Entertaining
Our Halloween Party, Costumes and Spread
Our party Saturday evening was so fun. We had over 100 people show up but fate was on our side and it was a gorgeous night, so the squished quarters were immediately remedied by opening the back door and people chatting out there, too. Next year I'll have to remember to string some lights in […]
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October 27, 2014
Decor
Halloween Shelves
Our halloween party is this Saturday and we have been in turbo drive trying to get a few things done around here. Of course, nothing goes as planned and there are always hiccups--like, maybe you didn't order enough wallpaper or something. #thelook So while there are, no less, than 4 house projects going on around […]
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October 21, 2014
DIY
The Great Pre-Halloween Project List
Every year around this time, a major fire is lit under us and we get a lot done on the house in preparation for our big Halloween Costume party we throw every year. This year, our party is on the 24th and the invitations just went out. Maybe you caught the annual invite photo (we've […]
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October 6, 2014
Entertaining
Costume Party 2013: Party On!
Halloween arrived at our house just in time for our party on Saturday. But before I jump into a few details about that, I wanted to show you an updated photo of our front door with the trim painted Onyx, to match the door (and the kick plate removed). We love it so much more […]
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October 29, 2013
Entertaining
Costume Party Prep: Invitations
While we still have a lot of house prepping to do before we throw our costume party, we knew we had to get our invitations circulating. We went back to the format of our first party's invitations and decided to dress up for a quick photo for a few reasons. First, although we've always had […]
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September 26, 2013
Recipes
Halloween Haystacks and Egging.
Really, these haystacks have nothing to do with Halloween. Except that I requested them for dinner last night--which we called "Devil's Night" growing up. Chris is the cook around here and night after night he whips up the most amazing meals. Last night, I had a hankering for something simple and comforting--Hawaiian haystacks. And he […]
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October 31, 2012
Entertaining
Costume Party 2012
We had such a fabulous time at our costume party on Saturday and I'm back to share all of the deets, including our costumes. I won't make you wait a second more for those: Chris and I were Waldo and Carmen Sandiego and Greta-the-great was Mowgli from Jungle book. We had a hundred ideas of […]
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October 29, 2012
Lifestyle
Some Pumpkin Carving Comic Relief
It is pumpkin carving season (!!!) and over the last few weeks--but even more so in the past week--I have been seeing all of these beautifully carved, gilded, painted, shaved pumpkins on my favorite blogs or plastered on Pinterest. Spoiler alert--my pumpkin is no such beauty. Last weekend, we had some friends over for dinner […]
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October 26, 2012
Lifestyle
What are YOU Being For Halloween?!
We are halfway done getting the trim and baseboards installed in our laundry room and can't wait to show you the difference it has made. Yowza! But today, in the spirit of the season (and because Chris and I have finally nailed down our costumes for this year) we are dying to talk costumes. Halloween […]
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October 16, 2012
Decor
Misfit Pumpkins
How does the saying go? "It gets worse before it gets better."?? Yeah, that sums up our laundry room/half bath situation perfectly. Last night, we were able to remove (almost) everything from the room, tear out the tile baseboard and give those nasty floors a good scrubbin', all while laughing about how terrible the floor […]
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October 11, 2012
Entertaining
Truth Tuesday: How NOT to throw a Party.
Last year we threw a costume party. Our first. While it was seriously a blast, there's a reason we don't run a party-planning blog. We have been laughing (so we don't cry?) at our mistakes for over a year. Our guests (we had between 30-40 people there) were all so gracious and fun and dressed […]
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October 2, 2012
Art
Vintage Halloween Printables
The first day of autumn is tomorrow, but I couldn't help jumping the gun on Halloween. Not only is it my favorite holiday, but we are going to be throwing another costume party (second annual, baby!) and as veterans, we now understand prep is key. We have our costumes decided (but not together yet), a […]
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September 21, 2012
