10 Traditional Tasty & Cute Halloween Snacks

As the Halloween is around the corner, have you decided your Halloween menu? If not, take this as a reference.

Various staple food and soup made by pumpkins.

The autumn is a season of good harvest. The pumpkin cannot be omitted. Food made by pumpkin is so various like soups.

Mummy hot dog

This snack originated from the Crescent Dog. Roll the Cannelloni as wrapping the gauze. There is a key point that is to show one end of the hot dog. Then intersperse two yellow eyes. That is the Mummy hot dog.

White ghost

There are kinds of way to make this white ghost. The simplest way is to add two black marble chocolate on the McDonald's cream.

Chocolate cake with a tombstone

RIP means Requiescat in Pace. You will see many cakes with RIP tombstone on.

Eyeball

Though this looks not so authentic, its shape could be better than authentic ones. Mix the dissolved chocolate and cookies and then make it into a ball. Wrap it with chocolate sauce. Finally, add an m&m marble chocolate.

Candy corn

Candy cannot be ignored. It can be used as the decoration of the cakes and cookies. The most authentic candy corn is with three colors (brown; orange and white). The order of colors is also fixed.

Cup cake

Many complicated decorations can be added on the cup cake such as cobweb, tombstone, monster and bat and so on. The main color is puce or orange as well.

Various shapes of cookies

You’d better buy some Halloween cookie templates like bat, ghost and skeleton and so on. Then you will get beautiful cookies.

Caramel apple

Halloween Munch

It is usually given out to the kids for Trick or Treat. 

The Gorgeous Transformation of Small Apartment

This small apartment decoration only cost a little money. You may think it’s impossible. How could such a gorgeous apartment built economically. The design use bold and united colors. Coffee, beige, brown, light yellow and green are the main colors. And it was collocated with white and great shaped furniture.

The designer decided to design this space in the modern concise style. Due to the limit space of the house, there needs many storage space. So the designer added some embedded storage cabinet. Moreover, the wallpaper and plaster line were used as surface decoration. It not only completed the style of the room but also improved the function.

About the Home

Household: Agnes Macadam

Area: 70 square meters

Decorative Style: The Modern Concise Style

Design Sketches

• Living room

The living room is designed much delicate. Modeling sofa set and unique TV set create more storage space for the room. Moreover, the warm color and velvet sofa connect the living room masterly.

• Bedroom

We can find easily that the space of this bedroom is not big. The simple surrounding ceiling greatly enlarged the space, making it definitely the dream bedroom.

• Dining room

If you are not told, I believe you cannot find it’s a dining room of small apartment. The designer skillfully combined the hallway and dining room, collocating with the chandelier and decorative photo frame. All of these added some vigor and warmth of the space. 

Creative Graffiti Furniture

The popular graffiti art can paint out born free and relaxing pictures casually. Now graffiti extends to furniture. The casual style design will give us a feast on visual, not classical but specific.

The graffiti painter remains its specific visual symbols and aesthetic elements when moving the street art into indoor. However, they adjust the color and the pattern of graffiti, making the color more harmonies with furniture and the image more matching with the interior style.

The big wardrobe is similar with a wall in the shape. Treat the wardrobe as a wall and enjoy to   painting. Art is so simple.

The graffiti table can tell your story greatly. It’s someplace that the master can display imagination and a unique scene at home.

It’s a very traditional sofa. But it looks really fashion after creative graffiti, breaking depressing atmosphere. 

How to Choose the Right Curtains

Home Curtains are the most common and necessary home accessory. It can help to shade your window and also decorate your home. If window treatments leave you confused, follow our guide on how to find the right design for you.

Choose the thickness of your fabric based on the amount of light you want in the space — a thick fabric lets less light through than an ultrasheer fabric.

Take measurements. You can easily estimate the right length and width of your window and find curtains that work, but getting a precise measurement for the curtains you're picking out is what makes a home look polished. For the width, measure your window and double or triple it. This method is pretty standard and ensures that curtains or drapes come together in the middle with no gaping. Length, however, will depend on the style of drapes you want.


Choosing the correct style of curtain for a room can begin by considering the type of curtain that will suit a particular room. A more formal or traditional room may be more suited to a Pencil pleat curtain with a more pleated curtain bringing a distinguished look to a room

While purchasing any item, it is very important to look after your budget. A good plan about budget is very important for purchasing curtains. Singapore curtains are special in their nature and they require a huge amount of money for purchasing the curtains. Some costly curtains are sold for several thousands of dollars. So before going to purchase any curtain in Singapore, go to their website and get all details about it. Carry sufficient amount of money along with you to purchase them. Some companies provide facilities to pay the amount in installments also. Get full benefits of such companies.

Tips on Buying a Table Lamp

The table lamp is the most common home accessory. It will help to offer us extra light and also decorate our rooms. As table lamps come in all variety of shapes and sizes, you can rest assured you will find one that fits your style and budget. The following tips may help you.

To help you decide on the size of your lamp, consider where you plan to place it. For a narrow or delicate accent table, select a slender lamp. Not only will it be more attractive visually, but safer too, as a bulky lamp on a narrow or unsteady surface could topple over.

A table's height will also dictate your lamp's height. Shorter lamps on look better on higher tables, and taller ones on lower tables.

Consider the lamp's style. A high-tech swing-arm lamp will look out of place on a carved Victorian table, while a faceted crystal-and-shiny-brass table lamp is likely to be jarring on a Shaker or Mission night stand.

Check the recommended wattage. Though you can replace low-wattage light bulbs with higher ones, this can make a fixture too hot and damage your lamp. Be especially careful with fluorescent desk lamps, as high-wattage bulbs can also become hot. To avoid any potential dangers, turn off your desk lamp if it begins to get very warm. Make sure you also move your desk lamp away from papers, curtains and other flammable objects when it's hot.

Choose the shade.A fabric or semiopaque paper shade gives a warm, flattering glow. Near a TV, an opaque shade of any material can minimize glare. In general, drum shades look more modern; conical ones, more traditional. A shade should never extend past a table's perimeter.

How to Buy a Comfortable Mattress

We spend our most time on the bed. Good health requires healthy sleep. In order to get best sleep, a comfortable mattress is necessary. Our Mattress Buying Guide will give you tips and advice on how to get the best mattress for your needs.

Take measurements of where the bed will be going. Be sure to take into account the size of the headboard and footboard. Measure doorways and hallways to make sure bed will fit. Standard sizes are:
— Twin 39"x 75"
— Full (also called a double) 54"x 75"
— Queen 60"x 80"
— King 76"x 80"
— California King 72" x 84"

Compare models under the same brand. Because the shape, size and placement of coils can vary from brand to brand, it is better to compare a Serta to a Serta than a Simmons to a Serta.

Pillow tops aren't for everyone. Very light-weight people don't need big thick pillow top mattresses because they don't weigh enough to compress the foam to even touch the underlying coils/support system. On the flip side, larger/heavier people tend to feel more comfortable with a little extra cushion between them and the coils.

Your mattresses should be solid enough to provide support according to your body shape and sleeping pattern. Mattress softness and support goes hands-in-hand: a good mattress should support your entire body and ensure spinal integrity.

Test out mattresses. In order for you to know how well you like a mattress, you must test it out in the store. Search around looking for mattresses that meet your criteria, and then lay on each to see how you like them.

Fabric Sofa Care Guide

Fabric sofa is not so easy to care. Here are some care guides for you to keep your fabric sofa in great condition.

Vacuum fabric sofas regularly with an upholstery attachment using low suction.

Use protective arm caps where possible as this is the area most likely to show soiling. Arm caps produced from upholstery fabric should preferably be lined to minimise wear.

If your home is empty during the day it is recommended that you draw curtains blinds to reduce direct sunlight on you sofa for prolonged periods of time. Sunlight WILL fade fabrics but this can be dramatically reduced by avoiding unnecessary exposure.

Organise an annual professional clean by an upholstery cleaner to maintain your sofa's condition.

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