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!

Team Eerie Elegance Halloween Helper weekend workdays are underway for our Haunted Hollywood Halloween, so far sanding 3...
08/14/2026

Team Eerie Elegance Halloween Helper weekend workdays are underway for our Haunted Hollywood Halloween, so far sanding 3D-printed Egyptian treasures, corpsing skulls for Frankenstein’s Laboratory, sketching & painting King Kong, and starting construction of our Mummy’s Tomb!

Some more Code Orange Halloween Haul from haunting my local Home Goods & Marshalls…hard to resist sparkly spider style, ...
08/13/2026

Some more Code Orange Halloween Haul from haunting my local Home Goods & Marshalls…hard to resist sparkly spider style, especially hair accessories I can wear all year long! This black cat dispenser is the most adorable soap ever sq**rting a paw shape onto your hand! Sadly our black cat Ember was not impressed! 😸

Five years later we finally have the matching fridge of our dreams for our Victorian kitchen, including the stunning gia...
08/10/2026

Five years later we finally have the matching fridge of our dreams for our Victorian kitchen, including the stunning giant copper handles that match all our other cabinets! 😍
The rest of our Victorian kitchen remodel was done during Covid, except the manufacturer cancelled our panel-ready fridge order 6 months into the project. As a stopgap we found a slightly-clashing white fridge with modern copper handles that fit our opening, and our cabinet maker said to let him know when we got the fridge we wanted. I kept searching every year for a panel-ready slide-in French door counter-depth fridge with internal water & ice dispensers the same dimensions to no avail…until this year I tried the original link again and I could add to cart?!? I was so shocked I asked Glen to come look and tell me if I was dreaming! We ordered, it arrived, then our cabinet maker had retired giving the business to his son-in-law, who graciously honored our original contract, fitting us between ongoing projects, installing last week! The stopgap white fridge moved into the tiki room since that fridge that came with the house had started leaking, and now we have filtered ice & water in both rooms. Hooray!

08/07/2026

Not only did we enjoy my maniacal menu for our Young Frankenstein movie night at our backyard theatre Magnolia Marquee, but we even had a Halloween prototype ready for volunteers to help test our Frankenstein Experiment! After much brainstorming together this spring, our own “mad scientist” has been working the past couple months on programming Arduinos with LEDs & electrical props a la Kenneth Strickfaden’s 1931 movie laboratory, and local prop fabricator DC Props delivered our new custom 7ft Frank steel-structure pneumatic figure just a couple days before, so we were racing to build a couple chairs, clamp devices to temporary tables, and even dress our Frank in time for our movie guests to help us practice with our props! I love my geeky friends! How many scifi heckles can you hear? We know we have a long way to go before we are ready for our Haunted Hollywood Halloween, but as Glen announced afterwards, “I think the test was successful...and by that, I mean we learned a lot!” 😆

For our Young Frankenstein movie menu, I tried yet another experiment of my handpainted Monster Mask Munchies including ...
08/06/2026

For our Young Frankenstein movie menu, I tried yet another experiment of my handpainted Monster Mask Munchies including brand-new Bride Bonbons. Molding each covered cakelet individually then painstakingly painting with food coloring took a long time, but it was fun, especially since I sculpted the Bride from scratch!
Poor Bride of Frankenstein was left off of the NordicWare Monster Mask pan (how rude!) so I had fun sculpting my own positive from Model Magic air-dry clay, trying for accurate Elsa Lanchester details like the cleft in her chin, her pencil-thin angled brows, and her vintage pouty lips, while still being as cute as the Monster Mask pan stylized characters. After it was completely dry for 24 hours, I used food-grade silicone putty to make one mold which also required setting for 24 hours. At least the cakes went quickly since I baked a 9”x13” pan of vegan apple cider cake to crumble with vegan apple cider buttercream frosting as cake clay. I pushed just enough purchased vegan fondant into the mold to fill the details completely without being too thin, filled with the cake clay, pushing to fill all the space, then closed the back with a thin layer of fondant.
The Frank faces were a separate experiment using homemade marshmallow fondant which has gelatin, and the rigid metal pan needed cooking spray for the fondant to release easily, but the inside was a giant cake pop just like the Bride. Both flavors of fondant kept all the facial features so were a pleasure to paint, but this third time was not yet the charm, since they weren’t crunchy like the candy coatings that crumbled, but the balance of soft chewy fondant to moist cake inside got mixed reviews...so I’m still searching for the right recipe with perfect procedure!

We served three creative cocktails for our Young Frankenstein movie menu: Igor’s Eye Gore, FrankenFloats, and Sedagive S...
08/05/2026

We served three creative cocktails for our Young Frankenstein movie menu: Igor’s Eye Gore, FrankenFloats, and Sedagive Syringes…if you know, you know!
At the bar was Igor’s Eye Gore: Drip gory red syrup inside the rim of your glass, add a skewer of eyeballs, then fill with your choice of concoction… “Suit yourself. I’m easy.” Yes, I used that exact quote screen shot for the menu card. 😁
I think my favorite menu card this time was Gene Wilder’s perfect pose for FrankenFloats: Combine as many ingredients as you like to test toppings together with vanilla ice cream…but if your experiment comes alive and rages out of control, you might need to apply a Sedagive Syringe!
Yes, I ordered food-grade syringes online, the same ones nurses often use for their own theme parties according to reviews, mixed strawberry lemonade with one drop of blue food coloring, and filled a bowl full of Sedagive Syringes. You could sq**rt your syringe into a glass, add spirits if you wish, or apply it to your FrankenFloat like I did!

For our Young Frankenstein movie menu, several were wordplay with fun signs, but my husband’s family cheese ball recipe ...
08/04/2026

For our Young Frankenstein movie menu, several were wordplay with fun signs, but my husband’s family cheese ball recipe became our Abby Normal Brain!
I’ve been making edible art brains for 26 years now(!), ever since a dear friend got me a food-grade brain mold for my birthday, but what I’ve put in the molds has changed over the years. I still think my original brain recipe of Cajun-style shrimp mushroom cream cheese dip, featured in my cookbook Eerie Elegance Eats as the Bizarre Brain Paté, has squishy texture & pale pink color more like actual human brains, but I’ll admit the Simon Family Cheese Ball gets more bites removed during our parties. You do need to line the mold with plastic wrap or it won’t release, let it freeze solid before unmolding, and make sure to leave several hours for thawing before serving. I thaw mine earlier in the day so I have the chance to smooth surface detail and accent the folds with food coloring and a soft brush reserved for edible art.
I had a lot of fun choosing the still shots for my menu signs, with the villager mob torch flames “grilling” the Burgermeister Burgers giving me a giggle. For Franks-in-Steins we used our wooden mugs & tall glass beer mugs as “steins” to serve sausages and frankfurters, perfect for a summer barbecue. Our favorite egg roll restaurant delivered, so arranged over purchased veggie straw snacks, we had a vegetarian platter for Rolls in Ze Hay, and of course, Puttin’ on the Ritz was an obvious choice of Ritz crackers….but that was only some of my maniacal menu!

For our July movie night, a record number of 42 of us gathered to watch Young Frankenstein at Magnolia Marquee, definite...
08/04/2026

For our July movie night, a record number of 42 of us gathered to watch Young Frankenstein at Magnolia Marquee, definitely needing both our outside and inside screens for everyone to have a comfy seat! We enjoyed my maniacal menu of fun food & clever cocktails, including Igor’s Eye Gore, Sedagive Syringes, FrankenFloats, Abby Normal Cheese Ball Brain, several cheeses for Puttin’ on the Ritz crackers, vegetarian egg rolls over veggie straw chips as Rolls in Ze Hay, Grillmaster Glen roasted us plenty of Burgermeister Burgers & Franks-in-Steins, and I tried a third variation of my handpainted Monster Mask Munchies including brand-new Bride Bonbons. Thanks to everyone who joined us for a true classic comedy!

Hooray for mobile Halloween shopping! I got the new Toastmaster crockpot cauldron that kept selling out as soon as the l...
07/31/2026

Hooray for mobile Halloween shopping! I got the new Toastmaster crockpot cauldron that kept selling out as soon as the links went live! I bought mine from my phone on our recent road trip when I saw an announcement online. Three cute shaped non-slip feet and two curved handles on the matte plastic exterior with vents on the bottom, same as my larger normal crockpot since the metal heating sleeve inside the ceramic crock is what matters for cooking. At least they were smart with the cord control so a k**b wouldn’t spoil the cauldron look. Now what should I brew first?

My largest HomeGoods was already well-stocked with Halloween this week, and there are a few items that might come home w...
07/31/2026

My largest HomeGoods was already well-stocked with Halloween this week, and there are a few items that might come home with me on a future visit…like the cute garlic oven cauldron with lid or maybe the elegant Bride of Frankenstein figure…but after well over three decades of Halloween hosting and collecting accordingly, I must now be selective in what I buy!

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