Linkup Party Likes #15

Happy Halloween everyone!!! It’s Halloween today and the weather is fitting, cold and miserable.  I remember celebrating Halloween when I was a kid.  I would wear my Mum’s black tablecloth with little white flowers on it as my cape and my Mum would make me a witches hat.
I don’t really do anything at our house for Halloween but my sister is a big kid and she has her place all set up with a little mini haunted house and had my girls over for a sleepover and a sausage sizzle for a few of my nieces school friends.  Sorry I’m a bit slack and don’t have any pictures.
Anyway, what have I been up to lately well I have put a few more listings up at my Made It store and have a few tutorials in mind for Wednesday but can’t decide yet what I would like to do first.
But what have you all been doing lately?  Well I thought it was only to fitting to share the great ideas you all had for Halloween this year.
I think this little witches hat over at Sweet Little Smoothie is just adorable and going to make one for the girls next year.

And I just love this tutorial that Shining Parties has for this yummy looking Ghost Pops.  Who can resist anything that has Oreo's in it:

Crafts by Amanda has a great way to recycle the good old Juice box/popper:

Crafty Linky has a great craft idea for Halloween using paper plates:

Do you have some empty plastic milk cartons and a few solar lights out in the garden.  Then why not create these great Ghosts for the garden.  You can find the tutorial over at Condo Blues:

Have you got your trick or treat bag?, No! why not make one using felt using this tutorial over at Better Together:


Creative Juice has a great tutorial for making these great hair accessories, plus some free printable:

And last but not least, Freaking Craft has created these cute little mummy’s using vases, fabric and googly eyes.  The would make great centrepieces at any table.
I will have to get my finger out next year and use some of these great ideas for the kids to have next halloween.
Well its nearly dinner time so I better head off.  Hope you all have a scary halloween.!!!!!!

Ps.  all pictures have been taken for relative blog sites. 

Sow!!!!!

Last week during dinner, my husband and I were talking about our day and got onto the subject of my blog and it occurred to us both that I haven't posted anything about Sow!!!!

Well I must confess since falling pregnant with baby number 3, the poor old veggie patch has been neglected and become over grown. 

before it became overgrown

Back in September I did turn over the veggie beds and filled them with lots of compost and manure but that was it.  And after all the rain we have had over the last couple of months, well the weeds have taken over.

But there has been one plus to all this, some pumpkin seeds must have been thrown in with the compost and then put in the garden beds and with the rain we have managed to grow 8 beautiful pumpkins.

Here are the girls with the first couple we picked:

Of course the first thing that they wanted was pumpkin soup, which I love!!! Then we roasted some with a lovely roast pork dinner.  And last night well as this pumpkin was so lovely and sweet, well I just had to make sweet pumpkin pie.

I made this a couple of years ago for my mum as she lived in Canada for a few years as a kid and she often talked about pumpkin pie.

So I searched on the internet and found this recipe (sorry I don't know the name of the site I found it on):

Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup granulated sugar (I only added 1/4 as the pumpkin was lovely and sweet already)
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 large eggs
• 500 grams pumpkin (I roasted my pumpkin first but you can steam if you want too)
• 1 can evaporated milk
• 1 unbaked  deep dish pie shell ( I used frozen shortcrust pastry)
• Whipped cream to serve

Directions:

1. Mix sugar, cinnamon, salt, ginger and cloves in a bowl.  Stir in pumpkin and sugar-spice mix, beat eggs and add to mix.  Gradually stir in evaporated milk.
2. Pour into pie shell
3. Bake in preheated 220 C oven for 15 mins, then reduce heat to 170C and bake for a further 40 mins.  If you use a shallow dish I recommend you only bake for 25 mins at 170C.

Now serve with whipped cream, or as I didn't have any cream we had vanilla ice cream with it. Yummy!!!!

What's your favorite pumpkin recipe?

Happy baking!!!!!!