Sally Annie Magundy

Monday, November 9, 2009

Etsy update - Christmas Stamps

I've listed three more unused sheets of Christmas Stamps in my Etsy store. You can use them for holiday cards or ATC's or collage work, etc. or even use them for mailing this years holiday cards.

Monday blog love

Holy moly, this is a long list! But I sure had fun finding or following links to all of these great blogs while I was hunting for Halloween fun over the past few weeks. Enjoy!

7 Layer Studio
A Forest Frolic
A Hole in the Basket Primitives
a little sweetness
A Vintage Affair
Amber's Ambry
armelle
astulabee
At Home with Crab Apple Designs
Bel's Nook
Bits and Pieces
Bodil's Scrappeverden
Cecilia's Sampler Blog
Chronically Vintage
Classics and Country
Constantly Vintage
Cris Melo
designer jots
Dollar Store Crafts
Every Life Has A Story
expo 67 lounge
Fluffy Bricks
goody-goody
Hand Embroidery Network
House of Art
In My Blue Room
Just Something I Made
Kard Krazy
katy elliott
Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs
Kitchen Retro
Knitting Iris
Lavender and Limes
Lili M.
lilli violette
Lost Coast Post
magda trzaski
my little life
Nice Package
Passionate Details
pictures and pancakes
Plum Pudding NeedleArt
Poddasze
Rare Bird
Shabby chic papirskatter
sketch & jones
Soul Aperture
Stitch and More
Stitchy Stitcherson
tarnished and tattered
The Baby Gardner
The Big Yellow Farmhouse
The Polka Dot Pixie
the vintage dragonfly studio
Wednesday Stamper
Woolen Sails

Sunday, November 8, 2009

I love Wallace and Gromit! We watched A Matter of Loaf and Death last night, so cute!

We also watched two DVD's of the Shaun the Sheep series recently (rented from Netflix) - I don't think they ran this series here??? I sure missed them if they did, which seems next to impossible since I LOVE everything Nick Park does.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Plumb tuckered out ...

and running on empty. I've been trying to come up with something to say on my blog and I'm just like ... duh, huh, what ... and can't think of a thing. (I think my So. Cal. upbringing is showing with that sentence, huh?!) I think I wore out my middle aged brain with all the Halloween posting. OUCH! So it looks like it's going to be a stream of consciousness post - please forgive me.

I'm so silly - I really want this tablecloth at Pottery Barn Kids! We saw it in the window last weekend and it's so CUTE! No elegant earth tone frou frou table dressing for me - I want turkeys in boats, arriving in the new world. Tune in later to see, will she or won't she succumb to the unbearable cuteness of it! The strange thing is that at the actual store, they have turkey placemats but they don't have them online ... usually it's vice versa, more stuff online than at the store. What gives PBK?! Where you hiding those place mats from me??? Perhaps a subtle message from them that I need to grow up and put aside turkeys in tall ships ...

It's pretty comical since we won't be home for Thanksgiving dinner. Ay yi yi. Well let me amend that, we are vegetarian and we always have our own Thanksgiving dinner the day before at home. Then on Thanksgiving, we go out to dinner with my family and some family friends for dinner. We've been going out since my mother passed away - no one else wants to cook.

Well, I would cook but I dare say anyone would jump for joy over Tofurky other than hubs and I. So we go out.

And I always like to bring a little giftie for everyone who comes. Some chocolates or home made cookies or one time I got everyone pumpkin tea and apple truffles. yummers! And I like to package everything creatively - I like the presentation to be as fun as the gift. I need to get off of my computer glued rear end and figure out what I will bring this year and how I will foo foo it up!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

I love Dia de los Muertos. I love the ritual of it, the craftiness of it but most dear to me is the paying tribute and remembering.

My father believes that visiting a cemetery is feeling sorry for oneself. We cannot talk of loss or shared grief. He is the stiff upper lip, the stoic. I am the softie, the heart on the sleeve. He on one side of the bank and I on the other, with no bridge to meet upon.

So my heart swells as if I have finally found home when I place my mother and brothers photos on my mantle, along with items that they loved. I talk to them. I write them notes. I laugh. I cry. These days my mother and brother sit upon the mantle with my Auntie, beloved friends gone too soon and furry family members.

We drove out to Pasadena yesterday to the wonderful store, The Folk Tree. We love to visit year round but we always make a trip out for their annual Dia de los Muertos altar exhibit, Altars and Ephemera.

I picked up a few darling skulls and skeletons for our altar and some skeleton paper garlands to hang. I hope I can still find some marigolds for our altar. I had hoped to make pan de muerto and sugar skulls but I don't think I'm going to get around to it.

We are going to the Loteria Grill for breakfast and then we'll come home and begin our altar.

If Dia de los Muertos is your kind of thing, be sure and visit the participants of Dia de Bloglandia, organized by the oh so wonderful blogs Rodrigvitz Style, Susanna's Sketchbook and recuerda mi corazon. And if those leave you wanting more, there are last years participants to view too. Read all the wonderful stories of remembrance from the participants of the 2008 Dia de Bloglandia.

Look at all the wonderful Day of the Dead crafts and recipes assembled on One Pretty Thing:
2008 Day of the Dead
2009 Day of the Dead

Video of how to make your face up as a Calavera Catrina for Dia de los Muertos.

Video found via Susanna's Sketchbook

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween!

It's Halloween! It's Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen
On any other night
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls
Grinning goblins fighting duels
Werewolves raising from their tombs
Witches on their magic brooms
In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for "Trick or Treat"
Tonight we are the king and queen
For oh tonight it's Halloween!
-Jack Prelutsky

Tasty treats from not Martha for All Hollows Eve!

Orange Pumpkin Pancakes with black cinnamon syrup and spiders!

Meat Hand

Friday, October 30, 2009

Nearing the witching hour

Did you think I was done? nuh uh, not me ... I'm like the Ever Ready bunny once I get a hold of something! Now don't fret or fuss, all I've manage to get done are my Halloween cards. So no worries - it's all good and there's always next year! I'll be trying to decorate tonight and watching Frankenweenie and maybe Sleepy Hollow too, love Tim Burton! Happy Halloween!

Halloween Bingo card printables from Creating Myself (play a game or use for artwork)
Halloween Bingo cards (there are several more images)

Antique Cabinet Card Halloween Nut Cups tutorial by Jenny Heid (Everyday is a Holiday) for Joli Paquet
Antique Cabinet Card Halloween Nut Cups

Adam's Scary Apples from Matt Bites
Matt Bites

Funny Bones recipe from Epicurious, found via the wonderful Edible Crafts
Funny Bones recipe at Epicurious
Edible Crafts (tons of Halloween food ideas here!)

Marshmallow Ghost Bites from the Decorated Cookie
Marshmallow Ghosts

Thank you Pam!

The adorable and oh so talented, Pam at yoborobo, had a giveaway and I won the second prize!!! The absolutely darling, little gremlin guy, Marty arrived yesterday. As if he wasn't the greatest gift, Pam enclosed a signed print of her wonderful artwork too!!!

Pam, you are the kindest, dearest, most generous and fabulously talented person! Thank you thank you thank you for being my friend and pal and such a sweetie & such a generous spirit and thank you so much for Marty and your gorgeous print! (whew! worlds longest sentence!)

And since you asked where my 2009 Halloween card is, here it is, somehow I produced something in the frantic mess that was yesterday. Couldn't have been easier, I made a skull template and used paper punches and cardstock. Oh and rick rack too. :)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Boo!

Boo Banner at Debbie Mumm
Boo Banner

Quaker Boo Sampler from The Sampler Girl
Quaker Boo Sampler

Boo Banner Tutorial from at Joli Paquet
Boo Banner Tutorial

Be inspired by this Boo-ffet Table from Parents.com
Boo-ffet Table

Boo Garland from Cottage Magpie
Boo Garland

Hey! Lookie what I found!

A vintage Halloween card that my mother (age six - well, I think actually her mom did it on her behalf) gave her grandmother! So fun, it's postmarked October 30, 1927.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

More more more Halloween crafty goodness!

Candy Corn bark candy at allrecipes, found via one pretty thing
Candy Corn Bark recipe
One Pretty Thing

Little Pumpkin Head from Linda Albrecht
Little Pumpkin Head tutorial

Halloween masks at spool
Halloween masks

Betty Boo Sock Doll from Heather Bailey
Betty Boo Sock Doll

Halloween Wreath by Leah Fung at Making Memories
Halloween Wreath tutorial
Leah Fung's blog

snowflake pumpkins from mer mag
snowflake pumpkins tutorial

Spooky Spinners from the adorable Jenny B Harris at Owlsorts
Spooky Spinners tutorial

Vintage Halloween Peg People from Zakka Life
Vintage Halloween Peg People

Vintage Halloween ornaments from The Swell Life
Vintage Halloween Ornaments

Monday, October 26, 2009

Manic Macabre Monday

ACK! I woke up at three o'clock this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. So boring to just lay there so I tumbled out of bed at four twenty. YAWN! Hope to catch a nappy later.

Don't know what's up but I haven't been able to upload photos to my blog for two days now?! Fortunately I had some drafts of posts, with photos already loaded.

These are some Halloween cards that I made. I love to make cards, although I'm not great at making the same thing over and over again. Five of one design is about as much as I can stand - more gives me the heebie jeebies.

This one is from Halloween 2006. The oval frame and inside were made using a sizzix frame die. The spooky skelly scene was made with some halloween dingbats. The skeleton on the inside of the card is also a dingbat. I love dingbats!

I made this card for Halloween 2004. I made it using paper punches, clip art and dingbats. Hurray dingbats again! The font on the inside is a lot of fun - the letters are made up of bones.

Edited to add: Okie dokie - I can upload photos if I use Safari instead of Firefox!

So here's my card from 2008. Easy peasy. Found a darling pumpkin template online and just chalked it and layered it over cardstock.