Last Saturday (October 20th) was the annual Keene Pumpkin Festival. At first, I was going to do an American Girl themed pumpkin, along with my mom and a friend, however that didn't quite pan out. Instead, I decided to try doing a Monster High Frankie Stein jackolantern. I printed out an image of Frankie and then traced over it, to make a template. I taped the template to my pumpkin, made dots and cut out the pieces. Although Pumpkin Frankie didn't come out the best (a little part even broke on her but it was still okay), I still love how she came out.
Pumpkin Frankie, with the image I used and one of my Frankie Stein dolls:
Pumpkin Frankie and my mom's Charlie Brown-in-His-Ghost-Costume jackolantern, at Pumpkin Fest:
Lit Jackolanterns at the Pumpkin Festival:
While my friend, Jenn, was over last weekend, I baked a Blueberry Apple pie. I modified an Apple Pie recipe to make my own because I wanted to try making my own recipe. I had also been looking through the Better Homes and Gardens magazine and I loved that the pie on the cover had leaf cutouts as the top crust. It looked very pretty and I wanted to do that. I used a mini star cookie cutter for the crust edge because the mini leaf cookie cutters that we have are used for Sculpey/Fimo (we'll have to buy another set of mini leaves).
I think my Blueberry Apple pie came out nicely, even though I accidentally forgot to put foil over it while baking, to help keep the crust from over-browning. Jenn loved it and so did I.
If you want to try making the Blueberry Apple pie, you can view the recipe here:Blueberry Apple Pie If you try it, be sure to tell me what you think of it.