Halloween parties are about costumes and fun, not spending the entire evening in the kitchen. We’re inviting friends and family over for a party the weekend before Halloween and I want to share some easy appetizers that are so delicious they’ll disappear – almost like magic.
Halloween is by far my favorite holiday. There’s no required way to celebrate and a plenty of reason to decorate the house and wear fun costumes. What more could you ask for from a holiday? Aside… I CAN NOT WAIT to share my Halloween costume. …
Throwing a party is fun, but dependent on the night of the week a big celebration might be more than you need. Halloween happens to fall on a Monday night this year so between work and looking forward to seeing the neighborhood trick or treaters we are planning for a low-key night in.
Ready to ring in the New Year in style? I’ve put together a quick tutorial on the Denver Style Magazine Blog [sadly no longer a website as for 1/2021] for how you can make your own designer look-alike champagne glasses in time for the big night!
How will you be celebrating the start of 2016?
Christmas stockings are one of my favorite things about Christmas morning. It was the one present that I was allowed to open before any of the adults were up and always included a formula of surprises that my Mom knew would keep me occupied for at least a short amount of time [at least until 7:30 am].
Our stockings always included a ‘foot’ made of a banana, orange and an apple – intended to tide us over until we had breakfast later that day. Last year Drew and I celebrated our first married Christmas, and the first tradition we started was crafting the perfect stockings for each other – and I wanted to bring a bit of that holiday memory into our new family.
When I was looking for the perfect filler, I wanted to select something that would create that ‘foot’ in the bottom of the stocking but would be something my husband would enjoy. As a stocking stuffer, I wanted the items to be memorable and range around $25 for the completed stocking. When I came across the Hickory Farms Beef Hickory Sampler I knew I had found perfect foundation to starting to fill the stocking.
Rogue clearly wants to know where her stocking is.
Instead of a selection of fruit to build the foot, I’m using sweet hot mustard as the toe, golden toasted crackers as the arch and beef summer sausage and cheese as the heel and ankle. This collection comes packaged in a gift box and is perfect right price point to be included as a stocking stuffer item.
To fill out the rest of the stocking I included a bag of Peanut Brittle Popcorn, a couple of lego sets and scratch tickets (which is one of Drew’s family traditions). It has been so much fun starting our own traditions and finding creative ways to merge our personalities and memories into a new family unit.
How does your family fill stockings and what are the traditions that surround them in your household? Do the grown-ups in your home receive different stocking presents from the kiddos?
Disclaimer: This post was brought to you by Hickory Farms. All opinions, ideas and writing are my own. I was compensated and received a product sample as inspiration for this post.
