Happy Halloween

Hope your day and night is filled with fun and laughter and good candy..not that icky candy we all hated to see in our bags when we got home..lol..

Pumpkins above were carved at my daughter's house.

Reminder

Just wanted to invite you to the Sweet or Sinister Necklace class on Sept.18th.

At the Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie, that's a Friday night at 6pm....
Looks to be a good size class, but we do have room for a few more! Hope you join us!!!




Have a super Wednesday, we are half way thru another week...don't they just fly by???

teedubya

And we Partied on...

This weekend was Grand #2's birthday...So we headed over there on Saturday to play and have fun in general...


Here is the finished banner I posted last week, from my manic art moment:




Here was the highlite of the party: Cake Pops

Here is the CAKE in all it's glory:

Here is the Birthday Girl in all her glory:

Hope the sugar high lasts all week...

I'm adding things this week to my etsy: WrightHandy , so pop over and see if I have anything you need...

Have a good one!

t

May we interrupt your soldering for..

A manic art moment...

With all my solder/glass stuff out and on the table, I was struck last night with a manic art moment..figures...

I had to make a Halloween Banner..


Then, I had to make a fairy with wings from a real moth/butterfly. I found this one along the highway when all the monarchs came thru a couple of weeks ago..I was stopping the car on the shoulder and picking up dead Monarchs and found this one too. So, last night I HAD to use it..call me crazy..I dunno..

I love this shot, she looks like she's peeking up at us:

She is in no way finished, she is going to the back side of the table to be finished out at a later day..but at least it's out of my system for now~ Why do artist have these 'attacks' of change? Just when your all involved in some other project you get hit with ideas for something else? Why do you shove everything over and start on something completely different, just to put one or the other aside for later?

I hope you have answers to these burning questions..for I don't~

Have a good weekend!!

t

Tuesday Stuff

Class stuff...

Vendor Night Stuff....

Stuff getting packed up, Stuff getting gathered, regurlar life Stuff going on too! Alot of stuff to stuff into the next few days..

3 more days!!

Are you ready to get Your Cowgirl On??

Sunday was busy around the shop shack

We played outside:

We were on the 'hunt':
We picked flowers:
After swimming and lunch, we loaded up the stuff hub needed to go Dove Hunting, and Sage's goodies. Then they headed out take her back home and he to go hunting tomorrow, I was left alone...

I went into the studio..with a plan..Halloween was on my brain..and a technique I had read about here. And just as I got started my heat gun went and pooped out..I'd only had it about 8 years..go figure..So, loaded myself up to make an emergency run into town to Michael's. Did I just buy a heat gun? NoOooOOO..ended up bringing home some new pens, a flower punch, a good deal on a sketch book with 2 free Bristol board pads, and some quote stickers.

Had to stop at Starbucks too on the way home..was very disappointed..My Frapp was not very slushy at all it was just cold and very fluid..not what I had my taste buds set for..and low and behold, I was chosen to do a survey..I did that as soon as I got home, so maybe those Starbucks people will listen. I'll let you know if they do~

Back to the studio...I didn't follow all the directions Tim had there on his post..for I have NO Adirondack inks..so I used some dauber's I got at WM awhile back..spritzed the tag with water then inked them up after doing the embossing with the clear..I used a some stamps I picked up on super deep discount last year AFTER Halloween!

But isn't that what it's all about? Doing your own thing with what you have? Who has to follow the directions to a T ? Where are the direction Police?? That's what I love about creating things!!

Here's my little tip: Use one of those 'taste spoons' you get at the ice cream shop, in your embossing powder to control the amounts you need..doesn't make quite the mess as pouring it out over your work...

This is one of my hand cut stamps with the embossing ink on a tag:

Here is the batch I did...


This one is my fav:

I'm glad I got a new heat gun, this one works so good, I even had the paper smokin'~ not good..but didn't hurt anything!

This was a good afternoon.

I have to work tomorrow on some cabs for a client. So you have a good day off and hope you make something fun!

Later gator!

t

Sneak peek

Did you know this is what we are going to make in my class at Paper Cowgirl???



I'm offering 3 images and a few other sayings, so you can make it your own, but this is the basic idea!!





In between making play doh cookies with Grace, I wrapped up my swaps, this one is a peek at the Wizard of Oz Swap I'm in:

And you know what I did??? I wrapped up my Witch's Cupboard Swap, and took NO pictures..suppose Tonya, my partner will have to show ya'll what I gave her..my bad...

I'm off today to a Woman's Business Luncheon. I'm hoping to network with other ladies and maybe get my painting biz busier...Sally, a nice lady I'm working for now, goes to them and invited me...I think Sally is going to be a good friend too...

Hope your Thursday is good~

t

I've Been RAK'ed

Yep! found this in the big black mail box yesterday!





Look at this tag! Is it not cute? She did a good job didn't she?

There were some playing cards like this one, and super cute magnet in the box too..

And to top it all off Paula Clare put candy in that cute box ! Thanks so much Paula Clare, that was a nice surprise! Your Halloween mood was all plugged in for this one and you did good!

Random Acts of Kindness make you feel good when you give one and when you receive one~

Have a great day! I'm going to :)

t