Party Recap...

This table was literally thrown together at the last minute, when my hubs decided to invite friends over Wednesday evening...also at the very last minute! Don't you just love it when men do that?! :)

Anyway, as Halloween is nearly upon us, I decided to set-up a little dessert table with what I had to hand, to amuse my guests and get us all in the mood for Trick or Treat on the weekend!

It was crazy alright, but I really had a lot of fun and it did not cost a penny, as I had all the props and food at home...I started prepping the décor and desserts at about 14:00 and finished it all by 16:00 in time to do my nails! :)

For the sweet treats, I quickly decorated some chocolate muffins (yes, no time to bake cupcakes I'm afraid!) with orange home-made butter-cream frosting, candy (always have that at home no matter what time of year..), chocolate bars wrapped in candy wrapper from my Halloween Party Collection as favors, and some chocolate-filled biscuits (shop-bought) that are always popular with kids (and adults..).

Drinks were orange cordial for the kids and Buck's Fizz for grown ups. I also made some orange jellies and decorated the rims of the cups with orange sugar (just mix sugar with food colouring, wet rim with juice or water then dib-dab the rim). I then decorated the cups with liquorish wheels - Looked fun and was also a tasty treat!

For the décor, I re-purposed the silver branches from my Bollywood Party and stuck some of the Halloween party icons I already had cut to the branches, together with some fake spider webs. A couple of silver candlesticks and orange candles, ceramic pumpkins and black crow completed the spooky look!

The tablecloth was also re-purposed from the Bollywood party (the orange fabric used for the backdrop) , and draped with some scraps of silver mesh fabric, and adorned with the banner from the Halloween Printable Party Collection.

I used a lot of orange and black polka-dot ribbon as well as the items from my Halloween Party Collection I had to hand, to embellish the candy jars, juice bottles and also scattered some plastic spiders around for an "eek-y" effect! :)

The final result was pleasing enough, and a hit with the guests (I love it when a plan works out! hehe). It helped a lot that I already had the party printables to hand, but I'm sure you can adapt some of the ideas?

If you have more time you can really go to town on the décor and food too, but if you 're in a hurry, or perhaps have a small budget to spend on your Halloween table, then I hope you can get some inpiration from this.....I guess you could say it was a spooky, speedy Halloween tablescape! ;)