Gettin creepy

I have noticed that Halloween decorations have definately taken a real turn towards

"CREEPY". Gone are the cutesy little decorations and out come the spider webs and ghoulish thingys.

So, I am hopping on the haywagon and got going with some black lace and pumpkins...turned out so fun. Pretty mad though when I couldn't find a SINGLE BLACK CROW in this town. So what does one crafter do when there are none?

MAKE YOUR OWN outta stuff that you have on hand....bah!

And I was able to finish my "creepy guy on a bike" this year....pretty happy about that-

Well, onto the creepiness of my dirty kitchen....

Spooky time

Here are a pair of needle-felted charachters that are headed to my entryway display tomorrow!

Just Getting started....

Here are a "few" of my pumpkins that are off-white and fit for my piano room. I made the far left one with a bit of spray paint and antiquing gel. The large middle one is covered with cheesecloth and spray paint and fimo hand carved leaves...the others are my velvet ones that are really sprouting up around here.

The fallish ones come later....

Pumpkin HARVESTING....

Okay,

This is a girl that loves to shop for fabric. Something about walking into a fabric store just gets my blood pumping. There is a special smell and aura of the fabric.....it calls to me. And the fact that I have been sewing for many years and I never get tired of it. (Of course, let's not go into the closet of "sewing projects" bought for and never finished.)

But when it is fall, I love to gather fabrics for my velvet pumpkins and well anything else I can gather and glue....love it. Here are a few of the lovelies I have been "gathering".

And Saturday night I found the coolest black fabric that is all nubby and wonderful....hmmm.

Sneaking a stroke here and there....

All summer I have had a painting working in my head.

After all the float stuff cleared out, there was finally room in the working space....

and the working space is in my head.

Has to all be worked out there before the pencil work even begins.

Especially when the medium is watercolor, there has to be a plan.

But it is addictive when I get it started. I don't want to do anything else...

I suspect that is what passion for something is all about?

(of course, who wouldn't want out of dishes, laundry and housework in general?)

Once I get going with the paint and water right on the paper, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it and then I HATE,HATE, it. Why? Because it is the excellence endeavor inside of me, that wants it to match up to the painting in my head....

This is the "So FAR" work....I will keep you posted....

BABY SHOWER FUN

It was a fabulous evening for celebrating...and it seems like the most wonderful reason to hold a party!!
Alicia is having a baby! But beings we didn't know what it was for another week...we did black and white with muted yellow for our colors....it was so fun.

I had seen some little onsies made from dinner napkins and so I fashioned my own. Yes, these are made from dinner napkins backed with card stock. Talk about fun...I ran out of time instead of ideas. Just napkins and a little hot glue....

Made it myself...

Anyone that knows me knows that I love feminine things...so the fashion ruffle movement is really a great thing. If I could get away with it, I would wear them everyday....just love em.

So, I saw this pretty red sweater in a catalog and logged onto get mine....ah, ALL SOLD OUT. So I went to their local store...NONE. Went to another...NONE...not one red one, plenty of green...

But I didn't want GREEN ONE....I wanted a RED ONE....ah. It is alot of work being a fashionista wannabee....

So I marched right into Target and got myself a P L A I N red sweater and strolled right over to the red matching t shirts and got one of them too. (I even bought a size SM which I have NEVER DONE). And the total price was still 10 bucks below the price of the phantom red sweater in the afore paragraph.

Then I came home and cut that t-shirt right up and stitched it on....

I sewed 3 different sized petals on with triangle stitch patterns. I wanted a rose look.

And I think it turned out pretty darn cute...take that catalog, take that stores all over with NO RED sweaters! I WIN.