Come On In! There's A Party Going On!

Welcome to my Halloween home and party!

The butler will show you into the main room...

Make yourself at home,

feel free to park your brooms and hats at the hearth.

This is an adult affair

but of course baby boos are welcome.

As are wee folk!

 

I'll introduce you to some of the other guests.

The Bones, a lovely couple,

And Ted,

of the well-known Bear family.

Blanca, the White Pumpkin Faery

makes an appearance every year.

And this is Chuckie,

he's such a joker!

I seem to be overrun with pumpkins this year.

 

 I guess that's what happens when you grow them on trees though.

 

I hope you enjoyed the decor

and had a wickedly wonderful time!

Oh dear, one of the Skelly family had a bit too much brew and needs a ride home.

If you'd like to take a partying skelly home with you just leave me a comment letting me know. I'll choose his driver on October 31 of course!

Many thanks to Vanessa for hosting this fabulous annual event!

(The image freebies countdown will resume on Monday.)

The Interrupted Countdown Continues

....following a very unexpected and thankfully brief hospitalization. (And I am living testament to the belief that nurses make the worst patients!) I'm extremely happy to be recovering comfortably at home and resuming the countdown. Hope you enjoy the images!

The Countdown Continues

with more image freebies!

Let the Countdown Begin

with daily vintage freebie images for you!

Feel free to take and enjoy!

We Played Halloween Tag!

My friend Kimberly always hosts the best swaps! She assembled the nicest tag books ever for her Halloween Tag Swap...

She made these beautiful witchy wood block tags for the front of our books. Each participant created 5 tags and we received a book of tags from 5 different artists.

Wendy

Michele

Holly

Tabitha

Lynn

If you missed my tags you can see them HERE. Thanks to all the artists for such wonderful tags, and a huge thank you to Kimberly for hosting yet another fabulous swap!

Some Wickedly Wonderful Marie Returns

They are here! My wonderful returns from the Hallowen Marie ATC Swap in our Marie Antoinette Mail Art Group.

Top row, left to right: Wendy, Terri, Kris
Bottom row, left to right: Laurie, Kelly, Dawn
Love them all!

I'm in Halloween Heaven!

Another Halloween swap complete, and what a swap in was! In my flickr group we celebrated our  second annual Halloween swap, spoiling each other with our spookiest confections. We each altered one large matchbox filling it with the smaller items and then included Halloween creations for out of the box. My partner, Susan, of Flutter Before You bestowed a wonderful array of Halloween treats upon me...

That wonderful winged witch with the pumpkin and broom is the top of a most amazing matchbox!

My treat bag included handmade tags, vintage buttons,

a domino pendant, Halloween ornies and other wickedly wonderful bits and baubles.

One of my new fav pieces of Halloween decor is Susan's altered bottle of Witch's Stew.

 

Knowing my love affair with crows, particularly those that wear hats, I was the lucky recipient of Mr. Crow.

I immediately knew how I wanted to display him. I recently picked up this wooden candlestick at a thrift shop (my big 79 cent purchase!). I wrapped a piece of vintage lace around it and stuck a Michael's craft pumpkin on top....a perfect perch for Mr. Crow!

 

Happy Halloween Hugs to Susan for being an awesome swap partner!

If you missed what I whipped up in my cauldron for her, you can see it HERE.

And if you'd like to see what other group members have bubbling in their cauldrons, visit our group HERE.

Autumny Marie

In our Marie Antoinette Mail Art Group we are exchanging altered 2x2 brass pillboxes.

I just love the deep, rich colors of autumn and found a mix of vintage and new pieces to adorn the top of the pillbox.

I continued the autumn floral theme inside with dark brown lace and more metal flowers.

Marie is wearing a mix of vintage fabric and new metal flowers in her hair.

This was a fun little piece!

 

Happy October, Happy Halloween Swap!

What better way to start the month than with a Halloween swap reveal! In this swap we altered a large matchbox and filled it with Halloween goodies. Additionally we created at least two handmade Halloween treats!

I must have taken at least a couple dozen pictures to try and capture this box and sadly this was the best I could do. I used a black dresden trim window, embellishing the panes with faux black rhinestone trim.

In the window sits a beautiful young witch with an owl on her hat. Behind them is a spider web background and the web shimmers with tiny bling chips.

The curtains are made from a beautiful piece of antique black lace. I topped off the window with a vintage beaded embellishment.

The sides are trimmed with black dresden,

and the end embellished with a beaded flower.

 

Everyone is in need of some Black Hat Hex Remover this time of year!

I found the perfect label from Altered Artifacts...

I recently purchased this very old bottle at an estate sale and filled it with hex remover tablets, aka glass pearls. (Thank you Debi for this great idea!)

Using more Altered Artifacts collage sheet labels I packaged some spotted guinea feathers and fun Halloween fibers.

My final label for Graveyard Dust was just what I needed for this salt shaker of black glitter.

 

I haven't made a domino book for quite some time but my partner loves witches so I had to put my Moonlight Journey collage sheet to work

to create a book full of beautiful witches.

 

It's simply not Halloween without a festive skelly,

and this guy's ready to party!

 

I made the crow cabochon with the image printed on fabric and cut to fit the black filigree backing.

 

I've been into making ornaments this year to decorate my feather tree but of course made a couple to share.

This was really easy and one of my favorites. I bought an inexpensive bag of skeleton hands and wrapped them with black lace trim and a seam binding hanger.

 

Chenille bump and tinsel stems can transform any image into an ornament.

 

My partner, Susan loves owls and crows (me too!). So I dug into my basket of spools and made a

spoolie, complete with owl,

and topped this spool of skeleton ribbon with a mini crow. I just had to give him a top hat!

 

I altered some dominos tarot cat style.

 

I've been into making stickpins lately and came up with this guy to use with the hand-stamped bat

trim.

I'm not even sure what type of nut(?) is in this bag but I bought it because it was autumny and perfect to hang a witches broom on..lol!

 

Happy Halloween to Susan!

Her swap was delivered today. Hope it tugs at her Halloween heart!

I'll be sure to share what I receive from Susan when it arrives.

 

There's still a lot more Halloween to come but I have posted the final two swaps of 2012 HERE,

 both holiday themed.

Hope to be swapping with you soon!