Amazon Gift Card & Mutli-Author Event

We have a great opportunity for you to discover a select few new cozy authors and enter to win a $60 Amazon gift card.

Go to this link and follow these authors on BookBub, Facebook, or Twitter for your chance to win!  (click here).

Here is a great link (click here) for Halloween ideas from party 

refreshments to decor that are inexpensive and easy.  You will find:  
Frankenstein Pudding, 
Pumpkin Punch Bowl, 
Spooky Fun Fruit Tray, 
Glowing Beverages, 
Mummy Jars (pictured), 
Pretzel Mallow Skeletons, 
Candy Corn Jello Shots, 
Garbage Bag Spider Webs, 
Creepy Beakers, 
Pumpkin Ice Bucket, 
Batty Lampshade, 
Festive Door Hanging, 
Candy Corn Nails, 
Pretzel Pumpkins, 
Mini Doughnut Spiders, 
Fireball Cider Cocktail, 
Creepy Smiles, 
Dead as a Doormat, and 
Ghosts in the Graveyard Cupcakes.

Enjoy!

Adult Halloween Party Fun

I came across a Better Homes and Gardens Halloween Magazine that had a great idea for the grown ups this Halloween.  They featured a dinner party with an Edgar Allan Poe "the Raven" theme.  I thought it was an inventive idea, after all, there are few literary works that seem so appropriate for a bit of adult spooky fun.  

The magazine has some amazing yet simple party ideas all utilizing the famous poem.  Online they highlight some of the ideas (click here) which includes links to raven artwork, menus, and stencils.  Additionally, there are extra ideas exclusively online (click here) that are different from the publication.  This would be a fun party and guests could dress the part with black feathered masks etc.  

Alternately, a gothic theme can be fun.  Check out these ideas for a Ghoulish Gothic Party (click here) that also includes recipes.  You could even combine this with the Raven theme too.  This one would be perfect for Munsters or Adams Family costumes!  These provide ideas galore to spur your own creativity.

There are sewing patterns as well if you are good at sewing.  
 
Or perhaps you are more the Fall Harvest Party type of person.  Here are some ideas to help you out too (click here) and also (here too).



A word of caution, please keep your cats (especially black cats) inside around October 31.  It is sad to say, but they are often snatched and horribly hurt by demented people this time of year. 

Here is a way to make your own Morticia costume from scratch creating your own pattern.

 

I couldn't resist sharing this poster!