Halloween Dragon Blood Punch - Alcoholic

October 11, 2016 in Halloween, Vampire, drinks

Halloween Dragon Blood Punch, this is a delightful combination of Malibu Rum, Cointreau, tropical soda and ginger ale. Great for a Vampire Halloween party, recipe below.

See the full party here.

Enjoy Julie

**Halloween Dragon Blood Punch - Vampire Party**

Recipe

Ingredients

1 bottle Malibu
1/2 cup Cointreau
6 cups tropical fruit punch soda
6 cups Cranberry Juice
6 cups apple juice
2 litres Ginger Ale
Lots of vampire teeth iceblocks

Method

Combine everything except the ginger and iceblocks in the punch bowl.
Top with the ginger ale.
Add ice blocks.
Enjoy

Halloween Vampire Party - Gothic Inspired

October 04, 2016 in Halloween, Vampire, Gothic

My attraction to vampire stories started long ago when I opened my first vampire book, Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire. Who could resist Louis?. Since then, I've read a lot of vampire books and watched a lot of vampire movies but tend to always gravitate to the image of the gothic vampire, the suave and sophisticated creature of the night.

This party is set in the 18th century and involves a select group of stately vampires enjoying a blood tasting that includes a small sample of Count Dracula's blood. The party is very vintage and includes lots of crystal, silver and very old books with a small set of printable elements that are available in our store.

A great option best suited for an adult audience.

Enjoy, Julie

**Halloween Vampire Party Gothic Inspired**

This party was planned a good year in advance that allowed me to collect some wonderful vintage pieces including Crystal decanters and glasses, silver platers and lots of very old books. Each decanter held a different blood type (aka Red Wine), tasting notes were provided.

**Halloween Vampire Vintage Decorations**

The decanters were arranged on piles of vintage books and vintage silver pedestal trays reminiscent of a stately drawing room or library. Vintage stemware in crystal and silver was arranged for the wine tastings.

**Halloween Vampire Wine Tasting Table Decorations**

Tall candles provided height for the table. the only modern element on the table was some select bats placed on candle sticks and books.

I included some old Chinese and Egyptian pieces on the table to make the host appear well travelled. During the evening we served a Blood Tingle Cocktail with a Syringe. Safe useable Syringes are available on-line and our blood tingle cocktail was a standard fruit tingle with a Cherry Advocaat substituted for Blue Curacao.

Halloween Gothic Vampire Party - Vintage

Small battery tea lights were placed around the decanters and glasses to caste an ernie glow over the table.

When creating this look it's important to source a variety of old books with different covers and widths, just ensure they are stable to support the decanters.

The room was kept quite dark for this party that allowed the glow from the tea lights and candles to caste shadows over the table.

To add to the drama I created "blood Tasting Notes" depicting the unfortunate individuals who freely or not so freely made blood donations for the evening.

Catering

This was a late party so catering was as simple as drinks and simple finger food. I always make a couple of large bowls of punch at halloween. We served a non alcoholic Bloody eyeball punch and an allocholic dragon blood punch.

A cheese platter is always great for halloween and a tray of assorted niceness such as olives, wasabi peas and dragon balls with a couple of red dips.

Vodka Jelly Shots have became a staple at my halloween parties and are always consumed. A small collection of printable elements were created for this party, they are available in our shop.

A Halloween Gothic Vampire Blood Tasting Party is a great option for a Halloween Party, especially if you love vintage pieces.

We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and I hope you have enjoyed the photos.

Time to think about next year!

Cheers

Julie

Chic Party Ideas

Halloween Vodka Jelly Shots

October 15, 2015 in Halloween, halloween

Hard to go past Vodka Jelly shots at Halloween served in a skull shot glass.

This year we had a Witch Hansel and Gretel theme party so the jelly was green. We created the jelly toppers for this party and they are available as a free down load.

I make the jelly slightly more liquid than the packet recommends and add 1/4 cup of Vodka per packet.

These are great for a crowd.

Enjoy Julie

Halloween Cranberry Punch - Love Potion Punch

October 12, 2015 in Halloween, drinks, free printable

One bowl of punch is never enough for a large halloween party, so this year we had three. One alcoholic and two non alcoholic for the children.

A super nice punch was our Cranberry punch which we served as non-alcoholic but a shot or two of Vodka would work a treat with this punch.

For this party we created a set of free downloadable halloween punch tents so you can create the look at home. You can catch the entire party here.

Enjoy Julie

Halloween Cranberry Punch - Love potion Punch

Recipe

Ingredients

1 part cranberry Juice
1 part Ginger Ale
1 part Lemonade
1 or 2 sliced lemons

Method

For this punch you have to work out the capacity of your punch bowl, then simply divide by 3 to work out your quantities.
Ensure all ingredients are well chilled ahead of time.
Pour all ingredients into your punch bowl, stir and add the lemon slices.
Enjoy

Halloween Witch Party - Hansel and Gretel Party with dessert table

October 09, 2015 in Halloween, halloween, Childrens parties, Printables

This year we created a Hansel and Gretel Halloween theme. This party consumed a large part of the house with a full dessert table, working Witch's kitchen and a darker adult take on Hansel and Gretel.

For this post we focus on the dessert table where we used elements of Hansel and Gretel first finding the Candy House through to the nastier side of the Witch. We created a set of printable products to accompany the dessert table, these are available from our shop.

This theme was a lot of fun we hope you enjoy.

Julie

**Halloween Hansel and Gretel Dessert Table**

Our dessert table used a simple crushed velvet table cloth. On the wall we added a large spooky cardboard cut out tree with a witch peeking around the side. Some large spiders were then added to the wall.

The cupcakes represented the Witch's candy house. We used a small violet crumble's for the house and licorise all sorts for the roof and door. The house was decorated with tiny trees and candy canes from a christmas sprinkle range.

**Halloween Hansel and Gretel Cupcakes**

I find layered coloured jelly is always popular with the children, we made the jelly in spooky cups and topped with toppers from our Hansel and Gretel printable range

For cookies we used a witch boot and shoe, we decorated these quite simply with gold and silver couscous balls.

Colourful candy is a must for this theme, we used small crystal bowls and lots of shapes and colour.

Toffee apples are also great for a halloween Witch theme, we used black chopstick and decorated using mini bunting from our printable range.

The cup cakes did take some time to assemble but used simple techniques.

LED Lanterns are a great way to add colour and height to a table

Our printable range includes: Mini bunting, bottle labels, jelly toppers, 2 inch circles and tents

**Halloween Hansel and Gretel Printables**

I must give my husband credit for jack O'lantern carving, he found a wonderful spooky witch stencil which worked a treat.

Please see our shop for full details of our Hansel and Gretel Printable products.

Halloween Punch - Tipsy Witch - Free Printables

October 07, 2015 in Halloween, drinks, free printable, halloween

Halloween is perfect for a large bowl of punch or two. This year our Halloween theme was a Hansel and Gretel Witch party so a tipsy witch punch was definitely in order.

For this party we created a set of free downloadable halloween punch tents so you can create the look at home. You can catch the full party here

This was absolutely delicious, but not for the children.

Enjoy Julie

Recipe

Ingredients

1 bottle of Malibu Rum
1 bottle Blue curacao
500ml Lemon Juice
2 bottles Pineapple soft drink

Method

Ensure all ingredients are well chilled
Mix the Malibu, Blue Curacao and lemon juice in a punch bowl.
Top up with pineapple soft drink, 1 or 2 bottles will be required depending on the capacity of your punch bowl.
Serve and Enjoy

Halloween Witch Party - How to Create a Witch's House with Free Halloween printables

October 05, 2015 in Halloween

Almost time for another halloween season. I really love halloween as I can go totally over the top and totally get away with it.

This year we decided on a Hansel and Gretel Witch party and a large amount of the house was used to create a Witch atmosphere. We created a Witch's Kitchen and included lots of lotions, potions and a large stove. This area kept all the children engaged for hours as they served each other severed fingers, brains and other ghastly morsels.

We created a set of printable tents to label our lotions, potions and body parts. We are offering this range as a free printable to help you create this look.

And yes, I was a very evil green Witch with my youngest children being Hansel and Gretel.

Enjoy Julie

Our kitchen was created by attaching a large amount of crushed velvet to curtains with pegs to form a black background, we then added bookshelves and repurposed an old corner TV unit as an oven.

**Halloween Witch Kitchen decorating ideas**

We collected a lot of cut glass and crystal bottles to use for potions. These were filled with coloured water and herbs.

I found a range of skull bottles in a local discount store and used cauliflower for brains,

The stove was created using an old corner TV unit, cardboard boxes, lots of black paint and halloween ornaments.

**Halloween Witch Oven Decorating Ideas**

Wine bottle crates were used to make small shelves around the stove. We included spiders, zombie body parts and very small bottles with dyed water and small pickled onions with a clove stud.

**Halloween how to decorate a Witch Kitchen**

A large cauldron was filled with bones and an over sized wooden spoon. I used a lot of battery tea lights under the red cellophane which glowed nicely at night.

We used a lot of different colours in our potion bottles.

We did include a couple of scary Witch's scattered through the house.

**Halloween Witch Party Hansel and Gretel Theme**

Incorporate vingage elements to the theme, I found a vintage silver and glass casserole dish which was filled with eyeballs,

**Halloween Witch Kitchen Hansel and Gretel**

A Witch kitchen isn't complete without a variety of pumpkin and a spell book.

**Halloween Witch Kitchen - Recipe Books**

We did include other items in our Witch's kitchen such as my talking Crystal Ball Witch, a very odd bunny growing horns and some Tru Blood.

We created printable tents for this party including lot's of lotions, potions and body parts. These are available as a free download. For best results printed the cards on bond 200 card paper.

**Halloween Witch Party - Free Printables**

Vintage glass spice bottles were used to hold small items.

We hope this post gives you lots of ideas to create a Witch Kitchen.

Happy Halloween

Halloween Melting Witch Punch

October 03, 2015 in drinks, halloween, Halloween, Printables

Halloween Punch is just so good. This year we had a Hansel and Gretel Witch Halloween party and had three punch's representing Witches. We called this punch the Melting Witch Punch.

This is a non alcoholic punch which was a favourite with the children..

For this party we created a set of free halloween punch tents so you can create the look at home.

Enjoy Julie

Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Caster sugar
8 tablespoons of water
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
green food colouring
4 litres lemon / lime sode
2 litres good vanilla ice cream.

Method

Combine the sugar and water in a saucepan and cook string over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved,
Remove from the heat and add the milk and almond extract.
Transfer to a large jug and allow to cool to room temperature, then move to the fridge to chill.
When ready to serve, transfer the mixture to the punch bowl
Add food colouring a bit at a time until you reach your desired green
Add lemon / lime sode, leaving space for the ice cream
Add ice cream using a scoop
Enjoy

Halloween Adult Witch Party Hansel and Gretel

October 01, 2015 in halloween, Halloween, free printable

Finally the first day of October, and the start of Halloween season.

Who says Halloween is just for children, luckily for me I have a number of adult friends who share my enthusiasm for dressing up and partying at Halloween. This year we had a Witch Party with a Hansel and Gretel theme, and while I did allow the dessert table to be child friendly the rest of the house was very dark and defiantly post the Hansel and Gretel Candy House.

The centre piece for this party was a Witch House in the woods and we will post a tutorial on how to create this over the next couple of days.

This was a dark theme but perfect for an adult halloween party, we have created free printables for you to use and enjoy.

Enjoy Julie.

**Halloween Hansel and Gretel Witch Party**

The House and Forest were the centre piece for this party, we then strategically surrounded the house with Champagne glasses, Glass Punch Bowls and Witch food.

Our Champagne glasses were all individually named with famous or should I say infamous Witches and Wizards these circles are included in our free download.

**Halloween Witch and Wizard drink tags**

We used a lot of candles to create height for the forest, we also used lollipops to frame the pathway to the Witch's house.

We created three punches for this party, the punch bowls were arranged together with bones, links to the recipes will be posted over the next few days with our free printable punch tents.

My Halloween parties normally have vodka jelly shots and this night was no exception

The house looked great in the dark, it was full of battery tea lights which emitted an eerie glow through the windows.

**Halloween Hansel and Gretel Candy House**

We served Witch fingers at the party, these are simple packaged Italian Breadsticks with an almond sliver for a finger nail and green food gel to hold the almond. I tend to use Silver ware and Crystal for food service at Halloween rather than disposable products.

We served a number of simple dips presented in crystal bowls on a silver tray scattered with bones and mice. The bones were from halloween necklaces.

We included some wasabi peas, Olive mix and Japanese Oisji peanut crackers.

A selection of cheeses were included with cheese circles from out free printable range.

We made three punch's for this party, the recipes are included on our blog in the Halloween section

Our free printable include Witch and Wizard circles, Cheese platter tents and circles, Vodka shots tents and Picks and Punch tents

**Halloween Witch party free printable**

Halloween Graveyard Tutorial

October 09, 2014 in Halloween, Tutorial

This Halloween we created a tabletop Graveyard for our Party, this was a great party and the graveyard was a huge success. To complement the party I've created a tutorial with lots of ideas so you can create your own graveyard at home. This graveyard looked great in candlelight, select the link to see this Halloween Graveyard party in action.

Materials Required:

Shallow cardboard box as a base, or art carvas
Back and white paint and brush
Duble sided tape
White and coloured stones (I used black green and purple)
Blu Tack
Skeletons (glitter and plain)
Halloween jewellery with bones and skulls
Small skulls
Halloween kits with fences, tombstones and monuments
Grim Reaper
Battery operated tea lights

This is not difficult to make but does take a few hours to complete.

Enjoy

Materials

I've included photo's of the materials used to construct the graveyard. I found the tombstone kits at on-line party shops and the jewellery and skeletons at discount stores and supermarkets.

**Coloured rocks - Halloween Graveyard Tutorial**

**Halloween Jewellery - Halloween Graveyard tutorial**

**Graveyard Monuments both Large and Small**

**Glitter Skeletons - Halloween Graveyard Tutorial**

Step 1

Paint a path and circle for the monument in white paint (Make sure you check the size of the monument and pencil the shape). Use black paint to cover the remainer of the box, including the sides.

Step 2

Using double sided tape, attach the fence the the edge of the box

Step 3

Cover the path with small white stones, use a colour stone to create an edge to the path

**Step Three - halloween Graveyard Tutorial**

Step 4

Place the monument in the circle and surround with skulls. Continue with the white and colour stones used on the path. I placed battery operated tea lights inside the monument which looked great at night.

Step 5

Mark out the graves and secure the Tombstones to the board using Blu Tack. Use White stones with a colour border to mark the graves.

Step 6

Place the skeletons on the graves using different poses. I used a combination of standing, sitting and crawling.

Step 7

Stand some Skeletons up at the front fence, rear and side fences. Use Blu Tack to secure if required.

Step 8

I created two monuments either side of the path which I attached with Blu Tack. I used a combination of rocks, skulls and bones at the base of the monument. I also found a small Grim Reaper that I placed on the path.

Step 9

I used more skulls to define the graveyard gate and placed another skeleton on the path trying to escape.

Step 10

The final touches. When the day arrives for you to move your Halloween Graveyard into place I added more skeletons and spiders on the table just outside the gate and added cobwebs to the fence.

This looked great with tall vintage candles either side of the graveyard with cobwebs linking them together.

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