Something I Really Did Just Whip UP - Giveaway Winner and New Giveaway

Just Something I Whipped Up,

now that is the name of a fabulous blog party

held on Monday by The Girl Creative.

Lots of times the things I  post on this aren't

that easy to whip up, but todays items really

were easy to whip up.

I fell in love with these booted cake plates last

year when I saw them at Home Goods.  I bought

one and then decided I wanted to give my friends

and family some and when I went back they

were all gone.

This year I began the search early and by having my

daughter-in-law shop for me out of town, I was

successful in getting a variety of them and enough to

give away as gifts.

I stacked 3 of them and glued them in place with hot

glue to keep them safe.  I absolutely love them.

Amazing what a little bit of hot glue can do.

No one can believe they didn't come that way.

For our Scary Halloween Dinner we filled them

with Krispy Kreme donuts.  Don't ask me how

many of those I have been known to eat at once!

Zoulah and Beaulah our famous twin

sister witches

have made Halloween really fun this

year. 

Can you tell which one is which?

(Hint - Beaulah has a slightly jaundiced look.)

 Joni at Red Couch Recipes is my sister, but

not my twin.  I am the older by 3 1/2 years.

Zoulah on the left belongs to her and Beaulah on the

right belongs to me.  They were both presents from

our sister Jean.

Joni featured these incredibly easy, fun and colorful

Halloween Candy Skewers. 

 We made these for the party too. 

 Later my teenage son took

a bouquet of them to answer a girl who had asked

him to a girl's choice dance.  Bet she loved that.

                                                      

Ooh, somebody's watching you!

This is a cute bouquet of witches fingers and skeleton

fingers.  You can buy these at Target. Just pop them

in a fun container with candies to hold them upright.

Carol from

 The Answer Is Chocolate is the winner of the

$65 CSN giveaway. 

 Thank you

to CSN for being so generous.  How do you decide what

wonderful store to shop from and what wonderful thing to buy?

Let me know Carol.

To keep us in the Halloween mood, I am introducing you

to one of my favorite boutiques in the Salt Lake area

Anastasia's Attic located at Gardner Village, a collection

of old homes and a mill that house boutiques and a

restaurant.

They contacted me after I did my post on Gardner's

Village and the witches there and offered a

fabulous giveaway of one of their gorgeous

velvet witches hats.

I told them that their timing couldn't have been

more perfect as I was planning a tablescape

around two of their velvet hats this week.

Meet Tara the owner of this wonderful boutique.

Have you ever met a prettier witch?

She was actually wearing one of the hats when

we came to visit and Kylie my granddaughter

wore one that day too. 

Kylie was thrilled they were wearing the same hats.  I

wore the cream colored one which I bought from

Anastasia's Attic a few years ago, but they don't

have those anymore.

So you too can own one of these gorgeous black

velvet hats.

Giveaway Rules

To be entered in the contest you must be a

follower of all three:

1.  Purple Chocolat Home

2. Anastasia's Attic - follow them on Facebook

and

3.  Cricket's Cafe - Cricket is the manager of Anastasias

Leave a comment on each for one chance each at

winning the hat. 

The contest will run from Sunday evening Oct. 17 and

Saturday midnight Oct. 24.

Contest only open to residents of the United States

and Canada.  Winner will be chosen using

http://www.random.org.

You must include your email address so that we can

contact you to mail the hat to you.

Tara said she would love to continue to sponsor

giveaways.  They have gorgeous clothing, jewelry

table ware, holiday items and whimsical items.

We just grabbed a shopper who had purple nails to

be a hand model for this scary purple spider ring.

They are having a fairy party in the spring.  Maybe

we could convince Tara to sponsor a fairy giveaway!

If you live in the Salt Lake area or are visiting Gardner

Village, stop in and tell them that you are a follower

and that you read about them on Purple Chocolat Home.

I will be posting this on

Just Something I Whipped Up Monday