My Rick St. Dennis Avatar

Here's my new avatar from Rick's shop. It's HERE if you love it as much as I do. Look at the expression on her face. She's completely confused! Actually, she's all dressed up and on her way to the farmer's market!

I'm thinking of using it as my avatar in all those places I don't have one. Whatta you think?

Day 31 of the 31 days of Halloween

It is here! This is the last day of the Hop and a long wait until next year! For those of you who are really sad it's over, it might be time to get some of those ideas out of your system and get a start on next year. I'm ready to learn what it mean to be on a Design Team.  I know that's old hat for lots of you but new and exciting for me!

My very last project, two months in the making and finished only yesterday is the whole mixed-media "Halloween" dollhouse. My husband wants to know what the heck we're going to do with it!!

Only a couple of surprises - the polymer clay gargoyle and the witch who's making her very first landing! I tried hard to find a stamp that would be an almost crash landing but ended up drawing her. I know, I know! I can draw a bit but it's painful.

It's been so much work and so much fun and I can't even count all the things I've learned! Hope to see all of you around the www again soon!

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!