feeling a little lunchy: Halloween is Nigh...

It's a Halloween Hop now! This is my second hop and I'm so glad to be a part of the Bento Bloggers and Friends! These people are amazing! Not just with their lunchscapades, but in reality, too. Please leave me a comment below if you'd like and then head on over to Glory's Mischief to follow the hop and see all the fun and inspiring lunches we've all been working on!

(Click the pumpkin above to travel through the hop)

Every year, I want to start with the Halloween decorating around the first week of October. The Hubs is the voice of reason, and lets it be known that decorating too early could water down the festivities. I agree, but I still want to decorate! Today, I am off from work again, and having successfully avoided the laundry yesterday until around 5pm, I have not much else to do today. So I made a little Halloween lunchy for the natives. We still have to get our costume ideas nailed down, but I think the Wild Child is trying to get me to make her into a box of french fries. Last year, they were pizzas, and the year before that, we had one 50's waitress and one bubble bather, courtesy of Family Fun Magazine's extensive costume idea section. They've won our little neighborhood costume contest for two years in a row.

On with the lunch, then I will show off my mad costume making skillz.

I made tombstone apple swirl bread sandwiches with Trader Joes Pumpkin Butter (which is nowhere near the price it is on Amazon), Snap Pea Crisps for grass, ranch in the Mini Dipper, a Babybel pumpkin cut out with an Exacto-Knife, carrot chips, dried apricots and a Rice Krispie Treat cut to possibly resemble a candy corn. Then, of course it's adorned with the little Halloween picks I bought like 3 years ago on clearance and still have a ton of. Again, my Bento Bloggers and Friends have a ton of ideas, and I am in no way original in making this lunch...so I will credit all of them with the ideas! Click HERE for a link to a bunch of Halloween themed lunches.

Now for our Halloween Costume Showcase! I'm rather proud of the results from making their costumes...and honestly, they didn't take long at all to make! And I LOVE carving pumpkins...even use power tools to get the desired results!