Ghouliciously Green Halloween

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Avocados from Mexico for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
Tomorrow is the day! Time to celebrate with creepy things and sweet treats!   It's a great time serve Avocados from Mexico. Check out these fun Halloween recipes.
How fun is this spider web dip?  It looks yummy too!


We're celebrating with orange, yellow and green foods this year. Avocados are perfect for our green foods.

I'd love to come in from the cold after trick or treating to this! Bone Warming Chili

If you're on the lookout for something a little more dramatic for your party, how about this? Too funny! And a little gross looking....

Want to win on Halloween? Make a Pinterest board to show what makes Halloween celebrations fun at your house and if you have a favorite recipe, include it. Upload it to their fan recipes section and link from there. They will feature your name and recipe and link back as well!
Be sure to follow Ghouliciously Green Halloween board on Mexican Avocados Pinterest board!
Ghoulishly Green Halloween board example
Pin to Win contest
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1. Follow @MexicanAvocados on Pinterest and "like" Avocados from Mexico on Facebook.
2. Create a pinboard titled Ghouliciously Green Halloween pinboard of your own, categorize it as "holiday" and tag it #iloveavocodosforhalloween
3. Your board can contain as many pins as you like, but at least 3 pins should come from www.avocadosfrommexico.com/
4. Fill your board with everything you think makes a great Halloween celebration - you can repin from other Pinterest boards or pin from other websites, just make sure if you "Upload" a photo, you took the photo or have the rights to use it.
5. Tag your pins #iloveavocadosforhalloween
6. Then go to the Facebook page at http://www.avocadosfrommexico.com and enter your name and link to your pinboard.
7. Contest runs from October 7 - October 29.
8. How to win - the 10 boards with the highest combination of repins and likes will win a $100 gift card.
Include Avocados from Mexico in your Halloween celebration - it will be fun and taste great!

Fall Jewels

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus,
French author and philosopher

Stormy in the Leaves

Beauty of Nature

There’s nothing like it!

I discovered our hydrangea shrubs on the side of the house are gorgeous right now! I love that these plants change constantly yet are always beautiful, whatever the season. There’s a good lesson in that.

These are some kind of hydrangeas, not what we thought they were, but they grew fast & they are huge. 3/4 the height of the peak of our house!

They’re perfect really, green & flowering, then berries in the spring and fall, and gorgeous colors in the fall. These pictures are all from the same shrub.

Fall Fun Scrapbook Page

A fun fall page made with Shabby Shoppe’s Parker kit and layout inspired by the layout of the week on their blog.

October Scrapbook Pages

I fit in a little scrapbooking over the weekend. I didn’t get too far but I enjoyed working on a couple pages anyway. I kept them very simple, nothing fancy. These page are made with Creative Memories Storybook Creator.

A couple pages from the last football game on Saturday. Tie game & Brett made a few tackles.

We stopped to get pictures with Bessie the Cow, a landmark in Janesville.

Wordless Wednesday|In Memory

This post isn’t so “wordless” but this is what I’m going to do today…

August 11, 1916 - October 7, 2012

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Picking Green Tomatoes

We had lots of tomatoes in the garden that are still green. They just aren’t going to ripen there so I had the boys help pick them. Fun!  Next I think I will have them help me clean the dead plants out of the garden. While we’re doing that, we’ll look for seeds.

We also had a few potatoes, most of them very small, but it sure was fun to dig them up!

Painting with Sticks

We love painting outdoors on our new easel ($2 at a garage sale!) 

Yesterday we tried painting with sticks. Like a brush but yet, not like a brush. This is process art – art that is created while a child is learning in the process. The emphasis is on the learning taking place.

Painting with a stick, requires trying to turn the stick and applying the paint in a different way than with a brush. It creates a different kind of line and it’s very interesting. Painting with sticks causes the child to try different ways of applying it, encouraging creative thinking and problem solving.

I especially love the red and gold painting as the two that worked on it, took quite a bit of time and really explored painting with a stick.

Name Paintings | Preschool Basics

Such a simple activity we haven’t done before – painting names with watercolors. I originally saw this idea on Hello Bee. I love how simple it is and yet, meaningful as each child learns the letters of their name. The font is Arialic and can be downloaded for free here.