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a slightly spooky dinner party

If you happen to check out this space at all regularly you must have noticed I'm not around much. I am currently working on a big project that's taking up all of my time and focus and so I'm not doing as much other work, let alone jobs around the apartment so there hasn't really been much of anything to share here. It's probably going to continue to be pretty sporadic around here through January but I will pop in whenever I have something I can share. Including a party for October!

I just couldn't leave off without doing something for this month so I gave myself two hours and whatever supplies I had in the house to put this together

I started with color pallet. I wanted to go almost all white, with bits of gray and black and then some sort of color for a centerpiece. I layered some lace on top of a white tablecloth with white napkins and vintage silver flatware.

I set each place with a large smooth white rectangular plate (thank you mom!) and smaller gray textured plate, and the scull party favor and the matchbook place cards. The glasses are vintage and  for a centerpiece I added a bunch of apples and small animal bones on top of the lace runner. 

The cake was topped with simple bat shapes cut out of black card stock and googly eyes both glued to wooden skewers. I made another cake stand out of a plate and polka dot bowl (I'm loving the layered dish cake stand-so easy) The backdrop was made out of white and gray honeycombs and some larger paper bats. 

I got the sculls at a dollar store and spray painted them white and added the tea candles, then melted wax around the edge to drip down the sides. I covered mini matchboxes with black paper and glued on more googly eyes so they looked a bit monster-ish. The names were written on vellum with ink

Like I said, this was all stuff I had on hand but if I were to price out the few things that could have been bought special it would still be super inexpensive.

Supplies

honeycombs......................................................................................$12

sculls.................................................................................................$4

googly eyes.......................................................................................$2

total...................................................................................................$16

I've always wanted to do a more grown up cocktail style Halloween party and while it wasn't in the cards time wise this year, I will be storing away these pictures for inspiration and hopefully next year I can make it happen.

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Apartment Therapy

Well I can officially check something off my life to-do list. Something I did is on Apartment Therapy. This has always been a goal of mine, something I joked about but never really thought would happen until, prompted by my best friend, I submitted my finished kitchen to their before and after contest and lo and behold I was selected! It was the most incredible thing to see my kitchen on this site that I read every day and I couldn't be more jazzed about it.
If you are interested you can check out the full kitchen here and the tutorial for the painted floor here. It feels sort of like prom for houses, with the prettiest girl winning with the most votes, so if you like it and want to vote for it that's amazing but as they say during Oscar season, "It's an honor just to be nominated."

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I made a pretty spectacular pumpkin curry this week in the crock pot. It hasn't really been cold enough for cozy autumn foods but I've been craving them nonetheless. This was made by putting a can of coconut milk and spices (tumeric, curry, and garam masala) in the slow cooker with cut up pumpkin, sweet potato, onion, garlic and chicken, and then cooked it for six hours before serving it over black rice. It was the perfect seasonal colors and it made my whole house smell delicious. Now I just hope I don't get sick of eating it every day...

busy and a wedding

Just popping in to say a quick hello and unfortunately it seems everything that I've been working on (and most of what I will be working on for the foreseable future) isn't really sharable here. So it's been real quiet round these parts. But I went to a truly spectacular wedding this weekend so I thought I might share a few photos of that in the meantime.

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always one little change left to make

Just tweaking the living room bit by bit with the advent of the new couch and more space. 

This last weekend I moved the Moroccan wedding blanked (diy see here) to behind the theater chairs.

I also filled the bench behind the couch with books and magazines. No need for it to be empty and also it's nice to have reading material on hand. 

Lastly, I moved the little wire end table back into my bedroom and replaced it with these two suitcases which work just as well and also double as overflow kitchen storage.

Simple stuff but each little adjustment makes me like the room more, or even just makes it feel fresh and changed for a bit. Especially great when it's all stuff I already have on hand.

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A sneak peek of some new work.....

September muni people

I can see the change of the season in last months muni people, from shorts to sweaters it was pretty clear, it's fall now. Also I'm three quarters of the way through this project, still trying to decide what to do with them all when I finish.