+*+ Samhain +*+

We had planned on all going on a walk in our favourite woods but Ben was complaining loudly that his ear hurt so Grandma,Grandad and Doodles took Daisy while i stayed home and looked after Ben and made a start carving our pumpkin.

Despite Daisy being in head too toe waterproofs she still came home absolutely soaked :) which is always a sign she's had a good time .

Knitted these ghosts for the pixies to find in the morning ,they were greeted with squeals of delight :) which made it all worth it staying up late too knit them all .

After much cursing under my breath i finally scooped out all the inside and set aside the flesh for making pumpkin pie and i didn't cut any fingers off which was a bonus :)

Playmobil men playing in the pumpkin or 'puntkin' as Ben called it and 'Kunkin' as Daisy called it :)

In the afternoon we played dressing up ,Ben's a pirate /skeleton incase you were wondering .

and Daisy's a fairy.

Then we set about some serious baking first we made pumpkin pie then we made fairy cakes and as usual the pixies were only interested in licking the spoons so i had to take the bowl off them before they ate all the uncooked fairy cake mix.

ever so slightly messy fairy cakes

and this was my big success of the day, Pumpkin pie ! i was a little worried at how it would taste but i was super duper yummy so i only just managed to get a photo of it before it was eaten up .