{"id":1871,"date":"2009-10-30T17:47:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2009\/10\/30\/halloween-fun\/"},"modified":"2009-10-30T18:11:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:11:49","slug":"halloween-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2009\/10\/30\/halloween-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for some Halloween fun! First and foremost, I want to note that I indeed finish the skeleton stuffie I started at <a href=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2009\/10\/21\/etsy-labs-october\/\" target=\"_blank\">Etsy Labs<\/a> earlier this month!<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/etsylabskeleton500.jpg\" alt=\"etsylabskeleton500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI opted to do the face features with fabric paint instead of black felt. I like him!<br \/>\nThese are the handmade items I made for the Harajuku Girls Group Halloween Swap on swap-bot. I included other Halloween related items but didn&#8217;t take photos of those. The black cat and pumpkin keychain are made of felt and I got the pattern from a Japanese craft book I recently purchases. The black and orange towels were blank from Kohl&#8217;s and I embroidered matching cute skulls, an image I got from a Stampin&#8217; Up catalog! I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saralpaper.com\/products.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saral transfer paper<\/a> for this, which worked out really well although I initially bought it to transfer images onto felt, which does not work so well!<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/harajukuhalloweenswap500.jpg\" alt=\"harajukuhalloweenswap500.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then last week Geneva and Phoenix came over to help carve the pumpkin we got from Lawrence Farms. I never carved a pumpkin before! Geneva was kind enough to do the initial cutting and gutting. She let me and Sienna carve out the face. We even roasted the seeds, also something I&#8217;ve never done before!<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/carvingpumpkin1500.jpg\" alt=\"carvingpumpkin1500.jpg\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/carvingpumpkin2500.jpg\" alt=\"carvingpumpkin2500.jpg\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jackolantern500.jpg\" alt=\"jackolantern500.jpg\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jackolanternsienna500.jpg\" alt=\"jackolanternsienna500.jpg\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/roastedpumpkinseeds500.jpg\" alt=\"roastedpumpkinseeds500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Jack O&#8217;Lantern barely lasted a week (we kept it indoors). I read that if you put cinnamon powder inside and the cut rim, it would last longer. I don&#8217;t know if this is true but it gave the pumpkin a dark and dull look. It started rotting about 5 days after. I was going to put it outside on the patio but wanted to wait until closer to Halloween. Oh well. At least I know how to do it for next year!<\/p>\n<p>I am also proud of myself for making part of Sienna&#8217;s Halloween costume and the accompanying piece for Yves to wear.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ll understand what I mean when you see it. I&#8217;ll post it after Halloween so I don&#8217;t ruin the surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I made chocolate covered peeps and chocolate covered pretzel rods with sprinkles. I&#8217;m not really a peeps person but I saw this idea at Jacques Torres being sold for $1.25! (I thought I saw it for $1.25 but then saw on someone&#8217;s blog that it was $2.25) So since someone sent me peeps in a swap, I wanted to try it out. Of course the ones from Jacques Torres probably tastes better because of the quality of chocolate (it better for that price!). I still haven&#8217;t tried it yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably give it away at the Halloween festival tomorrow.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/peepsonastick500.jpg\" alt=\"peepsonastick500.jpg\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/chocopeepsonastick500.jpg\" alt=\"chocopeepsonastick500.jpg\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/chocopeepsclose500.jpg\" alt=\"chocopeepsclose500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe ones at JT had eyes on them. I was going to put them on but realized I had the gel frosting so it would probably get all gooey in the bag.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/chocopretzelrods500.jpg\" alt=\"chocopretzelrods500.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for some Halloween fun! First and foremost, I want to note that I indeed finish the skeleton stuffie I started at Etsy Labs earlier this month! I opted to do the face features with fabric paint instead of black felt. I like him! These are the handmade items I made for the Harajuku Girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,4,6,10,13,5,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}