The kids get candy but adults get to party!  Wanted to thank the beautiful "Shak" for having such a fun party & I loved that we got to wear costumes...I was the spider "Queen" but the spiders wouldn't stick to my face so....we had lots of fun celebrating her 4-0th birthday and Halloween all in one!  Great cake (probably the best cake I ever had), a cigar bar, great music and a fire pit -sSOOO MUCH FUN adult style!!!

In a perfect world, we'd have the traditional pumpkins of old....but NO, teenagers gotta change it up...we gotta make elaborate carvings, we gotta jazz em up, we gotta make em scary!
My Thing 1 decides that she's into Batman and her pumpkin must be the JOKER.  So, since Thing 2 is in a copykat mode of EVERYTHING she does, he decided he too needed paint on his pumpkin...So, here we go:

*ps-pumpkin carving is hard for some of us and just a note to ya'll that if you use your Tonic Tim Holtz scissors to cut something while carving, it could cut you in a major way!  I almost sliced my fingertip off while attempting to true up a piece of my Baltimore Ravens pumpkin #ravenspumpkin...let's just say that 2 days later, it still bleeds; it was not pretty!

and until the kids get their costumes ready  later on today, I thought I'd share some great Halloween treats for the eye that I spied today!

now off to a treat!   Candy Shoppe Designs new challenge!    We want ALL you ladies to share the wild side in yourselves by using animal prints, animal shapes or pictures of actual animals/pets, anything, as long as it's ANIMAL THEMED.   As always, you can create anything-layout, card, altered item, mini book, ATC, whatev's.   You have until Nov 30th to join in on the fun here and link us up to your creation.. hop over for inspiration!  I'm not even gonna show my creation so that you HAVE to hop over!!!  I'm a bad girl, what can I say ??????