Eerie Elegance

Eerie Elegance Make the world smile with a touch of spooky style! Halloween party decoration tips, recipes, supplie

The book Eerie Elegance shows you how to create your own spooky environments and recipes as shown on Britta Blvd at www.BrittaBlvd.com. Not only are Britta's Halloween recipes inside the book, but she reveals how she creates her decorations and displays with step-by-step instructions and full-color photos that show you how to transform your own home into a Halloween haunt. Ideas range from the sim

ple and budget-conscious to elaborate environments and everything in between, so there is something for everyone from Eerie Elegance!

06/10/2026

Previous black cats have battled my silly little animatronics before, but Ember was only curious about our baby Audrey 2! 😸

06/04/2026

Happy Ukul-Eighty Birthday to Diane with more edible art! “Ukul-Eighty” was Glen’s clever joke but how to make that into a birthday cake let alone a cheese ball? Ukuleles and Eights are similar shapes, so watch & see…and you can even sing along with our ukes at the end!
My Mom’s 80th birthday wish was for a ukulele singalong, with wine tasting, her favorite party snacks, and birthday cake of course, so we squeezed some friends & neighbors into her house to grant her wish!
Of course I needed to figure out some new edible art for her cake! I found some cute plastic guitar trays online to mold both buttercream frosting and Simon Family cheese ball, then hand painted wood grain. Frozen cheese ball is a much smoother surface for food color painting than crusted buttercream, but I definitely will not try this technique with buttercream again!
Very glad we were able to make Mom’s birthday wish come true! Ukul-Eighty looks great-y on you!

Even more Code Orange Halloween Haul! We had too much other Halloween shopping happening the first weekend of Spirit All...
05/28/2026

Even more Code Orange Halloween Haul! We had too much other Halloween shopping happening the first weekend of Spirit Alley Halfway 2 Halloween presented by The Menagerie Oddities Market at Wi******er Mystery House, but we managed to squeeze in a quick visit on the final day with our lucky shopping charm Jen. 😉 While perusing all the booths, she found a lighted mosaic art piece, I found an eyeball necklace to go with my ancient eyeball earrings, and I had a fun chat with the cookie artist about our respective UV-reactive edible art projects. We found the new WMH pinball machine in the lobby sadly out of order, but I could not resist the special stained glass art socks! As always, my dear husband insisted on a photo at “our bricks” that were installed at the garden hedge for our wedding 8 years ago, so thanks to Jen for taking our photo this visit!

More Monster Mask Munchies! It was too tempting to have the perfect testers AND the perfect project of making monster h...
05/20/2026

More Monster Mask Munchies! It was too tempting to have the perfect testers AND the perfect project of making monster heads, so for my fellow NorCal Haunters I made a new edible art experiment of apple cider cakelets but coated in candy. Those who tasted both versions thought the candy details looked better, but they preferred the plain moist cake texture without the crunchy candy coating, so I feel a third experiment is required…
I did try buttercream first but it never froze solid enough to unmold. I saved a mangled cakelet and mixed with buttercream to try a push mold cake pop style, but it also never froze solid enough. Any other ideas for a smoother detailed surface from a metal mold without such a crunchy coating? Has anyone tried a glaze icing that doesn’t fill in all the dastardly details?
Edible Art Experiment No.2 Cakelet Candy Coatings - Research Notes: I found dairy-free white chocolate baking chips which needed a good dollop of coconut oil before they would release from the metal pan, and even using up old colored candy melts from my edible art stash needed added coconut oil to release reliably. Pushing the baked cakelet into melted candy in the same mold is tricker with metal pans even freezing solid, since you cannot unpeel like silicone molds. Before adding coconut oil, I had several candy failures that were stuck so badly I had to melt them in the oven and scoop with a spoon before I could clean the pan to try again!

Our NorCal Haunters May meeting was a Make & Take for Monster Heads using thermoplastic to sculpt directly onto plastic ...
05/15/2026

Our NorCal Haunters May meeting was a Make & Take for Monster Heads using thermoplastic to sculpt directly onto plastic skulls, timed to add to the poseable bodies we made last month. Suzanne brought several of her examples of the variety of monsters she has made and explained her best techniques, including hot glue in silicone molds. Silly me did not take photos of the other creations around me, but there was even a foam pumpkin zombie face instead of a skull, A bonus craft was to make eyeballs cast from hot glue with lots of printed irises to decoupage, plus red thread or thin red pens for the capillaries.
I knew I would be pushing the limits of this technique since the only Haunted Hollywood monster head I don’t already have is The Bride of Frankenstein, needing to build up much fuller cheeks, but I did a decent job crafting Elsa Lanchester’s authentically brown eyes…until I ripped the decoupage off when my first melted thermoplastic dripped right on the eyeball! Watch for my bride’s head revisited later this summer…
You might spot a second batch of my Monster Mask Munchies, since it was too tempting to have the perfect testers AND the perfect project! Round 2 edible art details coming soon…

May was our only chance this year to shop the Alameda Point Antiques Faire for another Halloween Haul! We didn’t arrive ...
05/13/2026

May was our only chance this year to shop the Alameda Point Antiques Faire for another Halloween Haul! We didn’t arrive as early as we hoped, but so many booths of vintage clothing and mid-century modern this time let us scan the aisles fairly quickly, claiming a flintlock pistol, brass elephant urn, discount hats for costumes, and a sparkly teal spider brooch among other treasures, but disappointed we hadn’t found much for Haunted Hollywood besides a couple gilded Nubian princess columns that Glen agreed were “too b***y to be family friendly”…then Great Scott — a giant antique knife switch mounted on a stone slab, perfect for Frankenstein’s Laboratory! I waited patiently but protectively as Glen headed to the font to the ATM since this seller only took cash, and we were not losing our chance at such a find! Then the next aisle we found a hollow resin wall plaque of King Tut that I can easily repaint for our Mummy’s Tomb! Guess we had a Code Orange after all!

Another non-Code Orange Halloween haul! Sadly local company 3Below Theaters in San Jose is closing, and their public liq...
05/11/2026

Another non-Code Orange Halloween haul! Sadly local company 3Below Theaters in San Jose is closing, and their public liquidation sale started May 2nd. We arrived within the first hour open to the public, I spotted the two vintage hatboxes I had seen online, and Glen scored on an entire cartful of DMX-controllable LED spotlights plus a couple speakers. None of the beautifully-decorated themed wardrobes were the right size for our purposes, but we added an extra broom & dustpan which will keep their “Theater 2” labels for our Haunted Hollywood ushers to use this Halloween!
3Below is having one last onsite sale Saturday May 16th 11-4pm, then you can sign up for emails for their costume & prop sale of their Fremont warehouse later this summer. We will definitely be checking out possible costumes for future Halloweens!
https://3belowtheaters.com/

I found the Nordic Ware Monster Mask baking pan 2 years ago that not only has a vampire, werewolf and Frankenstein’s Mon...
05/08/2026

I found the Nordic Ware Monster Mask baking pan 2 years ago that not only has a vampire, werewolf and Frankenstein’s Monster, but even has a mummy and a gillman, so I have been waiting eagerly to try it for our Haunted Hollywood Halloween! I took advantage of our Halfway to Halloween Helper meeting to test a Nordic Ware recipe for apple cider cakelets, which worked well enough releasing from the pan, and everyone enjoyed the flavor. Making multiple batches takes a while since waiting to cool enough to remove the cakes already is longer than a normal cake, then soaking, scrubbing, and drying the pan is required before the cooking spray and flour will cover all the details properly. I was on a time crunch to make enough for all the guests coming the next day, so I left these uncovered and hand painted each face with food colors, which gave a good grungy monster look. They were already a bit dry after only a couple hours on the table, so I would use a candy coating layer next time, but I’ve only found candy melts containing milk and I have too many non-dairy guests these days, so the experimenting will continue until the final reveal for Halloween 2026…

05/05/2026

We had recently heard about spooky tiki-ish bar Last Rites in San Francisco, so after a quick outfit change for me after our 8th wedding anniversary dinner, we enjoyed their last hour open sitting by a giant skull watching their storm with a smoldering cinnamon stick in their namesake cocktail! Did you notice my sparkly jack o’lantern umbrella cocktail earrings & realize that our anniversary is also Halfway to Halloween? 🎃 🍹 It’s not a large place, but since we barely got the last seats at 10pm on a Tuesday, it seems that final prayers for the dying are not needed for Last Rites in San Francisco…

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