My New Wreath and Stink Bone Jones

Stink Bone Jones and I recently went to Light Up Ocala. He was more excited about the icing on his cookie than the puppet show in front of him or the entire downtown lit in white lights. Isn't he something else?

Next up is my new Martha Stewart wreath made with all of her papers. It says Merry Christmas in French and I really like how it turned out. Now for sale in my Etsy shop.

Am I gorgeous or What

I recently made this shirt and I am SO EXCITED to list it in my Etsy shop. It's finally done. I added the fringe to the bottom of the shirt and to the bottom of the sleeves for some extra girly girlness. I so need a daughter!!! I don't think Christian would wear this one, ha ha.







This is my new Kitschy Christmas sign. Hope to have a few more different ones to come....

Shop Reopen

I think it has been at least 2 months since I last painted onesies for my shop. When I last opened I was so busy with custom orders that I had to almost shut the shop down to paint them all. I had to take a break. Locally I've been swamped and now that that is slowing down and I've had a nice break, it is time to reopen! November 1st, please check out my new onesie designs. Most of them are pictured here (all but one NEW fairy princess not pictured that I am so excited to debut). I will only be open for one month so that I can concentrate on my gazillion Christmas projects. I LOVE custom orders and welcome them enthusiastically.My popular "Let them eat cake" onesie or toddler shirt comes with a pink and blue detachable frou frou brooch. Enjoy!
















This shirt means "I love my mommy" in French of course!



Not sure If I am going to carry this one again or not. It means "Am I gorgeous or what?" This one takes so much time to get the wording perfectly painted. I might try to do this as an iron-on shirt with a border around it. What do you think???

My Do It Yourself Project

I decided to follow a do it yourself project and instead of making a banner with someone's name, I instead made a Boo Banner. After tracing the letters from a tuscan font (find link below in previous post to this font site). I cut them out with a utility knife, sparkled the black paper with black glitter and strung them along. I also painted purple sparkly skeletons you can see if you look closely on my mantle.

A Very Long Road trip

Our trip seemed so long because Thomas The Train videos played incessantly! However, Thomas the Train songs were better than crying because my two year old was tired of sitting in his car seat. It is certainly not like the old days when my parents lay me down in the back with a pillow and a blanket and I could sleep. Our children have to stay in a car seat strapped tightly in for hours straight. We made it and here are some wonderful picture of my Stink Bone Jones and his daddy!He hasn't been around many cats so this friendly Tom cat just made his day! Is there anything better than an old blue truck with a plant growing out of the back in the hills of Virginia. Most of these were taken in Virginia at a relative's home and some were in Shipshawana, Amish Country, in Indiana. Enjoy!

I'm back from Outer Space

I'm back from my very long road trip that seemed like outer space, I was gone so long. 12 days in all! I haven't been away that long since our honeymoon to Italy 6 years ago. I will definitely post those pictures from our visit to beautiful Virginia and Indiana with Stink Bone Jones in a car for 18 hours there and back. Wow!!

I would love to share my swap photos with you from Jean Knee. She sent me such wonderful things! She has a thing for skeletons and I just adore my little skeleton in his wonderful halloween party hat. His ruffly collar rocks too!



I adore my skeleton head box full of black glitter and sparkle! Jean Knee also makes the cutest cupcake picks! I cannot wait to use these!








Here are more pictures of my wonderful goodies. She made that cute adorable bag with crepe paper! She also ordered the little treat bags and filled them with lovely tags she made and some from my very favorite Etsy shop, one ripe peach



My favorite thing she sent is the reason for the swap. A Halloween Sign that hangs on my mirror! Thanks jean knee, I love it!



I put one of the super cute crepe paper flowers on top of my store bought pumpkin. I painted black polka dots on my pumpkin (an idea from Paula Dean) and voila!




I sent her a bunch of goodies! I do not have pictures of them all but hope she posts them for me. I did manage to get a picture of the sign I sent her. I bought the frame at Hobby Lobby. Decoupodged orange paper to the glass. Painted black polka dots. Glittered the outside black. Then, I glued this little cat from Hobby Lobby to the center. Made a little black tulle ballerina skirt and added orange forget-me- nots to the center. Ordered the spooky tag from my other favorite shop Caramelos and glittered it as well with orange glitter. Added a big sparkly vintage black button to the center and some black velvet bows to the bottom. I really love how it turned out!

Do It Yourself DIY Website

I have found the most WONDERFUL SPLENDID website! Thanks to this do it yourself website at oneprettything.com I cannot seem to quit going there. I am going to start on the tutorial down at the bottom with the beautiful name banners. I've already been to this incredible site Dafont.com full of fonts and was most excited to have found Jane Austen's handwriting! Then, I showed my husband how BEAUTIFUL our son's named looked in Chopin's font, so swirly and elegant. I also showed him what Charlotte Compton would look like in this font too (I want a daughter very badly). He is so used to me, he just nods his head and utters... "yes, uh-huh." So, if you too love to do a million projects at one time, visit this great DIY site.