Pumpkin Make-Over

On my trip to the dollar Tree store I

picked up the following Styrofoam pumpkin

and cool stickers and turned them into

THIS below:

Supplies Used

Styrofoam Pumpkin White Glue (any white glue will do) Brush Punchinella

Vintage Book Pages Pigment Inks Stickers PYM II

I've gathered my supplies	Start by tearing your book pages into strips and coat the pumpkin and the strips with watered down white glue.
Smooth any air bubbles and wrinkles (you don't want) out with your finger. Allow the pumpkin to dry.	Using the inks add highlights and color using the punchinella as a stencil.
Add your stickers where you desire and burnish well with the cap of a pen.	Add 3 or more coats of the white glue allowing each coat to dry in-between.
Once your pumpkin is dry seal it with PYM II to keep it from getting sticky from the glue.	Check out your Dollar Storeand see what you can find to alter and enhance with your creativity!

Blue Glass Sculptures

Thanks to my friend Kris, I finally created a 

glass sculpture out of old vases, plates, jars 

and goblets!I started this at my her 

house and finished it at home with blue 

cobalt pieces I've collected through 

the years. Click HERE to view 

my friend Kris' glass sculputres.

Creating glass sculptures I liken it to playing 

a giant game of breakable Blockhead 

(do you remember that game?). 

The problem is that there a gazzillion

ways of stacking, unstacking, and rearranging

your pieces! If you think you will remember

how you stacked it, you probably won't!

 If you're anything like my friend and I, and 

you have a bad memory like we do,  my 

suggestion is to make sure to take a 

picture before you  unstack and glue 

your pieces together.

Here's a close up of the top part.

The glass star is a stopper from

a bottle I have.  The round the 

base of it are blue marbles. I 

adhered it it in 3 sections using 

waterproof silicone.

For more glass sculpture ideas 

check out my Pinterest board

HERE

Low Flying Witches and Herm & Ethel

It's that time of year again for low flying witches!

When I woke up this morning Herm and Ethel 

had arrived unannounced as usual.  For some 

reason Herm is in the birdcage aka doghouse...

for what I don't know Ethel is mums the word on 

the subject!

As always these postcards are free for 

you to right click, save and  download  to 

email to friends and family.

Click HERE to see past Herm & Ethel postcards

Altered Mousetraps

I love when I can take something like 

THIS:

And turn it into something like this:

and this...

The above 2 are for a Christmas 

themed altered mousetrap swap

Click HERE to view a few other 

altered mousetraps I created.

CALL FOR ART

Happy Oct 1st...hopefully we are days away from that welcoming cool fall weather that is so fast and fleeting here in the California valley!

Since October is breast cancer awareness month I had my mammogram today, have you? A friend shared this call for art project with me by Melanie Testa called Breast Pockets-with a deadline! 1000 pockets in 3 weeks?  I plan to do one in  honor of my late mother in law who chose to be a flattie.

The deadline is October 22nd!

click the link to read more about the project

CALL FOR ART