Well today is the day, first day of basketball season that is. For many their favorite teams tip off tonight for the first time since March. To get into the basketball spirit I have put together some great basketball themed foods that you can make for those nights when you are watching your favorite team on TV. The great thing about all of these foods? They are super easy to make with the help of a wonderful tool called a food pen. These food pens use edible ink and let you draw fun pictures or write cute messages on your food. So pick one of these pens up and you are ready to start creating your basketball themed dishes!

Mini Basketball Cheeseburgers from Hungry Happenings

Basketball Nilla Wafer Cookie Sandwiches from Lisa Storms

Bean Dip and Basketball Tortilla Chips from Hungry Happenings

What other basketball themed food ideas have you created? Have a wonderful weekend!

xoxo
Megan

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A wedding is the perfect occasion for the bride and groom to share some of their favorite things and personal touches with all their friends and family. Well if you and your groom-to-be are fans of all things Thanksgiving I have the perfect wedding idea for you. Take your favorite Thanksgiving foods and create your reception menu around them, with a little twist on the original of course! Whatever your favorite Thanksgiving dish is there are some easy, and creative ways on how you can turn it into the perfect reception dish! Here are some of my favorites...

If you love cranberry sauce...create a cranberry cocktail as your signature drink like this ginger rose.

In you love potatoes...host a mashed potato bar during the reception.

If you love green bean casserole...serve fried green beans during cocktail hour.

If you love turkey...serve turkey burger sliders for all your guests to enjoy.

If you love pie (any who doesn't?!?!)...serve mini versions in mason jars as favors or create a dessert bar featuring all your Thanksgiving favorites!

There are so many great ways to incorporate your favorite Thanksgiving dishes into your wedding reception menu. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dish that you cannot live without? 

xoxo
Megan

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Happy Monday! As promised today I have my step-by-step tutorial on how I created my pinata Halloween costume that I wore this year. About a week or two before Halloween I spent hours on Pinterest trying to find an idea for a costume. Being the crafter that I am I really wanted to make my costume instead of buying it. So when I came across a picture of a cute pinata dress I was determined to figure out how to make my own version of the costume. Here is how I made this year's Halloween costume creation...

Here is what you will need:

• 1 dress or slip (I bought mine from the local Goodwill store for $4)
  
• 6 to 8 rolls of streamers (I bought all of mine for $1 at the Dollar Store)
  
• hot glue gun & glue sticks
  
• scissors
  
• large piece of cardboard

Instructions:
1. Before I began my project I had to hem the dress to the length that I wanted the dress to be. I used no-sew hemming tape and an iron and had my dress ready to go in about 5-10 minutes.
2. Once I had my dress at the correct length I cut my streamers so that each piece would wrap all the way around the dress one time each. To prevent the streamers from ripping I didn't cut the slits in each streamer piece until I was ready to glue it onto the dress.
3. When you are ready to glue on your first streamer take a piece of cardboard and stretch the dress over it. This will prevent the dress from sticking to itself on the inside. 
4. Starting from the bottom of the dress and working up, glue your strips of streamers onto the dress using the hot glue gun. In no organized order I glued two strips of each color onto the dress at a time. It was just an added perk that the dress I found was striped and provided excellent guidelines.

5. To help prevent an visible seam I started and ended each streamer in the middle on the back. 
6. When I got up to the arms and dress collar I glued on the streamers like normal and then folded over any extras and glued it to the inside of the dress.
7. As a final touch I added a pinata tail by cutting 1 long strip of each color, tied them together and then glued it to the back of the dress.

To finish the look I wore bright colored jewelry, carried a pinata stick and had a purse filled with candy to hand out at the party. This was such a fun costume to wear! Everyone I saw that night loved my costume and could not believe that I had made it. (Handing out candy also helped a little too!) My only worry with this costume was that all the streamers were going to fall off after once use, so it was a great surprise when I got home that night and the costume was still in great shape.   

What did you dress up as for Halloween? Did you try a DIY idea this year like I did?

xoxo
Megan

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If you are like me you probably have a ton of leftover Halloween candy currently sitting in your house, just staring at you, wanting you to eat every single last piece. As much as I love my candy indulgences I have no desire to be put into a candy coma because of it. So this year instead of throwing all that leftover candy away, why not take that bowl of candy and turn it into a new sweet treat to share! The best thing about these leftover candy cookies is that they can be made with any leftover candy that you have sitting around the house! Here are instructions on how you can make your own leftover candy cookies thanks to Confessions Of A Cookbook Queen. Enjoy!!

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 stick of softened butter
• 1 1/2 cups smooth peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups assorted candies (Reese’s Pieces, M&M’s, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kats & Candy Corn are all great candies to use)
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups quick cooking (not instant) oats
• 2 cups old fashioned oats

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
   
2. In the bowl of a mixer, beat eggs and both sugars on medium until smooth and combined.  Add vanilla, peanut butter and butter and beat again on medium until smooth.  Mix in the oats, baking soda, and salt.  Fold in candies.
   
3. Scoop cookie dough with a large cookie scoop onto an ungreased baking sheets (makes about 4 dozen large cookies).  Bake for about 10 minutes, until edges are lightly browned.  Let cool on baking sheets for several minutes before using a spatula to remove to wire rack.
   

If you have fiends coming over, have them bring some of their leftover candy to add to the cookie candy pile for an even wider variety. My favorite candy is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups which are perfect for this cookie recipe. Do you have a favorite recipe that you like to make to use up some of your leftover Halloween candy?

xoxo
Megan

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