We went to a really lovely dinner party/playdate on the upper west side over the weekend and found these personalized mini pumpkins as table settings at each plate, all drawn by hand by my friend’s 6 year old daughter. Such a cute idea, and now they are sitting on our table (yeah, who needs to go pumpkin picking?). It’s a really rainy day here in NYC. Not so great if you have to be out and about, but sorta nice to watch it from the inside. Can you believe I still haven’t made Mia’s batwings? it’s getting down to the wire and it might have to be a hackjob since I have many deadlines and I’m sick on top of that. What are your kids going as for Halloween?

Kids have a knack for playing with toys in unexpected ways. We lost the body to these weird, latex princess ghost dresses, but the girls still play with them. And why not, when you can put a rubber monster finger puppet on top?

(and no, Lara, you can’t guess because I think you know what this is).