Fun Frankenstein Rice Krispie Treats!

With Halloween coming up soon it puts me in the mood to make some fun, creative, and easy halloween treats. While browsing the internet looking for ideas I stumbled upon this recipe and it looks absolutely adorable! And quite delicious. 

Frankenstein Rice Krispie Treats

These cute little guys are SO easy to make, and fun to eat! It is the perfect after-school project with your kids or grand kids!

To make Frankenstein, you will need: 

Kellogg's Apple Jack's Cereal

Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats (or you can make yours from scratch)

Icing tinted green with food coloring

Icing, tinted black with food coloring

White circular candies for eyes

Lollipop sticks

Zip top Plastic Bags

Wax Paper

Icing Connectors (available at craft stores)

Icing Tips:

#2 (round)

#46 (flat edge for nose and eyebrows)

#233 (for hair) with connectors

To start making this Halloween recipe for your kids, insert lollipop sticks into the bottom of your Rice Krispie Treats. Prepare your icing. Gel food coloring works best. Trim the corners of your zip top bags. Insert an icing connector (available at craft stores) in the corner hole you cut, spoon in your icing and attach your icing tip to the outside of the bag.

Using the #46 icing tip and green icing, pipe one long eyebrow and a shorter flat nose. Using the #2 icing tip and green icing, pipe two dots for the eyes. Add candies. And pipe a squiggly mouth, a scar, and two dots on the sides for his bolts. The attach his Apple Jack's bolts.

Using the #233 icing tip and black icing, pipe on Frankenstein's hair. You can use the #2 tip for this too, it will just take a bit longer.


If you want to dress him up a bit, cut a green and white paper straw in half and insert the lollipop stick into it before displaying your treats in little orange candies.

I think these would be PERFECT for your Halloween celebration! And we hope you have a very Happy Halloween!

Love, All the Ladies at The Parish

P.S. For more fun Halloween ideas, click on the following links:

Pumpkin Patch Tarts

Tombstone Brownies

5 Halloween Party Ideas and More!

This recipe came from Snackpicks.com.

Glacier Star Quilt Class

Glacier Star is the most stunning quilt in Judy Niemeyer’s collection of paper-pieced quilt patterns.  We are excited to be featuring certified instructor Linda Tellesbo to teach this Technique-of-the-Month class! 
Each month, for six months, you will learn a specific technique featured in this masterpiece quilt, making it easy enough to create for even the beginner!  This class will familiarize you with Judy’s paper-piecing technique and process, and you will have the confidence and skills to make many more of Judy Niemeyer’s beautiful quilt patterns!

Featured Teacher!

Linda Tellesbo is a Judy Niemeyer Quilting Certified Instructor originally from Washington's Skagit Valley. Her quilts have won prestigious awards in almost every major quilt show event in the Pacific Northwest Region! These events include the Association of Pacific Northwest Quilter's Quiltfest, Quilters Anonymous, Block Party, and the Busy Bees shows. In 2008, her quilts were showcased at the LaConner Quilt Museum, where she was the featured artist. In 2010, she received the honor of being selected as the Featured Artist for the Quilter’s Anonymous show!

We are so excited to have Linda teaching at our shop! 

Facebook Photo Contest!

We are having a contest on our Facebook page!

Take a picture of your latest quilting project and upload it to our Facebook page! Not sure how to do that? Click here for an instruction sheet with easy to follow steps. 

When the picture is uploaded, tell all of your friends about it so they can help you win a prize! They will need to go to our Facebook page, "Like" our business, and then "Like" the picture that you uploaded! Your picture, once posted on the wall, will be put into an album titled "September Photo Contest" and your name will be in the caption of the photo. 

The photo with the most "Likes" by September 30th will win a basket full of beautiful and fun holiday fabrics put together by The Ladies at The Parish! So hurry and post your pictures to our Facebook page and get your friends to "Like" your picture!

Fun Pillowcase Idea!

As I was perusing the internet the other day for fun and easy craft ideas, I stumbled upon this idea from Martha Stewart's website that I absolutely love! They look so cute, and it seems very simple!

They're called Napkin Folded Pillowcases, and they can brighten outdoor spaces or bring a fun splash of life to any room!

Here are the instructions from Martha Stewart:

Lay a 20-inch square cloth napkin face down, positioning it to resemble a diamond. Center a 12- or 14-inch square pillow form on napkin. Fold in 2 side points of napkin to middle, then fold up bottom point. Hand-stitch through all 3 pieces of fabric along upside-down V, about 2 inches down on each side. Stitch a button to bottom flap near point. Fold down top flap; sew a loop of cord to underside of fabric as a button holder, ensuring it fits snugly around button when closed.

And now for some exciting news...

We are having a photo contest on our Facebook page!

If you have been busy quilting lately, we would love to see it! Share a photo of your latest creation with us on our Facebook page. Once your photo is uploaded tell all of your friends about it and have them go to our business page and "Like" your photo. Whichever photo gets the most "Likes" will win a Fabric Bundle Basket put together by Kathy and the Ladies at The Parish! 

The contest begins September 1st (that's TOMORROW!), so get those pictures taken, uploaded, and spread the word to all of your friends!!!

ANNUAL PARKING LOT SALE

FEATURING Parkland Parish Quilts Annual Parking Lot Sale!!

This weekend is our Annual Parking Lot Sale – you won’t want to miss this! Shop early for the best selection and all weekend long for our best clearance prices!! We hope to see you there as we rock ‘n roll our way through the last weekend in August and celebrate Hot August Nights!

Sale hours are Saturday 10am – 5pm and Sunday 10am – 4pm.

Fabric Stash Organization

Is your fabric stash out of control? Do you dig around for hours looking for that one piece of fabric that you know you have? Well here is a quick and easy way to fold, organize, and store your fabric to make it visible and easy to access. 

This method of organization uses comic book boards as a stabilizer for your fabrics. All you need are some comic book boards, some pins, and your fabric stash!

By doing this you can create your own mini-fabric store in your sewing room! Smaller pieces of fabric can be organized by color in easy access bins, or rolled up and placed in baskets. You can take the comic book board fabrics and organize them by color, designer, etc. 

If you are interested in trying this to organize your fabric, comic book boards can be bought here.

If you have an organized fabric room, please! Share your methods with us! Leave us a comment and tell us how you keep organized!

This organizational idea was shared by Feathered Fibers.

The Results Are In!

Thank you to ALL of you who participated in our Give Away! We have loved reading what your favorite notions are, but most of all we love to hear from you!

And now, drum roll please...

Congratulations! Please send an email to parklandparish@gmail.com in order to claim your prize!

Another Favorite

Since our last Give-Away was so successful, we are having another one! Please remember to leave your first and last name when you comment. We had six comments last time that were not eligible to be in the drawing because a name was not left with them. Please don't forget!

The question is:

We hope you will all participate! The winners (yes, there will be more than one!) of this give-away will be announced on August 16th!

1st Place Prize - $25 Gift Card to PPQC!
2nd Place Prize - $15 Gift Card to PPQC!
3rd Place Prize - A Coupon for 15% off your next purchase at PPQC!

And the Winner Is...

You have won a $25 Gift Card to Parkland Parish Quilt Co.! Come visit us to get your gift card and do some shopping! Please send us an email at parklandparish@gmail.com so we can send you a "coupon" that will get you your gift card.

And thank you, all of you, who took the time to comment. We loved reading your posts and hope that you will continue to come read our blog and leave us comments! 

Gift Card Give-Away!

We are hosting a give-away! Post your response to the question below to get your name entered into a drawing for a 

$25 gift card to Parkland Parish Quilt Co.!

The winner will be announced here on our blog on July 19th! Answer this question as a comment and make sure to include your first and last name! 
What is your favorite quilting technique?