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Dark & StormyThis Hallows Eve I’m entertaining some of my most mischievous friends and this update on the classic dark & stormy will be the night’s most wicked poison of choice.
Ingredients
• Black decorating sugar, for the glass
• Juice of 1 lime, plus 1 lime wedge
• 1/4 cup dark rum
• 1/4 cup ginger beer or all-natural ginger ale
• 1 black gummy spider
Directions
Spread out the black sugar on a small plate. Rub the lime wedge around the rim of a rocks glass; dip the glass in the black sugar, then fill with ice.
Combine the rum and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice and shake well. Carefully strain into the glass, minding the sugar on the rim. Top the drink with ginger beer and add the gummy spider.
Photograph by Kate Mathis
Recipe by Claire Robinson, Food Network Magazine, www.foodnetwork.com
Fiancée du VampireI love this little story presenting one of Dior Fine Jewelry’s most inventive collections. Designer Victoire de Castellone sets a dark romantic stage showcasing gorgeous gems with part glamour and part goth. What vixen wouldn’t want a piece of that.
Once upon a time there was a vampire in love with a young maiden…Alas, she wears a croix pendant that prevents him from getting too close.
In order to entice her, he offers her jewels:A Coeur ring with a pink tourmaline but also…
A tete de mort pendant, like a Memento Mori reminding her of what keeps them apart.But what if she is tempted by eternity?
Her heart won, the young maiden takes off her cross and is bitten. The Morsure necklace illustrates her sacrifice.She is then caught in the trap…
In token of her love, she offers him her broken heart pierced by an arrow. Cupidon brooch and dripping with a drop of blood.
Happy at long last, she now lives an eternal love.The Noces de Sang necklace is the ultimate offering celebrating the union of the vampire lover and his sweet young maiden.
The lovers had a daughter.For her 18th birthday they offer her the Diablotin ring, a mischievous jewel.
Photo courtesy of grandinroad.comWhat’s your poison?
Leave it up to Martha... these witty wine labels were featured on style.com this week. I love how they can update any traditional bar with an added dash of wicked humor… let partygoers help themselves to some Rat Poison on the rocks or a nice glass of Transylvanian Red Blood.
Martha Stewart for Grandin Road mad scientist wine labels, $6 for a set of 12, available at www.grandinroad.com
Martha Stewart for Grandin Road mad scientist wine labels, $6 for a set of 12, available at www.grandinroad.com
Photo courtesy of www.vogue.comPumpkin D’Jour
This picture says it all, a true example of how to craft the most perfect pumpkin for Hallows Eve. Jeweler Eddie Borgo takes carving to a whole new level creating a couture pumpkin with a little spray paint and some glammed-up studs. Forget those common known stencils and run-of-the-mill faces, this pumpkin d’ jour has my name written all over it.
