Jen from Tatortots and Jello threw a wonderful Candy Party for her daughter. I absolutely LOVE creative parties at home and Jen’s party was just fabulous!

Jen and her daughter made these adorable invitations which started off the sweet festivities!

Her handmade party decor was so cute! I love the patterns, colors and fabric she used for her cupcake stand.

What a fun and easy idea to embellish paper lanterns.

Balloon “giant lollipops” on the front porch are a festive way to welcome visitors.

How cute are these party favor boxes? Each girl made their own necklace and got a cute box to take it home in.

Get all the details and instructions from Jen on how to make these items for your next party.

• Candy Party – Part 1 Cupcake Tower

• Candy Party – Part 2 Embellished Lanterns

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Candy Land Birthday Party

Birthday Party Ideas for Boys {Free Printables}

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Spooky Art by The Graphics Fairy

I’m always impressed with the amazing talent in blog land. Here are 13 new freebies for you to enjoy! Find more of my printables and crafts here and the entire Halloween Free Printable Round-Up from last year here.

Spooky Art by The Graphics Fairy 6 Amazingly Cute Halloween Treat Boxes by We Love to Illustrate Halloween Candy Wrapper by Bird Crafts Cupcake Toppers by Paper Glitter Owl Halloween Bubble Labels and Tags by Tricia-Rennea Cupcake toppers by The Crafting Chicks We've Been Booed! Sign by Amanda

Halloween Invite & Tags by Babalisme Adorable Halloween Photo Card Template by Luxecetera Halloween BOO Sign by Anders Ruff Hello Fall Tags by It Is What It Is Halloween Tin Can Labels by Amy Locurto for Family.com Halloween Banner by Jeanie & Jewell

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Today my gal pals at HowDoesShe.com are guest posting with an awesome giveaway!! I absolutely love this product and sure you will too. Take it away girls…

Win a Halloween Count Down To Candy Advent Calendar!

We want to help you get to the fun stuff faster…CRAFTING

Kids love changing the numbers on this as they anticipate the big day of SUGAR OVERLOAD and costumes!

We are giving 3 of these kits away to 1 lucky reader!

3 Count Down to Candy Kits!

We sold these on HowDoesShe.com last week and they were gone in 3 days so we contacted headquarters (our garage) and got a few more rolling!

If you don’t win, don’t worry because we made extra! You have plenty of time before Halloween to plan a productive girls’ night out with your friends – if you get at least 9, you can buy the kits for $10.00 less - all together you’ll save $100.00!

Take out the trip to the hardware store($12), the trip to the craft store($14), the order of the vinyl lettering($10), the ribbon store ($14), the cutting of the wood($?), the sanding($?), the tweezing($), the paper cutting ($), the pain($$).

These will be delivered right your door…and the shipping is FREE! YAY…who doesn’t love FREE shipping!

We are only offering this for a limited time. We need your order by next Tuesday, September 14, 2010 (unless we sell out) so we can get them shipped to you on time.

Count down to Candy Kit includes:

• 2 Small blocks sanded
• 1 Large block sanded
• 14 pre-cut small squares of paper (As seen in the picture below…it’s cute:)
• 1 large pre-cut rectangle paper
• 1 pre-cut piece of wired ribbon
• “Count Down to Candy” vinyl
• Vinyl numbers for the count down
• Instructions sent to you so you can complete it.
• Free. Shipping.

All you’ll need is:

• Mod podge
• Stain or a stamp pad distresser
• Foam brush
• Sand paper if desired
• maybe a little treat

You can get yours at the Crafts KITS Store.

This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Aimee for winning!

Have fun crafting with no stress! Enter to win 3 kits:

• Leave a comment below letting me know what is your favorite Halloween candy.  (Mine is Kit Kat… although M&M’s are the best too!)

For an extra entry:

• Follow @howdoesshe and Twitter about this giveaway!  Sample Tweet: Enter to win the cutest Halloween craft kit by @howdoesshe  http://bit.ly/bylHwi (via @livinglocurto)

• Subscribe to Living Locurto via email in the form on my sidebar. There are several super cute Exclusive Free Printables available right now, plus you get a beautiful butterfly printable Thank You gift.

Let me know if you are already an e-news subscriber or twittered in a separate comment so you can get extra entries – 3 entries per person

Contest Ends Tuesday, September 14th at 5 pm (Pacific) / 8 pm (Eastern)

Be sure to visit the Craft KITS Store for some wonderful Holiday kits!

Guess what? Because it’s my birthday month, I’m giving away my Candy Corn Bags & Tags FREE to e-news subscribers!!!

This is only for a limited time. (Available through Monday Sept 13th) So subscribers check the sidebar of my e-news for the freebie code and grab your gift while it lasts. Fill this with candy for a great gift or goodie bag! Works for Halloween, Fall and Thanksgiving. (Emails go out around 10 am CST Monday-Friday)

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This is a very busy season for me, so I have to think of quick treats. For Easter, I’ll be making some cotton candy cupcakes. No recipe needed, just put some cotton candy inside cupcake wrappers, add some M&M’s and Peeps and you’ve got a quick and cute alternative to cupcakes.

Be sure to serve them within several hours after making them, otherwise the cotton candy will shrivel up…. especially with Peeps on top of them. I wrapped them up, but the Peeps still melted the cotton candy by the end of the day. If you plan to make ahead of time, just add cotton candy and wrap up tight.

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Here are a few more free downloads I will be adding to my large Valentine freebie list. Enjoy!

Cindy at Skip to My Lou wants to know what you’ve done to help Haiti. Let her know and she’ll send you her adorable Valentine’s Day Cup Cake toppers.

If you love Etsy, here is a list of shops that are donating proceeds to help Haiti.

I like these heart doodles from Little Dreamer Designs.

The Celebration Shoppe has some super cute cello bag toppers. You will need to send them your email address for these free printables.

Pumpkin Petunia has some fun Valentine cootie catchers for boys and girls! Remember those??

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