Faerie Dust Dreams

11/11/08

Boutique Success!

This was my first boutique as a new member of the Goddesses of Craft!
Here I am ( Goddesses of Paper and Crowns) with my booth of Hand Crafted Christmas delights!
I had a very successful day and am happy with the response I recieved toward some new items I "finally" got around to creating!

I have but a few glittered tree's in pink, green and white availible along with a few birdy's, some stunning new crowns and tiara's and wire wrapped Faerie Furniture. Please visit my shop. Thursday, Nov. 13th, Noon, for your chance to capture a few for your self!
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Here is Kathryn, Goddess of Purses, Please visit her shop HERE, so you see more of her creations! Her hats and purses are one of a kind and she puts so much love into each one!

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Reina, is the Goddess of Jewerly. Her designs are dazzeling with a touch of Asian royalty. Please visit her shop HERE.

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Pat, is our Goddess of Sewing. Maker of beautiful aprons, purses, table runners and more!
If you are interested in something you see here, please contact her at pmocca@yahoo.com

Lastly, but not the least is our head Goddess of Paper, Laura.
What a delightful shop of goodies she had that day! So many yummy's!
Please visit her shop HERE.

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So, that was our Holiday Boutique! Lots of fun and good friends!

I can't wait to show you my new treasures in my shop on Thursday!!

~Michelle

11/09/08

Día de los Muertos

~ On November 2nd, I taught a class of making tissue paper flowers and reverse glass paintings.

Here's mine that I made as a class demo.

This flaming skull with die cut back ground was made by Genevieve.

~ The girls also made the Tissue flowers which they wore in their hair for the group shot.

Genevieve

~ Diana and her creation

Here's the one I made as I was showing them the techniques.

~ Delicious sweet bread to finish the day!

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*** I taught the class through a Scrapbooking/ Altered Art group I Organize. We are called the "West Coast Croppers" If you interested in joining and live in and around Southern California, we are open to new members! Please go HERE for more details!

11/06/08

Family Halloween Re-Cap

~Here are pic's from Thursday nights Pumpkin carving party and Halloween

~ I made little markers for all the food. We had Devil Dogs, Spider cupcakes, assorted spooky named appetizers,

peach flavored Jello- "Brain" and "Bloody" Joes

~ My friend Buffi gave me this FAB skull bracelet! The large glass beads glow in the center!

~ Here a tutu I made for my witch costume. I really liked how it came out with a hat that matched my leggings.

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Here's Brian with his Dad, Jim and the final outcome of my spider web trauma from a earlier post. The winds we had helped neutralize everything, so I'm pleased with the look!

At our pumpkin carving party, This is my really good friend Teresa carving away. ( she was amazed that there were "tools" to carve pumpkins as all he had to carve one at home was a kitchen knife!)

In the background you can see Bruce (Laura's Husband) carving away.

Teresa and Sydney, The spider pumpkin was carved by James, My Sister in Law Genny carved "Jack"

At the table is my Brother in law Vance with Genny and Corey.

This is Sydney with her own cute Jack 'O' Lantern grin!

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Halloween

~ What's nice about living in a cul-de-sac is you have a safe place for your child to play and your neighbors know how to party on Halloween Night.

At the end, live some sisters who on every Halloween set up a wicked table of food, candy and lots and lots of wine! They love their wine. I had about 4 glasses! and good stuff too! They know their wine, which is good cause I don't. On my 4th glass, I brought my own from inside for a fill up so I relax on my couch for the night.

~ Dyllan (Jedi) and Grandpa Jim (Yoda)

~ dyllan trying on Grandpa's mask...

I finally got around to carving my pumpkin on Halloween day. I wanted it to look like the ones I see at Disneyland. I really like how it turned out!

Don't you?

11/04/08

Charm Swap!

What a fabulous "fall and Halloween" Charm Swap we had!

These are the extra goodies some of the girls included for me! How nice!

This charm was created by my good friend Sherry!

Here's front and back!

Next is a variety from Tracy laine, Diana Pohl, Pam Hoffman,

Mahala Elliot, Susan Caroll, & Valerie Myers

This Day of the dead beauty was created by a charm making "newbie"

~Michelle Betaudier!

We had a laugh over the fact that her boyfriends last name is Cummings and if she marries him, we will share the same name and same hobby!

Here, she hand crafted the box to look like a coffin, with velvet lining. Inside she made the skulls complete with sparkely eyes and crowns. and they glow! How honored we were to have her join the swap!

With every charm swap I host, I try to incoorperate one of my signature birds nest. I wanted them to be some what spooky and so I made my own black alchohol ink! What do you think?

We have a new printer. (thank god). When the old one would run out of color ink, the printer would not even work with a full black cartridge. Got to be quite the pain as I needed it to work for printing shipping lables.

So we have a nice new black ink only. Laser printer/copier/scanner. Nice!

I printed this image out on cream colored shrink plastic and made some "wicked" charms!

The large print is the before....

I also made pins for everyone! They either recieved the black cat or the pumpkin. I used a new must have product, called Crackle Accents by Ranger.

The one and only, Melissa Merrill made these sodered gems, front and back!

So that concludes the charm swaps for this year! If you would like to see treasures from our past charm swaps, please go here, and here!

The next charm swap I host will be inApril of 2009. The theme will be Birds. If you would like to be included, please send me a e-mail and I'll personally invite you as the time draws near.

Please come back and visit later this week for highlights from our in house Halloween parties and a Day of the Dead art class I taught!