Spooky Sweet Treats | Pumpkin Shaped Sugar Cookies

Hi lovely reader! Happy Hallo-weekend! Fall is in full swing here, the leaves have changed colors and the temperatures are starting to drop. I wore my first heavy coat today and am ready for sweater weather! Today I wanted to share a fun and festive treat with you that is a Halloween tradition for me. My mom and I have baked these cute pumpkin cookies for as long as I can remember. They are super simple, quick, and fun to decorate. Perfect for a last minute addition to an upcoming Halloween party or special treat for yourself or trick or treaters!

Note that this recipe makes vanilla sugar cookies, they are pumpkin shaped, not pumpkin flavored:)

You will need:
-1 cup of butter
-1 cup of sugar
-1 large egg
-2 teaspoons of baking powder
-1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
-3 cups of flower
-pumpkin mold tray or pumpkin shaped cookie cutters
-Orange food coloring (optional)
-Cooking spray
-Icing, sugar, or candy to decorate your pumpkins

First preheat your oven to 400 degrees. In a bowl, cream your butter and sugar with an electric mixer and then beat in the vanilla. 

After that add the baking powder and then the flour, one cup at a time, mixing after each cup. Once you have added the flour, the dough will become stiff and is ready to be shaped into the molds or rolled out if you are using a cookie cutter. Be sure to grease your molds with cooking spray before placing the dough in them. You can also knead food coloring into your dough at this point if you want to make your pumpkins orange. 

Bake the cookies for 10 to 12 minutes (mine tend to be done closer to 10 min), cool, and remove from the pan. Then repeat the process, being sure to grease your pans each time. 

After the cookies have completely cooled, you are ready to decorate. This year I used an orange icing pen for the eyes, nose, and mouth and then poured yellow sugar over them to give a glowing sparkly effect. I then used chocolate icing and green sugar for the stem.

Enjoy!

Do you have any favorite Halloween treats? Xx

Keep It Simple | OOTD

Hi lovely readers! I hope you had a productive Monday on this August 1st. I definitely crossed some things off my list. For a while I have been wanting to put more into the fashion aspect of this blog because it is something that I love, am studying, and want to share. I've got no more excuses to not put up these posts so stay on the look out because they're coming (I promise they are coming). Today's look has been a go-to of mine for the summer. Anything that can be paired with sneakers, especially these Adidas, and I'm in. I love to put my hair up in a messy ponytail or half-up topknot with some neutral makeup and a pink or berry lip. I'm going to include links below to some different options similar to what I am wearing in a few different price ranges so be sure to check those out as well.

Dress: Exact, Similar Look (ASOS Just Female, ASOS)
Shoes: Exact
Lipstick: MAC (my current favorite pink), NYX (love this for a darker shade)

What has been your go to look this summer? Xx

Flower Letter DIY

Hey lovely reader! Today's post is one I haven't done in a while, it's a DIY. A super simple yet cute project. I'm not gonna lie though, it can be a bit time consuming depending on how detailed you want it to be, so let's begin! 

All you need is a blank letter (the one I used was made of cork), silk flowers, and  a glue gun.

Next, take the silk flowers and cut the ends off, leaving a little stub that you will be able to place in the hot glue. 

Now the fun part! Take the flowers and go crazy, I personally didn't lay them out or anything, just went with the flow. Using your hot glue gun place the flowers however you like. 

And that's it! Like I said super simple, but I love how it turned out! 

Did you give this a go? I'd love to know! Xx

Rough Around the Edges | OOTD

Hello lovely reader! How has your Monday been? Today's OOTD, is casual, with a little flare. I'm wearing a basic oversized black tee, with high waisted frayed jeans shorts, black sandals, and some post earrings. Enjoy!

What did look did you rock today? Xx

Sweet Simplicity | OOTD

Hi lovely reader! I thought I would try to do more OOTD posts, so here's another one. I think sometimes going simple is nice, a basic tee, with a cool shoe or a statement necklace can go a long way! I chose to wear a white tee with high waisted jeans and classic Reeboks. For my hair I did a half up half down with this cute blue and white striped scrunchie. Jewelry wise I just picked a pair of stone posts. 

What'd you wear today? Xx

Simple pin-board DIY

This past month I have been making an effort to spend less money and make use of the things that I have by turning them into what I want or need. (My bank account is thanking me for this) I have had this 12" by 12" picture frame left over from a collage that a person whom I am no longer friends with (that sounds way more dramatic than it is) had made for me, of course I got rid of the pictures but was left with a nice frame, unsure of how best to use it. I had also been wanting to get a nice bulletin board, so I thought why not turn the frame into one. 

I was quite pleased with how it came out.

To make this you will need:

-one 12"x12" picture frame

-four 6"x6" cork tiles

-a form of adhesive (hot glue, double sided tape, etc.) (the cork tiles came with double sided adhesives)

-push pins

Here are the steps I used to make the cork board:

1. Measure the frame's depth to make sure that thet cork is thin enough to put the back of the frame onto. 

2. Take the back of the frame off and check that the tiles will fit onto it. If they do not trim them accordingly. 

3. Adhere the tiles to the back of the frame.

4. Place the back onto the frame and secure the metal clips 

5. Voilà! You've got a board ready to be filled with inspiration, photos, reminders, or anything in between.