October! Halloween! Spoolie Dolls!

Hello Friends!

OMG, It's October!
Where does the time go?
Well, at least I can say, in part,
some of it really did go into my Halloween crafting.

This is my sample for a spoolie doll swap I'm hosting in MAMA:

 

Made from a large wooden spool on the bottom, festooning,

tinsel trim, a rosette, a skewer to support my little bat girl,

assorted embellishments and a cocktail umbrella!

 

After looking through my partner's beautiful blog,

Art JOY Stuff,

I challenged myself to make her spoolie doll in whites, creams, and black:

 

I think the ripped netting behind the girl contributes a sinister look, don't you?
Hope she likes it!

In another swap I am in,
we are trading altered, embellished paper mache coffins:

Of course we are stuffing crafty goodies inside!  :)

This is a matchbox I made for my partner, JoAnne,
who is hosting a swap in her Vintage Dragonfly Matchbox group:

Again, crafty goodies inside!

One of the four handmade goodies we were to create

in addition to the matchbox is this little top hat box:

 

They are so fun to make, and, confidentially ;)

they are made from toilet paper rolls!! :D

 

I'm so behind on posting freebies

so here are some fun ones for you:

 

 

 

Don't these children look like they've just seen a ghost?  :D

 

 

Click to enlarge, right click and save!

I will be back with another post next week!

More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday.
Be inspired at Inspired Sunday.

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

 

♥♥♥Thank you so much for visiting and for all your lovely comments!! ♥♥♥
Have a great weekend!

Pink Saturday, Cake and Freebies!

I have regretfully been absent the past two weeks or so
because my computer is out on the front lawn smashed to little bits.
Well, not really, although I would have enjoyed the smashing to bits part.
It has been all but worthless, won't let me upload,
taking off for lala-land whenever I click on something...
OK, OK, enough kvetching!!

I have been busy crafting, though:
I made this pretty little crown for my friend Brenda's birthday:



And this little piece of cake:



And inside I tucked a pretty little bracelet:



And I have fallen behind on my Friday freebies,
so here's a couple of cuties for you:




Please visit Pink Saturday for more lovely pinkness!

Have a great weekend!

Pink Saturday!

Well, I think this might be my pinkest Pink Saturday post to date!
I made this petite theatre for my grandniece,
who just recently became a big sister to baby Liam.
I can finally post this, as by the time you are reading this
she will have received it.



She really is a cutie pie!

I am meeting her for the very first time this week...
unfortunately she lives on the other coast
and I do not get to see that branch of the family
nearly as much as I'd like.
So, I'm pretty excited!

The petite theatre is made from the bottom of a papier mache box
lined inside and out with cute papers, tinsel, glitter,
tulle, music paper rosette, crepe paper valance,
paper roses and some scrapbook embellishments.
Raspberry beads for the "feet".
Actually,
I merged two pictures of her
to get the proper expression with a head to toe image. ;)

I'm hoping she won't notice that!

Think she'll like it?

Happy Pink Saturday to you all!
Thank you Beverly for giving us this opportunity to link up.