Little Witch Altered Shoe

Hello, I'm so glad you could stop by today.

I've just put the kettle on to heat for tea.

Let me show you what I've been up to lately.

I started by printing off a copy

of an antique photo of

a little girl in period dress.

I glued her onto a piece of black foam board.

and cut her out with my Exact-o-knife.

She is wearing a hat with a wide brim

so I added a long narrow black cone to the back of her

head to represent a witch's hat.

I fashioned a little broom for her to hold

 from a toothpick and some colored grass

cut from a floral pick.

I stood her up in a little girl's

 black patent leather shoe

purchased at a resale shop.

A glittery pumpkin

and silk leaf are tucked into

the back of the shoe.

I cut the band off a 

plastic bat ring

and hot glued it to a black wire

so that it appears to follow along above

the "little witch".

A little glittery orange tulle

and some black and silver garland

finishes it off.

All set for scaring up a Happy Halloween.

I hear the kettle whistling... time for tea.

Won't you pour a cup and stay awhile to look around.

Please leave a comment so I can return the visit.

Joining the party at Ivy & Elephants
Share Your Cup Thursday
and HomeWorks Creative Party

Hugs,

Betty Jean

Halloween Decorated Tree

As you may know,

in the office where I work

we have a white Christmas tree

that we  I decorate for all occasions

year around.

As always, I purchase some

things to hang on the tree

but I enjoy crafting

many of the decorations myself.

To appeal to  all ages, I decorate

a "friendly" tree, 
no blood and gore, that's just not me,

and, we have a few little ones visit our office
from time to time, so

 for Halloween  we don't want to make things
too scary.

Traditional little jack-o-lantern pumpkin 

treat baskets,

mummy treat baskets

and the paper honeycomb pumpkins

all give a vintage feel 

and remind "grown-up kids"

of their own trick-or-treating days of yesteryear.

Also traditional, 

bats, black cats and witches. 

These are felt which I purchased,

but could easily be handmade cut from

either stiff felt or card stock.

I also hung little green glittered shoes

I purchased on discount after last Christmas season.

Not exactly "witches" shoes but 

I think you get the idea.

 I liked that it added a different color to the 

tree decor getting away from too much

orange and black.

Now for my handmade decorations.

Candy corn,

cut from three colors of craft foam sheets

and glued together, easy peasy!!

Haunted Houses

also hand cut from craft foam sheets 

using a Exacto-knife.

Spiders... these are my favorite...

made from "fuzzy sticks" pipe cleaners,

two sizes of pompoms for their body,

and very tiny pompoms for the eyes 

Use 4 fuzzy sticks for the legs.
Just hold them together side by side with ends even
and give a twist in the center to connect.
Now you have 8 legs.
Then bend each leg, forming sharp corners
for "knees and feet" and
spread the legs out from each other a little.

To form the body and head,
hot glue a larger and smaller pompom together,
use two tiny pompoms for eyes.
Then hot glue the body onto where
the legs are twisted together.

Cute as spiders go, 
don't you agree?!

Spider webs

made from more black "fuzzy sticks"

and purple "glitter sticks" pipe cleaners.

Start out the same as with the spider legs
but using just use 3 pipe cleaners.
Give a twist in the center to connect
and spread out to form 6 spokes
or a pie shape.
Then twist and connect smaller
sections of pipe cleaner between
the spokes and shape.
It doesn't have to be perfect....

it's a spider web.

The tree is topped off with a black hat
and orange glittery tulle bow.

Looove!!
 how the tree lights  shine through the 

sheer fabric of the hat/bow.

Happy Halloween to all.

Pumpkin Carving

My daughter has discovered

she has a talent for

pumpkin carving!

Take a look...

Here's how it looks 

without the light inside...

And, in honor of a

four legged

member of our family...

Can you see what it is?

Yes, of course, a Dachshund!!

I think she did a super job

with her carving....so much patience!!

Thank you for stopping in for a visit,

I hope you enjoyed the pumpkins.

Please leave a comment, I'd love to

return the visit.

Have you carved any pumpkins yet?

If you post about it, let me know & I'd be happy to 

include a link at the bottom of this post.

Happy Halloween

Fall Decorated Tree

Here's a quick post 

to show my office tree

decorated for fall.

"Minimalistic "

 with just a wide (5 inch?) burlap ribbon.

and several  (6?) garlands of silk leaves

each one measuring 5 foot in length.

 With a few sparcely placed

scarecrow ornaments I picked up

at a dollar store.

And to top it all off

a loopy bow made from a

leaf-patterned wired ribbon.

I looove the simplicity of it,

and how the colors of the natural burlap 

and the leaves 

in shades of orange & red

stand out against the white tree!

Happy Fall Y' All !