Day 30 of the 31 Days of Halloween

I never meant to have to post the attics but now that I've seen the photo of the whole house, it's just as well I am posting them - lots of detail lost in the house photo. Anyway, they are kind of lame. My fingers just won't do the tiny stuff and this time it's not because I'm old. I never could hold onto miniature stuff. For tiny, please click on Black Dragon in the blogroll and have a look around. Okay, enough chatter!

The stamp, and there's only one, is the surprised dunce/student in the bottom one. He's from Stamp Camp. The white things are PS brushes onto the photo - it just looked so bare. My favorite part is the drunken skellie telling the pumpkin stack what a great pal he is! The webby mist was a last minute thing to stuff in because they looked empty although I had put in what I thought would fit!

The hop continues at the beautiful blog of Lisa or if you are finally willing to take a look at the fabulous Halloween creations of the Wicked Bloggers, click on Terra's name in the blogroll -----> Thanks for stopping by and a special thanks if you took the time to leave me a bit of a comment! We all love getting them - you know it's true!

Day 29 of the 31 Days of Halloween

How do I put this delicately? Hannah and her guy, Harry have a few games they play, especially around Halloween. Wait, I'll let you judge for yourselves.

Hannah is "the" 2012 Rick St. Dennis witch. I consider her "the" witch but there are lots more to choose from and Harry is Rick's Executioner. He usually has a mean looking axe but Hannah requested he leave it outside this year as last year she ended up having to reattach a finger and a toe with a reattachment spell - doable but messy! He has a wicked cat-o-nine-tails too but there was no way I could extract his whip using a razor blade. I did the best I could to make one of jewelry cord. Since I have no personal knowledge of such things, I had to guess what they like to play with - most of the toys came from a box of discarded key rings. The spider chandelier was my hubby's idea! Such a good one! Although the bed is pretty hard to see, it was a wicked one from an online furniture source!

Wow, only two more posts and the month will be gone. It has gone so quickly! I guess if you haven't taken my advice to check out the bloghop by now, it's too late to persuade you. You'll never know what you've missed!  Lisa'a absolutely amazing projects are next - hop on over there and leave her some love. Thank you for visiting and for the lovely comments you leave behind!

Day 28 of the 31 Days of Halloween

The living room is the fifth room of my cigar box dollhouse and is populated by Count Dracula and his many bats.  I know you can only see three but they are nesting everywhere - in the curtains, the piano, under the couch. They drive the dogs crazy so the Count must leave lots of bones around to distract Vlad and Bram.

I couldn't seem to find a vampire that wasn't cartoony or that I was allowed to use with other stamps so I fell back on my Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers faceless one and Pam drew this handsome vampire face for me. Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers is now a division of Stamp Francisco - they have scarfed up a lot of the early stamp companies and have an amazing collection of vintage looking stamps! The dogs and curtains are polymer clay. And be sure to zoom in on the detail photo and look at that cool coffee table - an internet find! All the paper furniture and figures have been fussy cut and layered with at least three layers for a bit of dimension.

I saw so many wonderful projects yesterday and many people who are expressing a little sadness that we are getting close to done. I still have a bunch of ideas, but I'm ready to get this house glued together and move on to other subject matter. Thanks for all of your kind comments!!

Day 27 of the 31 Days of Halloween

We're in the home stretch here, Wicked Bloggers! Like many of the rest of you I now feel there's a lot more Halloween in my head - although there were days......  The rest of my posts will be more rooms from my cigar box dollhouse and even though I've being working on it (off and on) since early September, there are finishing touches still to go - hopefully today! Today's room might be my favorite - the pumpkin clan's dining room. It clicked into my head the minute I saw Rick St. Dennis' description of Pumpkin Head - He's just a monster around Halloween.

Oh, if only the chef had listened a little closer! It was supposed to be a feast for pumpkins not of pumpkins. The round headed kids are in frames on the wall and as I was hunting for round headed old-fashioned photos, I came across this old guy. I was nearly done giving him his pumpkin face before I noticed who it was and by then it was Brigham Pumpkin. Funny because I had started reading The Nineteenth Wife a couple of days earlier!! The skeleton chair is exactly how I found it on the internet.

The end of the days continues at Lisa's amazing blog next or click on Terra in the blogroll to the right to start at the beginning! Here's a big cheer for the Wicked Bloggers and the Horrifying Hoppers who've made it this far! Yea!! Thanks for your kind words of encouragement!

Day 26 of the 31 Days of Halloween

The third room on the bottom floor of the dollhouse is the witch's kitchen. A lovely witch from Third Coast holds sway here.

Her foam mounted cauldron is from DJ Inkers, one of my first stamp purchases and I doubt if they even make stamps anymore.  This is the first furniture I've shown. Most, if not all, of the furniture I used is from online companies showing their wares. Thanks, all you furniture companies! Don't you just love that pot-bellied stove? We had just recently taken the old leaky one out of my studio in exchange for a smaller, more efficient one or I would have used a photo of it! They still bob for apples here - monsters have no germ phobias.  Most of the rest of the bits and pieces are either polymer clay or left over embellishments from my polymer clay business. I made the apples, pumpkins, cat and pickles in the canning jar from clay. If I forgot anything you would like to know about, just ask!

The hop continues from here to Lisa's blog or you can start at the beginning by clicking on Terra in the blogroll -------> You will see the most Halloweeny creations ever if you do!! Thanks for stopping by and for all of your kind comments!

Day 25 of the 31 days of Halloween

Room 2 of my mixed -media cigar box dollhouse is the entry. It is peopled by a zombie boy and girl from Saturated Canary. You will need to bring brains (extra ones) if you want a tour.

There's a ghost on the landing by Crackerbox Palace and a raven on the newel post by Stamp Francisco. Have you counted your bird stamps lately? - Pam and I did when she was here and we were shocked! This cigar box is small and the two doors are part of it, although I added the paper printed to look like doors. Stairs, zombies and raven are all composed of at least three layers so if they look out of registration on the edges that's why! I made the tree out of wire and beads and stuck it in a clay pumpkin.

The hop continues from here to Lisa's blog. I know you will be astonished at her mastery of the craft! Or start at the beginning by clicking on Terra's name at the beginning of the blogroll. --->

And again, thank you for all of your kind comments here and on all of the blogs. We truly appreciate them!

Day 24 of the 31 Days of Halloween

Sometime during the summer I bought and started reading a book called Mixed-Media Dollhouses. It shows seven houses, each with seven rooms, created collaboratively by seven artists. They are done in cigar boxes. Having a cigar store with lots of cool boxes nearby,  I snagged a few -at least ten and started stripping the papers off but couldn't think of a theme. And then along came the 31 Days of Halloween. Although my house is only mildly haunted, it does contain lots of monsters! The first room I'm showing is the dungeon:

                   
                                          Click on photos to enlarge for detail.

The primary image is a zombie from last year's Rick St. Dennis prize sheet. He's the dungeon master and very good at his job!  There is also a set of steps from Third Coast. I printed the stone walls and floor and the torture chair. Everything is cut out and stacked at least three images deep.The skeleton in chains is one of those squishy ones from Michaels and I had to sculpt the skeleton in the chair - the squishy ones wouldn't fit. The mouse is another polymer clay creation as are the many stones glued to the edges. The bones and skulls are from a bracelet from Michaels. As the rooms started coming together, it became obvious that they wouldn't look as "mixed-media" as the ones in the book because I settled on a few techniques that I liked and because only one person was doing it. Lots more to come - you know I love complicated projects!!

The Hop continues on Lisa's  beautiful blog if you're going in order or you can get all of the info you need to start at the beginning and see all of the wondrous Halloween artwork by clicking on Terra's name in the blogroll ----->. I continue to be amazed and educated by all of the creations I see every day. And thanks for leaving your comments - they are great motivators for all of us!