With the end of Blogtober this year, I feel the end of a lot of pressure! I am so glad we took part – and look forward to Blogmas, but finding ourselves creating a post every other day about Halloween, while balancing the world opening up and work, has been a challenge as always. I really enjoyed Blogtober this year, though next year I hope to include more crafts and recipes. It was an interesting October, as the world had just started opening back up, and with a few different events to attend, a bunch of new pumpkin patches, and a few parties / weddings / other family occasions, the month was jam packed!
Category: Blogtober
These articles are all Autumn / Halloween themed.
Autumn Sightings – a collection of Fall pictures
Autumn is a really fun time of year – nature changes, bringing together warm colored leaves, lovely shades of red and orange, and a bunch of new fruits and vegetables that are ripe and growing. When I think of autumn, I think of the leaves – pile sand piles of leaves, crunching under your feet. This had me wondering what others thought of and could find around them that really represented autumn. I have actually gone ahead and asked a bunch of other bloggers to share an image they took that reminds them of Autumn, and to share a bit about them, to see what everyone has seen this autumn.
The picture I choose was all of our feet in the autumn leaves. There is something amazing, as I said, about autumn leaves. We have shared a lot of photos over Blogtober of all of us doing Autumn activities like pumpkin picking and haunted trails, but there hasn’t been a celebration of crunchy rings before. which is why I choose it.
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A Day Out at Capel Manor Garden Halloween Festival
We have been out to several pumpkin farms at this point, but were still looking for Halloween related events to get the kids to for the October term. Capel Manor Garden is a local, huge, historical garden that we’ve always wanted to go too, and they have a Halloween Festival, so it felt like perfect timing. Capel Manor Garden is a huge location, with over 30 gardens, a zoo, various activity buildings and so much more on offer.
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A Day Out at Cattows Halloween Farm
Though we have already taken the time to get our pumpkins and carve them up, we are still checking out Halloween activities, which include pumpkin patches. As we were traveling quite far for an event, we decided to stop off at Cattows Halloween Farm – a pumpkin patch and Halloween farm that we have never visited before. This place was big – like massive – and could have taken much more time then we actually had to spend there, which is very good to know for next year!
Carving and Painting Pumpkins this October
One of my favorite things in the whole wide world is pumpkin carving. I loved carving pumpkins as a kid, and I really love carving them now with the little ones that I live with. Carving pumpkins is always a super fun experience, especially as the children get older and want more complex designs. We got our pumpkins from Cammas Hall, where the kids got to pick out whatever pumpkin they wanted. Amelia ended up with the largest, which was white, Kai had a very classic looking pumpkin, and Robin had a slightly smaller one. Dann and I shared a red pumpkin that was quite flat, almost as if it had been squished down, which is what we liked about it.
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