things are getting scary. . .

What does one do on a rainy day in Atlanta when one's oldest child has no school due to Columbus Day?
Begin celebrating Halloween of course. With a lot of cornstarch, a little water and some food coloring you can make your own bloody goop.

Take a cheese quesadilla, cut jack-o-lantern eyes and a nose. Boom. The quesadilla disappears.

Who is that masked girl?

Take a lovely ghost family cake from Martha Stewart. . .

Take out the cake because that's too complicated, use straws to hold everything together along with sticks, acorns and leaves and you have our version:

A ghost graveyard surrounded by eyeballs, bats with leaves for wings and spiders on a plastic tray.

Boo!