ooooooohhhh ... spoooooky

Lots of creepy creations being brewed in blogger laboratories ...

Skeleton cupcakes from Holidash

Make this darling folk art cat ornament from Joli Paquet

Mummify your Halloween invitations with help from Homework

Ghost Containment System from Mod (Mad) Vintage Life

Make a Halloween Wall Hanging from Lark and Lola
(found via One Pretty Thing)

Three Halloween Treats by LeAnne Ballard, for Moda Bake Shop

LeAnne Ballard's blog

Children's Play Mate Magazine

(Please visit Suzanne at Colorado Lady for more Vintage Thingie Thursday fun!)

Wishing everyone a great Vintage Thingie Thursday!

This post is a continuation of this post where I shared the color pages of my Children's Play Mate Magazine. I am sharing some of the darling black and white illustrations with you today for VTT.

(I think these little piggies are so cute!)

(for my vintage crafty friends)


(for vintage recipe lovers)


(giggles)


(words of wisdom???)

More crafty spookiness

Frank 'n' Friends from Family Fun

Ghost Treat Bags from Mega Spooky

Halloween Witch tutorial from the adventures of blue girlxo

Spider Bread from Red Couch Recipes

Fabric Halloween Garland from Urban Comfort

Nutter Butter Ghosts from My Happy Place

Halloween Village from Little Lovely

It's Rednesday!

(Please visit Sue at It's A Very Cherry World for more Rednesday fun!)

First off, I want to celebrate the rescue effort of the Chilean miners and the miners, this Rednesday morning. As I write this, 14 men have been rescued (now 15!). WAHOO! Continued prayers and good thoughts, well wishes, hopes for an easy return to normalcy and a rapid recovery for all of them.

Please forgive me teehee, this is a stretch - with just touches of red. I'm sharing a children's magazine, Children's Play Mate, this Rednesday. This is the April 1951 issue. The front and back covers are soiled but the inside is clean and intact. It has the most charming illustrations! I am sharing the few colored illustrations today for Rednesday and will share some of the black and white cuteness for tomorrow on Vintage Thingie Thursday.

(front cover)

(back cover)

(inside front cover)

(inside back cover)

Craftily Creepy

13 Days of Halloween Calendar from Domestifluff

This link is for the main entry,
tutorials for the days follow on subsequent blog entries.

Spider Web Runner from The Crafty Cupboard

Darling ghost cozies from My Paper Crane

Print out these adorable Jack's for your cupcakes,
from Skip To My Lou, for Alpha Mom

Spooky Cocktail Napkin Tutorial at Purl Bee

Booalicious Monday Blog Love

I had so much fun making this!
This darling pumpkin Jack paper doll designed by Kris Hurst, is
one of the tutorials on Artsy Mama's Best Halloween Ever Swap
and Blog this year. If you didn't join the swap and blog this year,
you may purchase Kris's pattern on her Etsy shop.
Kari Ramstrom, Artsy Mama
Kris Hurst, Blissful Elements

There's been a little movement over here ... a trip to the candy store and the pumpkin patch and retrieval of holiday goodies from their resting place teehee!
Gosh! Has their always been this much to do? I'm feeling holiday overwhelmed. WAH!





Visit if you dare ... bwahhahahhahhahha

A Glittered Halloween
A Nostalgic Halloween
All Hallows Design
All Hallows Evening
Bonehead Studios
Cart Before The Horse
Creepy Cupcakes
Halloween Alchemy
Halloween Witches Flying Machine
Ho Ho Halloween
Hop Hop Jingle Boo
Jack and Cat Curio
Johanna Parker Design
Old Fashioned Halloween
Orange and Black
Owlsorts
Pumpkin Hollow
Retro Rudolphs
Skull A Day
The Halloween Tree
The Holiday Queen
Trixie's Treats
Vintage Halloween Collector
Vintage Stampers Halloween

Missing you

My big brother, my only brother, my only sibling,
would have been 64 today.
We lost him in 1995 and we miss him every moment,
of every day.

Edited to add: I tried to post this video on the 8th, my brother's birthday, but I couldn't get the video loaded. I guess it was too large to just upload. ARGH! I finally figured out that I needed a You Tube account. Not a whiz at this techno stuff over here. (I haven't a clue why other people's videos are referenced on my video at the end? Help! ) I found some old home movies last year and this is part of one. It is from my third birthday and my brother is teasing me, as always. It cracks me up and brings a tear to see him twirling my curl on top of my head and mugging for the camera. (the woman at the end of the video is our next door neighbor and you can also get a glimpse of our cocker spaniel for the blink of an eye) You may be wondering along with me, why is my cake first, next to a shrub and vine (hey! the same ones picturedin the first photo) and then, next to a fence?! My mother, simply put was not Martha but rather, her polar opposite.

A slight spookiness has descended

(all the more spooky with my seriously dreadful and scary in a different way, photos ACK!)

shiver shiver shake ... something spooky is afoot at my house ... first a devilishy delightful Day of the Dead runner came rattling at my door ... then a gigantic ghostly gnarly tree followed ... shortly thereafter a band of Halloween creatures appeared; brooding black cats, jovial Jack o'lanterns, one very witchy black cat and the most handsome of skellies ...

All of this has inspired me to take out my needle and make some holiday goodies and to pick up the eerily appropriate "Frankenstein" for my nighttime reading.

Wishing everyone a very Happy and Spooky Thursday!

Want to get your own spooky provisions?


Day of the Dead runner made by Lori, of Run Lori Run
This one was made for me but I bet Lori would be willing to make one for you!
Contact Lori at her Etsy Shop, Run Lori Run

Ghostly gnarly tree from Martha Stewart for Grandin Road
grumble grumble ... now available at $15 less than when I bought it WAH!




Halloween ornaments from the fantabulous Old World Primitives
(Stephanie tells me I have a one of a kind skelly, never to be made again by her,
I am trying to persuade her to create some more for me. Doing my whirly twirly
dance and incantations, Stephanie. You will not be able to resist! bwahahhaa)

Halloween counted cross stitch patterns from The Prairie Schoooler
Available at your local needlework store or online