Halloween Witch Party - How to Create a Witch's House with Free Halloween printables

October 05, 2015 in Halloween

Almost time for another halloween season. I really love halloween as I can go totally over the top and totally get away with it.

This year we decided on a Hansel and Gretel Witch party and a large amount of the house was used to create a Witch atmosphere. We created a Witch's Kitchen and included lots of lotions, potions and a large stove. This area kept all the children engaged for hours as they served each other severed fingers, brains and other ghastly morsels.

We created a set of printable tents to label our lotions, potions and body parts. We are offering this range as a free printable to help you create this look.

And yes, I was a very evil green Witch with my youngest children being Hansel and Gretel.

Enjoy Julie

Our kitchen was created by attaching a large amount of crushed velvet to curtains with pegs to form a black background, we then added bookshelves and repurposed an old corner TV unit as an oven.

**Halloween Witch Kitchen decorating ideas**

We collected a lot of cut glass and crystal bottles to use for potions. These were filled with coloured water and herbs.

I found a range of skull bottles in a local discount store and used cauliflower for brains,

The stove was created using an old corner TV unit, cardboard boxes, lots of black paint and halloween ornaments.

**Halloween Witch Oven Decorating Ideas**

Wine bottle crates were used to make small shelves around the stove. We included spiders, zombie body parts and very small bottles with dyed water and small pickled onions with a clove stud.

**Halloween how to decorate a Witch Kitchen**

A large cauldron was filled with bones and an over sized wooden spoon. I used a lot of battery tea lights under the red cellophane which glowed nicely at night.

We used a lot of different colours in our potion bottles.

We did include a couple of scary Witch's scattered through the house.

**Halloween Witch Party Hansel and Gretel Theme**

Incorporate vingage elements to the theme, I found a vintage silver and glass casserole dish which was filled with eyeballs,

**Halloween Witch Kitchen Hansel and Gretel**

A Witch kitchen isn't complete without a variety of pumpkin and a spell book.

**Halloween Witch Kitchen - Recipe Books**

We did include other items in our Witch's kitchen such as my talking Crystal Ball Witch, a very odd bunny growing horns and some Tru Blood.

We created printable tents for this party including lot's of lotions, potions and body parts. These are available as a free download. For best results printed the cards on bond 200 card paper.

**Halloween Witch Party - Free Printables**

Vintage glass spice bottles were used to hold small items.

We hope this post gives you lots of ideas to create a Witch Kitchen.

Happy Halloween

Halloween Melting Witch Punch

October 03, 2015 in drinks, halloween, Halloween, Printables

Halloween Punch is just so good. This year we had a Hansel and Gretel Witch Halloween party and had three punch's representing Witches. We called this punch the Melting Witch Punch.

This is a non alcoholic punch which was a favourite with the children..

For this party we created a set of free halloween punch tents so you can create the look at home.

Enjoy Julie

Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Caster sugar
8 tablespoons of water
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
green food colouring
4 litres lemon / lime sode
2 litres good vanilla ice cream.

Method

Combine the sugar and water in a saucepan and cook string over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved,
Remove from the heat and add the milk and almond extract.
Transfer to a large jug and allow to cool to room temperature, then move to the fridge to chill.
When ready to serve, transfer the mixture to the punch bowl
Add food colouring a bit at a time until you reach your desired green
Add lemon / lime sode, leaving space for the ice cream
Add ice cream using a scoop
Enjoy

Halloween Adult Witch Party Hansel and Gretel

October 01, 2015 in halloween, Halloween, free printable

Finally the first day of October, and the start of Halloween season.

Who says Halloween is just for children, luckily for me I have a number of adult friends who share my enthusiasm for dressing up and partying at Halloween. This year we had a Witch Party with a Hansel and Gretel theme, and while I did allow the dessert table to be child friendly the rest of the house was very dark and defiantly post the Hansel and Gretel Candy House.

The centre piece for this party was a Witch House in the woods and we will post a tutorial on how to create this over the next couple of days.

This was a dark theme but perfect for an adult halloween party, we have created free printables for you to use and enjoy.

Enjoy Julie.

**Halloween Hansel and Gretel Witch Party**

The House and Forest were the centre piece for this party, we then strategically surrounded the house with Champagne glasses, Glass Punch Bowls and Witch food.

Our Champagne glasses were all individually named with famous or should I say infamous Witches and Wizards these circles are included in our free download.

**Halloween Witch and Wizard drink tags**

We used a lot of candles to create height for the forest, we also used lollipops to frame the pathway to the Witch's house.

We created three punches for this party, the punch bowls were arranged together with bones, links to the recipes will be posted over the next few days with our free printable punch tents.

My Halloween parties normally have vodka jelly shots and this night was no exception

The house looked great in the dark, it was full of battery tea lights which emitted an eerie glow through the windows.

**Halloween Hansel and Gretel Candy House**

We served Witch fingers at the party, these are simple packaged Italian Breadsticks with an almond sliver for a finger nail and green food gel to hold the almond. I tend to use Silver ware and Crystal for food service at Halloween rather than disposable products.

We served a number of simple dips presented in crystal bowls on a silver tray scattered with bones and mice. The bones were from halloween necklaces.

We included some wasabi peas, Olive mix and Japanese Oisji peanut crackers.

A selection of cheeses were included with cheese circles from out free printable range.

We made three punch's for this party, the recipes are included on our blog in the Halloween section

Our free printable include Witch and Wizard circles, Cheese platter tents and circles, Vodka shots tents and Picks and Punch tents

**Halloween Witch party free printable**

Chocolate Macarons - Wicked Wednesday

September 23, 2015 in Wicked Wednesday, Sweets / Desserts

School Holidays have arrived in Melbourne so time to start baking. Today we made some delightful Chocolate Macarons, these are very sweet but very yummy.

Enjoy Julie

Recipe: (makes 12 +)

300g icing sugar
200g Almond Meal
2 tablespoons Cocoa
5 egg whites (room Temp)
1/4 teaspoon cream of tatar
75g Caster Sugar
175 g Dark Chocolate
3/4 cup Cream

ethod

Preheat oven to 150 c or 130 c fan forced.
Line two trays with baking paper
Blend the icing sugar, cocoa and almond meal until very fine, you may require a few batches
Mix egg whites and cream of tatar until soft peaks form, slowly add the caster sugar and mix until disolved.
Fold in the icing sugar mixture in three batches.
Place mixture in a piping bag and pipe 3 cm circles on the baking paper, leaving 3 cm between each Macaron.
Stand the tray at room temperature for 30 minutes
Bake for 20 minutes or until firm to touch, remove from oven and allow to cool on the tray
While baking, melt the dark chocolate and cream in a saucepan or microwave until melted and blended, allow to stand at room temperature until you reach a spreadable consistency.
Spread the chocolate on a macaroon and make a macaroon sandwich.
Enjoy

Volcano Cookies - Natural Disaster Project

September 16, 2015 in cookies

This term one of my children is learning about natural disasters at school with and we had an assignment of "cooking" a natural disaster. I was really impressed at some of the cakes which arrived at school that day.

For this assignment we opted for decorated cookies depicting natural disasters starting at the Volcano.

To create these cookies I used a Christmas Bell Cookie cutter for the base shape. We than made two shades of brown icing and used red and orange glitter decorating gel for the eruption To add a final touch we added small trees from our Christmas decorating collection.

Enjoy

Recipe: Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

250g butter, at room temprature
1 1/4 cups caster sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups plain flour, sifted

Method

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. I use an electric mixer for these cookies with a paddle attachment.
Add the egg and continue beating.
Add the Vanilla, salt and about 1/2 a cup of flour at a time and mix until a ball of dough has formed.
Pat the dough into a disc shape, cover with cling wrap and place in the fridge for approx 1 hour.
Preheat over to 180c and line two baking trays with baking paper
On a floured surface, roll about a 1/4 of the dough at a time into a circle about 5 ml thick.
Use cookie cutters to cut into the desired shape.
Place on the baking paper and bake for 10 - 15 minutes until the edges are slightly brown.
Transfer to a wire rack to completely cool before icing.

Recipe: Royal icing

Ingredients

500g pure icing sugar, sifted
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/3 cup water
food colouring

Method

Mix the icing sugar and lemon juice in a bowl with a half of the water.
Continue to add water until the icing is well combined but not too runny.
Divide the icing into smaller bowls and add food colour a drop at a time until you reach your desired colour
Ice and decorate your cookies
Enjoy

Hawaiian Luau Party with Desert Table and Games

August 02, 2015 in Childrens parties, Hawaiian Luau Party

This year was my daughters 9th Birthday so we decided it was time for a tropical theme and settled on a Hawaiian Luau Party. Hawaiian Luau parties are a lot of fun, you can go slightly crazy with the theme because most items are very easy to source and not very expensive.

The key elements of this party include a Dessert table, Palm Tree favour bags, Games including a scavenger Hunt, lots of decorating ideas and a custom range of printable products.

Enjoy Julie

Our Desert table was the focus of the party, a dessert table must be both appealing to the eye and totally delicious.

Iced Cookies are a great way to brighten this table, for this party I used Dolphins, Flamingos and Palm trees. I do all the decorating myself so I keep the icing simple but they still brighten up the table and we never have any left over.

I just love these Pina Colada Cake Pops, they were easy to make and look great dressed with a hibiscus skirt and topped with a cocktail umbrella. The cake pops sat in a stryfoam circle mould which I covered in a paper Tiki wrap and used shells and flowers to disguise the foam base.

We used fruit shaped candy and topped the candy jar with a small grass skirt. Cup cakes are a must for a dessert table we used a simple butter icing and 2 inch circles from our printable range.

Fresh Fruit Skewers were placed in a watermelon basket carved to look like Waves, this looks very effective and the fruit is a great counter balance to the sugar.

**Fruit Skewers in a Watermelon Wave basket**

We used simple cup cakes with a butter icing. The cup cakes were topped with printable circles from our Hawaiian Luau printable range.

You can find lots of good Pina Colada tutorials on line, these were very effective on the dessert table.

Tropical Beach Birthday Cake

This was a fun cake to make, the elements are all simple. I used plastic trees from my local cake decorating shop which is also where I found the edible flowers. The ocean is edible jel also from my local cake decorating shop, the towels were made from strips of coloured icing and I used liquorice for shark fins.

The luau Party sing is paper and a part of our printable range..

Luau Party Decorating Ideas

The Dessert Table was created using a number of easy to find elements. We used cardboard Tiki Poles to frame our table and used a wonderful window image as a central focus. We then added a long table skirt to the dessert table and a shorter table skirt was used to frame the window. Fresh Singapore orchids were used on the table as was our printable range of products.

We used helium balloons in bright colours and hung tiki lights to brighten the ceiling. This is a great way to add a lot of colour in a simple way.

We used plastic images to add a lot of colour and fun - the children loved the bathroom image.

**Hawaiian Luau Party Decorating Ideas**

We decorated the tables with some colourful Tiki's and tropical birds.

Paper Pineapples, Singapore Orchids and grass skirts are all easy ways to brighten you rhome and add to the theme.

Palm Tree Favour Bags

Why use store bought plastic bags when you can create a personalised favour bag in the party theme. These were simple to make, but did take quite a few hours to complete the set. We added party Thank You Cards from our printable range.

A tutorial will shortly be posted on our blog.

Hawaiian Luau Party Games

We played lots of Theme Based Games at this party including:

Limbo
Scavenger Hunt
Hawaiian Dancing

The object of Limbo is to pass under the bar leaning backwards without knocking the bar from the poles. If you knock the bar from its position you are out. Continue to lower the bar until you have a winner.

A scavenger hunt is always a hit at my parties, I've created a set of printable cards and a printable wallet. The Cards are hidden throughout the house and garden and the children race to find all the pieces. Don't make this too easy as the children love a challenge.

**Hawaiian Luau Scavenger Hunt - www.chicpartyideas.com**

Traditional Hawaiian Dancing is a lot of fun, make sure you have enough grass shirts, Lays and hair clips and a good sound track.

The Birthday Girl - Practicing a Swim dance

Our Printable Range

We have created a number of items to compliment this party. Most of the range has been included in the photos above, but we have also produced a customised invitation and banner. These items will soon be available in our shop.;

**Hawaiian Luau Printable Bottle label**

Our Printable Range will soon be available from out on-line shop. The range Includes:

Tents
Thank You Notes
Bottle Labels
Long Wraps
2 inch Circles
Happy Birthday Banner
Scavenger Hunt Game
Game Signs
Tiki borker
Luau Party Cake sign

**Hawaiian Luau Printable Happy Birthday Banner**

Additional Notes:

Many elements in this theme easily move to a pool or beach party, this theme is also great for an Adult parties. Store all your props in plastic containers for future use.

Chocolate Ripple Cake

January 21, 2015 in Sweets / Desserts

Chocolate Ripple Cake is one of those very simple classic recipes that has been served at BBQs for many a year and remains a hit with young and old.

Try Chocolate Ripple Cake at your next party for a yummy but simple dessert.

Enjoy.

Recipe:

Ingredients

1 packet of Chocolate Ripple biscuits
600 ml container of thickened cream
1 teaspoon caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Raspberries or your choice of fruit to serve

Method

Beat the cream with the sugar and vanilla until thick and peaks form.
Place a 1/4 of the cream on the serving plate to form the base of the cake.
For the cake pictured, I sandwiched 5 Chocolate Ripple biscuits and cream together for the first row and then repeated the process until the biscuits were all used.
Cover the entire cake with the remaining cream.
refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
When set, garnish with raspberries and serve.
Slice and enjoy

Tequila Lick, Sip, Suck

January 12, 2015 in drinks

Mexican Dinner Parties have to be one of my favourites. They are very bright and vibrant and the cooking is not overwhelming. One of the many key elements of a Mexican dinner Party has to be tequila, and at my parties tequila is served in many ways. They form the basis of the classic Lime Margarita and for the first time in quite a while I also served tequila straight via the other classic lic, sip, suck.

For those of you not familiar with this drink, all you need is a good Tequila, salt rimmed shot glass's and some lime wedges. You lick the salt, down the tequila and suck the lime.

Our full dinner party will soon be posted, but I could not resist sharing some Tequila shots.

Enjoy.

All that Glitter - Christmas Bauble

December 22, 2014 in christmas

To compliment my Gold and White Christmas Table Setting I've found an exquisite gold ribbon bauble. These baubles are made by Emily, from All that Glitter . The baubles come in a variety of colours and they can be personalised with a beaded name and year charm. They look great on the tree and would make a great Christmas gift option.

I know I'll be ordering more next year - enjoy.

Christmas Table traditional Gold and White Design

December 21, 2014 in christmas, free printable

This year I've created a traditional Gold and White Christmas Table. This colour combination delivers a very sophisicated look but also lets you inject fun elements for the children. To create this look start with a good quality white table cloth and then add design elements in various hues of gold and different heights and sizes.

This year we created free printable blank name place tents and napkin wraps, they are available for download here.

Enjoy

**Christmas Table Gold and White design**

The place settings have been created using gold chargers and gold cutlery, I've added gold bon bon's in a couple of patterns and a wonderful vintage gold christmas ornaments.

**Christmas place setting, gold and white design**

The larger elements on the Christmas table have been semetrically set to provide a more traditional look to the table. Candle sticks, deers and mini gold Christmas trees grace each end with a wonderful tall gold christmas tree as a centre piece.

**Christmas Table, traditional gold and white design**

Once the larger elements are in place, use tinsel and a good combination of smaller gold christmas ornaments to add texture and interest to the table. I've included gold glitter battery tea lights running through the centre of the table, these look wonderful as evening approaches.

To complement our Gold and White Christmas Table we've created printable blank name tents and napkin rings as a free download.

**Christmas Gold and White free printables**

Use small gold baubles and wire wine glass circles to decorate your stem ware.

I really like the use of deers at Christmas time and you will usually find one of two on my Christmas table.

Run gold beaded string around the table in continuous loops to link in the place settings.

Christmas Table - Traditional Gold and White

**Traditional Gold and White Christmas Table**

Extend the gold string to all four corners and connect gold baubles. I've used the same bauble placed at each dinner setting.

The sideboard is also very gold and white. I placed lots of gold baubles in a cake dome which has provided a lot if interest on the sideboard.

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Halloween Melting Witch Punch

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Ingredients

Method

Halloween Adult Witch Party Hansel and Gretel

Chocolate Macarons - Wicked Wednesday

Recipe: (makes 12 +)

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Volcano Cookies - Natural Disaster Project

Recipe: Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

Method

Recipe: Royal icing

Ingredients

Method

Hawaiian Luau Party with Desert Table and Games

Tropical Beach Birthday Cake

Luau Party Decorating Ideas

Palm Tree Favour Bags

Hawaiian Luau Party Games

Our Printable Range

Additional Notes:

Chocolate Ripple Cake

Recipe:

Ingredients

Method

Tequila Lick, Sip, Suck

All that Glitter - Christmas Bauble

Christmas Table traditional Gold and White Design