Friday Night Soup

My family has a Fall tradition of Friday night soup. Every Friday night from Sept-Oct we have soup night. It is usually held at Red Maple Cottage, but occasionally my aunt will host Friday night soup (my place has been in a remodeling stage for over a year...almost there...maybe next year I can have soup night). The Friday closest to Halloween is always ghoulash night.

Ghoulash 

I love these bowls! My mom has had them for a few years.

Notice the pumpkin with the crow on it. I found this picture in the corner..

I thought it was done on purpose, but when I pointed it out my mom had no idea they matched (she painted this picture)

Halloween Decor.

I ran out of time to make a whole bunch of pumpkin pumpkins and leaves so I had to make some muffins too.

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Halloween Cupcakes

Good Morning!!! Are we all having a wonderful Thursday?

 The weekend is almost here! Woohoo!!  And its almost Halloween! I feel like I haven't done much Halloween/ Fall activities. I has been soo warm out, here in CT  and then sooo cold out. I feel like I missed Fall. I haven't even done much baking. ......But my mom did. She made these little cuties

 Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting, orange sprinkles and jack o' lantern lollipops.

These just have Halloween picks in them. It was the perfect after work snack. ! :)

Tomorrow is our last Friday night soup night for the year. I think I will make pumpkin pumpkins.

 I also need to come up with a healthy Halloween snack for the hubs ' lunch. I make him a lunch every work day that consists of 2 sandwiches (he says 1 isn't enough), a healthy snack, and a yummy snack. I would love your ideas or thoughts.

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Red Maple Cottage

I promised to show you Red Maple Cottage, aka my parents' house. My mother is a very talented decorative painter, sewer, gardener and queen of all things crafty. My creativity comes from her.

This is the front of her house this fall

This is The living room of Red Maple Cottage

I made the vinyl letters using my Cricut, then it was just peel and stick. The tree is a metal wall art piece that my mom bought at Costco. It was originally all bronze. Red spray paint turned it into a Red maple tree.

This pillow was purchased at Savers (one of my favorite stores). It already had the house painted on. My mom added the maple tree and "Red Maple Cottage". It was a perfect find though. Doesn't the house look just like Red Maple Cottage?

This is some the Fall decor in the backyard. I will have to show you more pictures of Red Maple Cottage later. The backyard is beautiful, especially in the summer.

For now I have to get going to work. Later I will be making a cake for my brother-in-law's birthday dinner tonight. Check back tomorrow for those pictures.

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fingerprints on the fridge
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The Painted Pumpkins

Hello,

  It has been another crazy couple of days. I have so many exciting things to show you over the next couple of days. For today, we have..........drum roll please............

Painted Pumpkins

This pumpkin was painted by my mom. She calls her house Red Maple Cottage. I will show you the house later. But for now ...the back of the pumpkin...

Next up is my grandpa's pumpkin. My grandfather died on 10.18.08. He had Alzheimer's. The last year of his life he loved to sing. One song. Over and over and over again....My Wild Irish Rose.

So My mom made him a pumpkin ...to put at the cemetery....

Shhh. this one is actually a Funkin. (Those fake carvable pumpkins)

Since we are talking about painted pumpkins, Let's look at the
 Wedding Pumpkin.

The Wedding Pumpkin was done by my mother for my wedding last year. She painted a large pumpkin white and painted the stem black. The bride and groom silloutte was bought at Joann Fabrics and decopaged on. The accents are scrapbooking emblishments that are glued on. On the back of the pumpkin she painted our names..I can't find a picture of that though :(   She also added some glitter for a finishing touch..I loved this pumpkin...It fit well with my fall wedding but still went with my black and white colors.
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