There is a something a little strange happening around our home.   It began as I was sitting at the kitchen table and the shadows on the wall got my attention….my mind drifted to one of my favorite places, a place I missed very much this year…The Haunted Mansion.          Then I looked around and  began to think maybe we did indeed bring home a hitchhiking ghost from one of our trips to...

        I just finished my newest Bat Wing Clock.  I am a Disney, Haunted Mansion fan and I have been wanting to do a clock like this for a while.  I finally just did it.  There are a few ghostly friends on the clock.  The top is painted with a outdoor cemetery scene with the Hitchhiking Ghosts looking to go home with you…  The clock face is painted with my rendition of ghostly portrait flanked by the pattern of...

          My wonderful husband has been working in his shop for a while making a new nutcracker.  He made one like it for the Nutcracker Convention this year which was sold and is now in the Nutcracker Museum in Leavenworth, WA.  I thought he was making this current one to sell too.  Well, he surprised me and said that he wants me to have it.     I just love it!  Isn’t it remarkable? He always does...

                I spend a little time just about every day looking around on Pinterest.  I get so many ideas there, more ideas than I have time to follow through on.  I have seen a lot of these drippy candles and I have pinned numerous ones thinking I would give them a whirl.  This is the one that gave me the push to finally just try my hand at making some…   We had a cardboard mailer tube...

          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...