Coffee and Cashmere: Halloween

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Since I stay practically seven months behind in everything I do, I thought I should share photos from last year's Halloween. Adrienne trick-or-treated with her little besties again this year. The kids are getting older, so they are easier to wrangle. They totally had the hang of it unlike the chaos from the year before. We just sat back and watched from the end of each house's driveway. And then we went home, sent them to bed, and ate the good candy. Because PARENTS.

Oh, and here they are from the year before's Halloween! Gosh, they are growing.

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Pumpkin Cheese Ball Revisited

Last year I made a delish cheese ball that was perfect for Halloween. It would also be perfect for the Thanksgiving's Day get together!

I hope everyone had an amazing weekend! Cheers to Monday!

Glitter Spiderwebs

We have super bad weather coming our way and my head is pounding, so I'm stopping in really quick to share a great Halloween DIY. Adrienne and I made these glitter spiderwebs few years ago. It's a great craft for younger kids (and big kids, like me).

Fairytale Jubilee and American Made

Fairytale Jubilee is very dear to me. Alisha Collins, the mastermind behind the extraordinary costume shop, sent Adrienne the most beautiful princess dress in the whole wide world, a while back. The dress I chose was an already made, one-of-a-kind, gown in a size 8, which was way too big at the time. Adrienne is finally a 6t now (where has the time gone?), and I'm anxiously waiting for her to fit into it for photos. I couldn't bare for it to be hidden away in her closet, so it's been hanging on Adrienne's wall in her room, like the piece of art that it is. And believe me, anytime someone new comes over and sees her room, that's the first thing they gasp over.

Fairytale Jubilee's dresses are incredible. Here are few of my favorites from her shop:

Andplusalso, Fairytale Jubilee, has just been chosen as a 2014 American Made finalist by Martha Stewart and her panel of judges. American Made is contest that showcases up and coming businesses that handcraft amazing goods. All of the contestants make their products here in America.

And this is where I need your help! I need all of my readers to take a minute and go vote for Fairytale Jubilee for me! Go HERE to vote! The contest lasts until October 13th. There will be 10 winners: 9 chosen by the panel of judges, and 1 audience choice winner. The audience choice winner is where the voting comes in. Everyone can vote 6 times everyday. You first have to register with your email address and a password. You will then be sent an email to confirm it's you and then you can vote every day, 6 times, through October 13.

A big high five to Alisha for creating such amazing eye candy! And fingers crossed you will win. You deserve it.

Pumpkin Cheese Ball

Stopping in real quick to share a fun recipe that will be perfect for the Thanksgiving day table. I made this pumpkin cheese ball last year for Halloween, but forgot to post it both last year and this year. Opps. What can you do? I thought it could still work for Thanksgiving. Because, pumpkins.

Pumpkin Cheese Ball

|| ingredients ||

2 tsp Butter
2 tbsp chopped fresh Garlic
1 tsp Sugar
1 (8-ounce) package of softened Cream Cheese
1/4 cup softened Butter
8 ounces (2 cups) shredded sharp Cheddar Cheese
1/4 cup chopped Green Onion
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup finely crushed Cheese Nips
1 medium bell pepper with stem
Fresh cut-up vegetables or crackers to dip

- Melt 2 teaspoons butter in skillet. Add garlic and sugar. Saute garlic over medium heat until garlic starts to brown. Remove from heat.

- Combine garlic mixture, cream cheese, 1/4 cup softened butter, 8 ounces cheddar cheese, 1/4 cup chopped green onion, and 1/4 tsp salt together in a bowl. Mix well. Form mixture into a ball.

- Pour Cheese Nips into a ziplock and crush. Pour crushed crackers into a large shallow bowl or plate. Roll the cheese ball into the crackers and press to coat. Place the ball onto a serving plate.

- Cut out the stem from the bell pepper. Place it on top of the ball.

- Serve with crackers and vegetables. And done.

Halloween 4.0

Each year I tell myself I am not doing Halloween again. Ever. Sorry, kid. I'm done. And then by the time the next October comes around I'm all like, awe you are going to be so super duper cute in this outfit! Let's go trick or treating!

Then we do. And after my frizzled (is it too late for coffee, never mind, I'll take two bottles of pinot then) mind clears from the said hype of Halloween, I vow to never do it again, again.

This Halloween it rained and poured, but I knew Adrienne's little heart would have been straight crushed if we didn't solicit candy from strangers at night. Because that always makes total sense. So, we braved mother nature and met up with her little friends. Everything started off fairly sane, but then it started getting harder and harder to keep up with our massive gang of tiny-sized humans.

By the end of the sugar fueled run, Adrienne was walking like a glossy-eyed zombie baby, while shoveling as much candy into her mouth as ~~humanly~~ zombiely possible. I was about to short circuit from stepping in twentybajillion puddles and, well, from the madness of it all. I was whining and over it. I needed to go back home. To my wine. And solitude. And we did.

Thanks, Halloween, for always being on point for parents.

Read about last year's Halloween by going HERE.

I once again put her Mud Pie tutu under her bumble bee costume, because we love the poof. Wings are from the Dollar Tree. She also wore Jefferies knee-high socks and Circo glitter shoes.

Happy Halloween Guys!

It's storming pretty hard outside right now. And it's supposed to continue throughout the day and night. Joy of joys. One thing I love doing is trick or treating in the rain. Not. But, Adrienne has been waking up each morning for the past month straight asking if it was Halloween or not. I can't let this kid down. So, we will brave the torrential downpours and go.

I wanted to share this year's photos of Adrienne from the pumpkin patch, plus the previous years, because, well, it's sad and amazing all at the same time. Time, you are a B word.

4th Halloween
She was more into rolling the pumpkins more than anything.