Summer is officially in full swing around here.  This summer we are busy doing projects around the house (I will post with our home improvement update hopefully next week) and we are going on some local trips to places we love and some places we have never been to. There will be lots of summer celebrations and I had a cake stand sitting here and I thought I would paint another Americana Cake Stand. I painted this cake stand with a American...

The last few months I have been enjoying Pinterest.  I really love pinning items I love and having a great way to keep track of all of the great things I come across.  It has really helped me keep organized.  My bookmarks were out of control and now this is just a great way for me to be able to organize and be able to locate a site without a lot of fumbling about. It also has made me really want to try some new things and I decided that...

I felt like mixing it a little so I decided that  I feel like painting some flowers. I had this clock that was picked up at a flea market.  It is a handmade clock and looked rather drab when I got it.  I decided to paint it a deep black green and add some hydrangeas to it.  The hydrangeas are painted in shades of blue, white and highlighted in lavender.         This was a nice change from painting Halloween themed...

    I know I should be thinking about Easter and Spring and be painting things like Easter Bunnies and Colored Eggs but I just have not been feeling that.  Instead I have felt like painting for Halloween.       I had a couple of wood candle holders and decided to make them into Halloween Decor.  The first one is the Mean Jack-o-Lantern.   Mean Jack has been sculpted with paper clay to look menacing. There are...

    I had been in a painting slump for a while.  I suddenly felt like getting some of my half finished projects done.  One of those is this Bat Wing Mantel Clock.  I had it almost finished for a while and it was just sitting so it seemed like the best thing to complete first.  I really love this clock design and when you see it in person it is a pretty impressive design.  It has a wingspan of 20 ½ inches and is 7 ½ inches tall....

If you missed my last post, this year I decided that our gingerbread house would be modeled after the Disneyland 2011 Haunted Mansion Gingerbread House.  You can check it out at the Disney Parks Blog. After a lot of hard work and finagling our gingerbread house is completed!  It was a bit nerve wracking after completing the house to see if the electronics and animatronics were going to work with the weight of the gingerbread, icing and...