Fall Recipes

Brown Eyed Baker has ten great pumpkin recipes to get you ready for fall.  Pumpkin is what everyone craves this fall, and here are ten ways to put it into your dinner plans at home.  


Here they are, in alphabetical order:
1. Pumpkin Bread:

2. Pumpkin Cheesecake:

3. Pumpkin Cinnamon Chip & Pecan Granola Bars:

4. Pumpkin and Cream Cheese Muffins with Pecan Streusel:

5. Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting:

6. Pumpkin Fudge:

7. Pumpkin Pie:

8. Pumpkin Pie Bars:

9. Pumpkin Scones with Spiced Glaze:

10. Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Maple-Cream Cheese Filling:

DIY Fall Decorations

Fall is a great season to craft and decorate your house.  Here are five great do it yourself craft ideas to make your apartment ready for the fall and winter seasons.  Try them out this weekend to decorate for your Halloween party.

While it's hard to deny the appeal of this season — the swirls of colorful leaves drifting down to the ground, crisp air outside and cozy fires inside, warm, spicy baking smells and the return of my beloved Pumpkin Spice latte — I am and always will be a beach kid from the golden coast and as such, you will always have to drag me kicking and screaming away from my beloved summer.
In an effort to embrace the season at hand I've rounded up five great fall DIY projects. There, I'm feeling cozier already.




1. Acorn Wreath from Martha Stewart

2. Flaming Foliage Candles from Martha Stewart

3. Burlap Pumpkins from Thistlewood Farms

4. Wax Paper and Crayon Leaves from V and Co.

5. Maple Leaf Wreath from Chez Larsson via Apartment Therapy 

For more information see Apartment Therapy.

Halloween on a Budget

Are you having a Halloween Party for your friends this year?  If you do not have a lot of money to decorate, you can still have a spooky apartment for the party.  Here are six cheap do it yourself Halloween decorating ideas.

This Halloween, get creative and use supplies found in your home for green-friendly Halloween decor.

 Planning ahead for Halloween will allow you to budget, as well as reduce the environmental impact of the festivities. Rather than purchasing every Halloween décor piece from the store, consider making your own by reusing supplies found right in your home. To go green this Halloween, read on for our suggestions of taking old things in your house and turning them into new, spooky decorations.

Mason Jar Pumpkin
If you have canning jar lids laying around, this project will give them a new purpose. Gather together lids of the same size. String the lids together, tying the string tightly. Evenly spread the lids around. Next, stick cinnamon sticks in the center. To create leaves, cut some out of burlap. This goes perfectly as a centerpiece on your dining room table or coffee table. It can also be placed on a shelf on top of books.

Head in a Jar
If you’re looking for creepier decorations, this one is perfect for you. Use a wide mouth jar for this project. You’ll also need a great picture that goes in the jar. It needs to be a flattened image of a head. Run a quick search on a search engine, and you should find some great examples. Print this image on thick and slick paper, making sure it will fit into the jar. Roll the picture and place it in the jar, making sure it fills up about ¾ of the circumference of the jar. Fill the jar with colored water. This can be placed in the fridge to creep out the midnight snackers. On Halloween night, drop a few glow sticks in the jar for added ambiance.

Tin Can Luminaries
To upcycle old soup cans, use them for luminaries. If you have several cans, create a design in the cans, from ghosts to spelling out “BOO.” To start the project, fill the cans up with water and stick them in the freezer. This allows you to hammer a design into the cans without denting the cans. Use a nail and hammer to create the design. Once the ice melts, dump the water and place tea lights into each can.

Mummy Cereal Boxes
Old bed sheets in your linen closet that don’t fit any beds in your home are perfect for this DIY Halloween craft. Cut the fabric into thin sheets. Then, take empty cereal or cracker boxes and cover with the white sheets. Once the box is covered, tuck the end in. Optional: attach googly eyes.

Halloween Garland
Take old cardboard paper towel rolls and paint them pumpkin orange. Then, slice them into thin strips and create pumpkin shapes. Use twine to string the pumpkins together and hang on your wall.

Bat Mobile  Head out to your backyard and pick up one or two sticks from the yard. You’ll also need clear thread, or fishing line. For the bats, you use thin cardboard, such as cereal or cracker boxes. Cut several bats from the cardboard, and hang the bats to a branch. Hang in various lengths.

For more information see Apartment Guide.

Book It! Reaches 28th year

Do you remember Book It from when you were a kid?  Pizza Hut's Book It program has reached it's 28th year.  14 million readers learn about literacy in order to get a free Personal Pan Pizza.  It is a national program that launched in 1985.  Did you participate in book it?

Pizza Hut is beginning the 28th year of the BOOK IT! Reading Program, which reaches more than 14 million young readers with a message about literacy and an incentive of a free Personal Pan Pizza.

It’s a national reading program launched in 1985, and enrollment has reached 680,000 classrooms and more than 14 million students in 38,000 schools across the country.

BOOK IT! announced in May that it joined with author Jeff Kinney and his book series, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” for the 2012-13 school year. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” is integrated into all BOOK IT! classroom materials, teacher printables and web creatives at bookitprogram.com.

“Year after year, the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! program continues to reach new kids with a positive message about how rewarding reading can be,” said Shelley Morehead, BOOK IT! program administrator. “Through our ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ partnership and our 28 years of advancing literacy, we’re fortunate to have such tremendous support from schools around the country who want to make it great.”

The program’s “Read Your Heart Out” quest involves five steps for young readers: rally readers, track reading minutes, take on the Principal’s Challenge, read to help kids who are hungry and share a love of reading. Resources are available for each step of the quest at http://www.bookitprogram.com/readyourheartout.

In BOOK IT!, teachers and librarians set monthly goals and present students with a reading award certificate when goals are met. Students take the certificates to a Pizza Hut restaurant, where they are congratulated by a team member and given a free, one-topping Personal Pan Pizza. There is no purchase necessary and the pizza can be taken to go. To learn more, visit PizzaHut.com. 

For more information see Henry Daily Herald.

Bridgefest in the Pines

 Next Saturday in Stockbridge make sure to attend our annual Bridgefest in the Pines.  There will be entertainment, arts and crafts, and even a children's area.  There is something for everyone, and the event is free!




It looks like the weather will be BEAUTIFUL for this Saturday's event!
 
We hope you can join us for the 2nd Bridgefest in Stockbridge! Look at what is in store this year...

• Over 50 Art & Unique Craft Booths
• Festival Food
• Awesome Entertainment Stage from SPEER ENTERTAINMENT.  8 bands with shows starting at 10am!
• Interactive Children's Area
• Cheese making demostrations from sponsor- BARLEY & VINE
• The TREEMAN and other performers!
• AND MORE!

Saturday, October 6th
 
9:00am-5:00pm
 
Clark Community Park- Stockbridge, GA (111 Davis Road, Stockbridge, GA 30281)
Free admission
 
Free parking- Park along Burke Street or at City Hall and ride the free shuttle bus to the festival entrance.
 
*Handicapped Parking will be at the Clark Park Pavilion D parking lot.  You must have a valid permit.  

For more information see Bridgefest.