

I found an awesome tutorial from Martha Stewart and here’s the link: I made her costume and it really wasn’t that hard.

My little chicken had a wonderful time trick or treating.


We love to dress up, visit all our neighbors and get TONS of candy. It’s my favorite time of year again, Fall and Halloween!!! This year, CHICKEN was our theme!! I was a bucket of fried chicken, my husband was Colonel Sanders, my daughter was a little chicken and my son was Star Lord from Guardians of the Galaxy (not with with chicken theme). It wasn’t brushed on to cover the entire fence but put on in splotchy sections. I used pewter luster dust to give the fence a metal look. I used black royal icing to make scroll work in between the posts and on the gate to make them look a little more ornate. I put a horizontal piece of fondant on the top of the fence posts to make it look like a real fence. Anyway, to make the fence I cut out lots of skinny strips of black fondant and attached to the cake vertically. The customer provided a skeleton topper for the cake that was put on right before pick up. It was a halloween birthday and the customer wanted a spooky wrought iron fence to cover the cake. “Chickens, geese, ducks, everyone decided to go for it.” And now, we can add royals to the list.I just wanted to share with you a cake that I decorated for work this week. Apparently, I am not the only one.” Her cocktail concoctions have resonated with chicken “enthusiasts” and “curious” alike, and many of her followers decided to make the leap. “They are so entertaining that I would find myself coming out to watch them in the backyard during cocktail hour. “Two plus two equals twelve.” Her Instagram account, which has nearly 75,000 followers, began when she was one of the few in her Los Angeles neighborhood to keep chicken as pet and she would joke that she couldn’t go out with her friends because she was having a drink with her chickens. “It is chicken math,” says Kate Richards of Drinking with Chickens. As a result, owners are constantly re-homing birds, networking and meeting other chicken owners. It can also be difficult to tell a chick’s gender, so people accidentally end up with roosters, which are forbidden as pets in many urban counties. A small flock is inevitable, especially if you hatch the chicks from the eggs (another layer of bird ownership). Chicken enthusiasts point out that birds have a way of multiplying.
