Dollar Store Crafts!

I love the way this candle turned out!  It's a glass jar from the dollar store.  I cut out black images and glued them on, then wrapped used fabric softener sheets around it and inserted a dollar store battery operated candle.

This is my dollar store foam pumpkin decoupaged with a bargain bin napkin and sprayed with glitter.

No camping this weeked due to the burn ban!  So I guess I'll have more time to create more stuff I don't need.  If you see anything you'd like to have - let me know!

The White Rabbit

I've always had a facination with the character of the White Rabbit - especially as an Edwardian gentleman.  Here's my latest representation of this fine fellow.  He's made from of clay and supporting armature.  I need to learn how to use my camera better!  I cannot seem to take good pictures.

Etsy Shop

I finally decided to list a few things on Etsy.  My shop is SisterBrute's Menagerie.

I actually sold the one item I had listed within a few days - my Forgotten Skeleton, so I listed a couple more things tonight.  It's soooo incredibly fun to know someone else likes the things I create!  Good thing, too.  They're really starting to take over the entire house - rather insidiously.

I'm still at it...

I've been busy making miniatures - books, candles, jars filled with eyeballs and fangs, etc.

Now I've started putting them together... on thrift store finds that I have re-purposed.
               

I just love my little trick or treater all wrapped up like a mummy.  Or maybe he really is a mummy acting like a trick or treater.


And this is a collage on an old plaque from the thrift store....

And here is my lighted diorama.  It was lots of work, but when I have the lights flashing in it, I know  it was worth it.  It's very spooky.

I started with a shadow box from the thrift store, and a plastic bride & groom set.  I decapitated them and added skulls from dollar tree decorations.  The fireplace is a doll house miniature.  I made a red candle from some cheese I recently ate and stuck it in a skull bead.  I printed a picture of Poe and put him in a doll house frame.  Too much fun!

More Halloween Creations

A decoupaged wooden tissue box cover...

Fabric over stretched canvas with added embelishments...

And my pride and joy...    A diorama...      Love for the Lost

Halloween is taking over

I love making decoupaged houses.  I have collected tons of miniatures to decorate haunted rooms and witch's lairs as well.  I painted some little devils and vampires and added felt capes.  I found the pattern at weefolkart.com - http://weefolkart.com/content/free-patterns-gallery#gg0

It's a really fun web site!

My latest favorite came about as I opened a padded envelope.  It was made from small white bubble wrap.   I just thought it looked like the inside of a padded cell...  I have lots of skeletons around, and a straight jacket was easy enough to make...

Here's a Freebie...  I am starting to get the hang of Photoshop Elements.  I made this collage for a chalkboard:

My fabulous craft room

OK - so maybe it's a bit hard to walk around in there, but I love it!  My home within my home. Ideas abound!  Creativity wafts through the air like a haunting memory.  I do tidy it up, but it returns to it's state of equilibrium at a remarkable speed.