Happy Halloween

We are interupting this Half Term break at the cottage for

  1. A Halloween Party and Trick or Treating with the neighbours back at home
  2. A trip to the dentist for me including root canal treatment (ouch)

So while I am at home I will share a few halloween pics, a pumkin carving layout and ……..a turnip!

First my kids in their Halloween costumes:

Some scary witches


who can’t stay scary for long!


and then a very happy little pirate.


On Sunday, after a walk on the beach we did some pumkin carving. The journalling was written and typed in by my younger daughter – a digi-scrapist in the making?

Credits Swirling Leaves Collab by Heidi Williams from Weeds & Wildflower Designs and Saxon Holt of Sophia Sarducci
Template No.10 by Yin
Fonts – Love Ya Like a Sister and Jumpstart.

It took so little time in comparison to how long it took us to hollow out a turnip (YES – TURNIP!) when we were children. Pumpkins hadn’t reached the shores on Ireland in the seventies, nor had most of the halloween stuff now available. For us it was a turnip, an old white sheet with holes to be a ghost, and some bobbing for apples!

I mentioned this a while back on this blog, and received a lot of comments and some hilarity on my turnip, so when purchasing our pumpkin, I could not resist a photo of a turnip to share.



It brings back many a memory of aching hands and bent spoons and we spent hours trying to create a lantern. I was not tempted, even for a second, to try to recreate the actual lantern, so a photo of an intact turnip will have to suffice.



So which would you choose – a pumpkin, or a turnip – the decision is yours!


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