Creativity

I LOVE CRAFTS!!

I absolutely have found an increased love for vinyl lettering and crafts! While some projects have turned out better then others I love trying new things. I love making decorations and picking up little things for my soon to be little home. Pier 1 Imports & The White Barn are my FAVORITE new stores!!! I could seriously buy everything in those stores. The wonderful thing I have found about crafting is that any mistake makes your craft unique and usually it's only you that ever notices the insignificant flaw. I also really love antiqued furniture and I look forward to learning how to do this. Let me know if anyone has any cute Christmas craft ideas or websites!! I'm looking for new things to try all the time. I think it would be fabulous to start a crafting group I would love it!

These are my favorite super easy to make and make great visiting teaching gifts for Christmas!

Halloween

Halloween

So I haven't had two minutes to sit down and blog! But I wouldn't want to miss out mentioning HALLOWEEN this year! Halloween is seriously my absolute favorite!!! Don't be mad that I start looking for costumes in August. Unfortunately for me this years costume was a downer... but I did loved seeing some of the crazy costumes people came up with this year. I especially love pumpkin carving and carmel apples.. simply yummy!!

Carmel Dipped Apples

Prep time

20 min

Total time

1 hr 20 min

makes

5 servings

What you need

5 apples (1-1/2 lb.), washed, well dried

1 pkg. (14 oz.) KRAFT Caramels

2 Tbsp. water

Make it

INSERT wooden pop stick into stem end of each apple. Cover large plate with waxed paper; grease paper with butter.COOK caramels and water in large saucepan on medium-low heat until caramels are completely melted, stirring constantly.DIP apples in caramel; spoon additional caramel over apples if necessary to evenly coat apples. Let excess caramel drip off. Scrape bottoms of apples; place on prepared plate. Refrigerate 1 hour. Remove from refrigerator 15 min. before serving; let stand at room temperature to soften slightly. Refrigerate leftovers.

Kraft kitchens tips

SHORTCUT

Try our recipe for Easy Caramel Apples with our easy-to-use KRAFT Caramel Bits.

COOKING KNOW-HOW

Wash and dry apples thoroughly so that the caramel adheres to the apples.

SPECIAL EXTRA

Rolling caramel apples in 10 coarsely chopped OREO Cookies will add 110 calories and 5 grams of fat, including 1 gram of saturated fat, per serving.

Linney's costume was awesome I loved it!! She made it all by herself

Harry Potter anyone. She was the real deal let me tell you

My Kels was one sexy little witch

I wish you all could have seen this for real. I wasn't mad about the multiple battery packs lighting up her costume

I attempted to get Ben into the Halloween Spirit. Carving is the best with low lights and spooky music!

Ben was all about the free hand. He clearly wasn't letting me see until he had the finished product.