Paper Cowgirl - A Wicked Tea Part 1

I attended Paper Cowgirl - A Wicked Tea on Saturday Oct 16th. I have to say this event was the most fun I have had at an art retreat in a long time. Everything from the food to the decorations to the projects was top notch 1st class!

It was held in a cute little cottage in Waxahachie, Texas. A city about 45 minutes from my home. We were to be at the cottage by 8:30am for breakfast then class would start at 9:00am. Here are some of the decorations.

Front room decorations.

This was the room where the food was served. Loved all the decorations hanging from the ceiling!

Black glittered pumpkins! Oh so scary!

More ceiling.
This corner held desserts and such through out the day. I am telling you we were catered to the nines! I could have been on a sugar high all day! From candy corn in cups on our tables to a hutch with jars of candy. All kinds to pick from!
Zultan the fortune teller. He talked! Really cool.

This lovely cat was on the main food table and his head moved back and forth.
These cute little gourds were in some of the windows.

Painted pumpkins.

Check out these crepe paper witch shoes. Each of us got a pair.

Hico Texas

If you have never been to Hico, TX then you need to make the trip. It's about two and a half hours from my house. Past Cleburne and Glen Rose. This weekend is a special antique shopping one. They had a weekend similar to this one in May, Mother's Day weekend in fact. A friend of mine went and said it was worth checking out. So another friend and I took off earlier this morning.

This is one of the streets and lots of the buildings have signs painted on their sides. I should have got more pictures of the signs. On the way back out of town I saw one with Dr. Pepper on it and one with a Coke advertisement.

I just thought this column on one of the buildings was great!

This is Homestead the store. It is housed in the old Opera House. Fabulous vignettes and displays inside the store!

Love the shoes hanging above this bed! Wouldn't you love to hang these animal hoof hooks in your house? NOT!! But they were fascinating.

Another view of the shoes above the bed.

Lots of great linens and bedding to buy.

Found out these wire deals are industrial whisks. Cool huh?

This is not a very good shot but it's letters hanging up above a table.

Outside the Homestead store there was a tent set up with lots of vendor booths. I even recognized a few that are normally at Canton.

I thought these were cute! Hold a photo or a piece of collage art.

This is a wonderful metal I guess shelf or something that has been painted with chalk board paint then decorated. The spoon hook is very creative.

Can't say enough about these birds. Some had collars on. Really cute!

These were lined up on a door. The scrolls are fabulous.

These are dried hydrangeas. Beautiful! This booth was called Bloom & Bee Swanky http://beeswanky.com. They are located in Waco, TX. Really nice stuff.




This is also in the same booth. I really liked the birds hanging from the branches. The silver shoes were cool too.
Same booth, Bloom & Bee Swanky. I didn't get a picture but there were these wonderful lavender covered chairs there. Very modern. Of course fabric with script printed on it is so in right now. I saw lots of pillows and furniture covered in this kind of fabric.

Check this out. It is made of book pages. So creative!

Some Fall decoration.






Other booths in the tent.


It was really nice to get out of Dallas and see the countryside. Ate lunch at a small steak place and the onion rings were to die for! Fresh cut onion and hand battered. The steak fingers were wonderful too. Even the Texas toast tasted better than normal.

Paper Cowgirl Treats

Paper Cowgirl http://papercowgirl.blogspot.com/ is this coming weekend and it is sure to be a fun Halloween themed experience. I have never attended any classes at the previous retreats. Only vendor night at the last one in June of this year. Which was really a great night, and I love Halloween, so I decided to sign up for this event.

We are to bring treat bags and name badges to the retreat. My friend Mary is going with me and I decided to make our name tags and bags. I forgot I had this cute little pumpkin face die cut from Sizzix http://www.sizzix.com/ . So I used it on the name badges. Then I found these tote bags at Target and got an idea. All I needed was a large felt spider, rhinestones and some stickles! They were decorated in a flash!
I also used the Halloween definitions and mini flags from House of 3 http://houseof3.com/ to complete the name badges. Check out their other Halloween printables. They have some wonderful stuff! I can never get enough ruffles! I used orange shiny tulle for these.

Halloween Swap Projects

I finished up a Halloween swap project today. These paper mache cones were really fun to make! I painted them with orange acrylic paint then ruffled some black crepe paper on the sewing machine to go around the top. Sewing the crepe paper on the machine makes the ruffles so much more even, and it doesn't take very long at all. Then I glittered a copy of an old postcard and mounted it on a die cut black card. Hot glued that on the cone. Oh I did add some tinsel around the ruffled crepe paper at the top. Tied ribbons on the wire hanger and hung a crystal on the bottom of each cone.



These are some pete cups I painted and embellished with German Glass Glitter and a copy of an old postcard. This crepe paper I bought already ruffled. It is much smaller than the black used above. Not sure of the manufacturers name that makes it. I also spread orange stickles on the painted areas of the cup. These are for two of my friends. I hope they like them!

Halloween Garland

I taught this garland at an art group meeting I had last week. It's very easy and just made mostly with strips of pattern cardstock. I added some skeletons and ribbons for a hauntingly good decoration.

End of Year Mouse Cards

I finished up the Mouse cards for this year. Here is October. He ate to many marshmallows!

This is November. Funny that the month before is sleeping too. Must be all that eating! LOL

This is December. Everyone enjoys presents. Even a mouse!

Book Folk Art Angel

A few months ago I gave a dear friend of mine this angel made from a book. I bought him at Canton and mentioned it in another post because I had gotten myself one before. Here is the link for the original post http://artstudio522.blogspot.com/2010/08/solder-crown-folk-art-angel.html. I did not post a photo of her angel so here it is hanging in her home and a close-up of him. The friend use to be a teacher so I thought the book was perfect!