It's October!

I am so excited it's finally October, it's ridiculous. As I've gotten older (fyi I am only 22 years old haha!) I have noticed that I am becoming more and more like my mom. Which is scary by the way! My mom is NOTORIOUS for calling her children 1000 different names before getting it right....I'm not that bad yet, I've still got my names and faces in order, so at least I've got that going for me still...right? However, I have inherited her undying love for the holidays. I think if we would have let her listen to Christmas music in July, she would have.

More than the decorations, the weather, and the holiday parties, I love most of all, the food. The food in and of itself is a holiday decoration! There's just an endless array of options to choose from! You can make ghost shaped sugar cookies, deadly vampire cupcakes, pumpkin this, pumpkin that, gingerbread houses, caramel apples, etc. It's truly amazing.

So today's post is a little sneak peak at my pathetic attempt to make homemade cookie and candy jars with homemade sugar cookies that are fitting for Halloween!



SMILE :)



I am a big fan of giving credit where credit is due, so I'd like the thank Our Best Bites for the sugar cookie recipe and for the glace' recipe. You can get their awesome recipe from their site (I'm still learning all this blog stuff so I don't quite know how to put links and what not in).

As for the jars, well I have been wanting something...festive I guess you could say, for my cookies and goodies for the holidays. Except, I'm still living the life of a starving college student so I'm on quite a budget. And, we live in an apartment, so there's not much room for storage. Instead of buying a jar or plate for EVERY single holiday, I wanted something interchangeable. So I came up with jars that are decorated to each holiday and that cost hardly anything!

So here's what I did (sorry I forgot to take pictures while I was doing this) it's pretty simple.

1. Buy jars large enough for cookies to fit into. (Hobby Lobby has some good ones for cheap)

2. Pick out your favorite holiday themed scrapbook paper, 12 x 12 is the best.

3. Choose a matching ribbon, accessory, etc. to wrap around the top of the jar.

4. Measure and cut your paper to size.

5. Before attaching both ends of the paper, measure the same size cut out of wax paper (this helps prevent the scrapbook paper from getting greased by the cookies)

6. Tape wax paper to scrapbook paper cut out, then attach the two ends to make a circle.

7. Slip it inside, and tie the ribbon around the top of the jar!

Viola! Easy and cheap.

That's it, easy huh?! I am so excited for my next post! Halloween Cupcakes and Fall Cupcakes!! Now go get baking!