Halloween Pies!

My favorite time of year is Halloween, when else can you go to parties in your favorite homemade costumes?!  Also being a "crafter" means that you're always on call for other people's Halloween costumes, which is extra fun and challenging.  We'll you can rest assured that costumes did in fact happen but so did jack o'lantern pumpkin pie!  The secret is to bake a basic pumpkin for a little over half the time and then adding on the pie crust face.  Just make sure that the pumpkin pie has solidified enough so that the face doesn't sink into the pumpkin and it will turn out just fine.

Scrap Quilting

Calling it a "scrap quilt" might be a little misleading because after my first hand dyed quilt, I had enough fabric left over to make 4 more queen+ quilts.  This quilt pattern is another one out of my imagination.  It was inspired by a layout on my digital scrapbook website and progressed from there. Being a night owl, I don't think I ever worked on this before 10pm, which means there were a number of long nights but now its finished!  I'll post again with a close up on the quilting, which transformed this quilt from good to freaking fantastic.

Birch Tree Wall Art

So this is one that I ended up buying on etsy because WOW it is beautiful and I just don't have the equipment to vinyl cut a 12 ft birch tree art project.  And I quickly discovered all of my friends aka drafted assistants are afraid of heights, so guess who was the one to climb to the top step of the 10ft ladder? This Girl! Don't try that at home kids!

Before:


After:


But it was a lot of fun putting up all of the individual leaves and the big tree trunks!
 

Paper Roses

I'm still not 100% sure why I NEEDED to make a bouquet of paper roses, but no regrets here!  I followed these instructions, and sacrificed some discarded/weeded library books for the cause.  The ruler is for scale because they ended up to be a crazy huge bunch in comparison to their thin wire stems. For a couple of them I put fake pearls in the center of the rose to add a little something special.

Spaceships Attack!

I've been in a decorating mood lately and I have decided that I need something to spice up the walls in my bedroom.  Luckily for me, I live in the same town as three makerspaces, so I stopped by and made myself some custom spaceship vinyl cutouts!  I take no credit for drawing these or any such thing, I turned pictures from the internet into black and white images and traced the edges in the vinyl cutter program... so these guys are definitely not for sale.  But they are pretty and the perfect space battle!  Now I just need to make a couple of tentacles for my bathroom  :D



On a side note the best thing about vinyl is that its non damaging to the walls, perfect for renting.  These weren't meant to be reused BUT from experience they'll last one move if you transport them on freezer paper and are really careful when pealing them off the walls.