Red is for Valentine

I saw these so fun paper roses on Stephanie Lyn's blog and so I threw down my basket of laundry and began cutting...she has a great tutorial and they work up pretty fast....

Newest fun....red burlap, made into red roses, on a burlap pillow....I learned how to make them by watching Stephanie @http://bystephanielyn.com/

and all that....

Here are my Christmas Fairies 2010....Such fun and each one a little different....I sold all but a couple at my show....Here is my best find of the day...I needed a stand to put my pedestal thingy on....went to DI and found this mushroomy thing and spray painted it and voile'..







.My newest painting that was finished with only hours before the show...One thing I really love about the Christmas season is all the "stuff" out there....I don't mean present stuff, I mean all the doins for crafting and decorating and such. Too bad I don't have time for all of the ideas that I have. And oh, the money to craft all the ideas. BAH on that. But what I do have is the ability to wake up at 4 and not be able to get back to sleep. TOO MANY THINGS TO DO.... so I sneak down to my studio and plug in the ole glue gun...(don't tell but that is a lie, because I have my glue gun plugged in ALL the time!)The medallions here and on the tree were great fun especially after I broke down and bought a scoring plate.

Anyway, I have a great time decorating and decided that beings grand daughter Ella was coming this year, I would pull out the stops and put up multiple trees. I think I topped out at 7 or so. Only 2 were full size, and the rest were short and sweet or skinny and fun. What a lot of work. And on top of that....I had an art show and sale. Just call me crazy....

The only thing sad about Christmas is that it is all done and over and the coming down is

Newest crop....I almost put newest "CRAP"

Been harvesting more pumpkins and haven't got sick of making them yet...yes, hubby asked me that....bah.

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.