Things I love Thursday: Halloween!

♥ dogs in costumes ♥ this recipe for gingerbread skeletons ♥ false eye lashes ♥ black candles ♥ crisp mornings ♥ enchanted shea butter soap ♥ reading Poe ♥ having time enough to read {anything} ♥ watching Jack Nicholson in the shining ♥

Holiday soap boxes

Holiday soap boxes are in the works. Look for entomolgy, anatomical, and oceanography sets for starters with more to follow.

TILT {things i love thursday}

♥ this Halloween blog post ♥ huge mugs of vanilla cappuccino ♥ shopping local ♥ farmer's markets ♥ homemade vegetable stew ♥ ordering deep discounted text books at half.com ♥ new corsets ♥ fire engine red hair ♥eye patches ♥

Give-away: The Poisoned Apples

Hello Again Sweets! I thought we might have time to squueeze in 1 more fabulous Halloween give-away from one of my favorite ETSY shops! This weeks give-away is truly delicious! It features your choice of 'Poisoned Apples.' These {goulishly} delighful Caramel Apples are dipped in a rich, {to-die-for} caramel (whose recipe originates with Great Great Great Aunt Uriel.) Each is then adorned with twisted decor - from spiders and bats, to zombie flesh. All apples are hand created by the spooktacular Lesa, owner of ♥The Poisoned Apples♥.

My choice: The Poisoned Apples' {signature} Caramel Apple, dipped in black chocolate with a white fondant skull and red chocolate blood. {Hello Snow White}

You have 4 chances to enter this delicious giveaway:

1. Visit Lesa's etsy shop, browse through her wondrous collection of handmade delights & leave a comment here (on my blog) telling us if you could have your pick, which poison you would love to win.

2. Blog about this give away then come back here (to my blog) & let us know you did by leaving a comment.

3. FB &/or tweet about this give away then come back here (to my blog) & let us know you did by leaving a comment.

That's up to 5 entries per person, per give away! Winner gets choice of 1 of Lesa's current poison apple listings.

NOTE: Please leave a separate comment for each entry. Contest ends at midnight on Sunday Oct 23rd, 2011. Good luck, Sweets!

YOU CAN FIND ♥The Poisoned Apples♥ HERE: ETSY shop

YOU CAN FIND ♥SteamBath Factory♥ HERE: Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Etsy Shop

TILT {things i love thursday}

♥ making the front yard of my {new} home look like a graveyard even before we move in ♥ finding homes for not 1 but 2 of our foster cats in 1 week ♥ sour patch kids candy ♥ Pumpkin Pancakes prepared by my 9 y/o {son}♥ planting purple tulip bulbs ♥ watermelons {finally} growing in our garden plot ♥ being caught up on ALL of my ETSy orders ♥ & BIG Eyed Black Cats ♥

Wordless Wednesday

Shakespear's Globe Theater in London {just wow}.