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Autumn is here

Halloween Refreshments at Coastal Quilters yesterday, Oct. 13

Yesterday was glorious and crisp, this morning is gray, misty and dreary… a perfect day for catching up on blogging, reading, quilting, eating.  Well… I guess I don’t need to catch up on eating but I like the idea anyway!  It’s potato and turkey kielbasa soup in the slow cooker today.   Anyway, when I went to get in the car yesterday morning to head to quilting, there was the first frost on the window!

First frosty windshield of the season…time to turn on the defroster and the seat warmer!

It was a lovely meeting with a great speaker, Mim Bird, owner of the new Over the Rainbow Yarns in Rockland (here…GREAT shop!), great friends, and it was Kathy’s and my turn to do refreshments.  I don’t know what got into me.  I don’t do much holiday decoration other than Christmas, and never do much for Halloween.  Must’ve been possessed by the spirits over on Pinterest or suffering from a need to create…. Kathy fixed the food that tasted good!  I fixed stuff I could play with…yes, I played with my food, and boy did I have fun!  That’s the whole table at the start of the blogpost.

Thanks to Ashley, older son’s girlfriend, for the lovely mums for my birthday that I shared (and promptly returned to our porch).  And we have some bittersweet in the yard, and this piece had already broken off….    and Kath brought great Halloween cups and napkins and made her own caramel popcorn…YUM!  I made brownie graves, Frankensteins and meringue ghosts….

Brownies, tombstones, ghosts, Kathy’s caramel popcorn, and  in there somewhere a Frankenstein (KitKat or other chocolate-coated wafer cookie with frosting to make the head)–see if you can spot him leaning somewhat drunkenly against one of the tombstones

Meringue ghosts were surprisingly easy to make. Mine were a bit short and fat… I guess I’m going to have to break down and buy a pastry cone/funnel/tube thingy…whatever that thing is called that you use to pipe frosting! With a wide tip it would have been easier to make taller ghosts than my squat with-a-spoon fellows

One Response to “Autumn is here”

  1. Maggie Szafranski Says:

    Love it! Cute display! Love fall decorations!