Toodee's Needle Felting Project

So I go down to the studio tonight and there's Toodee with a chunk of wool and the needle felting tool stuck between his teeth. He told me he wanted to try needle felting and ran off to a corner of the table to set to work...... Well about a half an hour later he came back with what he called, "his new Halloween eyeball"! He wore it the whole night and I couldn't get him to take it off!
I made this little Halloween book of 8 original ATCs and right away he grabbed it to read it with his "new eye".

Here is the finished project from the other night. Her name is Zelda and this is her Halloween display complete with tiny frosted bottle brush tree inside of her glittery black bat cave and 2 needle felted jack-o-lanterns. She is available at All Hallows Evening.

I was watching "Ugly Betty" tonight and her dad gave her this little bit of advice, "Life isn't about making the right decisions, it's about dealing with the decisions you've made." Boy, isn't that the truth! It just hit me as a really good quote.

Taking a Break.......

Took a little break from the studio today. Made a fabulous pizza with organic, cold pressed olive oil that was a creamy green color and so fresh tasting......basal from my garden.......tomatoes from sombody elses garden.........kalamata olives from my olive tree (not really, I wish!)........buffalo mozzarella cheese from my pet buffalo........just kidding, from Wal-Mart actually and fresh homemade pizza dough........a dash of salt and a few cranks of pepper and ta-da! It was so de-lish!!!!!!

Gary and I ate the pizza overlooking the back flower garden. The black-eyed Susans are doing great as well as the hostas!

Sneak peek of a new Halloween project started earlier this week..........and it's not a shadowbox. Hmmmm, are you curious?????