Crown Tutorial

I think a ghost has jumped into my blogpost because everything is wonky!

As hard as I try, I cannot move my pictures around or type anything between the cat picture and the witch...it is haunted space! Anywhoooo! I am doing a crown tutorial for the year of color and finally finished it last night and sent it out but thought I would share a picture of what they look like:

And my cute mommy was kind enough to model them for me...they are simple and fun to make and can be embellished as much or as little as you like...

Isn't she a good sport?

The halloween photos are there for the taking...some are from my collection, some from copyright free sights so enjoy!

Well, we are more than 1/2 way thru the work week! Yipppeeee! My little flea market is on Sunday so even though I am working SAT's on saturday, I have something fun to look forward the next day!

Hope your week is going along well! karen.....

More Glitterfest....

We had great neighbors at Glitterfest! This is Linda also known as Ms Gotrocks...she makes wonderful jewelry, beautiful turquoise crosses and she had some awesome candlesticks that would have gone home with me had I not come to make a dollar! A picture of them is next....

And this is the awesome Jami Santos..she had this great vintage orange cape and black vintage parasol! People couldn't help but stop and talk to her! Below is a pic of her wonderful halloween characters.... they were to die for...


She was featured in Better Homes and Gardens take a look and you will see why....

And here I am making a sale..... (As you know, I rarely show pics of myself but this is just my head so I let this one go...hee! hee!)

These are the last of my pictures that I will post of this event but it was just so much fun and so many wonderful people that I had to show more!

I hope you are having a spooookily good week! hugs! karen....

The Party's Over.....

Glitterfest is over but it was so worth the effort! It was filled with wonderful artists and artful goodies to purchase. This post was loading verrrrrry slowly and then finally sped up so I added more pictures in the end and now it won't let me put them where they belong so... just bear with me! The above photo is of Lisa Lori's booth. I can't find everyone's business cards so when I do,I will give you info. on the artists....

This Mary picture is one of Robin's awesome creations! I want this!

When people arrived, this cute scene was greeting them:

Here is one side of our booth:

Here is the top shelf:

My banners:

A bigger picture of our booth:

Lisa Lori's awesome art:

And here she is with her booth:



All in all, it was great fun and very inspiring.... I will post more pictures soon ...Have a hauntingly good week my friends!!! karen....

Witches and Black Cats and Pumpkinheads, OH MY!

My family and I have been working our little fingers to the bone making things for Glitterfest!

It is really fun to do it together, hubby is making awesome little witches brooms to display with your dolls (pictures to come) Mom has been busy yo-yo ing and after 3 over 7 foot garlands, she is very yo-yo'd out! I am making banners and tags and doing a crown tutorial for the Year of Color Blog, I will show you those soon too.... It really helps to have all the support and definitely makes it more fun!

Here are some pics:

Yo-yo-yo-yo........ cute and whimsical! I love layering them around the house or hanging things from them. $30 ea.

A "Haunted" banner....sorry, I loaded the pics wrong but you will get the idea...

This banner is for sale here for $35 If you are interested, just leave me a comment and I will email you.

Doing all this creating has put a damper in my thrifting but I did walk into Goodwill last week on my lunch 1/2 hr. and found this little felt treasure...I left with a smile on my face!

Well, I hope your week has started off nicely.... I am off to cut out more banners!

Ghoulishly yours....karen....

Wicked and Boo banners

I have been working hard on banners and such for the Glitterfest show and here are two of the banners which are complete. Unfortunately I only own a point and shoot camera and the photos are not as good as I would like...in person they are really charming and have lots of texture.

This first one is the BOO banner. It is sewn onto a gold tassel fringe and is made using illustrations from a vintage children's halloween book. There are felt flowers, glitter, vintage cupcake toppers and more used to embellish it.


I love this image of the child wearing big gloves and a pumpkin head!

You gotta have a tiger costume....
Here's the whole gang:

And some homemade masks are important!

Trick or Treat!

This banner is selling for $25 and each of it's penants is an individual collage.

Next is my WICKED garland. This baby is a witch themed garland using fun vintage images of witches. This garland is sewn onto a black opal bead fringe and decorated with lace, buttons, glitter and more:

Here is a baby witch holding the number #31

And a haunted tree.....

An evil old witch!

A bewitching young witch:

A mezmorizing leather -wearing enchantress:

And some darling little witches creating some Hocus Pocus:

Of course you need a haunted house!

And to finish it all off, a spider priestess:

This banner is selling for $35.

I have had a wickedly fun time creating these....I hope you enjoy them too!

If anyone is interested in buying one, just leave me a comment and I will get right back to you! Have a happy start to your week! karen....

Feeling Fallish.....

I am really excited to announce that I will be showing at Glitterfest in October... It is an art and craft show that several big mixed media artists also show in and it is Halloween themed.... I am making collaged banners for it , paper crowns and some other goodies and my mom is making some whimsical yo-yo swags for it... I saw one of these in Mary Englebreit's last Christmas magazine (sob, I miss her mags!) and loved it so my mom made me one in red and white and I use it at Christmas and in Feb. Anyway...here is our halloween version!

These are darling on a mantel too and added to other garlands...here is a close-up of the yo-yo's....

Yummy fleur de lis fabric, pumpkins and ghosts, gingham, spots and swiss dots....I just love black white and a little orange for the season.... If anyone is interested in purchasing this one, it is up for grabs...it is 7' 9in. and is $30

My last picture for tonite is of Mila.... right in the middle of folding clothes yesterday morning...she plopped her rascally little butt!

Pure chaos she is....and I love her whole furry devilish self! I will be posting soon with pictures of my banners, I have 2 done and 2 on their way to being done and want to share them here....I also am doing a tutorial on the Year of Color Blog so I will share more about that also!

Have a hauntingly good week...okay, maybe a little too soon for the halloween stuff but I am hooked...........karen.....

Kits and a swap.....

I hope you are all enjoying the end of your summer. We are having a heatwave here in Southern California (and horrible fires also) and it does make one cranky at times....especially at night when you want to sleep!
I realized that I have never shown you a swap I did with my friend Marlene. She has 2 Wheaton terriers and loves scotties too so as you can see, one little guy is peeking out of the basket. The flower on the basket is made by me...I just loved the basket and had to make a flower to embellish it:

I finally finished a few sets and got them listed in my etsy;

I was lucky to get a pretty lot of English tins for a good price on ebay and have filled them with more goodies for creating.....

The one above is a large set... this is one of two that I have listed, more fun things to create with....

And this time I am adding some nice surprises before mailing them...it's nice to be surprised occassionally! Well, I am off to finish dinner preparations...ham on the grill, potato salad, deviled eggs and fresh slice tomatoes from the garden...yum! Hope you have a good monday tomorrow! karen....