As I’ve posted a few times already, I decided to throw a Halloween party for my 25th this year. I think I like planning and decorating for parties almost more than attending them, that’s the fun part! So I spent a few days leading up to the night putting up spooky decorations (which my dogs and cats promptly took down) and made a cool haunted house cake.
In the end I had a really great time, about 20 of my good friends came and ate and drank and were merry! I’d set up a bucket to bob for apples, apparently it was too easy because the bucket was too shallow, but it was pretty funny watching the boys anyway.
You can see the whole set of photos on my flickr account, otherwise, continue reading to see a few snaps.
I had a great idea the other day for an eerie DIY decoration for hallowing, re-using vases and submersible floralytes from our wedding.
Continue reading to find out what you need to make it and photos of the completed project!
I’m super excited to announce my very first downloadable goodie, just in time for Halloween! (getting in the spirit for my 25th Birthday Party)
This is an A4 sheet featuring 4 cute designs (2 of each) which you can download and print off to use as gift cards, name tags for trick or treat bags, or to just leave a little note for someone. The characters are a Pumpkin, Ghost, Witch and Zombie.
Continue Reading to download the freebie!
I’ve taken some photos of the decorations I’ve bought for my Halloween Party, any visitors from the US might think it’s not very much stuff, but people from Aus know Halloween isn’t big here so it will be enough to get everyone in the mood =P I’ve got some black velvety type fabric (left over [...]
For my 25th Birthday this year I’m hosting a Halloween Party, which is fairly unusual in Australia (most people I’ve invited had to ask what date Halloween was?!), so to get everyone in the mood I sent out some cool invitations and have bought a whole bunch of decorations from the party store in Queanbeyan. I was going to hire Naomi from Hello Naomi Cakes who did my wedding cake to make me a fabulous spooky cake, but as it turns out we’re on a bit of a budget so I’m going to have a crack at it myself!
I came across some fantastic cakes made by the uber talented Mary and Brenda Maher of CakeGirls (in Chicago) that are totally inspiring me to go all out and think 3d for this cake of mine, so wish me luck!
Continue Reading to see photos of the amazing cakes!
I came across this cute costume today whilst looking for halloween costume ideas: Not many people in Australia actually celebrate Halloween, but I’ve wanted to have a Halloween party for YEARS, so decided for my quarter of a century this year I’m going ahead and doing it. I designed my party invite today (and by [...]
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Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. I'm Mikaela, I am female, 25, married, and busy by choice. I love life and have too many ideas in my head, and wish there were more hours in the day (I'm sure old people always said that when I was growing up). I live in and love Canberra, Australia (2 hours to beach or snow, what more could you ask for?). For more about who I am and what I do, go to the about page =)
We had giant hamburgers for dinner. Bun, tomato sauce, mustard, cheese, hot chilli meat pattie, more cheese, pineapple, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, avocado, bun. YUM. Giant! I had two. See my last post about always eating too much.
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As promised, here are Girds’ and Harley’s new doggie beds! The reason I decided to make these is because their current beds are lumpy, big oofy pillows, with blankets on top. They take up far too much room in our bedroom, aren’t very portable, and are hard to wash. These beds, however, are the opposite [...]
Yesterday and today were spent putting my house back together, so I haven’t had a chance to complete the DIY projects I wanted to do today to show here. Hopefully I can finish the doggie beds tonight as well as at least start on my ribbon organiser… We’ll see how I go, I still have [...]
