A Very Busy Day........

I had a very busy and productive day today! I stopped at Michaels on the way home and picked up some paperclay and this groovy little pad of Halloween paper.

This is a quick pic of my new studio station that my husband made for me. It consists of 2 of these huge cabinets connected with a raised panel so that I can sit between the cabinets. I have a make shift top of piece of wood on top until I get the Corian top. I just love the warm golden hue of the oak and these cabinets hold soooooooooo much stuff!!! Whew-whooooo!

It will have a 7 foot long Corian top when it's finished! Can't wait! Lots of space to spread out. It reminds me of when I was in college and especially graduate school, I'd go to the library to the top floor in the magazine stacks and commandeer a fine old 6 foot long oak table to spread out all my books and papers on then I'd commense to reading and usually within 20 minutes I'd be drooling on a pile of papers fast asleep! But the point of this rambling, and yes there is a point.....I like to spread out my stuff!

So when I got home I had the most delightful suprise all the way from Kent, England from the very talented Dani, my very own elf! I'm so in love with him! But he's an active little devil, as soon as I unpacked him (the box looked liked a gorilla sat on it.....rough trip over the pond!) he jumped out and ran out into the flowers and sweet potato vines! I've named him Veepers!
He discovered the basil bush and really likes sitting under it while eating the leaves!

I'm just hoping I can keep Veepers away from Toodee because God only knows the trouble they will get into together! You can check out Dani's Pixie creations photostream at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixie_patch/

Ouch! Ouch! That was me soldering yesterday when molten drops of metal dropped on my fingers! Did you hear the cursing???? Here are fruits of my labors. The pennants measure 8 inches across by 6 inches high. There are 2 original collages sandwiched between 2 sheets of glass, soldered and embellished with bead charms and polkadot ribbon for hanging. When you get tired of looking at Goth-Boy and Pumpkin Lady you just flip it over to the Smiling Pumpkin!

This pennant is available at All Hallows Evening!

Dapper Boo Boy Pennant

Dapper Boy Boy is looking pretty snazzy in his spatz, purple bat wings, pointy hat and long black frock coat with pumpkin buttons. Don't you just love the look on this kid's face? Just the way he is standing you can tell he thought he was quite "the man"! This Halloween pennant was so much fun to make because my goal was to use a lot of colors, textures and subject matter and I think I did all three. The back of the pennant has a hand painted pumpkin on orange polkadot paper with surrounding collage. It's available to purchase in the Honey Girl Studio Shop.

Sweet Baby Boy..........

Oh yah! Who doesn't just love candy????? This is another pennant that I made for Halloween. I experimented with the metal plumbers tape and I have to tell you......I don't even like it.......I love it! You can easily emboss your own free form designs in it with just a pencil. You can find the foil tape at Home Depot or Lowe's but it's the cheapest at Home Depot ($3.00 a roll). The little boy is a copy of a vintage photo from around the 1930s. Isn't he sweet? Again, this pennant will be soldered b/twn 2 pieces of glass and chooched up with Halloween charms and such. It's been so stinking hot here in PA that I just can't bring myself to fire up the old soldering iron! Holy melting Hershey's chocolate!!!!! It's supposed to be 97 degrees today with high humidity! Not the best conditions to solder in.
If you've used foil tape on your collages I'd love to see pics of it!


Sweet Baby Boy close up.......... he's all glittered up!
This is the back of the pennant........
I used the foil tape at the top. I cut it with decorative scissors to get the scalloped edge then using a semi-dull pencil embossed the curly design and lastly wiped on black paint to go into the grooves and give it some dimension. I also used the foil behind the word love and punched out tiny circles and embossed them to look like screws.
I've been into the color combo of orange, blue and black..............
Melting chocolate smiles-
Tootie