(The purr-fect costume??) You are looking at my daughter’s darling Halloween cat costume. The one she swears she’ll never wear again. She wore the cute and cuddly getup a couple of years ago during her All Hallows’ Eve candy collecting adventures, but don’t look for her to ever go trick-or-treating again dressed as a fluffy feline because “only little kids dress up as cats.” P.S. She’s eight. I spent the better half of last night explaining to her that she most certainly could dress-up as a cat again if she desired. We’d just tailor the outfit to make it look … Continue reading →

Are you looking forward to some spooky meals in the near future? Maybe you’re planning a Halloween party for kids or their adults. If you want to create a spooky-looking table, here are a few ideas. Create a scene. Get an orange or black tablecloth and get the kids to stamp it with Halloween pumpkins or black cats. If you’re feeling crafty, glue or appliqué these images onto the tablecloth. Do the same with placemats and napkins. Add a spider or a black cat to the top of the napkin ring. Make pumpkins or haunted houses into a Halloween centerpiece. … Continue reading →

This Halloween, we’re making an entrance. Not with our costumes, that is for sure. I am not all that proficient at sewing, and I must confess that we just bought my daughter’s costume secondhand at a thrift store. It is homemade from some home, though. Guilt, guilt. No, I like decorating our house instead. Kids grow and you need to make them costumes every year – the nerve! Houses, well, sometimes they grow, but generally they stay the same approximate dimensions. We have the usual skeletons and mini-pumpkins in the trees and spiders and black cats on the window. Gradually, … Continue reading →