.

The cape was easy, it is 1 yard of bright red cotton, I folded over 1 of the short edges and sewed a casing, then using a safety pin I fished some red ribbon through the casing.

The shirt is just a green men’s tee-shirt. To add the “Q” I traced a “Q” onto some Heat n Bond Ultra Hold (Don’t forget to trace your Q backwards like I did!) After tracing the Q I ironed it to some scrap red jersey fabric. then carefully cut out the “Q” along my traced lines. Then you can iron the “Q” directly onto the shirt. (Since I forgot to mirror my “Q” I ended up tack stitching the Q to the shirt since we liked the shiny texture, and that way Kelsey can reuse the shirt in a future costume.
Other costume elements that were purchased were: khaki shorts, men’s tidy whiteys, and brown sneakers.

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On Monday Carol over at Fun Threads, posted the pattern for this little cutie, with his full Texas get up that totally translates to Nashville, I HAD to make him. (Hurry the pattern is no longer free after Thursday! He’s soo cute he’s worth paying for though =)

This might be the fastest, first sight to almost completion project, ever!
Monday Night: I printed the pattern, and was super happy and surprised I had the right color fabrics and fat quarters.
Tuesday:  I made him, all that’s left is the binding but I think I want to make another hanging on the back, maybe a turkey?
As Carol promised he went together quickly, and her directions and layouts were great, this was my first ever ‘more than a tee shirt’ applique project, so I was surprised!
I added some embroidery thread to  “tie up the treats” and made a feeble attempt to decorative/texture stitch the boot soles and pumpkin stem. Then hand embroidered “Treats” on the bag, and around the pumpkin.
 

What are you waiting for, don’t you need a Mr. October?

Bonus Tip:

Grid Ruler on top of an ipad with the screen on = temporary light box… at least until the cat decides Heat ‘n’ bond paper is fun to sit on. (Pepper’s latest idea… sitting in the crockpot, video here).


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Wood die cuts picked at Michael's after Halloween last year for cheap

I had lots of little wood cut outs left over from the doll house, so I used them to add some dimension.


The Bat turned out really cute, in black, purple, and green.

I made some solid color crepe rose balls in lime green, purple, and black.

These make a great hostess gift since they take less than an hour, look at the cute tag I made.

Black rose ball with a purple bow.

Still need to make y'all a crepe rose video, I promise I haven't forgotten, it's just hard to film!