It’s November now and Halloween was pretty much wiped from the stores in early October so who cares about Halloween?
I do!
I didn’t do anything really fancy for Halloween but I thought these things were cute enough to share. Bear with me.
I saw these Mini Donut Spiders on Pinterest that just use store bought mini donuts and I thought, “HEY. That is super cute. I’m going to do that for the office work party.”
Image from It’s Always Autumn
I thought it would be cuter with chocolate covered pretzels so I bought two boxes of them. The kid checking out my groceries at Albertson’s actually said, “OH. MY. GOD. These changed my life!” when he scanned the two boxes of pretzels. I guess he liked them a whole lot.
What I didn’t notice was that I had purchased MINI pretzels. Yeah. Mini pretzels won’t work. When you try to cut them with a knife they just completely fall apart and they’re not even big enough to look like legs for anyone, except maybe ants.
With a little quick thinking, I decided to just make Mini Monster Donuts instead.
The eyeballs (plain M&M’s) are “glued” on with melted chocolate and then I used red sparkle gel for the eyeball dots. I used some white writer icing to make funky faces on the donuts. Viola. Easy peasy.
For our office work party, I ended up deciding on being the Cat in the Hat.
Amazon had the bow tie and the hat. I used a piece of white felt and rounded off the corner and attached it to the bow tie with a safety pin. I put on makeup using an eyeliner pencil and wore all black.
I also did my nails with paw prints. I got one of the nail art pens which made this so much easier to do. Draw dots? Okay. I can do that. Somehow I managed to win the costume contest at work. I think it helped that only a few people dressed up. Haha.
I also dressed up Maya, who did not appreciate my efforts. This is her “woe is me” face.
These are the wings from the back. She’s wearing a little soccer jersey that acts as a cheap version of a Thundershirt to help with her little doggie anxiety. She still hated the wings, though.
Car rides at least help her keep her mind off of things.
Your nails look so rad! Loved your costume too, very cute indeed!
Although I hate spiders in real life, I would eat a “spider” donut! 🙂
Thanks, CC! I might have to get more of those nail art pens so I can play with more designs! Yeah, I don’t care for spiders very much either. Maybe I can do the donut spider thing in the future, if I ever manage to buy the correct pretzels.