Boo!

Halloween cupcakes for Sarah's class.

I love Halloween. I like that you can decorate your house, dress up in a costume, hand out candy and enjoy things that are scary. No presents, no stress, just fun. As a child my mother would make us fabulous costumes. My dad would hand out candy and wear a scary glove on the hand that reached out the door.

I used to make fabulous costumes -- until my eldest child kept changing her mind. Now I make ONE costume per child and wait until close to Halloween. Tonight I'll take pictures of the girls in their costumes.

This year the girls were old enough to significantly help with carving their pumpkins. First you have to scoop out all that goop.

They were totally grossed out -- but I give them credit for sticking with it!

Sophie's preschool had a pumpkin carving party for children and their dads. She had a great time. Both girls designed their faces and drew them on the pumpkins. Sarah carved the mouth on hers.

Sophie put three faces on hers. I love the crazy eyes Sarah drew.

And the latest Altered Couture is now on the newsstand. Here is Sophie in the dress featured on page 105!


Happy Halloween!

New Altered Couture!

My artist's preview copy of the new Altered Couture arrived in the mail yesterday. It will be on the newsstands on November 1st.


I have three pieces featured on pages 105, 108 and 109.




It's very exciting to see my work in print -- almost as exciting as it was to see my darling little girls wearing it. Here is Sarah wearing her Ahoy Matey overalls. (And Sophie in the background wearing a pair of her birthday overalls, which I did not submit. Maybe next time. . .)

Keeping it Art Related

Life has been hectic as usual. But I have a new dedication and commitment to blogging more regularly and trying to keep it art related.

In addition to the pictures (below) of things I've been working on, Joel and I have been making a free video tutorial for Shiva Paint Stiks to put on-line (probably on You Tube). It's been great fun and we hope to have it done in another few weeks.

Halloween is just around the corner so I needed a few fabric bead bracelets
and this owl charm bracelet. These go with. . .

. . .my fabric bead necklace. I got the skeleton in a 25 cent candy machine.

I wish I had bought more.

Playing around with needle felting.

And being the "arty mom," I've been pegged for all the crafty projects for our Brownie Troop. Here is our troop flag. We're waiting for our troop number. Can you guess the name of our troop? The name and troop number will go into the white space to the left of the Trefoil.

Now back to the studio.