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!

Cool Canvases

This is my contribution to a swap I did using encaustic wax. I used these wide canvases and painted them with acrylic paint first. Then applied Glimmer Mist, papers and the wax. I attached the smaller canvases to the wide ones. The Mona Lisa image is a napkin.

Solder Crown & Folk Art Angel

Several friends and I got together a while back to make solder crowns. This is mine. It took longer to decide what to put between the glass as art and tape it than it did to solder the whole crown together.

I bought this angel several months ago on a trip to Canton. I bought another one this past time I went but do not have a photo of it. I gave it to a friend for her birthday. The body of hers was made from a book and the wings were wood so it was a little different. They are simple but very cute and folk artish.

More Alice Pages

Above is pages for April's book. Below are the ones for Anne's.

I am done with everyone's journals. Just have to wait till I get mine back to see what has been done in it. Can't wait!!

My Son's Birthday

My young man is 17 today! It seems like yesterday he was just a little one. They grow so fast! We celebrated by going to eat dinner with two of his friends at a local Mexican restaurant. His Father and I gave him a trip to see his friend that lives in Colorado. So he will be going in August for his first commercial plane ride. Last year on his birthday we took him on his first plane ride ever, but it was a private plane. I told him this plane ride will be different than the last one. Probably not feel like he is flying. The other flight was a little bumpy. So to say the least he is excited about going next month.

Art, Jewelry & Pillows

I made this bird cage pillow for a friend's birthday gift last night. Wrapping it up today but wanted to post a photo of it first. The crown one I made a few weeks ago for myself. They both are made from a linen type material. I just bought a pillow form to insert inside the casing I sewed. Believe me I am NOT a seamstress so this had to be easy if I did it. The images are iron-ons. Don't remember where I got the crown one but the bird one came from Olive Rue on Etsy.


This cute little birdie came in a kit from http://www.junkart.com/ . Everything came in the kit from the fabric to the spool and bird. Even the banner. It says SPRING on it but it's hard to see in the photo. My wonderful friend Mary bought the kit for me at Paper Cowgirl http://papercowgirl.blogspot.com/ a few weekends ago. It was fun to put together.

These are some new bird pendants I came up with to sell at Stamp Asylum http://www.stampasylum.blogspot.com . I still need to add them to my Etsy store.

Burlap Curtain

I added a burlap curtain between my den and kitchen. Love this bird cage image I bought from Olive Rue on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/OliveRue?ga_search_query=oliverue&ga_search_type=seller_usernames She has some great images for iron-ons. Check out her shop.

Tie back for curtain.

Detail of the bird image I ironed on.