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Make yummy, cheesy Halloween Mac & Cheese at your peril! Why? Because this mac and cheese recipe is a decadent splurge. And, it’s kid-friendly! Did I mention this dish is cute? Cute? Mac and cheese cute? Yes! Made with Halloween pasta in the shapes of spiders, pumpkins, bats, and witches, it’s pretty darn cute! I got this bag of Halloween Pasta at…
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One of our favorite places in San Diego County is a farm called Bates Nut Farm. While they are open year-round, one of their busiest times is the month of October, pumpkin season. Their 100+ acre family farm is full of pumpkins, animals and special events, and, of course, lots of people. For this year’s annual trek to the pumpkin…
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I know I’ve said this before: I love PicMonkey! I use it to edit all of the photos on this blog and have for 3 years now. And, I like writing tutorials on how to use PicMonkey because they give me an excuse to use some of my photos in a creative way. Dementors, Demons and Ghouls: A PicMonkey Halloween…
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No, I didn’t misspell a word in the title of this post…this isn’t a post about how to carve a pumpkin; lord knows I’m not an expert at that! There’s not a carved pumpkin in my house. Nada! Zilch! Not a one! This post is about how to carry a pumpkin! Because we all know that going to a pumpkin…
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Easy Jack-O-Lantern Salad Cups are a fun way to serve salad at Halloween. Plus, they are a good way to enlist your children to help make dinner and to eat their veggies! If you have teenagers, you can enlist their help in hollowing out the oranges. If you have little ones, you can get them to mix up the salad…
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This year I’ve been decorating for a wicked good Halloween! It seems to me, that when looking through all my Halloween stash, I have a preponderance of witches and witch paraphernalia. How that’s happened throughout the years I don’t know – maybe it started with the influence of the play, Wicked. I love that play and have seen it a…
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