Halloween Herbal Companion Book Has Arrived!

The kettle is whistling, the moon is rising, and Miss Calendoulah has brewed something special just in time for October’s shimmer...

I’m thrilled to announce the upcoming release of my newest book: ✨ Halloween Herbal Companion: Healing, Brewing & Blooming ✨

This keepsake edition is part of my Herbal Healing Series and invites you into a garden of seasonal comfort, poetic ritual, and moon-brewed magic.

What’s Inside?

• Herbal Tea Recipes for autumn healing and Halloween charm

• Steam Intentions to guide your seasonal reflections

• Lore Pages featuring Raven’s whispers and Calendoulah’s wisdom

• Healing Garlic Soup (yes, it gets its own poetic spotlight!)

• Interactive Tea Tags you can cut, paste, and personalize

• Poetic Prompts to stir memory and meaning

• Whimsical Illustrations of Miss Calendoulah in her garden

Whether you’re sipping fig leaf tea under a full moon or crafting a brew for clarity and calm, this book is designed to be both practical and poetic—a companion for your seasonal rituals and cozy nights.

🛒 Shop Halloween Herbal Companion Book here

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Poem: I'm not a witch but no one can tell

Poem: I'm not a witch but no one can tell

I'm not a witch but no one can tell

because I still have all my herb books and ale.

I fashion my potions to help those feel better 

but many consider me evil and scattered.

Soups, brews, lotions and salves~

I make all of these just by using all plants.

My knowledge of picking, crushing and drying

then caldron-ing it up until its ready for bottling. 

I'm not a witch but no one can tell

My garden grows greener than any oh well.

My herbs are all flourishing and producing my tools

my mortar and pestles are working to brew.

Clipping, cutting and wrapping in red ribbon

I give you a gift of the magic I'm willing.

Tinctures and poring; directions for use.

Stepping and steaming are all of good use.

I'm not a witch but no one can tell

plants are a bounty and healings prevail.

written by: Pamela Price Svoboda

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My Spookified Kitchen for Halloween

Today I'm sharing

Today I'm sharing how I decorated and spookified my kitchen for Halloween.

I added a ghostly touch by adding my hand crafted and hand painted black wooden bats and my candy corn pots that I painted to hold my kitchen utensils.

The whole kitchen has a mysterious feel

The whole kitchen has a mysterious feel to it thanks to my magical live plants that I keep on my kitchen counter. No kitchen is complete without a spooktacular selection of herbs and spices right~

"BOO" in the kitchen

And last but not least... I have to have my "Boo" in the kitchen with me. Yes my happy ghost mascot has been with me for many years and is making his appearance once again for Halloween. I love his smiling face.

#HalloweenHome

Everyone.... enjoy decorating for Halloween. Have fun with it and remember to share your ideas with each other. If your on social media and your sharing your kitchen photos... Remember to #HalloweenKitchen

Make Memorable Memories!

Love, Pam

Frankenstein Friday Go Green

I'm all about wearing the holiday spirit. You gotta wear Frankenstein yall! This is what I found. Let's have some fun!

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Setting a Halloween Atmosphere in your home

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From Visually.

Pirate Party

"Ahoy, matey!" It's Pirate Party Time. Everyone loves the Golden Age of Piracy that's why everyone loves to host pirate parties. So in honor of pirate theme parties, pirate birthdays, Halloween & International Talk like a pirate day (celebrated on September 19)...Grrrr... we're about to "Party Like A Pirate!"

Hoist your colors.


Let's start with the table. Go with all natural wood for the rustic feel or go with a tablecloth. If you go with a tablecloth; the most common color are all black (since black is associated with pirates) or all blue which makes you think of sailing the ocean blue. Party stores have lot's of matching sets of napkins, paper plates and pirate banners.  Choose decorations like treasure chests, candles, pirate flags, chains, cannon balls. (all plastic props that can be found especially during Halloween) Add signs to each dish with pirate names to help your guests get in the spirit of pirates.

Avast!.... Ye needs ah bountiful table. 

Arrr... you must have a bounty of pirate food on the table. I'm not saying you have to have loads of food (although Pirates were known to pig out while on land) but go with foods that theme the look and flavors of a pirate. Choose theme cakes or cupcakes for dessert.

"Shiver me bones" a knife stabbing party table. 


On land pirates were meat eaters for sure. And for outdoor pirate parties it's common to see roasted pig. Yep, pig pickins are the choice for adult parties and platters of large leg bones (like turkey legs) are all the rage for narlyyy pirates to chew on. Pirate theme parties and children's birthday parties tend to leave out the pig carcass (Euh!) and stick to chicken wings and pulled pork sandwiches.


Arrr... Pirate Cakes
The most popular cakes are treasure chest cakes that's surrounded with chocolate money, candy jewelry and chocolate sea shells. Pirate ship cakes can be decorated with malted milk balls (candy) that's just right for cannon balls.



Pirate Cupcakes
Cupcakes are great for easy serving and can be made in a variety of ways. The most popular being skull-n-bones which are chocolate icing with the shape of a white skull piped on top. (see example) Pirate head cupcakes are easily made by using junior mints for the eye patch, fruit roll-ups for the bandannas and chocolate sprinkles are perfect for a scruffy pirate face. (see example) I call the style of cupcake to the right; a dead mans cupcake.


Pirate Pan Pizza
You can't go wrong by serving a pirate face pizza especially at children's parties. Everyone love's pizza no matter the age so pirate that pizza up and serve it at your next pirate party. If it's a small group of people the personalized mini pizzas are perfect. If it's a large group of people; a large pizza works great too.

In Closing
Well I hope I rounded up a few ideas that will help on your next pirate party. Remember to mark your calendars(for International Talk like a pirate day . It's celebrated every year on September 19th and public pirate parties will be hosted everywhere too!

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Halloween: I stuffed it

Hummm..... the last time I wore this costume I had to stuff it with 2 bed pillows. This time I only had to stuff it with 1!

I think I've been celebrating to many Food Holidays by eating the holiday observance foods. You know, like to many pumpkins for National Pumpkin Month. wink~

Happy

Halloween

Everyone!

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Blog Post Pick: Medusa Cheeseball by Jo and Sue

Celebration Food:  Perfect for Halloween & theme parties!

Blog Post Pick: Medusa Cheeseball
I love to read blogs and when I find something I like, I have to pass it on. Today I ran across this fantastic Medusa Cheeseball by Jo and Sue. Make sure to check out their blog because if your a foodie, you'll have fun here. Great job guys I love it!

Jo and Sue said: "We were inspired to create this Medusa cheeseball after we made the SPA MASK CHEESE BALL that we fell in love with from the Hungry Happenings site. Someone commented on our blog saying that their son was having a mythology birthday theme party (how cool is that by the way) and they were going to make the spa mask into Medusa. Genius! We immediately thought of Halloween. I started thinking of all the things that Sue and I could use for Medusa's snake hair. Weiners cut into strips, jello worms, spaghetti/pasta, bread.  We decided to go with bread because we had more control over how... more » 

Do you have a great cheeseball idea? We would love to hear about it.
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Halloweegan Pumpkin Pancakes

Halloweegan Pumpkin Pancakes
Originally uploaded by River (Wing-It Vegan)

Look-ah-here what I found :)
I enjoy finding great blog posts and passing them on to fellow bloggers. Here's a good one to share.

These pancakes are so cute and what could be better than eating a plate of these happy pumpkin faces for National Pancake Day (October 29), Cool foods for kids month, Eat better eat together month or for Halloween. All these holidays are celebrated in the month of October. 

Hey these could easily be adapted for National Smile Day too. That's not an October holiday, but one to remember for later.

Check out the blog who blogged it.

• Wing It Vegan: Vegan eats and geekery
• VeganMoFo - Halloweegan! The Inevitable Pancake Post
• Oh my gosh you have to see their leggy whoopie spiders too! Even better than mine! I would of shared the photo from flickr but I couldn't find it to blog it. The recipes with this one too.

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My Halloween Window

I do enjoy Halloween! This year I wanted the theme of the house to be spiders so Stephen and I took a trip to the Halloween store to see what we could find. I always love it when the store opens in October because it's so much fun to look at all the new props and spooky stuff that's been added. While there I found these great window sheets. (there actually called window posters but there just sheets of colored plastic with a design on it). They came in many different themes and I scampered through the lot to see if I could find some spiders. Low and behold there they were! I've never grabbed anything so fast before in my life. giggle~ I knew right off the bat that that's what I wanted.

My front window is in 3 sections (as you can see from the picture) and these sheets were the perfect size to fit. The sheets have an orange background so it looks like the whole house is in orange. I bought 3 packs of sheets; each pack had 2 in it so I was able to cover 6 of my front windows. The whole house glows orange and I love it. Not just outside but inside too. What a fantastic setting for a Halloween party! The only down side to it is you can't see out of the windows. I guess that's just what you have to put up with if you want a spider house. It's so Halloweenish!

I covered the porch in spider webs and black spiders too. There crawling on the wall and up the front door. I placed a couple of jack-o-lanterns on the door steps and baby spiders like them. It looks like the whole house has been taken over by spiders. A few more spider webs on the shrubs and my little cottage is a spider haven. Ok.... maybe I over did it a bit but I think all little goblins who come to trick-or-treat this year will enjoy it.
Happy Halloween Decorating to all.  

Pam

Popcorn balls for Halloween VII

Popcorn balls for Halloween VII Originally uploaded by newwavegurly

Happy Halloween Everyone! Every time I think of popcorn balls I think about Halloween, don't you? Popcorn balls are good at any time of the year but I think we all eat them more in October than any other time. Over the years the recipes for them have changed a lot. We make popcorn balls now that are full of marshmallows, chocolate, nuts, candy, honey, caramel and you name it. At Halloween we find popcorn balls at most all carnivals and Halloween Parties. Don't you just love that picture to the right. It's a picture of Honey Popcorn Balls and it makes my mouth water. Check out the popcorn ball information page.  

Everyday is a Holiday!
Hey guys did you know October is National Popcorn Poppin Month? Since popcorn balls are so popular during this month they sure pick a good month to set this Holiday on that's for sure. In honor of all that is popcorn... here's a few recipes.
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Caramel Popcorn Balls:

Ingredients

• 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 1/2 cups unpopped popcorn
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Add 1 tablespoon of the oil to a 4 quart saucepan, and heat over high heat. When oil is hot, add 1/2 cup of popping corn. Keep pan moving constantly. When corn stops popping, remove from heat. Place popped corn in oven to keep warm. Repeat until all corn has been popped. Set aside.
2. In a medium saucepan with a candy thermometer inserted, combine butter, sugar, and corn syrup. Stir well and bring to boiling over medium heat. Stir in condensed milk; simmer, stirring constantly, until thermometer reads 238 degrees F (114 degrees C). Stir in vanilla.
3. Pour caramel over popped corn and stir to coat. Butter hands lightly; shape popcorn into balls about 3 1/2 inches in diameter. 

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Easy Popcorn Balls:

Ingredients

• 10 cups popped popcorn
• 1 cup corn syrup
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 (3 ounce) package fruit flavored gelatin mix
• 1/2 cup honey roasted peanuts

Directions

1. Place popcorn in a large shallow pan or dish.
2. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring corn syrup and brown sugar to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in gelatin until dissolved. Stir in peanuts. Pour mixture evenly over popcorn, stirring to coat. When mixture is cool enough to handle, form into 2 inch balls. Let cool on waxed paper until set.

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Marshmallow Popcorn Balls:

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup unpopped popcorn
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 5 cups miniature marshmallows

Directions

1. Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish. Set aside.
2. Add vegetable oil to a 4 quart saucepan, and heat over high heat. When oil is hot, add popping corn. Keep pan moving constantly. When corn stops popping, remove from heat. Put popcorn in prepared pan.
3. Melt butter In a medium saucepan over low heat. Stir in marshmallows and cook until melted, stirring constantly. Pour marshmallow mixture over popcorn and mix with spoon to coat evenly.
4. Let mixture cool slightly. Smear butter on your hands or spray with non-stick cooking spray. Mix popcorn with your hands so that it is evenly coated.
5. Form popcorn into 8 balls.

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Peanut Butter Pumpkins

Peanut Butter Pumpkins
This great Photo is by gina64 of flickr.com

Peanut Butter Pumpkins
Originally uploaded by gina64

This recipe is just perfect for November because not only is it National Peanut Butter Lovers Month but it's Thanksgiving as well. This recipe is peanut butter all the way and you cant go wrong with pumpkins in November either. What a great recipe to serve at your Thanksgiving dinner.

Hey.... put this recipe on your Halloween list too! At Halloween you know how everybody is looking for food that has great visual appeal and this is one treat that just perfect for all the fall Holiday's.

Recipe:
Melt one package of Reese's peanut butter chips and mix with a can of vanilla frosting. Add food coloring. Separate a little bit of the dough and color green for stems. Refrigerate for one hour. Roll into balls, score with a knife and squish them a little between thumb and forefinger. Poke holes in top of pumpkin with a toothpick. Make stems from the green dough or use pretzels and stick 'em in the top.
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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Originally uploaded by Wabana

Hello everyone and Happy Halloween to you all! Halloween is such a fun and creative Holiday. I just love all the fantastic pumpkin carvings that you find and they just keep getting better and better each and every year. Once it gets dark outside, it's really fun to walk down the street in my community and see all the glowing jack-o-lanterns. It really puts a big grin on my face. Pumpkins have gained so much popularity during Halloween. We decorate with them, we do craft projects with the kids with pumpkins, we roast pumpkin seeds for snacks, and we cook every type of recipe that you can think of with pumpkin. Everything from pumpkin pies, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread to pumpkin soup. Are you ready to send some great Pumpkin E-Greetings? Well we have found some really fun ones that you can send to all your friends and family. Have fun wishing them a Happy Halloween. FREE Pumpkin Internet Greetings. Learn more about Pumpkins Click Here for more pumpkin

National Candy Corn Day!

what makes a pumpkin smile? A big plate of candy corn, that's what!
Originally uploaded by tamelyn

In honor of National Candy Corn Day here's a snack recipe for you. How do you like to eat candy corn?

CANDY CORN TREATS

1/2 c. butter
10 c. Rice Krispies cereal
9 c. miniature marshmallows
2 c. mixture of original candy corn and Indian candy corn
3/4 c. miniature chocolate chips
Candy pumpkins
Yellow and red food colouring
Lightly grease a large baking pan.

Melt butter and marshmallows in medium sauce pan over medium heat; stir until smooth.
In a large bowl, mix cereal, candy corn, and miniature chocolate chips together.

To marshmallow mixture, blend in 2 drops yellow food coloring and 1 drop red food coloring, adding more coloring if necessary to reach an orange shade.

Add marshmallow mixture to cereal mixture; stir quickly to combine. Spread mixture onto the large pan and press with buttered hands. While warm, press the candy pumpkins on top. Let cool; cut into squares.