Happy Halloweeeeeeeennnnnn!!!

After a weekend of costume parties, eating desserts, and general shenanigans with friends, I think tonight is a great night to just enjoy a (not so) scary movie and enjoy some comfort food. I love seeing all the costumes coming in online, especially DIY ones and here are some of our own from this weekend..

 Leah as a Pinata and Lindsey as the Riddler

Sam as a Christmas Tree and Annie as a Christmas Present

A super easy Halloween dessert made with chocolate pudding, oreo crumbles sprinkled on top and RIP written on Milanos Cookies

BATMAN VILLAINS: Lindsey , Ricky as the Scarecrow, Matt as the Joker

"How can this be healthy?!": Banana Ice Cream!

I recently stumbled upon this SUPER easy, SUPER quick recipe for ice cream made out of bananas (!!!) online when I was trying to figure out what I could make out of my almost overly ripe bananas. 

First, cut up your ripened bananas into 1/4 to 1/2 in slices. Put them on a plate or as I did put it into a 8X8 platter and covered with plastic wrap. Freeze overnight.

Add bananas into blender or food processor and set it to high and puree it.

This might take a few minutes and you might need to keep pushing the bananas down with a long spoon. 

Finally, the bananas will become fully puree'd and ready to eat. 

Pour Banana Ice cream into bowl and it's ready to eat! It will be more like soft serve at this point. If you wish to have it more like regular ice cream place it back into the freezer covered for a few more hours!

Great healthy treat!

You can also add:

Peanut Butter

Honey

Pie Crust Crumbles

Nilla Wafers

or other unique additions to make this delicious treat even better!

Let's go to the Fair Fair FAIR!

One of my favorite annual fall traditions is to go to the Arizona State Fair! I get so excited to see the farm animals, shop around the expo, check out the art/cakes/collections of fellow south westerners, ride the kiddie rides, watch the demolition DERBY!, play some games, and eat the ridiculous food you can only find at fairs. Here are some pictures from this years Fair-ventures

Some Fair-goers: Our friend Kevin, Me (Lindsey), and Sam

Some of the animals in the Agri-Section: LlamaFace

Fluffy chicken-I want one!

Demolition Derby with the most epic comeback I've ever seen! Underdog FTW! 

Deep Fried Dessert Vendor...mmmmmheartattack!

I went with the Fried Oreo..SO DELICIOUS! Next year I want to try the deep fried Peanut Butter Cup

The Haunted Mansion Kiddie Ride-It's so cheesy and amazing. I will even admit I screamed on this one...

Our friend Ricky and myself after winning some of the fair games! Ricky won the GIGANTIC minion from "Despicable Me" after actually getting a ring on the bottle at the ring toss- that never happens! 

All in all, one of the best days at the fair yet!

We Have a WINNER!

The Winner: Congrats to Claudia at The Shallow End for winning this month's giveaway! You will receive the Limited Edition Halloween Products featured as well as a code for 15% off your entire purchase at our Etsy Shop.

How we picked the winner: We entered everyone's name/email addresses into an excel spreadsheet( Twice if you also became/were a fan of Purple Party Shoes on Facebook) in random order. Next we did the Random Function for Excel to give us a random number and whoever's name correlated was the winner!

Our Thanks: Thankyouthankyouthankyou to EVERYONE that participated in the October Giveaway! We were not expecting such a great response for being a very new blog but we are excited by all the feedback! We will be having giveaways often (especially with Lush products because we love them so!) so check back!

Love,

The Ladies at PurplePartyShoes

Thank you all for entering into the Lush October Giveaway! I will be selecting a winner later today :) Good luck all!

Jumpsuits,Bell Bottoms, Hippie Head Scarves: Vintage Comebacks for the Fall

My favorite styles and inspirations come from the 1960s and 70s and I'm happy to know several of these are making their comeback this fall! Here's a Style Watch of a few of my favorite items that are being given a new, fresh life:

70s Bellbottoms

Late 60s Hippie/Boho Head Scarves

 Late 60s/early 70s Jumpsuits

(photo credit: only the last three photos belong to us and are available in our Etsy Shop, I would like to give credit to the above photographers/sources if you have any information I will happily credit them!)

Any other vintage styles you would like to see make a comeback?

October Giveaway!!

Want to win some great Fall Limited Edition products from Lush Cosmetics plus 15% off at our Etsy Vintage Shop?

GREAT NEWS! For my (Lindsey's) favorite month we are giving away some Fall themed items from our favorite all-natural and cruelty free store: LUSH! (and a lil Halloween friend from TY as well : D) as well as 15% off one item in our shop! A little about the products below:

IMPORTANT: products below were removed from packaging for photographic evidence only; covered hands while handling product and placed on sanitized surface. Product returned to packaging post picture taking

                                   

This Hand and Body Soap is made of clove, cardamom, spearmint and fresh pumpkin! Smells good enough to eat!

Cobweb Black sugar bath bomb made with Lush's Black Pearl Scent is a major stress reliever and fun as well!

Here are the TWO FREE AND EASY ways to ENTER TO WIN! The more you participate the higher your chances are :)

1.  Leave us a comment about the best/most creative/funniest Halloween Costume you've seen! :)
   *Leave an email/blog name so that I can contact you if you're the winner!*

2. "Like" us on Facebook at Purple Party Shoes and leave a comment with the same criteria as above

**Your answer doesn't have to be the best, just by participating you are entered into the drawing!**
Contest Ends October 23rd, 2011 at 12midnight!

Good Luck :)

**EDIT(October 17,2011 at 4:00pm): Just visited the Lush Website and BOTH the Limited Edition Pumpkin Soap and Cobweb Bath Bombs are Out of Stock in the U.S! Even more of a reason to enter!***