Happy New Year! 2023 was filled with so many family adventures, milestones, and delicious food. 2024 will have a lot more of that, and we are looking forward to celebrating everything, including our youngest’s second birthday (his first). But first, here’s a round up of our top posts and videos in 2023. 2023 Round Up: Best of the Blog Favorite Glow Up Post We like to go back to our…
It’s been a few years since I started decorating sugar cookies for fun. From finding the best sugar cookie recipe to the best royal icing coloring gels, all my tips are scattered over a bunch of posts spanning different holidays. I’m always coming back to my own posts for recipes and tips, so I thought, “Why not put this all in one place?” So here’s my ultimate guide to cookie…
Last year, I showed off some great Halloween sugar cookies. This year, I wanted to get a little fancy and use some of the letter cookie cutters I purchased over the summer. I had much loftier goals in mind, but I’m really happy with how these Halloween cookies came out this year. The secret to a really good sugar cookie comes down two things. The first, the recipe. I’ve been…
We’re halfway through October and Halloween is right around the corner! We’ve been getting into the spooky szn through some baking, crafting, and spontaneous Monster Mash dance parties. This weekend, we’re heading out for some leaf peeping and pumpkin picking. If you’re looking to get into the holiday spirit, here are some activities you can do right now! Pumpkin Picking for the ‘gram…or to carve Get in some fresh air,…
When we bought pumpkins a few weeks ago, I was too eager to wait to carve them. I had been looking up various ways to preserve pumpkins, so I thought I’d try a few pumpkin carving and preserving methods since we had a while before Halloween. Ideally, you should wait to carve pumpkins a few days before Halloween or when you want them to look their best; a day before…
When it comes to decorating cookies, I am no artist. However, in the last year, I’ve been learning how to decorate and work with royal icing. It started last year when I made my first batch of Halloween sugar cookies. I didn’t realize how long the icing would take to set and I was impatient about photographing my first royal icing experience. Right after I snapped this photo, I moved…
Every Halloween, Fatima and I do a couple’s costume. In college, we were Peter Pan and Tiger Lily, then themed to Shondaland’s Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, went easy and comfortable with Salt and Pepper, and then Harry Potter. Last year, we stayed in and sat on the couch dressed up as a pregnant married couple. Now, we have a third wheel that has to be themed with us. Our…
We went a little overboard with the Polyjuice potion at our Harry Potter inspired Halloween Party. With so many Potterheads in attendance, this was our most engaging party yet! Our guests went all out with their Harry Potter themed costumes and we loved all of them! As you saw earlier this week, Fatima and I were Hedwig and Harry Potter: Here are more DIY Harry Potter themed costumes from our party…
Colleen, Fatima, and I are our family’s biggest Harry Potter fans. When the books launched in stores, my mom, Colleen, and I would wait outside for hours until midnight just so we could get a copy. Fatima said her family would just go the closest supermarket and they would have dozens of books. They would walk right in and be done. There were no lines to wait in since everyone…
Over the last two years, we slayed Halloween with our #TGIT themed Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder costumes. Our couples costume originated when we dressed up as Peter Pan and Tiger Lily when we first started dating. Since then, we’ve tried to keep the ‘couples’ thing’ going. This year, we made DIY Harry Potter costumes for Halloween. For my family’s annual Halloween Party that happened this past…
Happy #TGIT! We can’t believe it’s Halloween this week! When this holiday rolls around every year, I know that November is literally right around the corner. What I love about this year’s Halloween weekend, is the that it’s time to turn the clocks back! Our favorite new show out of the gate last year was How to Get Away with Murder, a show we make an effort to watch live –…
I love adding a little spook to food around Halloween. This year, among many other delicious dishes, we made these peanut butter monster eye cookies. Aren’t they cute? These are so easy to make and don’t require anything special other than these candy monster eyes (found at Michaels). If you’re familiar with peanut butter blossoms, then you’ll know exactly how to make these cookies. Basically, you push the Hershey kisses…
With winter on the way, that can mean one thing – most of my garden has been harvested! The only things I have left are my brussel sprouts and kale. They love cold weather and should be ready for harvest just in time for Thanksgiving! Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not by Lilies…
What are you going to be for Halloween? For us, finding Halloween costumes is a stressful process. It’s not so much the making of the costume, it’s more about the idea. Either we’ve come up with an idea a month before and prep for it, or we turn up last-minute as salt and pepper – the literal version. We hate trying to pull something together last-minute and there’s only so…
As mentioned in our DIY pumpkin wreath tutorial, I used to make these DIY tissue ghosts. And not just a few around Halloween, but hundreds all year long. I must have made thousands over the course of my childhood. I don’t know why and I don’t know how I picked up the habit, but our house would be filled with these little guys. So, to honor this childhood tradition, I’m…
Of course we had a photo booth. It’s been the one activity that our guests love participating in. They may not agree on the games, dancing or other entertainment, but everyone flocks to the photo booth. Fall-i-fy your picture-taking space with cornstalks, haystacks, and bats. We had some leftover Polaroid film from the wedding, so we made good use of it. Colleen took apart an old frame, painted it black,…