GimmeThat!

Want some tasty Halloween cupcake ideas that are crazy-easy to make?

Check out the 5 fun cupcake decorating ideas I created for Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine (including the two featured above...these photos are my samples I sent to them; the final photos were taken by Rach's in-house team).

The genius is you don't even need to make the cupcakes from scratch. Just buy unfrosted cupcakes and a few edible decorations--all of which are available at your local supermarket--and you've got wicked-cool desserts for the whole family.

Since I almost always reach for the same handful of wardrobe favorites, just this morning I challenged myself to try to wear everything in my closet over the next few weeks.

So, the inspiration for this outfit was the sweater, which I bought at Old Navy more than a month ago but had yet to wear. Paired with a cute pair of old Margaret O'Leary pants that I couldn't fit into for the past two years until now (thanks to a three-week cleanse), it's casual Monday!

Finishing the look is a new pair of the latest style of Crocs, which the company sent me to test out. They shocked the heck out of Kaboodle HQ workmates, many of whom saw the brand through rubber-clog glasses so to speak. By all accounts (including that of my extremely fashion fickle husband), they are surprisingly cute, extremely comfy, and far harder to get dirty than canvas versions. Cool with me.