Mardi Gras Mask

I'm SO thrilled that this year's Christmas party will be Mardi Gras themed. Every year they choose a new theme, last year's was the Academy Awards and it completely surpassed my expectations.

I've started working on my mask. It was an old mask that my sister had sparkled black and lime green.
First I bronzed the entire mask in bronzy orange sparkles. Then I hot glued the sequins on, added the ribbon and added the paper mache music notes. Everything so far has come together WAY better than expected, I'm so pleased. It's not done yet, I still have feathers and other bling to add.

Lucy

Here she is.....with her crooked nose. I attempted to fix the nose by recutting the piece and sticking it together with a pin, I don't think the end result was all that successful. Oh well, lesson learnt! The patterns are from pumpkinglow.com, a great site. I was thrilled to carve lucy's portrait, I've been a fan since I was 14 years old.

ps. trying to upload pictures tonight has been one problem after another. So the images look all off centered and weird. I'll try and fix that later!

Happy Halloween!!!

A couple more pics!

So last night I started pumpkin carving. I took my time and carved what I thought would be a great pumpkin. Unfortunately my moment of being completely satisfied with my work was VERY short lived when I illuminated my pumpkin. I had accidently cut off a very important part of Lucille Ball's nose :O So I've recut part of the nose and stuck it in with a pin. It ain't pretty, kids. If I have the courage to post pictures I will. My sister said she looks like Gilda Radner,ahaha

Little Vanilla Vanilla Dreams.....

Here they are.....yummy :D

Billy's Vanilla Vanilla Cupcakes

I'm SO exhausted, my legs actually ache. And it's not like I was exercising, I was making cupcakes!! Let me tell you, it was no easy feat, two and a half hours later........pretty little white cakes with a beautiful creamy vanilla icing sat before me. They really are cute. I'm too tired to take pictures right now but I will tomorrow. And I may be tired by I really did mean to write vanilla twice,ahaha

Pumpkin Carving

This one is from last year. It was the second time I've had done any sort of scrapping, it was tedious and took forever, as I did not have the proper tool. So this year I will be heading to Home Depot to find a lenolium cutter. We've been carving pumpkins for the past seven years or so. It all started when my sister and I found a site called "Keith's Pumpkin Portraits" and were astounded at the pumpkins he had carved. And as luck had it, he had a few patterns on his site as well. Luckily the patterns were of the entire cast of The Wizard of Oz, one of my favorite movies :D that was it, I was hooked! and now look forward to Halloween every year.
The patterns are relatively easy to do bit take a fair bit of time and LOTS and LOTS of patience. You can't rush them, as I have tried in the past and something always seems to break. It's important to do a lot of scrapping inside the pumpkin before beginning. If the pumpkin walls is too thick, it makes it incredibly difficult to poke the pattern as well as to cut the pieces out. Don't be discouraged if your pumpkin looks like absolutely nothing while carving, the magic begins when you light it up and finally all those pieces you've been slaving over, come apparent.

Abraham Lincoln: