I just saw the invitation for this year’s Halloween Blog Party from Vanessa at A Fanciful Twist!  Yippee!!  I am looking forward to it and it will get my butt in gear and get the rest of my decorations out.  Now I have some planning to do. We have already been to one Halloween party this year.  We went to the Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween party on September 18th so we are...

            I have completed a vintage inspired Halloween cake stand and have listed it on Ebay.  I painted the stand top with a vintage inspired moon and owl.  The bottom of the cake stand is painted with bats.     If you are interested in purchasing it please check out the Etsy listing.   I am currently working on a few more Halloween items and there are some more in our Etsy store....

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 was talking to my mom about wanting something sweet to eat but not knowing what I wanted.  She told me about a recipe she had got at her Weight Watchers meeting.   She has been making it ever since and always has it on hand for her and my dad.  It is a no baking involved desert that makes a good snack too as there is protein in it to help keep you feeling full. She gave me the recipe and I tweeked it for me.  I cannot use artificial...

    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...