And some gorgeous cupcakes that my great friend Jemma and her mum made- so cute !!!

Lolly bags for the party guests-

Adding a little orange to our friends party last night, I picked up these cute plastic orange houses from our local newsagents last week.

Our little love bug : )

We packaged up some cookies into these cute little bags to give out to friends and family-

We are going out to a Halloween party this afternoon and so one of the treats I have put together to take are some choc chip muffins with a little Halloween twist : ) These gorgeous muffins cases are from a great online store called sweet themes, they have so much great stuff for all sorts of holidays and parties throughout the year- If I want a cookie cutter this is where I go. http://www.sweetthemes.com.au/

Here is the recipe

Ingredients-

2 cups flour

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup sugar

2 ts baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

2 eggs

125g melted butter

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 cups chocolate chips

1. In a large bowl mix together flour, sugars, baking powder and salt.

2. In a separate bowl mix together milk, eggs, butter and vanilla.

3. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the milk mixture.

4. Stir to combine, then fold in the chocolate chips.

5. Spoon the batter into prepared muffins pans and bake at 200 for 15-20 minutes.

Then just to add some extra spook I added some cupcake toppers : )

I am not sure about your house but bubbles provide hours and hours worth of entertainment in our home, so when I found some little Halloween bubbles I thought they would be perfect to add to the theme of the week : ) Watching Flynn try to learn to blow bubbles was priceless!!

Look out for some yummy Halloween cooking tomorrow : )

I like to make an effort to put up some small decorations for the Holidays. I have mainly done Easter and Christmas in the past but this year I started doing Halloween. You can start small and just add to your decorations each year.

This year I just bought a few things like the hanging pumpkin from my post a few days ago.

I love to add bits and pieces to this wooden tree each season as well !!

Even some special serviettes will get you in the festive mood : )

There is no need to pretend we all like painting with kids !! Lets be honest it is messy, there is a lot of set up and clean up and it generally only entertains my 2 year old for about 20 minutes. So why even do it? Well I like to give Flynn as many great/ educational experiences that I can at home. I work full time and so I do not have as much time as I would like to do things like this but whenever we can we are cooking, making play dough food, doing some craft or painting. I decided early on that I wanted to be a part of this fun stage of his development and that I was not going to leave it all up to daycare and playschool.

Although I love Flynn’s daycare and he loves going there twice a week I also think they miss out on a lot of one on one time there as they have 15 toddlers in the room who all want to paint !! And so those are the reasons why I take the time and put up with the mess to be able to provide Flynn with those extra experiences at home which are also great fun for both of us : )

I have done Potato stamping a few times we make up some great gift tags for our Easter treats this year using Flynn’s stamped Easter bunnies !! He seems to really enjoy the painting and creating different shapes. We just use cookie cutters we already have at home. This time I decided to lay out some long paper and let him go crazy outside- that way I did not have to worry about any mess !!

And this was the finished product : ) I drew around the spiders with a black pen and then gave them little faces. I then attached some orange popsticks to the back. Flynn can now give these out to his little friends for Halloween.