31 Days of Halloween - Day 28 - Blinged Out Witch's Hat

 

And here we are on day 28! Yea!  And you are hopping onto the Smeared and Smudged Forum's 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop! Yea!  I love all the wonderful projects that I'm seeing on my daily hops!  Take a bow, Wicked Bloggers!

Below are all the fabulous bloggers:

Terra,Tori,Kristy,Kapree,Alison,Christine,Kelli,Windy,Susan,Alex,Monique,Jane,Sugar,Black Dragon,Lisa,Shell,Jean,Julia,Jennifer,Loren,Christy,Vee,Lady Brayton,Lindsay,Little Black Kitten,Celeste,Leigh,Pam,Donna,Valerie,Helen,Sharon,Lisa,Karen,Carolyn,Pam

What does every witch need to shine at a Witch's Tea? A fabulous hat! I started with a cool hat I found on line after last year's Witch's Tea, for a huge discount! That was my very first Witches tea and I wore a hooded cloak, which I love, but...there was a best hat contest! Who knew! So, as I said, I started with one that was already cool and had a ball blinging it up!
Materials:
A pointed hat
Hot glue
Feathers
Wire
Beads
Bangles
Knick knacks, doo dads and glitter glue

	Here's my cool hat.I love all the black gauze and and bent over point!
	You may recognize many of the bling I'm adding as Halloween projects from earlier in the October.This is the first bling - a small bat pendant with a skull bead dangle. I sewed it on to make it easy to switch out for next year's tea.
	I cut 6 3" to 4" strips of tulle 36" wide and tied them in a bow.
	I hot glued the bow on the back and added this bauble.It's Smeared Ink's It's About Time Pocket Watch stamp glued on the back of a glass blob. I added glitter glue to the tulle.
	I glued feathers all the way around and sewed on a pendant piece and added wires that I curled up and attached dangles to.

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31 Days of Halloween - Day 21 - Frankie Door Hanger

It's day 21 of Smeared and Smudged Forum's 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop! Can you believe it?  It's going by so fast!  I love all the wonderful projects that I'm seeing on my daily hops!  Take a bow, Wicked Bloggers!

Below are all the fabulous bloggers:

Terra,Tori,Kristy,Kapree,Alison,Christine,Kelli,Windy,Susan,Alex,Monique,Jane,Sugar,Black Dragon,Lisa,Shell,Jean,Julia,Jennifer,Loren,Christy,Vee,Lady Brayton,Lindsay,Little Black Kitten,Celeste,Leigh,Pam,Donna,Valerie,Helen,Sharon,Lisa,Karen,Carolyn,Pam

By now, you know that I save - nay- seek out fun tissue boxes. The whole sides are usable for just about anything, but the overlapping sides are only partially useable. Well I liked this little guy enough to carefully take him apart and put him back together. Apropo, no?

Materials:
Halloween tissue box
Scissors
Hole punch - 1/8" - I used the small hole punch on my Cropadile
Grommets
Cropadile or grommet setter
Glitter glue - I used black to make the "stitches"
20 Gauge wire
Headpins
Wire cutters
Round nose pliers Beads

1. Cut out your focal panel and decorate with glitter glue if desired and allow to dry.
2. Punch 2 holes toward the outer edges on the top and punch 5 holes on the bottom edge.
3. Add grommets to the holes.
4. Cut a 16" piece of wire and fill half way with beads.
5. Slide all the beads to the middle of the wire and put the wire tails through the top 2 holes from back to front.  6. Use the round nose pliers to start a spiral on the wire tails and roll them up to the holes.
7. Make or buy 5 charms. If you make them, slide 2 or 3 beads on a headpin and make a large loop.
8. Slide the charms though the grommets on the bottom and wrap the wire tails around to secure.

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It's Time to Play Glitter Your Garbage!

This week's show theme on Cool2Craft TV is Glitter Your Garbage.  It sounded like the name of a game show, so I went with it!  My weekly video is "Glitter Your Garbage: the Game Show That's Changing the World!".

If you feel inspired, come on over to Cool2Craft and post a project on our Linky Party!  It's easy and fun and I'll be your best friend!

Year Round Celebration Tree

 After the holidays this year, I got an awesome deal on a small lighted tree in an urn.  I've wanted one for years!  I decided to celebrate my year of harmony and robots by keeping it decorated! 
Right now it's a Valentine tree!  See the jar in front of it?  It's a Scentsy warmer.  In fact it's Scentsy's warmer of the month!

 What I love most about it is that the small glass heart on the front is lit by a hole in the jar, AND if you look up and to the right of the jar, you'll see the feint  heart shaped light.  I wish I could have picked it up better because it's so cool!  It casts heart shaped lights all around on the walls! This is the kind of thing that makes me want to sing!  My Sister-in-law sells Scentsy if you're interested (https://debbiesimmons.scentsy.us/).

I made an ornament for the top of the tree with my new Sizzix die cutter, card stock, beads and tissue paper.  There's a light right at the top of the tree, so it shines through the tissue paper!

The best part of this morning was my hubby making me heart shaped bacon and heart shaped pancakes!  Yea!  Have a fabulous Valentine's Day!