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For those of you who are interested, here's where I got my ideas...

The bat wings are just chicken wings that I ordered (duh).

The mummies are from Pillsbury. They were easy and delicious. Two tips...Use the crescent roll seamless dough SHEETS if you can find them instead of the crescent rolls so you don't have to worry about pressing the perforations of the crescents together before slicing. And use a pizza cutter instead of a knife or scissors to cut the dough. So easy!

The deviled eyes are just my usual deviled egg recipe with half of a pimento-stuffed green olive for the eye, little gherkins for the eyebrows, and cut up red pepper for the eyelashes.

The roasted bones are from Pillsbury and the blood was my regular pasta sauce that I make.

The gooey ghosts are just regular PB&J sandwiches that I cut with a ghost cookie cutter.

The jack-o-lantern bites are from Bakerella. Usually her stuff is too complicated for me, but these were really easy. I ended up using black gel decorator icing for the faces because I had it left over from Gerard's birthday cupcakes, but next time I would go with melted chocolate like Bakerella suggests.

I can't remember where I got the candy corn pudding idea, but it was really easy to do. I used instant banana creme pie pudding for the bottom layer, instant butterscotch pudding for the middle orange layer, and cool whip for the top. I think if I ever make these again I might just opt for all vanilla pudding and use food coloring. I think the different flavors were a bit too much.

The witch's fingers were a last minute addition. I had seen several variations on cookies like THESE and I had planned on making them. Of course, since I am not much of a baker I bought the Pillsbury refrigerated butter cookies and planned on using that. Good thing I tried a test "finger" a few days ahead of time, because they just didn't hold their shape and ended up more like a big flat oval with an almond stuck on the top. So at the last minute I thought of making them with pretzel rods, broken in half, first dipped in red chocolate (it looked more like pink, though). Once that chocolate had hardened I dipped it in white (so it would look like a white finger with blood inside once bitten) and placed a sliced almond on top while the chocolate was still warm for the fingernail.

I got the pretzel idea from a friend last Christmas and made them last Valentine's Day. You can see that post HERE.

Oh, and I made cute little food labels and I got that idea from HERE.

That's about it! I hope everyone had a happy halloween and stayed safe! Gerard and Morgan had fun trick-or-treating (although big Gerard got called in to work). I'll post more about it with pictures tomorrow! Goodnight!