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We are armed and ready for whatever tonight may bring! My daughter and I have been having fun painting and carving pumpkins, making trick or treat pumpkins, and making the ghosts above. The Graphics Fairy is a wonderful source of free printables, where I found the lovely starlings. I ran out of ink for my printer and had to paint the poison labels myself, but similar ones can be found on Karen's blog. Thanks to all those who left comments on my last post, they were all most helpful in helping me to formulate my ideas for the Wedding Fair. Wishing you all a Happy Halloween with love, Linda x

I made a Halloween wreath for the door using orange roses, chinese lanterns, crabapple, eucalyptus, hydrangea, and even some green tomatoes! The spiky bits around the edge, I don't know what it's called, but if you look up close, they look like little teeny weeny pumpkins. Unfortunately the weather is wet and windy and I thought this may get a little too battered outside, so I decided to use it as a table decoration.  Sadly my husband won't be sharing Halloween with us, as he is taking care of his mum.So I decided that we would have a lovely meal this evening  instead and go mad with the table decorations! I made Rioja-braised lambshanks with garlic and chorizo. Absolutely delicious, but not for the faint-hearted, the sauce contained 250ml. of Balsamic vinegar as well as the red wine. The recipe is by TV chef Lorraine Pascale and if you would like to check it out, here's the  link . We had Poached Pears with Blackberries for dessert, but everyone was too full to eat it!...

I found the above images on Etsy. They are the work of Susan Templin at Firstlight Photography . I think they are wonderfully evocative and atmospheric. How do you feel about Halloween? I have to admit, I am not a big fan. I love the autumn, the harvest, the pumpkins, fires, cosy blankets, apples and all. I am just not too keen on the scary, spooky stuff. I have to make an effort to decorate for my daughters sake, but I try to keep it to cute cats, pumpkins and friendly witches. Neither of us are too enthusiastic about bats, spiders, snakes and de-capitated things....uuuurrgghh! So with this in mind I will show you some of the more pleasant Halloween things I have found. All the above images are from Pinterest . Look at these adorable Folk Art patterns for cute creatures you can make.....I love them! The three above are from The Cheswick Company on Etsy .   The above images are from http://www.countrystitchesonline.com/ . Brenda also has a lovely blog http://withthyneedleandthread.b...