Thanks to Delish here are some relatively easy and fun edible Halloween treats!
Spooky Sweets: Best Halloween Cakes and Cupcakes
The Mini Pumpkin Cakes look cool!
See the above link for recipes and pictures.
Pumpkin Mini Cakes
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Are you tired of the same old carved pumpkin?
Do you struggle with ideas on what to carve on your pumpkin?
Are you totaly clueless (like me!) and unimaginative on how to make a big orange gourd into something unique and awe-inspiring?
If you answer yes to any (or all!) of the above questions then check out MSN Lifestyle with Martha Stewart!
These are not your every day, plain old hum drum carved pumpkins!
Here is just one idea. For more click on the link above!
Pumpkin Raccoon
This raccoon’s nose was made with a pointy gourd that was fitted into a hole in the front of his pumpkin head.
Pumpkin Raccoon How-To
A pen and a linoleum cutter will help you turn a pumpkin into a convincing raccoon or other creature.
1. Choose a pointed gourd to use as a nose. Trace the bottom of it around the bottom of a medium pumpkin, which will become the face. Cut a hole from the bottom of the pumpkin, and also from the bottom of the gourd; scoop out both. Cut another hole in the back of the head (top of pumpkin) for lights and ventilation, and for access to attach the nose.
2. Use a pen to draw facial details, and carve along those lines with a linoleum cutter, leaving a 1/2-inch thickness of flesh so light will shine through. Attach the nose by fitting the bottom of the pointy gourd into the hole in the pumpkin with toothpicks. Make ears from triangles cut from the pumpkin, set upright, and attached with toothpicks.
Pumpkin Racoon
Rebecca
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What better way to show your Halloween spirit than these nifty Trick or Treat earrings in Sterling Silver!
For more Sterling treasures check out Nina Gibson’s Designs (we’ve also added them to our Favorite Vendors list!).
And if you want these earrings I highly suggest you get on over there quick!
Trick or Treat Earrings
Rebecca
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Miscellaneous Detritus Of The Week:
***We are currently out of stock on a handfull of ingredients used to manufacture our lotions and body creams. Orders for said ingredients have been placed with two wonderful local suppliers and we expect to take delivery of these items Monday or Tuesday. Please feel free to place your lotion and cream orders but note they will not ship out til Thursday/Friday.
***You can now officially call me four-eyes but only part-time! Over the last six months my up-close eyesight became fuzzy to the point that I realized it was not due to tiredness (I hung on to that excuse as long as I could). My long distance eyesight is nearly 20/20 (or 95% as the doc put it) but I now need reading glasses for computer work and reading. They should be ready sometime next week. No more squinting for me!
***I hope to do another bird trade this weekend. Still waiting for the details. Trading our last Lady Gouldian juvenile girl (orange head, white chest) for another girl that is black head, purple chest. Which will still leave one man out. I will have two pairs (one pair is already bonded) and a single so at some point I will have to find a mate for the red head/yellow body female. Susan, I see many transactions in the future!
***Hubs found a company through Ebay that does graphic signs for vehicles. I emailed them to verify what I had in mind will work (we have tinted windows) and am waiting to hear back from them. Hopefully soon we will have our logo/information plastered on the van’s windows!
***Gun Ban at Seattle Parks.
Really??? I would have thought this was a no brainer and already in effect in ALL state/city parks.
Not to start any debates here (I will delete any/all blog posts that are argumentative!) but I’m one of those people who think the average citizen (um..that’s you and me) have absolutely no business owning a hand gun. I am so tired of hearing about people being ‘accidentally’ shot…HELLO! Guns don’t go off by themselves…It actually takes a FINGER to PULL the TRIGGER to make that little ole’ bullet come right out of there.
If it were up to me I would arm everyone with a smile. Just think how nice our world would be then!
*** Boy what a ride that was yesturday no?
Balloon Boy is now safe (but he was not really in any danger now was he???!!!) but it is appearing, at least at this time, that the entire event may just have been a hoax. As I was watching it unfold yesturday questions kept running through my mind but I didn’t make any judgements until last night after the balloon came down….empty.
Things just didn’t make sense and it looks like the Heene’s just may be digging themselves a hole they may not climb out of. I can tell you this….if the entire episode was a hoax then I hope the Heene’s will have to reimburse the parties involved any and all rescue costs.
*** Another busy weekend. It’s supposed to be really nasty tomorrow (pour down rain) so I can play catch-up on the many things on my to-do list. Sunday is supposed to be better so perhaps we can sneak away to the local pumpkin farm.
Rebecca
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Freshwater Fish of the World – A Status Report
Written by Michael Ricciardi
In may not be a great surprise to learn that fish are the most species-rich vertebrate group on the Planet–with an estimated 32,500 member species. But what is surprising is that 43% of these species are found in freshwater habitats, such as lakes and rivers.
This rich diversity of freshwater species is all the more startling when one considers that freshwater systems represent just one hundredth of one percent (.01%) of the Earth’s surface water. According to Fishes of the World (J.S. Nelson), over 5000 new species of freshwater fish have been discovered in just the past three decades–a time period marked by expanded exploration of fish habitats and better understanding of “taxonomic boundaries” (mostly, due to more accurate genetic analysis).
One might suppose that many of these newly discovered fish–many quite rare–are endangered, but in fact, only a small fraction of these “newer” fish have contributed to the increase in overall threatened species (H.L. Jelks et al, Fisheries 33). While rarity is often correlated with extinction risk, some rare and ancient species (like the powan and pollan fish of the British Isles) have survived since the end of the last Ice Age. Invasive species, habitat fragmentation or loss (from both human and natural causes), and even reckless collecting are the leading causes of imperiled freshwater fish worldwide.
According to the same 2008 study noted above (Jelks et al), nearly 40% of freshwater species in North America are either at risk of disappearing or have already vanished. Representing some 761 distinct species, 230 are deemed “vulnerable”, 190 are threatened, 280 are endangered, and 61 are extinct (or extinct in the wild). These numbers represent a 90+% increase over a 1989 assessment of freshwater species. And these trends are consistent with assessments in Europe.
Making matters worse are increasing demands for water resources and on-going or predicted impacts from climate change. Ecologists and biologists have long suggested remedies: restoring habitat, implementing better resource management practices, limiting harvests of vulnerable species, restricting transport of threatened fish, and controlling pollution. This latter remedy is often the most difficult to effect. Land run-off (from farm land or home waste water) and other effluent often promote eutrophication (an over-supply of metabolic nutrients, like phosphates) which can inhibit same-species recognition, which can lead to interbreeding. This blurring of specie boundaries makes it more difficult to track individual species, and thus to implement specific conservation strategies (see: Seehausen, van Alphen, and Witte).
But what makes freshwater fish conservation so challenging is the fact that freshwater fish diversity is a function of freshwater fish rarity. Often, rare species–like the Picote de Tequila (Zoogoneticus tequila), a live-bearing fish found only in a small, 4 meter wide pool in Ameca Basin in Central Mexico–are found in isolated locales, or scattered , small lakes or ponds. In many cases, a quite small population of breeding adults supports the entire species population. In the case of the Picote fish, the entire population of 500 is preserved by just 50 adults.
Still, these rare and small populations manage to hang on. It has been suggested that the evolution of freshwater fish has been safe-guarded because of their rarity. Their small numbers and isolated habitats have nurtured unique adaptations–like sperm storage in guppies–that manage to secure the species long-term survival. Additionally, isolation means less exposure to competition (from other species) and predation, as well as pathogens. It is also thought that many such freshwater fish are so well-adapted to their local habitats that their genomes have fewer, disadvantageous mutations. In this regard, strategies to repopulate rare, freshwater fish species in situ using their zoo-bred relatives are being seriously discussed. It is not known how the native species would be affected by this strategy–whether added genetic diversity would promote its survival, or whether the introduction of genes selected for under domestic (zoo) conditions would actually weaken the species, and hence its odds of survival.
Primary reference material for this article: Threats to Freshwater Fish, by Anne E. Magurran, Science Magazine, 4 September, 2009.
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Arctic ice to vanish in summer, report says
LONDON, England (CNN) — New data released Thursday suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be “largely ice free” during summer within a decade.
The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is the latest research into ice thickness in the Arctic.
Researchers predict that within 20 years ice cover will be completely gone during the warmer months.
The expedition, which was completed in May, was led by UK explorer Pen Hadow.
He and his team collected data by manually drilling into the ice and noting its thickness along a 450-kilometer route across the northern part of the Beaufort Sea.
They found that the area surveyed was comprised almost exclusively of first year ice.
Scientists think this is significant because traditionally the region has been made up of much older, thicker ice.
“Discovering this area of younger ice provides another body of information that supports the rapidly emerging scientific consensus that it’s going to be nearer 10 years from now that we will see roughly 80-85 percent free waters in the Arctic Ocean,” Hadow told CNN.
Measurements taken by Hadow and his team report that the ice-floes were on average 1.8 meters thick — which, according to scientists, is too thin to survive next summer’s ice melt.
Professor Peter Wadhams, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the UK’s University of Cambridge said: “With a large part of the region now first year ice, it is clearly more vulnerable. The area is now more likely to become open water each summer, bringing forward the potential date when the summer sea ice will be completely gone.”
Professor Wadhams, who has analyzed the expedition data, added: “The Catlin Arctic Survey data supports the new consensus view that the Arctic will be ice-free in summer within about 20 years, and much of that decrease will be happening within 10 years.”
Martin Sommerkorn from the WWF International Arctic Program believes that the changes in sea-ice cover in the region are likely to increase global temperatures further.
“Such a loss of Arctic sea ice has recently been assessed to set in motion powerful climate feedbacks which will have an impact far beyond the Arctic itself,” Sommerkorn said.
“Arctic sea ice holds a central position in our Earth’s climate system. Take it out of the equation and we are left with a dramatically warmer world,” he added.
Hadow fears that the current climate models developed by scientists may not be extreme enough. But he is hopeful that this new data will spur world leaders into action.
“We are now in a loss period,” Hadow told CNN. “Maybe losing this sea ice, this roof on the top of our planet in going to be an important moment, a big visual aid to the science that in combination can bring about some sort of global agreement on emissions.”
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How Green Is the New Sprint ‘Reclaim’ Phone?
Written by Timothy B. Hurst
The new green-themed Reclaim made by Samsung is more than your standard phone with slick green branding — though there’s a bit of that too.
What’s green (or blue), smaller than a deck of cards and will remind you to unplug the charger from the wall after charging? The Reclaim, the new green-themed smart phone made by Samsung for Sprint, is loaded with a bunch of green content, a handful eco-conscious accessories and an attention to sustainable packaging that make it more “green” than most other phones out there.
But you can’t just slap a case made from forty percent corn plastic, dip it in green paint and call it green, can you? The folks at Sprint sent me the new Reclaim so I could answer those questions myself.
The Phone
Out of the box, I was first struck by the small size and light weight of the Reclaim. As I test-drove it, I barely noticed the 3.5-ounce phone in my pants pocket. I even found myself looking for it a couple of times even though I had it right there on me. But for a small phone, it packs a pretty good punch.
Easy to navigate and operate, with Sprint’s one-click navigation which brings features like GPS navigation, messaging and web portals like Facebook and Google to the front and center of your interface.
While some like this stuff front and center, an electrician friend of mine who recently got the phone told me he didn’t want all of the shortcut keys on his main screen, telling me they were too big and that he just wanted a picture of his daughter up there.
The phone had good sound and video quality on an especially large screen for such a small device. The 3G speed was a little clunky at times, but that can at least be partially to be explained by the weakish Sprint signal at my house where I did most of the tinkering with the features
A 2.0 megapixel camera with portrait mirror for capturing mobile video and the ubiquitous twenty-first century self-portraits. The Reclaim is also smart enough to ask you if you want to share the pic you just took on the internet via flickr, facebook and YouTube. Have other digital media? A well-placed Micro SD memory card slot on side makes transferring digital audio and pictures a snap.
It took me a little while to get accustomed to the slide-out QWERTY keyboard—particularly the fact that it didn’t need to stay open after dialing a phone call and that closing the slider wouldn’t end a phone call—the functionality of the slider was smooth and well-engineered.
The Green Parts
Built from 80 percent recyclable material with 40 percent of the phone casing made from corn-based bio-plastic. The Reclaim is 80 percent recyle-able material, not recycle-ed material. That is fairly normal. The bulk of material in most other cell phones can also be recycled and that’s why there is a market for used cell phones.
To Sprint’s credit, included in the box is a postage-paid cell phone recycling bag for you to drop your old phone in the mail to be scrapped for e-waste (which I filled three old phones sitting in a drawer I’ve been meaning to recycle).
Sprint has committed to recycle ninety percent of the phones they make by 2017. With current recycling rates at roughly one-third, Sprint admits they have a long way to go but are also quick to point out that they have collected roughly 18 million phones thus far and have increased recycling rates substantially over 2007.
I like the idea of the green content portals. Easily-accessed content from Planet Green including Best of Green, Five Simple Things, All Things Green and a Green Glossary from Planet Green. These shortcut keys access fast-loading pages of green content and info. Don’t expect links, images, flash, etc. These are fast-loading pages that provide quick access to basic green info, and for that purpose they are excellent.
I was also too-easily amused by the chirps, ribbits and other preloaded eco-sonic ringtones that keep with the Reclaim’s green theme.
Fortunately, the instruction manuals were not big, glossy tomes reprinted in seven languages. Only the “essentials” in manual literature were included in the package, but considering that several pages were filled with full-color images of people enjoying their new phone way too much, even that seemed a bit too much.
The paper that was included in the package was printed with soy inks on a paper stock that clearly had some percentage of recycled content in it, but nowhere on the package was that clearly labeled or otherwise discerned. Other than the plastic FedEx package the phone arrived in, the package itself has very little plastic, only two small bags.
Festooned with a litany of certification labels and brands, Sprint has clearly made some attempts to get the Reclaim some green cred — and most of it is deserved. Overall, I think Sprint has done more than pull of a green marketing coups. They have taken real steps towards cleaning up an industry that contributes an incredible amount of material into the global e-waste stream.
That is not to say there isn’t any room for improvement. Cutting back even more on printed materials and packaging waste and giving more attention to labeling and transparency would make the Reclaim even greener.
If this phone does anything, it helps show an industry that little steps can make a big difference when they are being manufactured at thousands of pieces at a time. Hopefully leading us to the day where a phone that pays attention to sutainability and cradle-to-cradle principles will become the norm, rather than the exception.
Sprint's Reclaim Phone
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I ususally steer clear of politics but I found the article below an interesting read…
And more importantly…
It made perfect sense!
September 2009
Walter Williams
George Mason University
Future Prospects for Economic Liberty
WALTER WILLIAMS is the John M. Olin distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University. He holds a B.A. from California State University at Los Angeles and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a Hoover Institution National Fellowship and the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation George Washington Medal of Honor. A nationally syndicated columnist, his articles and essays have appeared in publications such as Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review, National Review, Reader’s Digest, Policy Review and Newsweek. Dr. Williams has authored six books, including The State Against Blacks (later made into a PBS documentary entitled Good Intentions) and Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism.
The following is adapted from a lecture delivered on August 2, 2009, during a Hillsdale College cruise from Venice to Athens aboard the Crystal Serenity.
One of the justifications for the massive growth of government in the 20th and now the 21st centuries, far beyond the narrow limits envisioned by the founders of our nation, is the need to promote what the government defines as fair and just. But this begs the prior and more fundamental question: What is the legitimate role of government in a free society? To understand how America’s Founders answered this question, we have only to look at the rule book they gave us-the Constitution. Most of what they understood as legitimate powers of the federal government are enumerated in Article 1, Section 8. Congress is authorized there to do 21 things, and as much as three-quarters of what Congress taxes us and spends our money for today is nowhere to be found on that list. To cite just a few examples, there is no constitutional authority for Congress to subsidize farms, bail out banks, or manage car companies. In this sense, I think we can safely say that America has departed from the constitutional principle of limited government that made us great and prosperous.
On the other side of the coin from limited government is individual liberty. The Founders understood private property as the bulwark of freedom for all Americans, rich and poor alike. But following a series of successful attacks on private property and free enterprise—beginning in the early 20th century and picking up steam during the New Deal, the Great Society, and then again recently—the government designed by our Founders and outlined in the Constitution has all but disappeared. Thomas Jefferson anticipated this when he said, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
To see the extent to which liberty is yielding and government is gaining ground, one need simply look at what has happened to taxes and spending. A tax, of course, represents a government claim on private property. Every tax confiscates private property that could otherwise be freely spent or freely invested. At the same time, every additional dollar of government spending demands another tax dollar, whether now or in the future. With this in mind, consider that the average American now works from January 1 until May 5 to pay the federal, state, and local taxes required for current government spending levels. Thus the fruits of more than one third of our labor are used in ways decided upon by others. The Founders favored the free market because it maximizes the freedom of all citizens and teaches respect for the rights of others. Expansive government, by contrast, contracts individual freedom and teaches disrespect for the rights of others. Thus clearly we are on what Friedrich Hayek called the road to serfdom, or what I prefer to call the road to tyranny.
As I said, the Constitution restricts the federal government to certain functions. What are they? The most fundamental one is the protection of citizens’ lives. Therefore, the first legitimate function of the government is to provide for national defense against foreign enemies and for protection against criminals here at home. These and other legitimate public goods (as we economists call them) obviously require that each citizen pay his share in taxes. But along with people’s lives, it is a vital function of the government to protect people’s liberty as well—including economic liberty or property rights. So while I am not saying that we should pay no taxes, I am saying that they should be much lower—as they would be, if the government abided by the Constitution and allowed the free market system to flourish.
And it is important to remember what makes the free market work. Is it a desire we all have to do good for others? Do people in New York enjoy fresh steak for dinner at their favorite restaurant because cattle ranchers in Texas love to make New Yorkers happy? Of course not. It is in the interest of Texas ranchers to provide the steak. They benefit themselves and their families by doing so. This is the kind of enlightened self-interest discussed by Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, in which he argues that the social good is best served by pursuing private interests. The same principle explains why I take better care of my property than the government would. It explains as well why a large transfer or estate tax weakens the incentive a property owner has to care for his property and pass it along to his children in the best possible condition. It explains, in general, why free enterprise leads to prosperity.
Ironically, the free market system is threatened today not because of its failure, but because of its success. Capitalism has done so well in eliminating the traditional problems of mankind—disease, pestilence, gross hunger, and poverty—that other human problems seem to us unacceptable. So in the name of equalizing income, achieving sex and race balance, guaranteeing housing and medical care, protecting consumers, and conserving energy—just to name a few prominent causes of liberal government these days—individual liberty has become of secondary or tertiary concern.
Imagine what would happen if I wrote a letter to Congress and informed its members that, because I am fully capable of taking care of my own retirement needs, I respectfully request that they stop taking money out of my paycheck for Social Security. Such a letter would be greeted with contempt. But is there any difference between being forced to save for retirement and being forced to save for housing or for my child’s education or for any other perceived good? None whatsoever. Yet for government to force us to do such things is to treat us as children rather than as rational citizens in possession of equal and inalienable natural rights.
We do not yet live under a tyranny, of course. Nor is one imminent. But a series of steps, whether small or large, tending toward a certain destination will eventually take us there. The philosopher David Hume observed that liberty is seldom lost all at once, but rather bit by bit. Or as my late colleague Leonard Read used to put it, taking liberty from Americans is like cooking a frog: It can’t be done quickly because the frog will feel the heat and escape. But put a frog in cold water and heat it slowly, and by the time the frog grasps the danger, it’s too late.
Again, the primary justification for increasing the size and scale of government at the expense of liberty is that government can achieve what it perceives as good. But government has no resources of its own with which to do so. Congressmen and senators don’t reach into their own pockets to pay for a government program. They reach into yours and mine. Absent Santa Claus or the tooth fairy, the only way government can give one American a dollar in the name of this or that good thing is by taking it from some other American by force. If a private person did the same thing, no matter how admirable the motive, he would be arrested and tried as a thief. That is why I like to call what Congress does, more often than not, “legal theft.” The question we have to ask ourselves is whether there is a moral basis for forcibly taking the rightful property of one person and giving it to another to whom it does not belong. I cannot think of one. Charity is noble and good when it involves reaching into your own pocket. But reaching into someone else’s pocket is wrong.
In a free society, we want the great majority, if not all, of our relationships to be voluntary. I like to explain a voluntary exchange as a kind of non-amorous seduction. Both parties to the exchange feel good in an economic sense. Economists call this a positive sum gain. For example, if I offer my local grocer three dollars for a gallon of milk, implicit in the offer is that we will both be winners. The grocer is better off because he values the three dollars more than the milk, and I am better off because I value the milk more than the three dollars. That is a positive sum gain. Involuntary exchange, by contrast, means that one party gains and the other loses. If I use a gun to steal a gallon of milk, I win and the grocer loses. Economists call this a zero sum gain. And we are like that grocer in most of what Congress does these days.
Some will respond that big government is what the majority of voters want, and that in a democracy the majority rules. But America’s Founders didn’t found a democracy, they founded a republic. The authors of The Federalist Papers, arguing for ratification of the Constitution, showed how pure democracy has led historically to tyranny. Instead, they set up a limited government, with checks and balances, to help ensure that the reason of the people, rather than the selfish passions of a majority, would hold sway. Unaware of the distinction between a democracy and a republic, many today believe that a majority consensus establishes morality. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Another common argument is that we need big government to protect the little guy from corporate giants. But a corporation can’t pick a consumer’s pocket. The consumer must voluntarily pay money for the corporation’s product. It is big government, not corporations, that have the power to take our money by force. I should also point out that private business can force us to pay them by employing government. To see this happening, just look at the automobile industry or at most corporate farmers today. If General Motors or a corporate farm is having trouble, they can ask me for help, and I may or may not choose to help. But if they ask government to help and an IRS agent shows up at my door demanding money, I have no choice but to hand it over. It is big government that the little guy needs protection against, not big business. And the only protection available is in the Constitution and the ballot box.
Speaking of the ballot box, we can blame politicians to some extent for the trampling of our liberty. But the bulk of the blame lies with us voters, because politicians are often doing what we elect them to do. The sad truth is that we elect them for the specific purpose of taking the property of other Americans and giving it to us. Many manufacturers think that the government owes them a protective tariff to keep out foreign goods, resulting in artificially higher prices for consumers. Many farmers think the government owes them a crop subsidy, which raises the price of food. Organized labor thinks government should protect their jobs from non-union competition. And so on. We could even consider many college professors, who love to secure government grants to study poverty and then meet at hotels in Miami during the winter to talk about poor people. All of these—and hundreds of other similar demands on government that I could cite—represent involuntary exchanges and diminish our freedom.
This reminds me of a lunch I had a number of years ago with my friend Jesse Helms, the late Senator from North Carolina. He knew that I was critical of farm subsidies, and he said he agreed with me 100 percent. But he wondered how a Senator from North Carolina could possibly vote against them. If he did so, his fellow North Carolinians would dump him and elect somebody worse in his place. And I remember wondering at the time if it is reasonable to ask a politician to commit political suicide for the sake of principle. The fact is that it’s unreasonable of us to expect even principled politicians to vote against things like crop subsidies and stand up for the Constitution. This presents us with a challenge. It’s up to us to ensure that it’s in our representatives’ interest to stand up for constitutional government.
Americans have never done the wrong thing for a long time, but if we’re not going to go down the tubes as a great nation, we must get about changing things while we still have the liberty to do so.
Rebecca
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This is one of my favorite and easy halloween pies to make!
I found this recipe a LONG time ago in a magazine and ripped it right out to save.
Orange sherbet and Oreo cookies…what’s better than that?
Pumpkin Patch Pie
1 Pint Orange Sherbet, softened (2 cups)
1 Tub (8 oz.) Cool Whip
1 Oreo Pie Crust (9″)
9 Oreo Cookies
Place sherbet in bowl and stir until smooth. Stir in 1/2 of the Cool Whip until well blended. Spoon into crust. Sprinkle with chopped Oreo cookies, pressing firmly into sherbet. Cover with remaining Cool Whip.
Freeze 4 hours or until firm. Let stand at room temperature 10 minutes before serving. Garnish with finely chopped Oreo cookies and candy pumpkins. Store leftover pie in freezer.
Makes 8 servings
It has been a few years since I’ve made the above pie so I don’t have any ‘live’ pictures….
I do, however, have a picture of the original magazine page CIRCA: many years ago!
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Thank You Better Homes & Garden!
Here is a boatload of fall / halloween decorating ideas courtesy of Better Homes & Garden.
I was sooooo impressed with all of the cool ideas (that I will never have time this year to implement!) that I renewed my magazine subscription…..
Hey…you can’t beat a 2 fer 1 deal!
Now for the direct links:
Creative Halloween Treat Bags and Containers
Easy No-Carve Halloween Pumpkins
Halloween Pumpkins with Simple Folk Art Designs
Outdoor Halloween Decorating with Pumpkins
The above ideas should keep you busy until…
Well….next week!
Pumpkin Cart / Better Homes & Garden
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