{"id":897,"date":"2010-10-16T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T00:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2012-10-25T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:18:45","slug":"come-in-weve-been-expecting-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Come In……We’ve Been Expecting You……"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our Halloween Blog Party.\u00a0 How nice of you to stop by…..Come right this way…..\"skele-finger\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It has been a hectic time around here, so much to do so little time.\u00a0 But I won’t bore you with all the strange events that have been happening in our abode…..I think first we should sit for a spell and have a couple refreshments and I will show you around….\"table_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Help yourself to a cookie…..\"cookies\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Or try a cupcake…..\"cupcakes_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I tried out an idea that we had, that adding a Miniature Reese’s Cup to the batter would be worth trying.\u00a0 I made Devils Food cupcakes added the Reese’s Cup.\u00a0 After they cooled I frosted half with Peanut Butter Frosting<\/a> and the other half with a recipe I had read on Tasty Kitchen<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is a picture of how the cupcake experiment came out….\"cupcake_half\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Notice how the Reese’s Cup sank to the bottom.\u00a0 It also didn’t melt, it kind of hardened.\u00a0 The frosting recipes are wonderful (for the recipes just click on the above links).\u00a0 The peanut butter is wonderful on the Devils Food cupcake. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Anyway, make yourself a potion to wash it all down…\"potions_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that we have had our refreshments I’ll just show you around.\u00a0 Here are some pictures of the family room…..\"livingroom_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The fireplace mantel…..\"mantle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My tribute to the Haunted Mansion….\"haunted_mansion\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Our hitchhiker, Gus….<\/p>\n

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One of our old favorite decorations…..our fiber-optic black cat…\"fiberopticcat\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a\u00a0 few more photos from around the house…..\"skullandhands\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Our Halloween Tree….\"righttree\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Young and Old Mr. Gracy Ornaments. Characters from the Haunted Mansion….\"twogracys\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0 Bat Wing Mantel Clock<\/a> is in a new spot in the house….\u00a0 \"batwingclock\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I also made a Phantom Manor Gingerbread House….\"gingerbread_5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I kind of have the Haunted Mansion on the brain so I am going to do two giveaways.\u00a0 The first is a Haunted House candle holder….\"hauntedhousegiveaway\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The other will be for two Halloween Eggs I painted.\u00a0 I painted a few of them to put in my kitchen fruit bowl….\"eggs_2\"<\/a>\"eggs_close\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To enter to win just leave me a comment.\u00a0 I will randomly draw winners on Sunday, October 24th in order to get them shipped in time for Halloween!<\/p>\n

Thanks so much for stopping by and have fun Blog Partying and have a spooktacular Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our Halloween Blog Party.\u00a0 How nice of you to stop by…..Come right this way….. It has been a hectic time around here, so much to do so little time.\u00a0 But I won’t bore you with all the strange events that have been happening in our abode…..I think first we should sit for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,132,130,131],"tags":[176,46,17,70,80,83,98,103],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-projects","category-holidays","category-house-and-garden","category-whats-cooking","tag-bat-wing-mantel-clock","tag-cupcakes","tag-halloween-blog-party","tag-halloween-hand-painted-eggs","tag-haunted-mansion","tag-hitchhiker-ghosts","tag-peanut-butter-frosting","tag-phantom-manor-gingerbread-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}