31 Wishes

I had the joy of attending 31 Wishes yesterday. It was done by Ann Denise Anderson http://whimandfancydesigns.blogspot.com/ at her home in Ft. Worth, TX. She really knows how to decorate!! The whole house was done up in Halloween fashion! So much food and snacks to eat! We did not go hungry for sure!

This was the front of the house. Scary large spiders crawling around!!

 This is looking back to the front door inside the entry way of the house.

 This is looking down the entry way into the house. Look at the skeletons sitting on the bench in the hall. Cute!!

 The scene under the glass dome had lights.

This is the room to the left of the front door. It was set up a a vendor area. There were all kinds of things for sale. Ribbon, sheet music, doll patterns, ephemera.

Love this case on top of the piano. The little figures siting on the piano were for sale but I am not sure who made them. They were cute though.

 This is some decorations sitting on a table behind the couch in the den.

 Love this display on the mirror in the den!

 Good use of the witches hat!

Anne Denise had several of these kinds of skeletons around.

 This was the candy bar set up in the kitchen. Lots to choose from! I ate way to much through out the day!

 I wanted to take one of these Carmel apples home to eat later, but forgot!

 Kitchen all decorated for dinner. The glasses on the bar were mason jars and she painted designs on them in orange and black paint. They are washer safe. Cool idea!

This was on the buffet table.

Dinner is served! YUM!!

 

 We had three projects and it took all day to get them all done. I put the finishing touches on a few when I got home. It was a great day! I am so glad I got to go!

 
 Skeleton ornament. Can hang on a door knob or where ever.

 Dolls we made. Mine is the one on the left. My friends Mary did the center one and Mel's is the one on the right. They were fun to make. We sculpted the faces with paper clay. The bodies were already sewn for us. We had to make the clothes too.

 This another project we did. Collage on a book. Really fun! Never thought about using a paperback book for a canvas. I won the pumpkin for mine! I definitely will save the stem to make a velvet pumpkin. They are so popular now!

 I won a raffle prize too! Phyllis Ann Shows http://phyllisanns.blogspot.com/ made this domino necklace. Happy to get it!

These were some of Ann Denise's samples of her dolls.

This was my name tag. Lots of work went into it!

 This was the room upstairs where we did the projects.

 Here is Mel! Love the banners hanging from the ceiling!

This was the cabinet where supplies were. Lots of ribbon to choose from for our projects!

 

It was a great experience! Ann Denise really knows how to throw an event!!

More Halloween

This cute guy is outside and I forgot to take a photo of him last week. Patti painted him and he was her swap at the Banders meeting at my house last Sunday. She did a great job on him!

My other Art group meeting was last Wednesday evening at Joyce's house. This is Rosalyn's swap item. She got wooden churches used for birdhouses at probably Hobby Lobby and then decorated them up! Love It!!

This whimsical card is Joyce's swap. It says "wear it well". The scary pumpkin is Mary's swap. It is mounted on a canvas and has a bird on top. Wonderful ideas!!

The project we were to work on that evening was from a book by Judy Wise and Stephanie Lee. The book is working on plaster and wax. I can't remember the title at the moment but it is a great book. Check it out if you have not seen it. I took a board and spread joint compound on it. Then made marks in it with stamps, bubble wrap, a comb and round lid. Let it dry overnight then painted it with watered down acrylic paint. Let that dry and added another light layer of joint compound. More paint then put latex paint (white) on it and heated it up with a propane torch. Bubbles appeared and burst. I sanded everything then added gel medium to seal then black acrylic paint in the cracks. Sealed again with gel medium. Not sure if I totally like it yet. The gel medium sorta looks like wax when it dried.

I took some photos of my Halloween decorations around the house. I got this great mask at Target!

This is in a vase on my kitchen table. The two wand I made for swaps this and last year and the cat is a project from Paper Cowgirl Wicked Tea http://papercowgirl.blogspot.com/ last year.

This also sits on my kitchen table.

Love the little pumpkins and the bottle brush tree. You can see the back of a cat paper doll behind the tree. I should have taken a photo of it. It is really cute. My friend Sammie made it. Not sure whose stamp she used though. But the arms and legs move.

Black tree with Stamp n Up stamped circles on it.

I made this card several years ago. Love the pumpkin cup. His eyes jiggle.

My husband loves this cat! I bought him in Georgia a long time ago when visiting a friend there one Fall. He came from a grocery store there. How funny! His fiber optics change colors. I made the eyes in the white pumpkin. It's lighted also but you probably can't tell from the photo.

My cute little BOO letters Donna J made me! The bat has a new friend this year. We made the cat this time at one of my art group meetings. The bat was from last year. Wonder what Traci will come up with for us to do next year? LOL

I have forgotten where I saw this idea of the lace on the pumpkins. I made it several years ago too.

This is a new wreath this year. My friend Carla got it for me. I need to put lights on the mantel to help make it show up better. I added the crow to the wreath. He is hard to see in the photo but sits inside on the bottom.

Got this little girl at Canton, I think last year.

These guys came from Canton too. Except the owl. He is from Michael's. All of this is on the fireplace mantle.

I have a few other decorations around the house but these are the main things. I hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween!!! I am going to be sitting at home eating pizza and watching The Exorcist. I have not seen that movie in years! Hope I don't get to scared!!! LOL

Halloween Art

I put some Halloween decorations out this past weekend. Not a bunch. I do have lots but have not wanted to pull it all out this year. I am the one that has to do it all and I have not been in the mood. This little pretty sits on my kitchen table.

I bought this pumpkin potpourri in downtown McKinney on Saturday at a shop that sells primitive items. I have forgotten the name of the shop, bad me! The bottle brush tree came from Smitten http://www.smitteninmckinney.com/ ! I do remember that and the skeleton hand was purchased at Heirloom Antiques right off the square there. McKinney is a fun place to shop!

Oh bought the spider on top of the glass at Michaels.

Here is a close-up of inside the jar.


These gorgeous pumpkins are the faux ones you can purchase at Michaels. I covered them in black lace. They are stitched up on the bottom and that is covered with felt to finish things off nicely. I added a little tag to the stem. These are going to some special friends of mine. I hope they like them! I am keeping one for me!! I saw this idea in one of the new Halloween magazines at the book store. I think it was a Home and Garden one.

These witch wands were really fun to make! There is one on display at Stamp Asylum so come by and take a look up close. The store has the stamp I used in stock. The witch was embossed with black ink and clear powder on the painted wooden disk. I drilled a hole in the disc and glued in the painted dowel. Both the dowel and the disk were purchased at Hobby Lobby. Silver German glass glitter was glued on the disk with Glossy Accents. I sewed the black crepe paper on the sewing machine to ruffle it and attached it to the back of the disc with hot glue. I did cut a circle from decorative cardstock and attach it to the back of the disc to finish it off. The ribbons were hot glued on and a button was added to the center of them. The drilling of the hole for the dowel was the hard part because the disc is not a flat surface, it is beveled. But it can be done! Just be careful with the power tools!

Halloween Wall Hangings

I made these two wall hangings this week to add to my Etsy shop. They came out pretty good I think. I used Tim Holtz grungeboard shapes on both, copies of old photos I had, stamped the words, and various Halloween papers. Visit my shop to purchase them and check out my other Halloween pendants. http://donnagoss.etsy.com