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Halloween Costume Ideas & Make Up

Fake Snot
1/2 cup water
3 pkg unflavored gelatin
light corn syrup*
Heat the water until it just starts to boil. Remove from heat. Sprinkle in the gelatin. Let it soften a few minutes, and stir with a fork. *Add enough corn syrup to make 1 cup of thick glop. Stir with the fork and lift out the long strands of gunk. If it thickens too much, add more water.

Halloween Makeup
3 tbsp cornstarch
1 tbsp flour
3/4 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup water
Facial tissues
Cotton balls or batting and
Puffed Wheat cereal for special effects
1 small mixing bowl
4 paper cups
Cotton swabs or small brush
In bowl, mix cornstarch and flour. Gradually stir in corn syrup and the water until smooth. This amount will make up 4 children's faces. Divide mixture between 4 paper cups. Color 3 batches with food colors of your choice (1/2 teaspoon liquid or 1/4 teaspoon paste for each batch). Leave 1 batch untinted.

For additional colors, prepare more makeup.

Separate tissues into single layers; tear lengthwise into 2-inch wide strips. Using swabs or brush, paint generous coat of untinted mixture on forehead; place strip of tissue over area; pat firmly with fingertips. Brush on more of same mixture to cover any dry spots on tissue. Continue painting rest of face, one area at a time, and covering it with tissue. Don't paint eyelids or around eyes. Let dry about 15 minutes; time depends on temperature and humidity.
Stir colored batches before using. Paint on 1 color at a time as desired. Let dry slightly before using another color if you want them to blend, or let dry completely if you don't. To speed process, use hair dryer on air setting.
For deeper, smoother, candy-color effect, use several coats of same color (allow to dry slightly between coats).

To build up eyebrows, nose, or chin (or to make a beard):
Apply cotton to damp, untinted mixture. Paint with more of the same. Cover with tissue and paint desired color.

For Ghoulish Effect:
Dust made-up face with flour.
For Warts:
Stick on Puffed Wheat cereal with untinted mixture, then coat with layers of mixture-soaked tissue. Paint desired color.
To Remove the Makeup:
Just wet the face, then gently peel tissue away. Wash face with warm water.


Fake Blood Recipe
1-3/4 cups corn syrup
1/4 cup water
2 tsp. Liquid red food coloring
8-10 drops liquid blue food coloring
1/4 cup sifted corn starch
Mix corn syrup and water, add food colorings, cover and shake to mix. Add the sifted cornstarch and shake well again. If any lumps remain, let the bottle site for a few seconds, they will rise to the top and you can skim them off. Store in the refrigerator, don’t make too far in advance as this only keeps for a couple of days.

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Halloween Recipes

PUMPKIN ROLLS
3/4 cup flour
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 cup chopped walnuts
CREAM CHEESE FILLING:
Beat together
1 cup powdered sugar
1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened (I use Philadelphia light)
6 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat until smooth. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 10x15x1 inch pan with waxed paper. Grease and flour wax paper. Beat eggs and sugar in large bowl until thick and fluffy. Beat in pumpkin. Add dry ingredients. Pour into prepared pan. Spread evenly with rubber spatula. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake for 15 minutes or until center springs back when lightly touched. Loosen cake around edges with a knife, invert onto a clean damp cloth (towel) dusted with powdered sugar. Peel off waxed paper, trim 1/4 inch from all sides. Roll up cake and towel together from short side. Cool completely. Unroll. Spread with filling. Roll again without towel. Refrigerate until ready to serve.


Pumpkin-Raisin-Pecan Corn Bread
Makes 1 loaf
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup golden or brown raisins, chopped and pitted
3/4 cup pecans
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup milk
1/4 cup Canola oil
2 eggs, beaten
Preheat oven 350 F. Lightly coat loaf pan with cooking spray. Combine the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl. Stir in the raisins, then the pumpkin, milk, oil, eggs, and pecans until well blended. Pour into pan. Bake 50 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean.


Pumpkin-Date Corn Bread
Makes 1 loaf
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup dates, chopped and pitted
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup milk
1/4 cup Canola oil
2 eggs, beaten
Preheat oven 350 F. Lightly coat loaf pan with cooking spray. Combine the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl. Stir in the dates, then the pumpkin, milk, oil, and eggs until well blended. Pour into pan. Bake 50 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean.


PUMPKIN BREAD
3 cups sugar
4 med. eggs
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
3-1/3 cups flour
2 cups pumpkin (fresh or canned)
1 cup oil
1-1/2 tsp. salt (optional)
2 tsp. baking soda
2/3 cup water
1 cup chopped walnuts
Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl, blending thoroughly. Pour into prepared loaf pans and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until cake tester or knife comes clean when inserted in middle of loaves; tester will pull out slightly moist. Allow loaves to cool in pans for 10 to 15 minutes, then turn out on bread board and cool completely. Breads keep very well refrigerated and can be frozen. Makes an excellent breakfast, sliced and toasted; also as holiday gifts.
SUGGESTED SUBSTITUTIONS: Use 2 cups mashed bananas, unsweetened applesauce, or 1 package fresh cranberries.


GRAMMA'S PUMPKIN BREAD
3 cups sifted flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. allspice
2 cups sugar
2 cups canned pumpkin
4 eggs, beaten
1-1/4 cups vegetable oil
1/2 cup walnuts
Sift first 6 ingredients together, mixing well. Add beaten eggs and oil, mixing well. Add pumpkin and nuts, mix well. Bake in 2 loaf pans at 350 degrees for 1 hour.


PUMPKIN BREAD LOAF
Cream until fluffy:
1/2 cup vegetable oil 1-1/2 cup granulated sugar
1-1/2 cup mashed pumpkin
Sift together:
1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
Add:
1 tsp. nutmeg, if desired 1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped nuts 1 tsp. cloves
Grease and flour 2 loaf pans. Divide batter into each. Bake at 350 degrees for 1/2 hour. Insert toothpick to check if finished. Can be eaten plain, buttered, or with cream cheese.


PUMPKIN BREAD
Beat together:
3 cups sugar
1 cup oil
1 tsp. cinnamon
4 eggs
1-1/2 tsp. salt
Add:
2 tsp. baking soda
2/3 cup water
3 cups flour
Grease and flour 4 one pound coffee cans. Fill equally. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Cool 10 to 15 minutes. Shake from cans. Serve with cream cheese.


Cat's Eyes
1/2 cup Peanut butter
8 Ritz crackers
1 Banana; cut into 8 slices
8 Raisins
Spread peanut butter on crackers and top each with a slice of banana. Place a raisin in center of each banana to form a cat's eye and repeat for all banana topped crackers.

Chocolate Spiders version #1
4 cups semisweet chocolate baking chips
Melt chocolate chips in top of double boiler. Let stand over the water until water is cool, about 10 minutes. Place wax paper on cookie sheet. Pour chocolate into a pastry bag that is fitted with a 1/8-inch or 1/4-inch tip. Squeeze chocolate onto wax paper in the shape of spiders. If chocolate is runny it needs to be cooled longer. Chill the spiders for about 10 minutes. When hard peel off wax paper. Store in refrigerator laid flat.


Chocolate Spiders version #2
12 oz Twizzlers; chocolate flavor
4 oz milk chocolate candy melts
Cut twizzlers into 1-1/2" pieces. Slice each piece in half lengthwise. On waxed paper place 4 legs (pieces) on each side and then drop 1 tsp melted candy in middle for body. Use a toothpick to smooth to uniform circle and connect all candy pieces. Cool completely before removing from waxed paper.

Eyeballs on Ritz
Eggs; hard boiled Black olives
Ritz crackers Red food coloring
Cut hard boiled eggs in half lengthwise. Remove yolks and make filling for deviled eggs. Cut out small hole from bottom center of each egg (about 5/8" diameter.) Poke a black olive partway through each hole and hold in place by filling eggs with yolk filling. Place each egg, olive side up, on a Ritz cracker. Paint red lines, resembling blood veins, with a toothpick on the eye.

Snake Hot Dogs
1 hot dog
1 hot dog bun
Take hot dog and make horizontal slits (that go a little more than halfway through the hot dog) down half the length of the hot dog. For the other half of the hot dog do the same thing but make the slits on the opposite side. When boiled (or microwaved) the hot dog will twist like a snake. Serve on a hot dog bun with chili or cheese if desired.

Boogers On A Stick
1 jar cheeze whiz - 8 oz.
green food coloring
25 pretzel sticks
waxed paper
1 long handled spoon
platter
Melt the cheeze whiz in the microwave or on top of the stove, according to directions on the jar. Allow the cheese to cool slightly in the jar. Using a long handled spoon, carefully stir about three drops of green food coloring into the warm cheese, using just enough to turn the cheese a delicate snot green. To form boogers: Dip and twist the tip of each pretzel stick into the cheese, lift out, wait twenty seconds, then dip again. When cheese lumps reach an appealingly boogerish size, set pretzels, booger down, onto a sheet of waxed paper. Allow finished boogers on a stick to cool at room temperature for ten minutes or until cheese is firm. Gently pull boogers off waxed paper and arrange on a serving platter. Serves 5 to 6 booger buddies.

Brain Cell Salad
1 pkg (6 oz) blueberry jello mix
1 carton (16 oz) small curd cottage Cheese
1 can (16 -1/2 oz) can blueberries In syrup -=OR=- 3/4 cup frozen blueberries, thawed
Blue food coloring
--TOOLS--
2 mixing bowls can opener
Spoon 6 salad plates
Prepare jello according to package directions. Chill 4-5 hours or until firm. Scoop cottage cheese into a bowl. Drain and set aside the syrup from the blueberries. Add the berries to the cottage cheese and mix well. Add three drops of food coloring to turn the cottage cheese a nice grayish color with blended. To serve salad, place a few spoonfuls of firm gelatin, (congealed brain fluid), onto individual serving plates. Top with a scoop of cottage cheese (brain tissue) mixture and serve. Serves 6 psycho surgeons.

Brains on the Half Skull
2 medium potatoes
8 oz thin spaghetti
14 oz spaghetti sauce
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Wash the potatoes and cut them in half crosswise. Place the potatoes cut side up on a baking pan and bake for 40 minutes. While the potatoes bake, prepare the spaghetti in a medium sized pot according to the directions on the package. Then carefully drain the cooked spaghetti in a colander over the sink. A few minutes before the potatoes are ready, begin to heat the sauce (blood) in a small pot. Remove the potatoes from the oven, and scoop out the insides of the potatoes. You won't need the insides for this recipe, the empty shells will serve as the skulls. When the sauce begins to boil, remove it from the heat and combine it with the cooked spaghetti to make brains. Put a scoop of bloody brains in each skull.

Butchered Snake Bits With Barbecue Sauce
1 package rigatoni pasta -- (10oz)
2 cans squirtable cheese spread
1 small jar barbecue sauce
16 whole black peppercorns -- (16 to 20)
1 carrot
Cook pasta according to directions on package. Rinse the pasta in cold water.
To make snakes: Covering one end of the rigatoni with your finger (to prevent leakage), carefully fill each piece of pasta with cheese spread. Place six to eight cheese-filled rigatonis end to end on a serving platter, in a realistically curvy snake shape. Using a toothpick, spread lines of barbecue sauce along the top of each snake for markings.
To form heads, use barbecue sauce to glue two black peppercorn eyes onto the end opposite the tail of each snake. Wash, dry and carefully peel skin off carrot. When completely clean of skin, make one more peeling for each snake you have formed. At the narrow end of each peel, carefully cut out a long, thin triangle.
These are your snakes forked tongues. Position tongues.

Chopped Off Fingers Pizza
1 red bell pepper (4 oz.) 12 sticks (1 oz. each) mozzarella
8 small (about 5" diameter) baked pizza crusts 1 cup pizza sauce
Core, stem and seed pepper; cut lengthwise into 1"-wide strips. Cut each strip crosswise into 1/2" pieces (fingernails). Round corners on one end of each piece. Cut each cheese stick in half crosswise. On rounded end of each stick (finger), cut out a 1/2"- square notch into which a pepper piece will fit to make a nail. Lay crusts slightly apart on 3 baking sheets, each 12"x15". Spread pizza sauce evenly over each crust. Lay 3 cheese fingers well apart on each crust: fit a red pepper nail onto each. Bake in a 450F oven until cheese just begins to melt, about 8 min. Yield: 8 personal pizzas

Flat Cat Cookies
1 pkg (20oz) refrigerated sugar Cookie dough
1 tbsp to 2 tbsp flour
Red cinnamon candies
Seedless strawberry jam
Preheat oven to temperature specified on package.
Sprinkle flour on a clean, flat surface and roll out cookie dough slightly thicker than what the package calls for. Then, using butter knife, cut out cookies in the shape of a flattened cat. Use a large spatula to carefully transfer cookies to cookie sheet. Bake according to package directions. While they're cooling, count out enough cinnamon candies to put two eyes and a nose on each cat. Carefully flatten between the front and back of two spoons and set aside. Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for about 3 minutes and then press in eyes and nose. Transfer to wire rack to continue cooling. Dribble jam here and there on each cookie for blood. Makes approximately 3 dozen kitty road kill. Sicko serving suggestion: Instead of making each cookie in a perfect cat shape, make a few that are missing a limb and/or tail. Why not even sever a head or two? Drip jam blood at stumps for an authentically dismembered look?

Hairball Salad with Saliva Dressing
1 large ripe avocado
2 cups Alfalfa sprouts
5 large to 6 carrots, washed peeled and grated
Italian dressing
Cut avocado in half. Use a spoon to scoop out the pit. Scoop avocado out of the shell and put in the bowl. Add sprouts to the avocado meat. Mash with a fork. It is ok to leave some lumps. Set the mixture aside.
Divide the grated carrots among the four salad bowls. Using your clean fingers and a spoon, make walnut size hairballs from the avocado mixture and arrange them on top of the grated carrots. Pour Italian "saliva" dressing over hairballs and serve. Serves 4 cat fanciers.
Sicko serving suggestion: Squeeze ribbons of chocolate icing "hairball" medicine out of a paper cone onto the backs of your guests hands to be licked off for dessert.

Flat Cat Cookies
1 pkg (20 oz) refrigerated sugar Cookie dough
1 tbsp to 2 tbsp flour
red cinnamon candies
seedless strawberry jam
Preheat oven to temperature specified on package.
Sprinkle flour on a clean, flat surface and roll out cookie dough slightly thicker than what the package calls for. Then, using butter knife, cut out cookies in the shape of a flattened cat. Use a large spatula to carefully transfer cookies to cookie sheet. Bake according to package directions. While they're cooling, count out enough cinnamon candies to put two eyes and a nose on each cat. Carefully flatten between the front and back of two spoons and set aside. Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for about 3 minutes and then press in eyes and nose. Transfer to wire rack to continue cooling. Dribble jam here and there on each cookie for blood.
Makes approximately 3 dozen kitty road kill.
Sicko serving suggestion: Instead of making each cookie in a perfect cat shape, make a few that are missing a limb and/or tail. Why not even sever a head or two? Drip jam blood at stumps for an authentically dismembered look?

Gross Guess
2 cups cooked spaghetti
2 cups grapes
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
2 cups jello
3 ice cream buckets (or any plastic containers) WITH covers
Put the spaghetti in 1 bucket/container. Cut a hand sized hole in the top of all of the bucket covers. Mix the grapes with 1 tbsp vegetable oil and put in a bucket. Put the 2 cup jello in the 3rd bucket.
Place all of the covers on. Have a friend feel each one of them and guess what they are! The spaghetti is supposed to be liver. The grapes are supposed to be muscles and the jello is supposed to be brains!

Homemade Maggot Stew
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1 lb stew beef cut in one inch chunks
2 cans (14-1/2 oz) plain stewed tomatoes
1 can (10-1/2 oz) beef broth
1 tsp thyme
1 bay leaf
3 medium to 4 carrots
1 cup fresh or frozen green beans
3/4 cup orzo pasta
Place oil in stew pot and turn heat to medium low. Measure flour, salt, pepper and garlic powder into ziploc bag. Drop in stew beef, seal bag and shake until well coated. Pour contents of bag into the stew pot. Turn the heat up to medium. Use a long handled spoon to turn the meat every 3-4 minutes, letting the meat brown well on all sides. Cook until the meat begins to look crusty. Add the tomatoes, broth, thyme and bay leaf. Bring to a boil, then lower heat to low. Peel the carrots and cut them into small coins with a knife. When the stew has simmered for one hour, add the carrots and green beans to the pot. Cover and simmer another 45 minutes. Cook the orzo in a saucepan according to the package directions. When just tender, drain it through a colander into the sink, shaking out any excess water. These are your maggots. Add them to the stew pot, then turn off heat and carefully blend. Serving suggestion: Turn any meaty meal into a freakish feast by spreading a layer of orzo maggots on top of your roasted, baked or boiled beast!

Nose Blow Burritos
2 medium tomatoes
1 lb ground beef
1 pkg burrito or taco seasoning
1 can (30 oz) refried beans
8 or 10 burrito size soft
flour tortillas
2 cartons (8 oz) guacamole
1 carton (16 oz) sour cream
Dice the tomatoes into small pieces and place in a bowl. Place the ground beef in a frying pan, sprinkle with the burrito seasoning and sauté on medium heat until it's well browned. Cover and set aside.
Cook the beans in a saucepan on low heat, stirring occasionally. When the beans are hot, gently combine them with the ground beef in a clean bowl. To build the burrito beaks: Set one tortilla on a dinner plate. Spoon an approximately one and one half inch wide strip of guacamole dip (rancid mucus) down the center of each tortilla. On top of that, spoon a strip of sour cream (fresh mucus). Tightly fold the left and right sides of the tortilla over your ingredients, then tuck the lower third of the whole burrito under itself, making a nose shape. With an adults' help, use a knife to cut out two large holes for nostrils. Gently squeeze the nose. Instead of napkins, set each guest's place with an individual size packet of facial tissues.

Penicillin Pizza
6 English muffins
1 jar pizza sauce
2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
yellow, green and red food coloring
Split muffins and place on an ungreased cookie sheet, making sure they don't touch. Spoon a thin layer of sauce on top then cover the sauce with a layer of shredded cheese. Set aside. Pour the Parmesan into a small bowl and add five drops each yellow, red and green food coloring until it's an even shade of mold green. (Use plastic bag to prevent your fingers from staining.) Set aside. Boil the pizzas until the cheese has melted and begun to brown. Remove from oven and let cool about 1 minute. Carefully sprinkle mold on top of hot pizzas. Allow pies to cool slightly before you slip on a lab coat and serve. Serves 6 peaked patients.


Puked Up Potatoes
1 medium carrot
4 medium potatoes
3 celery stalks
1/2 cup frozen green beans
pinch salt
12 oz jar chicken or turkey gravy
3 tbsp butter
1/2 cup milk
Carefully peel carrots and potatoes. Chop the carrots and celery into small pieces and the potatoes into 1"cubes. Place the carrots, celery and green beans in the small pan and the potatoes in the larger one.
Cover both with water and add a pinch of salt to each. With an adult's help, set the pans over medium heat until they come to a boil. Turn the heat to medium low. Pour the gravy into the pan of carrot mixture. With an adult's help, cook over low heat until hot, stirring often.
Add the butter and milk to the potatoes and mash until they are fairly lump free. Place a lump of mashed potatoes on a plate, then cover with a ladle of pukey gravy. Serves 6 hurlers.
Serving suggestion: Almost any meal tastes better when you heave puke on it! To create a realistically splattered tableau, place a plate full of food in the sink. Then take a large spoonful of gravy and, with a flick of the wrist, fling it onto the food.

Ralph's Retch
3 oz box strawberry jello
40 ice cubes
2 can (12 oz) strawberry soda
Prepare jello according to package directions. Pour into shallow pan and chill until firm, about 3 hours. Using a dull knife, make as many cuts as possible across the length and width, forming tiny cubes.
With an adult's help, grind ice cubes in a blender. Spoon alternating layers of crushed ice and gelatin pieces into tall glasses, filling them about 2" away from tops. Slowly pour soda into each glass until full, then stir gently. Serve retch with ice teaspoons, so your guests can get at every chilly glob. Serving suggestion: Almost any cooked food can look like puke if you grind it for a few seconds in a blender. And it makes for a tasty sandwich spread!)

Sewer Soda
1 qt chocolate chocolate chip ice Cream
3/4 cup chocolate syrup
1 can/bottle club soda
--TOOLS--
large spoon 4 tall glasses
straws Iced tea spoons
Let ice cream sit at room temperature until lit is easy to scoop.
Spoon ice cream into glasses until it is about halfway full. Pour or squeeze about 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup into each glass.
Slowly fill almost to the top with club soda and stir well with a spoon. Serve with a straw and tall spoon for excavating those luscious brown lumps. Serves 4 sewage slurpers. Serving suggestion: To make this slop especially disgusting, plop an unwrapped tootsie roll into each glass.

Snouts & Beans
2 cans (16oz) plain baked beans
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp bbq sauce
1 tbsp teriyaki sauce
8 beef knockwursts
With an adult's help, empty the cans of beans into a saucepan and add Worcestershire, brown sugar, bbq sauce and teriyaki sauce to the beans. Stir and set aside. Slice off the ends of the knockwurst. You do not need the ends for this recipe. Then slice the knockwurst into equal segments about 1" long, making each cut at the same slight angle. Place the snouts in a saucepan and cover them with water. With an adult's help, cook the snouts for about 5-10 minutes. Cook the beans on low heat, stirring often, until the sauce bubbles and thickens slightly. Carefully remove the snouts and place on paper towels to drain. Pour the beans into a serving dish and arrange snouts, nostril sides up, on top. Serves 4-6 little porkers. Serving suggestion: Dab pickle relish pig boogers in your knockwurst nostrils.

Spit-Wad Sandwiches
2 slice bread creamy peanut butter
2 large marshmallows
Spread each slice of bread with peanut butter.
Using clean fingers, pull apart marshmallows into many tiny spit-wad-sized pieces.
Press the marshmallow wads onto the peanut butter. Put together, wad sides facing, and enjoy. Serves 1 who loves spit wads. Serving suggestion: Make spit wad place cards for your next sit down affair! Write guests names on torn pieces of notebook paper with a pencil. Place a small amount of vegetable oil in a bowl and dip paper pieces into it until completely covered. Crumple papers into balls and stick on to paper.

Toasted Tongues
6 egg whites
1 cup sugar
red food coloring
pink or red cake crystals
With an adult's help, position an oven rack on the lowest shelf, and preheat oven to 200 degrees F. Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs into two small bowls. Make sure there are no yolks
in the bowl of whites. Rapidly beat the eggs until they form stiff peaks. Slowly stir spoonfuls of sugar into the whites and continue to beat until the entire cup of sugar has been added. The whites should now form stiff, shiny peaks. Add two to three drops of red food coloring. Place a sheet of parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
To form tongues: Spoon about 3 tablespoons of meringue in the shape of a tongue onto the parchment paper. Tongues should be the length of the Popsicle sticks. Press a Popsicle stick gently into the center of the tongue, leaving about 2" of stick hanging out. Bake about 3 hours or until tongues are completely dry to the touch. Allow to cool completely before carefully lifting them off the paper. Makes about 12 little lickers. Sicko serving suggestion: To serve coated tongues, use a toothpick to spread a thin layer of mucus (marshmallow topping) down the length of the lickers.

Tortured Tomatoes with Bird Dropping Dressing
2 large ripe tomatoes
2 tbsp crumbled blue cheese
Roquefort dressing
Wash the tomatoes in cold water and with an adult’s help, cut into half inch slices. Place slices in plastic bag. Squeeze out any extra air and close the bag tightly. Lay the bag on a clean plate placed in the sink. Now make a fist and gently pound the tomato slices until they look tortured. Divide the tortured tomatoes among the four bowls and sprinkle with a half tablespoon of crumbled cheese. Then, holding a spoon at least 12" from the salad bowl (to approximate the altitude of a low flying bird), dribble a glob of dressing onto each one.

Worm Burgers
1-1/2 cups Mung bean sprouts
1 lb ground beef
1 egg
salt and pepper to taste
mayonnaise
ketchup
6 hamburger buns
Wash sprout (worms) with warm water. Using clean hands, mix one cup of the sprouts, the ground beef and the raw egg together in a bowl. Reserve the remaining sprouts until later. Form burgers into six patties. Place in fry pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper. With an adult's help, cook on medium heat until they are well browned underneath. Carefully turn the patties. Season again and cook until the second side is well browned. Place on open buns and serve with the worms sprinkled on top as a garnish. Don't forget the pus and blood. Serves 6 worm slurpers. Serving suggestion: Use a clean hole puncher to punch holes in lettuce garnish.

Bologna and Cheesewitch
1 lb bologna
3/4 lb Swiss cheese
1 tbsp India relish
4 tbsp chopped onion
1/4 cup prepared mustard
1/3 cup mayonnaise
6 whole hotdog rolls
6 tbsp butter
Using a meat grinder or food processor, grind together the Bologna and Swiss cheese. Mix into mixture India relish, chopped onion, mustard and mayonnaise. Butter inside of each hotdog roll, and stuff the mixture equally into all 6 rolls. Wrap each roll separately in foil and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before baking. May also be frozen for later use. Bake foil wrapped rolls at 325 degrees F. for 25 minutes or until insides are all melted. Defrost before baking.

Pumpkin Jam
1 medium pumpkin
4 lb sugar
4 lemons
4 oranges
Cut up and dice 1 medium pumpkin For 2 bowls of pumpkin use 1 bowl of sugar. Cut up 4 lemons and 4 oranges. Combine pumpkin, lemon and orange and cover with the sugar. Let stand over night. Next day, mix well and cook until pumpkin is clear. Pack in sterile jars and seal immediately.

Pumpkin Jam 2
5 lb pumpkin
1 lb raisins
1 lb dried apricots
2-1/2 lb sugar
Pare pumpkin. Remove seeds and cut pulp into cubes. Add sugar. Stir well, and allow to stand overnight. In the morning add apricots which have been washed and cut in strips. Add raisins. Cook slowly, stirring frequently, until the pumpkin is tender and clear. One-half a lemon, sliced thinly, may be added. Canned pumpkin may be substituted for fresh pumpkin.


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Halloween Drink Recipes

BLOOD BATH PUNCH WITH FLOATING ICE HAND
2 bottles Red Dry Wine
1 pt. Cognac
1 pt. Rum
3 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1/2 cup sugar syrup
1 bottle Champagne
2 bottles Club Soda
Mix ingredients in a chilled punch bowl, with ice hand. Add champagne before serving. Serves about 45.
2 Frozen Hand Instructions
1 qt. water
1 rubber or sturdy plastic glove
1 rubber band
Make sure you rinse the glove well. Avoid rubber gloves come with a fuzzy lining inside or glove that has powder. Pour water into glove, tie off glove tightly with rubber band. Lay glove on its side in your freezer and freeze overnight. It is a good idea to put the glove on in a large flat pan in the event of leakage. When frozen solid remove and place into punch. Latex glove could cause a problem for anyone with latex allergy!



EVIL EYE PUNCH Ingredients
1 (42-ounce) container tomato juice, chilled
1-1/2 cups vodka
2 tablespoons horseradish
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons TABASCO brand
Garlic Pepper Sauce
1 liter seltzer, chilled
Combine tomato juice, vodka, horseradish, lemon juice and TABASCO Sauce in large punch bowl. Just before serving, add seltzer and unmolded ice ring. Makes 8 servings.
Fill 6-cup ring mold with water to come halfway up side. Freeze approximately 2 hours. Arrange 12 eyeballs on ice in ring mold making sure eyeball is facing up; carefully add enough water to fill. Heaviest part of ring will face up. Freeze until firm.


BLOODY ICE
If you're not using a punch bowl, add red food coloring or cranberry juice to ice cube trays and freeze for bloody ice effect. Use with lighter colored drinks or sparkling water.



DOUBLE-DOUBLE TOIL & TROUBLE Ingredients:
2 liters of Diet Mountain Dew or
Diet Lemon Lime Soda
1 pkg. Blue Kool-Aide prepared
1 Bottle Vodka
Dry Ice
In a large punch bowl pour soda. Slowly add Kool-Aid until desired eerie color is reached. Then add Vodka and stir. Place dry ice right before serving. Remember to use tongs and gloves to handle. Replace dry ice an necessary. Handling Dry Ice
Always wear gloves when handling dry ice. Dry ice is crystallized CO2 and the intense cold will burn if it comes in contact with skin. Never use dry ice in individual glass or cup.
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Wrap chunks of dry ice in cheesecloth and secure. Wear gloves to wrap and use tongs to place in punch bowl.


Ghost SHOOTERS
3 cups water
2 cups Vodka
3 packages black cherry jello
Gummy Worms
Preparation:
Boil the 3 cups of water and then add 3 packets of jello while still stirring. After jello has dissolved totally stir for another 2 minutes - then add vodka. Stir for another minute and then pour into dixie cups or shot glasses. Place in refrigerator. When they are set but not yet firm, place a gummy worm "crawling" out of each one.
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PINA GHOULADA
A frothy drink is tempting enough, but one served in a red-rimmed glass is particularly enticing to monsters who drink blood. Corn syrup with food coloring tinges the classic piña colada with a devilish sweetness.
Dip the rim of each glass into the red mixture, spinning slowly to coat (below, right). Turn glasses upright; the red liquid will drip slightly, then set. Pour drinks, and serve. Drinkers’ lips may be stained pink—much like those of a sated vampire.
Recipe
Makes 10 to 12 eight-ounce servings
The ghoulada mixture can be made several hours in advance and chilled.
3 tablespoons corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon red food coloring, plus more for rims
20 ounces pineapple juice
1 fifteen-ounce can cream of coconut
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 cup orange juice
10 ounces good-quality rum (optional)
To coat rims, pour corn syrup into a shallow bowl. Dip a toothpick into food coloring, and stir a very small amount into corn syrup to combine. Hold a glass by the stem, dip rim into the syrup mixture, and turn glass, coating entire rim. Turn the glass upright, allowing mixture to drip down sides. Dip the remaining glasses. Set aside.
In a bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients, including 1/4 teaspoon red food coloring. Place 2 1/2 cups ice cubes in a blender, and add 1 cup drink mixture. Blend until smooth; add more pineapple juice if mixture is too thick. Repeat with remaining drink mixture and ice. Carefully pour into prepared glasses; serve.


100 Octane Gasoline
1.75 liter(s) Vodka
1 fifth(s) Wildberry Schnapps
1 pint(s) Cherry Vodka
2-3 fifth(s) Sweet & Sour
Pour all ingredients into a 2-1/2 gallon plastic gas can (unused). Shake it all up and store on ice until ready to drink.


2000 Flushes
2 shot(s) Blue Curacao
1 can(s) 7-up
Mix in a frosted beer mug.


Acapulco Zombie
1 shot Vodka
1 shot Tequila
1 shot Rum
1 dash White Crème de Menthe
Orange juice
Grapefruit juice
Pour the alcohol in first, then finish off the glass with the two juices. Also, remember, just a little Crème de Menthe, not too much!



Acidic Eyeball
1/4 oz Vodka
1/4 oz Blackberry Brandy
1/4 oz Triple Sec
1 Green Grape
Pour ingredients over a grape in a shot glass.


Agent Orange
1 oz Yukon Jack
1 oz Jim Beam
1 oz Apple schnapps
1 oz Vodka
1 oz Light rum
1 oz Triple sec
1/2 oz Grenadine
2 oz Orange juice
Hurricane glass filled with ice add ingredients shake; use a cherry and an orange to garnish.


Alien Urine
1/2 oz Midori melon liqueur
1/2 oz Peach schnapps
1 oz Coconut rum
1 part Sweet and sour
1 part Orange juice
This drink is ideally made in a 16 ounce glass, but can also be made in a Collins glass. The drink is served on the rocks. Add the Midori, Malibo, and Schnapps. Add juices. Shake in a tin. Garnish with either two cherries or with a kiwi wheel.
245 Armageddon
1 part(s) Everclear
2 part(s) 100 Proof Hot Damn
3 part(s) 100 Proof Southern Comfort
This can be a shot or a drink, mix all together.


Baby Diaper
1/4 oz Amaretto
1/4 oz Midori
1/4 oz Coconut Rum
1/4 oz Lemon-lime Soda
Mix well with ice in pourable container. Pour into shot glass.


Banshee Berry
1 part Crème de banana
1 part Strawberry schnapps
1 part Crème de cacao
Pour each of the three ingredients into a shot glass. Stir.


Bat Bite
1-1/2 oz Black Bacardi Rum
Cranberry Juice
In a highball glass over ice pour black bacardi rum and then fill with cranberry juice.

Bloody Mary
1-1/2 ounces vodka
3 ounces tomato juice
1/2 ounce lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 dash Tabasco sauce
1 pinch celery salt
1 pinch salt
1 pinch pepper
1 stalk celery
1 wedge lime
Combine liquid ingredients and seasonings in a mixing glass. Shake with cracked ice and strain into a highball or Collins glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish with celery stalk and wedge of lime. Serves: 1.


Candy Apple
1-1/2 oz Vodka
1 dash(es) Grenadine
Fill glass(es) Sprite or 7-up
Mix in a highball glass and drink.


Caramel Apple
1/2 oz Butterscotch Schnapps
1/2 oz Apple Pucker Schnapps
Add 1/2 oz of each liqueur to a shot glass.


Dark and Stormy
1 part(s) Black Rum
2 part(s) Ginger Beer
In a tall glass over ice pour the ginger beer, add the Black rum and watch the storm.


Doom Juice
1 shot(s) Everclear
1 shot(s) Bacardi Limon
1 dash(es) Lemon Juice
Fill glass(es) Sour Apple Pucker
Over ice pour in 1 shot of Everclear, 1 shot of Bacardi Limon and squirt in some lemon juice, then fill with apple pucker.


Embryo
1 shot Galliano
3-4 drops Bailey's Irish Cream
Fill shot glass with Galliano. Put a straw into the Bailey's and cover the top of the straw with your finger. Insert the straw halfway into the Galliano shot glass. Remove your finger from the top of the straw while pulling the straw out of the glass with a twist of the wrist.


Exorcist
1-1/2 oz Tequila
3/4 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Blue Curacao
Combine over ice, shake and then strain into a shot glass.

Frog in a Blender
1 part(s) Kahlua
1 part(s) Crème de Minthe (Green)
1 part(s) Amaretto
1 part(s) Peppermint Schnapps
1 part(s) Cinnamon Schnapps
Shake over ice, pour.


Great Pumpkin Punch
1 Pumpkin
1 part Apple cider
2 parts Ginger ale
1 part Rum
Mix everything and serve in a hollowed out pumpkin with floating pumpkin chunks.


Green Goblin
1/2 pint hard Cider
1/2 pint Lager
1 shot Blue Curacao
Cider First, Lager then Curacao.



Green Monster Party Punch
3 packages Lime Kool-Aid
1 bottle Vodka
1 bottle Fruit juice (any)
20-25 pieces Fruit, mixed
1 gal Sherbet (any flavor)
Mix all ingredients (in any order) in a large tub, which can hold several gallons. Stir so that the Sherbet is completely dissolved. With the exception of the kool-aid and sherbet, as much or little of the other ingredients may be used.


Green Spider
1 shot Bacardi 151 proof rum
1/2 shot Green Crème de Menthe
Shot of 151 first then Crème de Menthe.


Grim Reaper
1 oz Kahlua
1 oz Bacardi 151 proof rum
1 dash Grenadine
Mix Kahlua and 151 in glass. Quickly add ice and pour grenadine over ice to give ice red tint.



Red Death
1-1/2 oz Gin
1/2 oz Cherry Brandy
1/2 oz Dry Vermouth
Mix over ice.


Shark Bite
1 part Blue Curacao
1 part Light Rum
1 part Malibu Rum
1 part Vodka
1 splash Grenadine
Shake over ice, pour. Add Grenadine last and do not mix.


Thunder Storm
1 shot Kahlua
1 shot Black Rum
Fill glass Cream Or Milk
Pour milk or cream into a highball glass, put in shot of Kailua and black rum, DO NOT MIX.

Witches Brew
1/4 oz Peppermint Schnapps
1/4 oz Sloe Gin
1/4 oz Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum
Layer in a shot glass.
266 Zombie
1 oz Light Rum
1 oz Amber Rum
1 oz Dark Rum
1/2 oz Cherry Bourbon
1/2 oz Triple Sec
2 oz Fruit Punch
2 oz Pineapple Juice
Pour all five liqueurs into an eight oz glass, then add 2 ounces each of the fruit punch and pineapple juice and mix.

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Halloween Jokes

What do you get when you cross a bull with a dog?
You get away!

Where do spiders find their favorite insects?
On the Web!

Why are spiders good swimmers?
Because they have webbed feet!

How do skeletons get their mail?
By Bony Express!

How does a witch doctor ask a girl to dance?
Voodoo like to dance with me!

Why did the pumpkin wear a football helmet?
Because he was a Jock-o-Lantern!

Where do ghosts shop?
Boo-tiques!

What do Fishermen say on Halloween?
Trick-or-trout


What did the skeleton order at the restaurant?
Spare Ribs!

What kind of dog does a vampire prefer?
A bloodhound!

How does a monster begin a fairy tale?
Once upon a slime!

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Halloween Crafts

Ghost lollypops in Pumpkin
Remove pumpkin stem, poke holes with a nail into top. Cut paper towels into 10" squares. Place the squares over lollypops and tie with raffia. Paint eyes and mouth on ghost’s face. Stick the lollypop into one of the holes.


Fabulous Fall Wreath
Colorful autumn leaves
Paper plate
Scissors
Glue gun
1 hole punch
1 foot of red ribbon
Cut out the center of the paper plate to create a ring. Glue the leaves in a circular fashion onto the ring. Let the glue dry. Punch a hole into the top and tie a colorful ribbon to hang.


Crayon leaf Rubbings
Colorful autumn leaves
Tracing paper
Crayons
Lay a leaf face side up on a table. Cover the leaf with tracing paper. Peel the paper level off a crayon and lay the crayon on it’s side. Lightly rub the side of the crayon over the paper covering the leaf. You can rub the leaves into many different patterns. These make great holiday cards and invitations.

Spider web Munch
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1/3 cup powdered sugar
3 cups toasted rice cereal
Heat chocolate chips and ¾ cup peanut butter over low heat stirring constantly until smooth. Remove from heat add sugar. Place cereal in large bowl. Add 1 cup melted chocolate mixture place on ungreased baking sheet. Using small metal spatula, shape into a 10 " circle with slightly raised border.
Place remaining peanut butter into plastic bag cut corner squeeze to pipe circles on top of chocolate. Using tooth pick pull peanut butter from center to make look like spider web.


Bone Chillin’Brew
Floating hands from above
2 bottles punch flavor juice
1 can frozen lemonade concentrate
4 cans lemon-lime soda
Float hand in punch.

Passion Putrid Punch
2 cups unsweetened pineapple juice
1-1/2 cups passion fruit juice
1/4 cup lime juice
32 oz gingerale
Frozen hand


Barf Queso Dip
1 lb ground beef
1 large onion chopped
2 cloves garlic
2 lbs American cheese cubed
8 oz smoked sausage cul lengthwise
14-1/2 oz can diced tomatoes
4-1/2 oz can green chili peppers
Orange and black chips
Cook ground beef and onions. Place in crock pot with rest of ingredients and cook until cheese melts.


Skull Rocks
Assorted rocks
Paint
Brushes
Collect rocks and paint different spooky of happy faces. Add Gold for teeth or rhinestones. Place in garden.


Felt Ghost Goodie Bags
Black embroidery floss
White felt squares black ribbon
Cut 8" X 6" piece of felt, making look jagged. Fold down the jagged edge of each square. Using black embroidery floss, stitch across the edge approximately ¾ inch below the fold, leaving an opening for the ribbon.
Place felt squares with wrong sides together. Using black embroidery floss, hand-stitch around three sides of the squares. Do not stitch over the ribbon opening.
With a black permanent pen, draw ghost eyes and mouth.
Cut two 18" pieces of ribbon for each bag and thread one through the fold and fill the bags and pull the ribbons tight.


Ghastly Ghosts
Paint a butternut squash with white acrylic paint. Let dry between each coat.
Draw a face on the gourd with a pencil, then write over with permanent black marker to fill in the eyes and mouth.


Penny Bracelets
Tape nine pennies together with clear packing tape. Then hole punch at both ends. Use string to tie on. These make great trick or treat gifts, a great alternative to candy.


Voodoo Shrunken apple heads
Peel and core large, firm apples and cut about 1/4th inch into them for the eyes, mouth, nose and facial wrinkles. Brush with lemon juice and rub with salt. Place in oven for 2 hours at 100 degrees. Store in warm place until the surface feels dry. Takes about two weeks.


Party Tips
1 Limit each of your children’s guests equal to their age. 4 years old allowed to invite 4 friends.
2 Invite the parents of your child’s guests to help with games, serve food and tell ghost stories.
Send invitations 3 weeks in advance and request RSVP.
Make more food than you think you’ll need.
Make at least 5 more goodie bags than you think you’ll need for unexpected guests.


Party Favor Spell Book
Purchase some 70 sheet green or black note books and decorate the top with sequins, glitter, feathers, etc… and Write spell book. On the First page write Teacher’s eye and textbook row, when I wake tomorrow, everything I’ll know.

Black Magic Picture
Color in a Fun Halloween picture, with bright crayon colors. Be sure to really press down and leave lots of color. Then paint over the top with black paint and the original crayon picture will show through.


Spooky Skeletons
Cut a skeleton out of pattern and glue onto black paper. Where the bones are, glue q-tips for bones.

Ghost Prints
Take sheets of black paper and trace your child’s foot inside of a shoe. Then use glow in the dark paint to fill in the outline. Tape up anywhere that will be dark so the prints will glow.
**Use washable paint for easier cleaning!


Green Goop
Mixture One:
1/4 cup white glue
1/4 cup water
food coloring
Mixture Two:
1/8 cup water
1/2 tsp. borax
Mix mixture 1 in one bowl, and mixture 2 in another. Make sure both are well-mixed. Add mixture 1 into mixture 2. Reach in and pull out your GAK! Knead for 1-2 minutes until formed. Store in a plastic ziplock bag.

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Chat and Email Abbreviations- Acronyms

I had no idea that there were so many different abbreviations or Acronyms for chatting on line and for emails. I had a friend email me something about her "dh"....?I had to finally ask her what she was talking about...She told me "Some days it means Dear Husband and some days it Darn Husband"

I thought how cute is that. I knew the typical...LOL Laughing out loud, but did not know there were so many. Below is a list of abbreviations that I have been able to find. If you know any email me so I can add them to the list.

Hope you have fun with these.

Abbreviation Meaning
404 I haven't a clue
ADN Any day now
AFAIK As far as I know
AFK Away from keyboard
ARE Acronym-rich environment
ASAP As soon as possible
A/S/L? Age/sex/location?
B4N Bye for now
BAK Back at the keyboard
BAS Big a** smile
BBIAB Be back in a bit
BBL Be back later
BBN Bye bye now
BBS Be back soon
BEG Big evil grin
BF Boy friend
BFD Big f***ing deal
BFN Bye for now
BG Big grin
BIBO Beer in, beer out
BIOYIOP Blow it out your I/O port
BL Belly laughing
BMGWL Busting my gut with laughter
BRB Be right back
BTA But then again...
BTDT Been there, done that
BTW By the way
BWL Bursting with laughter
BWTHDIK But what the heck do I know...?
CICO Coffee in, coffee out
C&G Chuckle and grin
CNP Continued in next post
CRB Come right back
CRBT Crying real big tears
CU See you
CUL See you later
CYA Cover your a**
CYO See you online
DBA Doing business as
DL Dead link
DLTBBB Don't let the bed bugs bite
DIKU Do I know you?
DITYID Did I tell you I'm distressed?
DOM Dirty old man
DOS Dozing off soon
DQMOT Don't quote me on this
DTRT Do the right thing
DWB Don't write back
EG Evil grin
EMFBI Excuse me for butting in
EMSG E-mail message
EOM End of message
EOT End of thread (meaning: end of discussion
F2F Face to face
FAQ Frequently-ask question(s)
FC Fingers crossed
FISH First in, still here
FLA Four-letter acronym
FMTYEWTK Far more than you ever wanted to know
FOMCL Falling off my chair laughing
FTBOMH From the bottom of my heart
FUBAR F***ed up beyond all repair or recognition
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
FWIW For what it's worth
FYI For your information
G Grin
GA Go ahead
GAL Get a life
GIGO Garbage in, garbage out
GD&R Grinning, ducking, and running
GF Girlfriend
GFN Gone for now
GGP Gotta go pee
GIWIST Gee, I wish I'd said that
GL Good luck
GMAB Give me a break
GMTA Great minds think alike
GOL Giggling out loud
GTRM Going to read mail
GTSY Glad to see you
H&K Hug and kiss
HAGN Have a good night
HAND Have a nice day
HHIS Hanging head in shame
HIG How's it going
HT Hi there
HTH Hope this helps
HUB Head up butt
IAC In any case
IAE In any event
IANAL I am not a lawyer (but)
IC I see
IGP I gotta pee
IHU I hear you
IIRC If I recall/remember/recollect correctly
ILU or ILY I love you
IM Immediate message
IMCO In my considered opinion
IMHO In my humble opinion
IMing Chatting with someone online usually while doing other things such as playing trivia or other interactive game
IMNSHO In my not so humble opinion
IMO In my opinion
IMS I am sorry
IOW In other words
IPN I'm posting naked
IRL In real life (that is, when not chatting)
ITIGBS I think I'm going to be sick
IWALU I will always love you
IYSWIM If you see what I mean
J4G Just for grins
JIC Just in case
JK Just kidding
JMO Just my opinion
JTLYK Just to let you know
KISS Keep it simple stupid
KIT Keep in touch
KOTC Kiss on the cheek
KOTL Kiss on the lips
KWIM? Know what I mean?
L8R Later
L8R G8R Later gator
LD Later, dude
LDR Long-distance relationship
LHO Laughing head off
LLTA Lots and lots of thunderous applause
LMAO Laughing my a** off
LMSO Laughing my socks off
LOL Laughing out loud
LSHMBH Laughing so hard my belly hurts
LTM Laugh to myself
LTNS Long time no see
LTR Long-term relationship
LULAB Love you like a brother
LULAS Love you like a sister
LUWAMH Love you with all my heart
LY Love ya
LY4E Love ya forever
MorF Male or female
MOSS Member of the same sex
MOTOS Member of the opposite sex
MTF More to follow
MUSM Miss you so much
NADT Not a darn thing
NFG No f*****g good
NFW No feasible way or no f*****g way
NIFOC Naked in front of computer
NP or N/P No problem
NRN No response necessary
OIC Oh, I see
OLL Online love
OMG Oh my God
OTF Off the floor
OTOH On the other hand
OTTOMH Off the top of my head
PANS Pretty awesome new stuff
PAW Parents are watching
PEBCAK Problem exists between chair and keyboard
PIBKAC Problem is between keyboard and chair
PITA Pain in the a**
PM Private message
PMFJIB Pardon me for jumping in but...
POAHF Put on a happy face
::POOF:: Goodbye (leaving the room)
POTS Plain old telephone service
PU That stinks!
QT Cutie
RL Real life (that is, when not chatting)
ROR Raffing out roud (Engrish for "laughing out loud")
ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off
ROTFLMAOWPIMP Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off while peeing in my pants
ROTFLMBO Rolling on the floor laughing my butt off
RPG Role-playing games
RSN Real soon now
RT Real time
RTFM Read the f***ing manual
SHCOON Shoot hot coffee out of nose
SEG S***-eating grin
SETE Smiling ear to ear
SF Surfer-friendly (low-graphics Web site)
SHID Slaps head in disgust
SNAFU Situation normal, all f***ed up
SO Significant other
SOL Smilling out loud or sh*t out of luck
SOMY Sick of me yet?
SOT Short on time
SOTMG Short on time must go
STFW Search the f*****g Web
STW Search the Web
SU Shut up
SUAKM Shut up and kiss me
SUP What's up
SWAG Stupid wild-a** guess
SWAK Sealed with a kiss
SWL Screaming with laughter
SYS See you soon
TA Thanks again
TAFN That's all for now
TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
TCOY Take care of yourself
TGIF Thank God it's Friday
THX Thanks
TIA Thanks in advance (used if you post a question and are expecting a helpful reply)
TILII Tell it like it is
TLA Three-letter acronym
TLK2UL8R Talk to you later
TMI Too much information
TNT Till next time
TOPCA Til our paths cross again (early Celtic chat term)
TOY Thinking of you
TPTB The powers that be
TTFN Ta-Ta for now
TTT Thought that, too (when someone types in what you were about to type)
TTYL Talk to you later
TU Thank you
TY Thank you
UAPITA You're a pain in the a**
UW You're welcome
VBG Very big grin
VBSEG Very big s***-eating grin
WAG Wild a** guess
WAYD What are you doing
WB Welcome back
WBS Write back soon
WDALYIC Who died and left you in charge?
WEG Wicked evil grin
WFM Works for me
WIBNI Wouldn't it be nice if
WT? What/who the ?
WTFO What the F***! Over!
WTG Way to go!
WTGP? Want to go private?
WU? What's up?
WUF? Where are you from?
WYSIWYG What you see is what you get
YBS You'll be sorry
YGBSM You gotta be s***tin' me!
YW You're welcome

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Cart Cover

Sewing cart covers have been both fun and rewarding. Sewing is a great way to take a break from the kid's and relax while making something that I know will make someone else's life better.

Next to sewing the actual cart cover, my favorite is to look for cart cover fabric. Thanks to the patience of my husband, it has become my Saturday morning ritual to ship orders then spend a few hours looking for new quality cart cover fabrics.

I have over 250 different cart cover fabrics. All the fabric store ladies know me, so it really makes for a fun day. I am always surprised when a "friend" at the fabric store pulls the most perfect bolt of fabric from the back room that she just did not have time to shelve...shhhhhh... that week, because she just knew I would LOVE it!

Below is a tiny list of some of the cart cover fabric I have:
Boutique Cart Cover Fabrics
Classic Black Toile
Classic Blue Toile
Classic Teal Toile
Children in the park Toile
Antique Toy Toile
Antique Circus Toile
Country side Toile
Oriental Toile
Angel Cart CoverToile
Pink Toile
Yellow Toile
Wine Toile
Boutique Floral Cart Cover Fabrics
Boutique Paisley Fabrics
Boutique Plaid Fabrics
Boutique Alexander Henry Cart Cover Fabrics
Boutique Classic Cart Cover Fabrics
Classic ABC Fabric
Classic Ollie & Me
Boutique Michael Miller Fabrics
Boutique Ballerina Fabrics
Elegant Fairy Cart Cover Fabric
Character Fabrics
Tweety
Goofy
Garfield
Bob the builder
Snoopy
Pooh cart cover
Buzz
Pink Sea Shell Fabric
Patriotic Fabric
Cat Cart Cover Fabrics
Homespun Country Cart Cover Fabrics
Animal, Bugs & Fish Cart Cover Fabrics
Ladybug fabrics
Fairy Fabrics
Heart Fabrics
Butterfly Fabrics
Teady Bear Fabrics
Bunny Fabrics
Mermaid Fabrics
Camo Fabrics
Animal Print Fabrics
Poka Dot Cart CoverFabrics
Flannel Cart Cover Fabrics
Dragons Fabrics
Dinosaurs Fabric
Race Cars Fabric
Monster Truck Fabric
Football Cart Cover Fabric
Baseball Cart Cover Fabric
Cowboy Cart Cover Fabric
Fishing fabric
Hunting fabric
Sharks fabric
Red Solid Fabric
Wine Solid Fabric
Orange Solid Fabric
Yellow Solid Fabric
Mustard Solid Fabric
Green Solid Fabric
Sage Solid Fabric
Blue Solid Fabric
Purple Solid Fabric
Pink Solid Fabric
Black Solid Fabric
Brown Solid Fabric
Green Gingham Cart Cover Fabric
Lime Gingham Cart Cover Fabric
Red Gingham Cart Cover Fabric
Cream Solid Fabric
And so many more!!!!

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Shopping Cart Covers

Below is a list of all the important features of my shopping cart covers. These custom features are why my shopping cart covers are so special.

• Fit beautifully in grocery store, warehouse, drug store carts & craft store shopping carts
• Work great in park swings, public strollers in malls and chain stores, & restaurant high chairs
• Quality covers hand made in a smoke and pet free home
• Made in the USA by a mom for mom's
• Sew in 100% Premium quality polyester washable non-allergenic batting to prevent shifting during washing
• Front snack pocket with Velcro closure
• adjustable bottle/cup holder to prevent tipping and spilling into your clean cart liner
• Two toy loops to attach any item that your baby likes to throw onto the dirty store floor
• Two three inch button holes to easily use safety belt
• Reinforced leg holes to feel smooth on infant legs.

Also have extra fun features to make the shopping cart covers as special and unique: Squeakers, Monogramming, Reversible Features, Extra Pockets & Toy Loops, Tote bags, Pillows, and Blankets

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Shopping Cart Cover

Princess Madeline in her first shopping cart cover

After I spent two months in the hospital trying not to have the twins too early, Madeline and Mary-Margaret arrived on September 7, 2002 (10 weeks early). They were so tiny. My husband could hold them in the palm of his hand. The twins were very healthy but small and extremely susceptible to illnesses.

One brave day, after a doctors appt., mom and I ventured out to the store with our two tiny bundles. I saw a woman with a shopping cart cover, I immediately asked where she got it ..."a superstore"...but she said she did not really like it because it did not cover the entire seating area of the shopping cart and her baby could still put his mouth on the cart.

The light bulb immediately went off in my head...I could fix the pattern and the "modified" cover would be perfect for my girls. So mom and I made the pattern and the first shopping cart cover for the girls. Everytime we went out with the twins and used the shopping cart cover we were stopped and asked where did we buy it. So I began to take peoples phone numbers to make covers for them. In the mean time, I had the pattern copywriten to protect my intellectual rights.

I really think that shopping cart covers are a must have for every baby! Why even take the chance of them catching germs and bacteria from those NASTY shopping carts. They work great in high chairs too. Nothing worse than sitting down for a nice meal and having the high chair be sticky and dirty before your child even sits down to eat! Uhg

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Mystery Shopping- Moms make money as secret shoppers!

Mystery Shopping- Profitable or SCAM?

The million dollar question...."Can you really make money mystery shopping?"

I have been mystery shopping now for several years, and have made some great extra money and have gotten some cool free things...Clothing, Movie Tickets, Food, Golfing, Toys...etc But I can see how some people can be lead into "SCAMY" companies which give mystery shopping or secret shopping a bad rap. After spending $50.00+ registering with companies and buying how to books I found out one thing....IF YOU HAVE TO PAY....STAY AWAY!

That is when I began collecting mystery shopping information for other secret shoppers: Companies that hire shoppers, How to MS, Message Boards etc...You can access my FREE book on my shopping cart cover website under the freebies & links page. It is saved as a PDF file so you'll need to download adobe reader if you do not already have it on your computer. You can download adobe reader for free at www.adobe.com . This book is copywritten and is for your personal use. I hope you are able to save yourself some time and money.

Now You Can Shop--Even If You Don't Have Any Money!

I’ll show you step-by-step exactly what to say and do to
make money as a mystery shopper …

Of course you want to get paid to go shopping and eat out. Who wouldn't? Why cook? Eat out! You want to make money and have fun in your spare time, and you should! But maybe you're not sure how to get started at this home-based job.

That’s where I can help. For the past several years I’ve been shopping throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Texas, and getting paid to do it! With new twins and an nine year old son, I'm not able to work a traditional job, so this is what I do to contribute to the family income.

Over the last several years, I’ve learned exactly what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to making money as a mystery shopper in the USA or Canada.

Here’s a typical day in my life as a mystery shopper:

I log onto the internet and sign in to the company sites to get assignments. I print off the instruction forms for the shops, then I drop my son off at school, then the girls and I go out to eat for breakfast--at a really good breakfast restaurant. I don't pay for it myself, because it's part of my secret shopper agenda for the week.

That's just my first meal.

Then I visit my favorite department store and buy some clothes for me and my two daughters. I don't pay for these myself either, because this is also part of my mystery shopper agenda.

Lunch and supper are paid for too. (I get supper to go from a middle of the road chain restaurant. That afternoon, between lunch and supper, I had my carpets cleaned, and yes that was paid for too.)

All total, I spent $50 on meals and $100 on clothes. None of which I had to pay for myself--all of it was paid for by the companies who employ me as a mystery shopper!

I spend a quite evening at home sharing the day's adventures with my husband and son. (The twins are only eight weeks old and went along with me, so I don't have to share the day's events with them.) After the three kids are asleep, I submit my reports over the internet and my work is done.

This can be a typical day for you too…
You can spend your day eating at nice restaurants and shopping with other people's money too.

I know, because there are lots of opportunities out there!

You can do this too. More importantly –

The information I've collected over the past year is exactly what you need to get started. I’ll show you exactly what to do and where to go to get yourself set up as a mystery shopper.

You’ll discover exactly where to go on the web to find the best mystery shopping opportunities.

You’ll discover exactly what to say in your telephone interviews, and exactly what to write on the applications to get accepted immediately.

I’ll show you exactly what to say and write on your secret shopper reports to keep the companies satisfied with you and your work, so they'll continue to give you assignments.

Over the last year, I’ve successfully shopped for fun and money. Now, you can have my notebook of secret shopper information that took me the entire year to collect.

Here’s How I Can Help You
Get Paid to Shop Starting Right Now…
I’ve just finished a new book called "Get Paid to Shop!" that outlines in step-by-step detail all the best mystery shopping companies and opportunities I’ve researched over this past 4 years. It’s the best information on mystery shopping available.

This book has all the information you need in one place.

I was online the other day, looking through all the websites on mystery shopping, and every site I saw had incomplete information…one or two opportunities here and there…lame opportunities from companies who never call or send reimbursement checks late….everything except a COMPLETE resource for someone who wants to get paid to shop.

Finding and working through this information on your own is certainly possible – if you want to spend an entire YEAR learning what works and doesn't.

The problem with that is that you want to get started today -- why spend a year doing research and going through trial and error when you can get the year of experience and information I've put together in my book!

"Get Paid to Go Shopping!" is about one thing, exactly what to do and where to go to start shopping and getting paid – especially if you want to know where the best opportunities are. Because the hiring companies rarely advertise to hire secret shoppers.

The book shows you exactly what to do and where to go, the exact techniques and strategies to get hired as a mystery shopper -- helping you every step of the way, guiding and coaching you to get started as soon as possible.

Here Is Some Of The
Information You’ll Learn
To Maximize the Fun and Money of Mystery Shopping

The one thing you absolutely must know if you're going to really makemoney mystery shopping while enjoying yourself.
Ten tips to be a successful Mystery shopper.

Ways to manage your time so that secret shopping is fun and profitable and not just another job. (This is probably the number one reason more people aren't pursuing these kinds of opportunities full time.)

What the companies who use secret shoppers really want from you.

What to say (and what not to say) on the telephone, if you want to participate in lots of mystery shops, have lots of fun, and make lots of money.

Five opportunities you can start pursuing today that will get you started immediately. (By the way, these five opportunities are available nationwide.)

How to get your family and friends involved in your new moneymaking hobby.

Why a traditional job is so much less rewarding, both personally and financially, than a secret shopping career.

How to set realistic goals for what you want to get out of your secret shopping experience. If you don't know what outcome you want to achieve by getting involved in this, then you're going to have a hard time getting there.

"Get Paid to Go Shopping!" will give you the specific step-by-step strategies resources you need to get started making money doing what you're already doing today.

Again, please understand that I am sharing my Mystery Shopping book in an effort to help other mom's and nana's make some extra money for their families. This is a copywritten book and is protected United States Copyright Laws.

Warmest Regards,
Allison Ray
www.shoppingcartcoverstore.com


Ps. I'd love to hear that you got your first assignment, and that the book was helpful to you, please drop me an email allisonray2002@aol.com .

Baby Seat Cover

I am so excited. I finished my new baby seat cover pattern this evening. And made a charming pink toile baby seat cover and canopy. It takes me just about as long to make as the shopping cart cover. Now people will not have to settle for those ugly solid blue or green seats. I got so sick of hearing how cute my twin boys were....Ugh...I know the seats are blue but the "boys" are wearing all pink with lacy head bands! Hummmm?

Now that the girls are two, I'll have to get busy designing a toddler seat cover pattern.



New Baby Seat Cover at www.shoppingcartcoverstore.com