Halloween Pictures and a New Piece!

I finally got around to uploading the pictures from Halloween! Better late than never right? I made a half tutu for my peacock tail and then I created a headpiece to match, I'm really happy with how the costume turned out!

I also added another piece to my Etsy shop today! I've been hard at work making holiday gifts making earrings, bracelets and necklaces! Crafting galore!

My sister came home for the 30th, I always enjoy getting to spend time with her!

My costume

My newest Etsy piece!

Hope your day is sunny and bright!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

My mom and I carved pumpkins and our little witch got set out this morning! Now we wait until nightfall when all the pumpkins will be glowing!

Witchy goodness!

My pumpkin!

My mom's pumpkin!

Wishing you a safe and Happy Halloween!!

Halloween Blog Tour and The Moonlit Dandelion Grand Opening Giveaway!!

Welcome to all the witches, warlocks and bloggers from near and far to my blog! A special welcome to those of you who've wandered over on Mrs. B's Halloween Haunted blog tour!

Happy Monday!

I'm Krissy and welcome to Thinking of Blue, my little spot in the universe!

Here you will find a pinch of inspiration, a dash of sarcasm, some beautiful photographs and an entrance into my daily life!

I LOVE Halloween and all the fun and celebratory goodness that comes with holidays!

I love dressing up and decking the house out!

This year I've had some great fun making Halloween crafts!

You can find out how I made a Frankenstein Piggy Bank HERE!

You can see the witches cupboard ingredients I collected and glass jack-o-lanterns I crafted HERE!

Feel free to wander around but beware of the trick-or-treaters that you may run into!

Today is a doubly special day as not it's not only my haunted blog tour day but it is also the opening day of my Etsy shop The Moonlit Dandelion!

As part of the opening celebration I'll be giving away one of my favorite pieces from the shop!

The piece is shown with a pink Swarovski crystal but the winner will be able to choose any color they'd like!

There are two steps to enter the giveaway!

The first is to follow my blog (this is very important as this is where I will be announcing the winner)! If you're already a follower-(thank you!) that counts too!

The second is to go to the shop HERE, come back and tell me which color crystal charm you'd choose!

Now the options for extra entries! (You can get up to SIX extra entries!)

For each extra entry please leave a SEPARATE comment!

(It makes it so much easier for the random number picker to find a winner!)

1. Tell me the word that inspires you most!

2. Follow me on Twitter! @ThinkingOfBlue

3. Follow my shop The Moonlit Dandelion on Twitter! @TMDandelion

4. Become a Facebook Fan! HERE

5. Announce this giveaway on Twitter! (come back with the link!)

6. Write a post on your blog about this giveaway! (come back with the link!)

The giveaway will end Tuesday night at midnight pacific time!

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope I'll be seeing you around here soon!

Happy Halloween!!

2 Weeks Until Halloween! Crafts and Color Changing Leaves Galore!

In the few free minutes I've had lately I've been crafting away! I created some Halloween Glass Jars and some Witches Potion Ingredients!

I've also been trying to catch some of the beauty of the beautiful trees as their leaves change colors and the rain that was pouring down the first half of the week (It's bright and sunny now!)

Halloween "lanterns"!

The tea light inside is a battery operated one so I don't have to worry about walking away from it.

The "Potion Ingredients"!

(From left- poisinous catipillar, witches sticks, skelliton hands, bat fur and toxic potion)

I've already gathered up a few other ingrediants that I havn't packaged yet such as freeze dried spiders and mummy wrap!

The changing leaves!

The "raindrops on roses".

More Fall Tree Leaves.

Aren't they beautiful?

Hoping your weekend is full of excitement!

The Pumpkin Patch

Amazing Day at the pumpkin patch today! We came away with 2 large pumpkins, 1 tiny pumpkin and 4 mini-pumpkins for 16 dollars!

Although we did go into a HUGE corn maze (I'm talking like 4 acres huge!) and get lost for an hour!

We never even made it to the end, we ended up cutting through some rows of corn and finding the entrance again! It was huge!!

We got to know the other people exploring the corn maze as well because with for huge spots where 6 paths met throughout the maze, we (lost as we all were!) ran across each other quite often!

The Pumpkin Patch

The Corn Maze

The Farm Animals

I can't wait to carve the beautiful pumpkins we came home with!!

Yummy Fall Recipes!

In the spirit of Halloween I decided to go all out and try to create some fun, yummy, low-calorie, allergen free treats!

I introduce to you Halloween Popcorn Treats and Apple Jello Dessert!

If you have any questions or want clarification on anything, feel free to ask!

Halloween Popcorn Treats

(My very favorite!!)

3 Cups Pre-popped Popcorn 130cal

8 pieces Campfire Marshmellows 200cal

28 pieces Pretzel Sticks (small) 110cal

30 grams Dairy-free Soy-Free Chocolate Chips 150cal

15 grams Orange colored sprinkles 0cal

Total Cals- 590

32 servings

19 cals per serving

In a double boiling pot, melt marshmallows and chocolate.

Add popcorn and pretzels, stir well. Add sprinkles for decoration.

Apple Jello Dessert

(Not as sweet tasting as it sounds! Yummy!)

3 Cups Sliced apples (sliced small) 180cal

¼ Cup Pureed Apple (Baby Food) 35cal

2 Cups (1 package) Strawberry Jello Mix 320cal

½ Cup Flour 220

¼ Cup Sugar 194

¼ Cup Brown Sugar 194

Total cals- 1,143

8 servings

143 cals per serving

In a 9x9 pan cover base with apple slices.

Make Jello mix and pour jello (before you set it) over the apples.

Combine sugars, flour and pureed apples and spread mixture over apple and jello.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

Enjoy!

Halloween Craft! Frankenstein Piggy Bank!

The church I work at was raising money by having people make piggy banks so I feeling inspired decided to make a Halloween themed one!

I mean how could I possibly resist a trip to Michael's(craft store)?

I havn't been able to do any really fun crafty projects in way too long so I was incredibly excited for this!!

I'm also entering it into Blue Eyed Blessing's Craft Challenge!

I started with and used:

-an empty VOSS water bottle

-a styrofoam circle base

-an empty can of (special edition) Jones Spooookiwi soda

-sparkly felt

-pompoms

-googly eyes

-colored sparkley sticky foam sheets

-glitter hot glue

-Halloween ribbon

The hole to put the money in is in the opening of his shirt/chest and the money can be removed by unscrewing the lid which is attached to the foam base.

I'm excited about how it turned out! What do you think?