Recycle Your Leftover Hallowe'en Candy

I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one who didn't eat all my Hallowe'en candy when I was a kid - or at least I didn't eat it all before the New Year came around. Growing up in a small community where everybody literally knows everybody (yeah, that actually happens) you tend to come home with more candy than one person needs in a 10 year period. I never trick-or-treated with those cute little plastic pumpkin buckets or printed bags - we trick-or-treated with pillow cases (emphasizing the plural). So, yes inevitably (even when your siblings, friends and parents help you, whether you know it or not) all the candy just doesn't get eaten. Now leaves the question, what do I do with it all? I know a few parents who would take it into work with them to pass out to colleges - but there are much more creative ways to make sure this candy get's used up!
I read a great article on a blog called Small Kitchen College and they have given us 7 yummy ways to make your candy even better before it goes stale (or you give it away).

1. Chocolate Bark

2. Monster Cookies

3. Blondies

4. Pancakes

5. Stuffed Cupcakes

6. Homemade Butterfingers

7. Incentives

 I will leave it to the expert to explain these delicious ideas, so click the link to the Small Kitchen College and start recycling that candy

The Weekend

A sigh of relief for most people, two whole days off work!
However this is not the case for me unfortunately - 3 midterms back to back in a week means there will be lots of sighing but no relief. Well except for tonight - my boyfriend and I are going to see Just For Laughs: British Edition at the National Arts Center (his early birthday present from his parents). So date night it is! I suppose in doing this there may be a little bit of relief from the endless studying I have been doing all semester long.

My best advice for a student?

Movember Looms

 The mustaches of November are not the only thing coming out to greet me; cold weather, snow and Christmas adverts - of course all of this I can handle and I welcome ANYTHING to do with Christmas (yes I am a Christmas nut, expect a lot of themed posts)
However November also mean stress, assignments, never ending studying and exams. This semester (since the middle of October to the end of November) I will have had 8 midterms. This means I have had no life .. I've been to a pub once this semester.
This leaves me torn in my feelings for November, I love everything about this season but I hate everything about studying.
Okay maybe I do love November, but studying just gets in my way. There are good things happening this month, like the last Harry Potter DVD coming out - and some excellent looking films hitting the cinema. November is also a good month because my friend and I are going to see Mamma Mia on broadway and for my boyfriends birthday his parents got us tickets to go see the Just For Laughs UK Edition Tour. That tied in with Christmas prep I guess November is alright after all, as long as I don't fail any exams!
Back to movember, I thought I would give you some mustache links to follow this month - today I have been checking out Etsy and have found some great products for our mustache filled month.

A comfy pair of shoes

Mo-up your furry friend with these

Drink your tea in movember fashion with this

What guy doesn't like a good cotton t-shirt?

I dream of mustache .. pillows!

Trending: BIG rings

Keep your coffee cozy

Throwing any mustache parties with cupcakes?

A cute little robot

A cute tee for the ladies ..

oh! and another

A Little Love to Finish Off the Autumn

I thought I would share with you some photos my cousin took of my boyfriend and I over thanksgiving weekend. She is almost finished school for advertising and has started her own business in photography and design. Find her here for photography and here for her design work - I also her have her blog posted off the the left.

 

 

Deals Anyone?

Alright so I'll admit it now, I am a huge shop-a-holic - my boyfriend and my bank account hate it, but it is probably one of my favourite things to do.
I have been checking out the Old Navy website and found some super cute pieces for super great deals (this is something that's important to a student).

 

 

Cute Winter Button-Up Sweater

 

 

Sequin Accented Jumper

Shawl Wrap

Sequin Tank

Boat Neck Top

Hope you enjoy!

Happy Hallowe'en

Thought this picture of a past cookie myself and my sisters made would be appropriate to start off this pumpkin, candy eating holiday post. I spent last night with a friend, we ate a load of candy and studied - yes, this is what my Hallowe'en has become, stuffing my face and trying to remember what the difference between qualitative and quantitative research is.
I didn't partake in ANY partying, or even bother buying a costume. I don't even have to decorate because we live in an apartment building and children aren't allowed to trick or treat in it - perhaps if children were allowed and I wasn't drowning in exams, I would put forth some effort. My lack of Hallowe'en enthusiasm is not because I hate it.
It's quite good fun actually, who doesn't thoroughly enjoy getting free candy for putting on a costume?
On my first Hallowe'en my parents let me pick my costume, I was three, and I was Batman - unfortunately I don't have any of these pictures on my computer - but just less than 20 years later I was Batman again!

 

My more recent Batman costume was made by yours truly, and completed with pleather tights and black boots - much better then the Batman dress that accentuated your boobs and exposed your ass (last time I checked Batman didn't wear a dress).

Have you ever made a costume, did you have a favourite?

Hey Ladies .. Wanna Know a Secret?

Have you been trying to find natural feather hair extensions, and found yourself not wanting to pay upwards of $20 for them?
Well if you're still looking to compliment your fall wardrobe click here to go to this fab Etsy store, where they have clearance feathers for not much more than $10 after shipping!
Exciting, right?