Hi Tammy, If you can bake a basic sugar cookie, a cute idea is a bag of Leprechaun Kisses. I used a sugar cookie recipe that asks you to form the dough into a small ball on your cookie sheet... and I made really small balls, about 1/2" in diameter and pressed a Hershey's COOKING Kiss (which is much smaller than silver foil covered Kisses)into the center of each ball, which flattens it a tad.Bake until they are barely bowning,or per your recipe, and remove to cooling rack. Put 6-8 in the St.Patrick's Day motif cupcake paper cups or just use white ones, and stack 6 cupcake cups full in a cellophane bag ($ Tree) with the shamrocks on it(I used a piece of thick white cardboard from new shirts, cut in the exact rectangular dimensions of the inside of the bag,and placed in the bottom of the bag, and between each layer of cookies, to give the cupcake cups of cookies more stability, and keep the bag upright. I punched 2 holes near the tops of the bag and threaded green and white curly ribbon thru the holes and added a decorated tag that had the Leprechaun Kisses poem on it!I'll try to find the site on the net for the poem,and e-mail it to you, and you can go directly there and print out the tags. I made these for my daycare moms and dads, too, and made teeny weeny cookies with a Nestles' semi-sweet morsel stuck in the top! They were the cutest...just a tad bigger than Goldfish. Oh, I sold the tagged and bagged ones for $4/bag to the Teamsters,in DC where my sister works... and I had so many requests for "normal sized cookies" that I made the standard size cookie with the regular Hershey's Kiss in the center and sold them as "Bunny Kisses for Easter !(2 Doz for $4! Enjoy !

Country Sampler and Country Marketplace were my two favorites. I did country things. I sewed, and stuffed and painted. I don't have a lot of thing left because I have a problem of giving my things away when a birthday or something comes up. I designed a muslin doll with hi heel shoes that were a part of the body. I then painted the muslin. Painted an old lady face and dressed her like a bag lady. Some of them had two different shoes painted on because that was all she could find in the dumpster. But they had class...Black velvet hats with a rose on it. A once beautiful sweater with a few holes in it. Nice warm wool plaid skirts, so what if the moths were a little hungry. They each had a bag full of goodies they had rummaged. I think they were my favorite things I've made. Sure wish I would have kept one. They sold like hotcakes. I made lots and lots of snowmen. Crafted some out of old quilts, some out of chenille,Many out of muslin and then I painted them. I've painted lots and lots of santa's and snowmen on old pieces of overly weathered wood. I had a pile of old wooden palets out back that were falling apart. That is where I got a lot of my santas. Fence boards with snowmen painted on them. I still have two or three of them. And I still have a santa painted on an old ironing board. I also painted country snow scenes on big old coat button and made them into pins. I was thinking about painting little ghost trick or treaters on some buttons for little gifts for some friends this year. But haven't gotten it done...maybe next year. Oh and screens...I painted snowmen on screens. Did lots of wooden signs. Way back when nylon sculpture was big I made old lady heads. I live in Iowa and one of them was bought for a gift for some lady who owned one of the big newspapers in D.C. I always wondered if she liked it or not. I made long eared bunnies before anyone knew what they were. People were always asking...what's this a pregnant kangaroo?....(mine had chubby bellies) I have somewhere a picture of me and a bunch of the heads. I'll have to see if I can find it and scan it to post. I'm one of these who stores all her pictures in boxes...I hate scrapbooking...lol The cradle is cute. And so is the baby in it. I've only made one of those. not a cradle but a bed. For my grandaughter. I think she still has it and she is 14 now. patti

What great ideas! The centerpieces look fabulous and the chalkboard paint on the pots is great for the children. No reason not to have a pumpkin wedding cake? Lots of wedding cakes nowdays use carrot cake. A pumpkin cake is about the same. If you Google *Halloween Wedding Cake* you can see photos of some very creative wedding cakes designed for the season. Some are made with plain batter and some are made with pumpkin cake. Here is a link that might be useful: Halloween Wedding Cakes

Luv.....my first post seems to have gotten lost! You chalkboard tray is so great! And is not just for "one" season, erase the message and you are ready for the next season or everyday use. Was the chalkboard paint easy to use? Where did you find it? I had thought about using it on the back of my Christmas tags to make them re-usable. Chalk in a name and then erase it for next year.