Happy Thanksgiving and Freebies!

I just want to do a quick post to wish everyone a
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Also wanted to show you, before we head into
"All Christmas All the Time",
a pic of the Fall Fairy Pocket that I made for my
Art Party's November swap:


A grateful heart. And I truly am grateful for all the blessings in my life.

Here's a sweet little Thanksgiving image,
you have just enough time to print and use as a tag for
your Thanksgiving goodies!!


And another!
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Have a happy and safe weekend!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!



How cute is my little niece?!! :)

I have been having fun creating and swapping Halloween tins,
matchboxes and more.
What I haven't been doing is downloading my pictures and posting on my blog :(
Sooo, before Halloween is over,
I wanted to share my goodies with you!

I took part in a very fun "Curiosities" matchbox swap hosted by
Heather of The Speckled Egg.
The theme could be Halloween or Curious.
I received this lovely matchbox from Connie:

With these lovelies inside:

We had two partners in this swap; Nancy sent me this gorgeous box:


And inside:


I love them both, it was a great swap! Thank you Connie and Nancy,
and thank you Heather for hosting!

The boxes I made for them can be seen here.

I also swapped matchboxes with Terry
in Vintage Dragonfly's Halloween Swap.
JoAnne suggested spoiling our partner, and that's just what we did!
I just love this matchbox Terri made:


Look at my Halloween booty:


My matchbox for her:


My goodies to her:


I love it all, thanks Terri, and thank you JoAnne for hosting!

And lastly, Karen and I did our own little Halloween swap!
Her goodies to me:

I love it all, especially the yoyo garland
and I love how she embellished that votive!
There's two supercute pins in there too! Thank you Karen!!

My goodies to her:



My best wishes for a happy and safe Halloween to all!

White Wednesday, Altered Tins and Freebies!

White Wednesday! Well, yes, I know it's Thursday :)

I have been having a blast lately playing in a number of swaps for Halloween!

This beautiful altered tin from Jill
is perfect for my White Wednesday post!

This is an altoid tin that Jill papered inside and out
and mounted on a chipboard stand. So clever!
Inside she created a diptych with a magic and moonbeams theme.
It's just beautifully embellished, I LOVE it, thank you Jill!
And thank you Wendy for hosting this very fun swap!



And now...my tin for Jill!



The image and rusty bits are from Paper Whimsy, the watchface is vintage,
the wings were die cut from the foil from a wine bottle ;) and embossed.
Some vintage lace and a handmade rose from vintage music paper.
My new favorite technique for Halloween crafting
is to rip up pieces of netting and heat with a heat gun,
gently twisting and turning.
It curls in different places and lends a bit of quirky randomness to the project.

Inside is my little vignette...
a potion brewed from magic mushrooms, butterfly wings
and who knows what else,
served up by an evil queen...is it a treat or a trick?



Here's a couple of images for your Halloween crafting:



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Thanks for stopping by, and please visit Faded Charm Cottage
for some lovely White inspiration.

Pink Saturday and Halloween Friday Freebies!!

I am woefully behind again in my Friday Freebies!
Life, vacation, houseguests and sick kitty issues have kept me busy!

Here's a sweet Halloween image with PINK in it!


I think you'll like these art deco Halloween images.:





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I have also been busy crafting for the many Halloweeen swaps I am in.

Since I know these have already been received,
here are the two altered matchboxes I made for
Heather's Speckled Egg Curiosities Swap:



The top window and scattered holes in the house are illuminated by tucking one of those flickering tealights inside...
very cute and spooky effect!



And some of the goodies contained within:


I received two fabulous matchboxes from my swap partners, and will try to post those tomorrow!

Please visit Pink Saturday for a lovely pink eyecandy!

Have a great weekend!!

Pink Saturday and Vintage Marketplace!

Last weekend was the Vintage Marketplace at Rainbow CA.
This is a wonderful market held four times a year,
lovely vendors, beautiful things...
a great place to find inspiration, flea market finds,
handcrafted lovelies,
and vintage goodies with which to craft.

Remember these little pink kitchen appliances? Soooo cute...


All grown up now...




Dreamy delicates...


And I got to meet up with my friend Karen,
who was my swap partner in Kari's May Basket Swap.
We're going to do a Halloween swap!




I have lots more pictures that I'll post for White Wednesday.

I'll leave you with a couple of sweet little girls:

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And I will have Halloween freebies all month long in October!

Take a look at Pink Saturday for
more pink loveliness!

Pink Saturday, Sunsets and Blackout and Freebies

Happy Pink Saturday and Welcome new followers! And everyone :)

Strange goings on in Southern California...
First, there was RAIN on Labor Day :O
Followed by a week of 100 degree temperatures and 90 degree humidity!
It did make for some lovely warm Summer evenings
and for beautiful sunsets like this:







Oh yes, and then the Blackout!



I felt so cut off from the rest of the world...the radio in my car didn't work because the radio stations didn't have power...my cell phone didn't work even though it's WiFi...our phones are on electric chargers, and because they were out of juice we couldn't use those...so we really had no idea as to the extent of the outage or when it would be fixed...



We still can't use water from the faucet without boilng it for one minute.

Here's a couple of images to get you started on your Halloween crafting:



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Have a great weekend, and visit Pink Saturday to view some lovely pinkness.

Happy Pink Saturday and Back to School Freebies!

It's the waning hours of Pink Saturday,
but I am going to get this post in today or bust!

My monthly *aRt*pArTy!! swap last month was to alter a cigar/pencil box.
Due to summer vacations, we were but a small group,
but had so much fun swapping boxes, sipping Skinny Margaritas
and eating Mexican fare at our potluck!

I made this little box:



I used Tim Holtz's "Ornamental" die with a 4x6" patterned cardstock to make the frame. Then glued butterflies upon butterflies to give it more dimension.

The side view:



I received this lovely box from Rosa:



These are all the boxes. Oddly enough, they are all the same size,
but you'd never know it from this picture!



Some kind of trompe l'oeil with perspective. :/?
I love the embellishments Vicki made for the turquoise box.
And Ginger's Wizard of OZ theme was just so fun and cute!

Since next week marks the end of summer with a return to school,
I tought I'd share a couple of my favorite vintage School pix: