Pumpkin anything is my favorite flavour, especially since I became allergic to chocolate. I am round anyways but pumpkin season is a killer. Please tell me I am not alone, now its brussel sprouts and cabbage until Christmas lol. I am starting to think about Christmas, began Christmas shopping and can’t wait to get crafting for it. I hope your…
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Black Cat Halloween Cake
This Black Cat Halloween cake is easy to make once you figure out how to make black icing. Now that I have the black icing recipe done, the rest of this cake is super easy to put together and requires no special equipment or decorating skills. Black cats are one of my favorite Halloween characters, and this black cat cake…
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How to Make Black Icing
For Halloween this year I have decided to make a black cat cake. The problem with making a black cake for Halloween is getting the icing a nice dark black. Have you ever tried to make black icing? I bought some black gel food colouring but the icing didn’t turn out truly black, more of a dark grey. After some…
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Pink Halloween Candy Buffet
On a typical Halloween we are lucky and get close to 200 trick or treaters. Unfortunately talking to neighbours this year most people are keeping their children home. I know my granddaughters aren’t going out, and their school parties are cancelled. We can still have loads of fun with Halloween, but its going to have to look very different. I…
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Upcycled DIY Tray with Chalkboard Surface
Start with a long thin kitchen cabinet drawer front in a light colour. The drawer fronts are long and thin making them perfect servers. We purchased ours at Habitat for Humanity for $2. You can make up one or several of these trays for so cheap. You can even do a few of them to create a large buffet. Habitat…
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The weather in Edmonton is Fall, our few weeks of summer is gone, the leaves are starting to turn, and we had frost kill off the potted plants outside. I dug out the heating pad and wrapped it around my feet, grabbed a thicker blanket and am now writing quite content on the couch. I am writing and creating Halloween…
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When I changed my name from Faeries and Fauna to Pretty DIY Home, Pinterest “mistakenly” marked my blog as spam. Pinterest said they would fix it within a week, three months down the road they haven’t unflagged me yet I went from 2.5 million impressions to 129,000 and dropping steadily. I find it is distracting me, and keeping me from…
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Classic Homemade Dill Pickle Recipe
Of all canned pickles I think Homemade Dill Pickles are the easiest to make, and pretty much everyone’s favorite pickle. Who hasn’t eaten a dill pickle? Now that Hubs is retired and eating at home most of the time. I have dusted off all my classic pickle canning recipes. I and am happy to share some of pickling and canning…
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