Happy Halloween!

Polymer clay marshmallows wishing you the happiest of Halloweens!  [Inspiration: Zombie marshmallows by Meaghan Mountford of The Decorated Cookie-permission obtained].

Ghouhl Friends Till The End

It's the Ghoul Friend pins making their Ghoulish Entrance again (get it? enTRANCE).  The Ghoul Friends work the graveyard shift and, make no bones about it, they think it is the best.  No ghouling around, they think every shroud has a silver lining.  They look forward to going out after work to party, but, don't worry, they practice safe hex.  They love going out to eat.  But no handburgers or halloweiners for them.  Nope, only the finest quality health food.  Why?  Because it is super natural.   Muwahahahahaha, so begins the Halloween season.

Halloween Fun

Here we are enjoying Halloween even in the after-life.  This just made me giggle so I had to get it for the front door.  I haven't had much time for all out decorating, but have managed a few here and there.

Beaded Spiderweb Bracelet

 I've had this spider pin for 20 years.  And now it has a new home on the beaded netted bracelet I made from the free tutorial Fusion Beads has on its website.  You can find it HERE.

 I made a loop and button closure and sewed the spider on.   Now, I'm in the Halloween mood.

Judy Belcher And Inchies

 Last year at Clay Carnival, Judy Belcher purchased one of my Inchie necklaces.  Polymer clay artist, Lynne Schmitt took a photo and recently sent it to me.  I'm thrilled to have it, thank you Lynne.

Each inchie was bagged with one of my cards in a zip lock bag.

Some of the new inchies for 2014 was Minion from Despicable Me, Sponge Bob, Zombie Pumpkin and Crazy Haired Zombies.  I hope people will like them.  I really had fun making them.

Happy Halloween!!

 Silly me....this is so appropriate for Halloween.  Here I was thinking I didn't have one thing I could post for this creative day.  But after emerging from my laboratory I went back and took some photos of my latest project.  This is a 40" doll I have started to "alter".  She has gone through several changes in these first drafts. After a base coat of metal paint and an application of lace here and there, I added the chains.  Nope, didn't like them and I didn't like the hair.

Her head was shaved and the large glass eye was replaced with a medium size glass eye.  The other eye remained small.

 After the second coat of metal paint dried, I filled in her leg joints with Apoxie Sculpt so she would be stable and not bend.

What are those circles?  Worries that are surfacing and working their way to the top and will eventually fly away to make room for whimsey.  No, seriously, I have no idea.  Just added them for interest.  More to follow.

Going Batty

I've got all the good pages marked with some polymer clay batty bookmarks.  I foresee lots of Halloween fun in your future.  I used a bat cookie cutter and cut out two medium thick bats from my polymer clay and sandwiched a paperclip in between them and baked.  I glued the eyes on after they cooled.

Tea With Friends

An enchanting gourd house (click HERE) needs some polymer clay accessories such as some wooden spools with leaves as a tabletop and seats.  Miss Ladybug has her tea and hound dog has his bone as polymer bats perch nearby.

The Old Woman Out Of Her Gourd will be an ongoing project.  I have started the garden/patio section that these pieces will be a part of, but have shelved it for now.  We will visit it later.

Zombie Raggedy Ann

I tried to make a zombie Raggedy Ann (on the right), but she didn't turn out too scary.  Maybe the next one.  Zombie Raggedy Ann lives on a dead end street, but vacations at the Dead Sea Spa Hotel.  No groans?  Just dead silence.

3 Zombies Hanging Around

I've been having fun making Zombie necklaces.  None of my zombies have hair, but if they did.....they would use scare-spray.  Yeah, I know.  I can hear the groans.  Can't help myself.

BONE China Pendant #2

A piece of polymer clay BONE china made into a pendant for one of the most creative holidays of the year-Halloween.  Yeah, having fun with these.

BONE China Pendant #1

It's not Delft pottery, but BONE china.  Okay, okay, I'm kicking the Halloween season off early with some polymer clay pendants made with my Skeleton Crew canes using Julie Eakes' Delft technique.

Clay Carnival Inchies

Polymer clay Inchies - 1"x1" tiles I made for the Las Vegas 2013 Clay Carnival Inchie Swap.   You know.....my favorite creative holiday is Halloween, so it was inevitable.

Halloween Past

 Hand sculpted polymer clay witch fingers.........

 My dining room table with witch legs...........

polymer clay gingerbread skeleton cookies and parties with friends...............remembering Halloween of last year.  I love Halloween.  We had too much going on this year to even decorate.  We had new tile put in our house, new windows and expanded my studio so everything has been in disarray.  So I'm enjoying looking back on a month of Halloween creations from 2011 (click HERE).

Dexter's Shower Curtain

On the last minute, I decided to make a "Psycho" shower curtain for Halloween. I set up in a small area on the side of our house and hung the plastic liner on the clothes line and started splattering a couple of colors of red acrylic paint. Spritzed it with some water and let the red drip down the curtain. The wind came up.................... and I had red paint all over the back of our trailer, the trailer's license plate, the propane tank, the rocks, you name it. We had some wind damage to our roof from the last wind storm, so I had a repairman come to give us an estimate. Unfortunately, he came the afternoon after I was done painting. He walked all the way around the house and stopped dead at that red splattered side yard and was speechless. Took me a minute to realize and then explain my crazy idea of the shower curtain and that it wasn't really blood. Honest.

Best Witches To You

Yes, yes, I know it's Turkey season, but I wanted to share a couple of photos from a great time yesterday. I Had a Witches Tea for some of my friends and we had such a good time laughing, eating and talking. I made the shoe favors from card stock I had on hand. But for the real witch's shoe photo and template, click HERE. Thank you to Skip To My Lou blog for the template and wonderful inspiration.

Happy Halloween

Polymer clay marshmallows wishing you the happiest of Halloweens!  [Inspiration: Zombie marshmallows by Meaghan Mountford of The Decorated Cookie-permission obtained]Photofunia editing lets me be an angel for the day. hehe.

Three Ghosts Hanging Around

A Fall leaf painted white to look like a ghost (click HERE) inspired me to make a few leaves in polymer clay for a necklace. Wish I could come up with a way of making them into a writing pen!

Polymer Zombie Marshmallows

Polymer Clay Zombie Marshmallows!

I saw some real Zombie Marshmallows on Meaghan Mountford's The Decorated Cookie (click HERE) and became inspired to create them out of polymer clay. I emailed Meaghan asking if I could create them in polymer and she said yes.  Meaghan is also the creator of the melting snowman cookie!  She is an amazing artist.

Skeleton Crew Jewelry

I pulled out my Skeleton Crew canes and have been making some spooktacular Halloween jewelry (if I do say so myself). Having fun.