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Fanciful Birthday Wishes!

Happy Birthday to you-Happy Birthday to you-Happy Birthday sweet Vanessa

Happy Birthday to you!

Thanks for being an amazing inspiration! ❤

I hope all your fanciful birthday wishes come true;o)

Fanciful Birthday Wish by Tunibug featuring kate spade

Items in this set:
Kate Spade Fiona at Zappos.com, $95
Take a chance idiom bangle, $78
Heart Doodles Too Font - Fonts.com, $29
Stock Photo of Black And White Twirl Abstract, Stripes From Centre To...
Dioramarama: Fabric Friday: Orange

Monumental Month

Sorry for the lack of posts recently-November was a monumental month for me-First-I found out I was published in the current issue of  Artful Blogging!

It is just one photo but I was super excited-I ❤ Stampington publications!

 

Then, we made a trip to Ohio to help celebrate my mother-in-law's 90th birthday.  She is amazing-still driving and everything.  We had a blast and it was Slaten's first trip on a big airplane so that was fun to witness!  It was really nice to get away even if it was just for a weekend.  

Next came our holiday open house at work-always fun but exhausting.

Then of course was Thanksgiving which was low key but very nice and I was thankful to have most of the family here.

Two days after Thanksgiving was a milestone birthday for me-Some of my girlfriends and my daughters surprised me with a  luncheon-and boy was I ever surprised-I had NO CLUE-it was perfect!  

Saturday evening was spent at Jacki and Andy's watching the Uf- Florida State football game.

On Sunday we went to the gospel brunch at the House of Blues for a family celebration of my birthday-It was a long weekend of celebrations-I think it may have been the best birthday ever!!!

It doesn't stop there-2 days after my birthday was my girlfriend's surprise birthday party that I helped plan- She was totally shocked which was awesome!

So there you have it-my monumental month.  And now I am in hyper holiday mode-I have so much to do and so little time!  This is what I want to do...

So better run for now-had a flat tire yesterday that needs to get fixed so I can get some holiday shopping done! 

 

Belated Boo!

I'm still here:)  just a little late in getting here again.  I realized I did not put a date for my blog giveaway for the Halloween Party-my intent was to do the drawing on Halloween but I got back a little late from the party I went to so I decided to do it this morning instead.

The little cutie in the picture was a wee one at Slaten's 3rd birthday party last weekend-more pictures of that later:)

I didn't know that Random.org was now a paid service for the type of drawing I needed so I did it the old fashioned way.  

Printed off the numbers cut them out and put them in a bucket...

Fairy Dog Mother had to make sure everything looked okay...

1-My Thoughts My Voice

2-Rhonda Roo

12-Pixie

Congrats to the winners-I will be putting the finishing touches on the goody bags this weekend and hopefully will get them in the mail tomorrow but for sure early this week:)

Thanks to all that stopped by to visit my little party-I am still believe it or not making my way down the list-I hope to be finished by Christmas:o)  

I think I may head out and go antiquing today!

Happy Sunday!

...

Alice felt a wee bit peculiar-

Not at all like herself-

  

Just what kind of special tea did that Madhatter serve!

This doesn't look like Wonderland-

Alice glanced around when suddenly...

                    Poof !!!

    From behind the "Great Pumpkin" her -

                        Appeared

 

and with a wave of her magic wand... Alice was dressed for a Spooktacular Event!

                    the carriage awaits-

 So grab your mask and come along with Alice-

 You're sure to have a good time-

It's a Masquerade Party... at the Museum

      The absolute grandest kind!

The party animals will be there too-dancing and

"tweeting" the whole night thru

      Come on in and stay awhile

                 Join Frankie

                   his Bride

   and the rest of the "Spooky" crew

for lots of Yummy food and some Tasty Witch's BREW!

This Party is just getting Started -We hope that you can stay...

We'll be Monster Mashing here until the break of Day!

You're a party trooper not a party pooper if you made it to the end of this post-and be sure to visit Vanessa our Fabulous Party Host!

Edgar Alan "Poe"t has run out of stupid rhymes-so if you want some treats-this is no trick-leave a comment for the chance to win!  3 Lucky Winners will get some ghoulishly fun goodies!

Special thanks to Carolina for re-creating Alice's face paint on mini Alice:)

Busy Busy Busy

I know I sound like a broken record-but here it is another month and I am just updating my "Sticks" calendar on the 6th.  I seriously do not know where the time goes-of course working full time does take a big chunk of my time.  I always feel like I am playing catch-up.  I need to have a week off to really organize my studio but that is just not going to happen any time soon.  So here is where I pose the question-To Facebook or not to Facebook-that is the question.  I have had several friends requesting that I join but I just feel like I don't update my blog as much as I would like so why do I need yet another computer site to drain even more time that I don't have.  I have been on twitter for awhile now and I love it because it us short and sweet.  So I asked one of my friends who is encouraging me to join Facebook am I really missing out somehow by now being on there.  She insists that I am:).  Oh well, something to ponder for sure.  But for now I am happy to just be updating my blog and sharing a couple pictures I took this weekend.

 

Frankenstein's Bride

I have been busy finishing up my ornaments for Pegsters vintage Halloween Ornament Swap-and although I am not a huge scary movie fan-I couldn't resist using the cool vintage photo I found on google of Frankenstein and his bride:D... So I put together a little "film" showing some of the steps in the process of  my little creation-I started with little bridal favor bags and gave them a bath in coffee to give them a vintage look-and while letting them dry in the sun I printed the picture I found on organza and cut them out.  Next, I fashioned "arms" out of vintage gold pipe cleaners wrapped in cheesecloth-I cut tiny slits in the sleeves which were already sewn together so I could fish the arms through-then I attached tiny vintage pins with a little moon bead on the top of the dress for something to hang them with-I wrote 'The Bride" on the top each dress in a glow- in- the- dark pen-letting it bleed on the fabric a bit to give it a more distressed appearance.  The organza picture of Frankie and his bride I fastened on with rust colored staples-and because the little dresses had a pouch in the back I included a small bag of fall potpourri which kind of gives it a vintage smell too-I am not a huge potpourri fan but I picked up the coolest little pumpkin potpourri in Savannah when I was there.  I didn't have alot of it so I combined it with another one to complete the project-and there you have it mini Bride of Frankenstein ornaments-they are now on the way to Peggy!

Here is a colorized:D photo of the finished ornaments

09-09-09

Wow-have you ever been driving and you arrive at your destination but you really can't recall the journey or exactly how you got there?  That is how I feel right now-I know I have been busy but I don't know where the last 2+ weeks have gone.  I knew time was flying when I realized I had not changed my Sticks Calendar and it was already a week in to September.  I have been in O.D.D (Obsessive Detail Disorder) mode working on a couple of fun Halloween projects-I can't share just yet but stay tuned-I will tell you that my inspiration came from a pencil-go figure!  I did pretty much finish up the Goddess and the Poet class-I still want to do a couple of more projects for the class but they will definitely have to wait until these Halloween projects are out of the way.  I couldn't resist getting a post in on 09-09-09.  I tried to post it at 9 minutes after 9:00 too just for fun but that didn't happen-Here is a remix of my week 5 piece and some pencil sketches for my class-Hope you have a lucky 09-09-09!

Favorites:)

These are a few of my favorite things right now!

1) the Sunday Paper

2) a day off to relax and create

3) napping with Tuni

4)hanging out on ebay & etsy...got a great deal on ebay today!

5)watching the rain from inside

6)the new issue of "Cloth Paper Scissors"

 I just purchased a new book this week and it is fast becoming an all- time favorite

and it came with this cute little directory of artists 

One of the artists featured in the book is Jeffrey Fulvimari I love his work!!! The entire book is filled with yummy illustrations!

My favorite song this week- that we have been playing at work- sounded very familiar to me... and I realized that one of my favorite dances from the recent season of "So You Think You Can Dance" was performed to the song- which makes me love it even more!

Dotee Dolls✓

Finally finished up my first EVER Dotee Dolls for a swap I had signed up for awhile ago-I had seen pictures of them on Flickr and was intrigued- so I thought it might be fun to do the swap-I am not one who sews a great deal so I had to brush up on those skills a bit and my hat is off to those of you out there who sew tiny things for a living-I am not sure I would have the patience!  But I was able to get them in the mail to meet the deadline-I just hope the little bottles of cupcake sprinkles that I forgot to secure with a little glue make it there intact!  

Cupcake Dotee complete with sprinkles!

Designer Dotee with yummy Heather Bailey fabric!

Random Bits

So many things from this past week to share...I am going to do it in random little bits-1st- I had THE best time touring Mama's Sauce Print Shoppe on Wednesday after attending a networking luncheon for bridal vendors.  They do amazing work at Mama's Sauce and are one of a very few places in Florida that do Letterpress Printing-my wheels are turning at the possibilities of future collaborations...Then on Thursday, had lunch with my friend Donna at El Coqui Mexicano

It was AMAZING..everything made from scratch.. adorable setting and perfect portions-loved it sooo much I told my DH that we should go there on Friday night so he could see just how good it is-when we got there the wait was over 1 hour long so we opted to try another night which ended up being Saturday-It was still quite crowded but we only had to wait 15 minutes or so which was just enough time for me to check out the used book store next door...had another fabulous meal and come to find out I actually knew one of the owners-her name is Evelyn-she and her husband Chef Rico opened it together about nine months ago...super authentic Puerto Rican and Mexican food...finally got my hands on some of Claudine Hellmuth's studio paints,sticky canvas and mediums on Friday- can't wait to play with them this weekend...and now to today-just returned from a fun afternoon at the DT Farmer's Market-finally was able to take Slaten to see Miss Carolina again...he hadn't seen her since she transformed him into the cutest March Hare for my Mad Hatter Blog Party back in June...Today she worked her magic again only this time he chose to be a dog-I  put together my first remix on photobucket showing Slaten going from cute little boy to precious little pup!

Oh yeah-we ran into Evelyn and Chef Rico at the Farmer's Market too...small world:)