DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

Top 10 Favorite Halloween Cakes    Let’s take a look at a few of the freakiest, loveliest cakes we’ve spied around the web. 10. Black Spider Wedding Cake ( Pag asa ) 9. Zombie Fingers Cake ( Dessert by Candy — includes full recipe ) 8. Jack-o-Lantern Cake ( Williams-Sonoma, where you can actually buy a $99 pan specifically for making this cake ) 7. Vampire Bat Cake ( My Own Sweet Thyme — includes step-by-step instructions .) 6. Bloody Eyeballs Cake ( megpi ) 5. Mad Scientist Cake ( Don Buciak ) 4. Cockroach Cake ( Make ) 3. Zombie Cake ( Crafster ) 2. Kitty Litter Cake ( Cleverswine ) (plus  recipe here ) 1. Bleeding Heart (and all the other organs, too) Cake

   This diy was found at www.stolloween.com  I thought this was a pretty cool diy  and also pretty easy to make.  No haunt is complete without some barbed wire. This is a very easy way to make some convincing rusted looking barbed wire to enhance your props or costume and the best part is that it’s safe and inexpensive. This prop does not involve the use of a papier mache (gasp!) but it does make a nice enhancement to your papier mache props. The Faux Barbed Wire is made from twine, craft foam and black latex paint. When starting this project I referenced a piece of real barbed wire and found that the barbs were approximately five inches apart. The first step is to grab a piece of twine that is twice as long as you would like final piece of wire. If you want 10 feet of barbed wire then start with 20 feet of twine. Any type of thick twine will work but I prefer to use polypr

   Gone are the days when you could throw a sheet over your head and call it a Halloween costume. Halloween is serious business. Retailers expect Americans to spend about  $8 billion on the day,   according to a National Retail Federation survey conducted by BIGinsight.     Of course, part of the fun of the holiday is coming up with a creative Halloween costume. About $1.1 billion will be spent on children’s costumes this year.      For kids, there will be plenty of the traditional costumes: princesses, super heroes, witches and pirates. But even these popular themes are subject to interpretation.      We’ve taken a look at what the trendiest costumes are for kids this year. Click ahead to find out what they are, some may surprise you. Fuzzy Owl Costume    Forget the ill-fitting vinyl costumes. These days, the selection of adorable baby and toddler costumes seems endless, so it will likely be a tough call when it comes time to select