happy halloween // a styled dessert table

Jordyn and I are so excited to have our styled Halloween dessert table up on Tiny Prints Blog!

 We had so much fun with all the details, and are so happy with how it turned out.  Caramel corn, pumpkin cookies, salt water taffy and fresh apple cider are just a few of our favorites treats at this time of the year!

Pumpkins make the easiest decorations, and add wonderful texture and colour to a dessert table. Put all of that together, and you have sweet and simple Halloween party!  We got our invitations, stickers, napkins and gift tags from Tiny Prints, and we're in love with their huge selection, as well as the fact that nearly everything they sell is customizable.  So wonderful!

Shop: Invitations | Personalized Napkins | Custom Gift Tags

p.s. ♥ kelsey & jordyn

Happy Halloween! {and a nerdy pumpkin carving affair}

Jordyn and I hosted a pumpkin carving party on Saturday, and it was one giant nerdfest.  The resulting pumpkins were absolutely hilarious, and I'm so proud of us.  Haha.  The above two pumpkins are Loki (on the left) and Thor and his exploding hammer (on the right), and are Jordyn's and my pumpkins respectively.

It was a fun night complete with hot apple cider, popcorn, and apple cider donuts.  So good.

Please take note of my awesome photoshop job in the above photo.  So corny, but I love it.

(hint: I'm not really holding Thor's hammer!)

Happy Halloween!

p.s. ♥ kelsey 

diy: TARDIS painted pumpkin

I really really love Doctor Who.

If you didn't know that before, I'm sure it's blatantly obvious now.

(Remember the

TARDIS shoe diy

?  More proof.)

This pumpkin actually has a funny story behind it.  I found it while we were harvesting pumpkins about 6 weeks ago, and I thought to myself: "What a strange looking pumpkin.  It's almost shaped like a rectangle!".  I instantly knew that it had to be mine, and that I was going to paint it like a TARDIS.  So here we are!  I painted it like a TARDIS, and am quite pleased with it.

Materials:

-blue paint

-black paint

-white paint

-paintbrushes (one large, one small)

-white paint pen

-a lot of patience

Directions:

First I washed and dried my pumpkin to ensure no dirt remained.  Then I painted 2 coats of blue paint over the whole thing, letting each coat completely dry before applying the next.  Next, I used a small paintbrush to paint fine black lines along the "corner edges" of the TARDIS, and let it dry.  I used a pencil to then outline the black rectangle at the top of each side (where "Police Public Call Box" will go), as well as the 8 panels on each side. I painted the black boxes in, as well as mixed a dark blue colour to outline each panel.  After everything was dry, I wrote out Police Public Call Box using pencil first, and then used a white paint pen to write over top of it.  I printed out the little sign for the front door, and stuck it on with double sided tape!  

{*Update: I fixed the missing windows :P  so now it looks much better}

Let it dry, and you're good to go!

Happy pumpkin painting!

p.s.

 ♥ kelsey