Halloween Swaps!! Tinsel Trading Company!! Freebies!!

Hello Friends!

Hope you are having a lovely Fall!

I returned from my New England leaf peeping
to find these lovelies created by my swap partners waiting for me!
This bootiful spoolie doll and tag were created by Kimberly of artJOYstuff:

Look at this beautiful tag:

 

I LOVE them, thank you so much, Kimberly!

I received this lovely matchbox stuffed with goodies
from JoAnne of Vintage Dragonfly.
This is a picture of the top only:

 

I love this embellished skeleton hand!!

 

Thanks so much JoAnne, I love it all!!

My annual trip to Tinsel Trading Company

yielded a big disappointment this year. 

I knew they had relocated to a different part of the city,

and I was looking forward to visiting them and see what's new.

Well, I almost walked right past them,

they have totally downsized :O

 

A shadow of their former self... whoa... that's pretty spooky, no?  ;)

Now, that is not to say that I didn't find anything to buy there, LOL!

 

But click on the following picture to go back to my post

from my 2012 trip to see how fabulous it used to be :(

 

 

OK.

Enough whining.

 

So....

The last week before Halloween, are you ready??

Here's a few more images for use in your own

handmade Halloween:

 

 

Click to enlarge, right click and save!
 

Crafty creations abound at Make it Monday!
For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!
More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Next Friday!

 Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday. 

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!

 

 

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

Anthropologie NYC

And what's a trip to NYC without a visit to Anthropologie?
I just love their ever-changing window decorations and in-store decor. This year's theme seemed to be an icy/frosty one... Fairly minimal for Anthro... Love this outfit, though... Ah, this is more like it... And inside the store,
paper discs edged with glitter,
stacked and hung from the ceiling... I probably won't be trying this at home, though ;)

Further down the block I spied this cute little coat made from "newsprint":

And this fabulous shoe wreath!!

I probably won't be trying that at home either! LOL

Here's a couple of wintery white freebies for you:

Click to enlarge, right click and save!

Is it winter white where you are?
It's 80 degrees here...

Visit White Wednesday for more winter whites! And Pink Saturday for lovely pinks!

Tinsel Trading Company!!

Ah, well, five extra days in NYC meant that
I got to go to the Tinsel Tradintg Company!








These are the shelves and shelves of heartbreakingly beautiful antique metallique trims as featured in Kaari Meng's "Treasured Notions".


Think you could find something to buy in there? ;)
I certainly did!!
Oh, to have the luxury of wandering through there any time you wanted,
searching for just the right trim for your current project!!