It is officially Autumn!  We have been to the local apple orchard and to a “fall” art festival and now I have to start decorating for Halloween.  It is my favorite holiday to decorate for so I am going to take a few days and get this doing.  I am not sure whether there will be a Halloween Blog Party this year or not but I may have my own no matter what. I just finished painting a new cake...

I just finished a new Bat Wing Mantel Clock.  This style of clock is a favorite of mine. Brandon hand carves the wings and attaches to the clock for me.  It makes for quite an impressive mantel clock.  This one I painted with orange and black with gold trim.  The front of the clock has a flock of bats flying.  The clock face has a crescent moon painted  on it with a witch on her broom flying by.  The top of the clock has a haunted scene of...

Dane and I went to the Akron Zoo on the 24th.  We haven’t been there since early this spring.  I had said I wasn’t going back until the expansion was complete so today was the day.  The expansion has been open for over a week and it was a unseasonably cool day, perfect!  Maybe not.  We arrived and the parking lot was full.  The zoo employee at the gate gave us a map and explained that they were parking incoming cars an overflow...

      Who doesn’t love a easy, delicious recipe?  I know I do.  This recipe was given to me by my friend years ago and I have made it many times and it hasn’t ever disappointed me.  I like to make this when we get company because it is so easy to put together and gets rave reviews.  I have used different cuts of meat and they all turned out really good.  I have sliced the meat prior to cooking and I have sliced it after cooking...

      Summer is just flying by and I have been trying to get some of the projects done that have been looming. I have just listed this Vintage Halloween inspired pendulum clock on our Etsy store.  The clock has a vintage haunted house scene on the top and the sides are painted with vintage style owls.  The clock face has a crescent moon with an owl perched on it.  The pendulum is a full moon with a flying bat and there are...

I’m back…….It is the unofficial start of the summer around here, Dane’s last real day of school was today only finals are left.   I have been in a funk with not wanting to blog anything and I decided that it is time to get this thing going again.  Maybe it will inspire me to get off my ass and get some lingering projects done and start some new exciting ones.  Maybe it will inspire me to go to some different places...