Product Swap!

You may have seen here on my blog that I love to swap products! Here is a photo of my newest swap creation!

She's actually a candy dish! Her head is hollow so if you lift her hat, you can store lotsa goodies inside! Her new home will be with Gina at Cat Nap Inn Primitives!



I just got the approval on her and will be shipping her out this week! She was so fun to make!

New Patterns and Pattern Collections!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I had a very exhausting one to say the least! But I made it through and was finally able to take some time today to get some half finished projects finished!

First, CONGRATULATIONS to Doreen of Vermont Harvest! She was the winner of our witch potion bottle giveaway! Thank you to all who entered! Keep your eye out for another giveaway in the near future!

I got my Witchy Witch and Crabby Pumpkin pattern finished! Boy was that one a toughie with all of the details! It is now on ebay!

I also got a couple of Halloween pattern collections together on CD! They are also now on ebay!





Whew! I am hoping to be able to get an old world Santa made up this week but we'll see how time goes.

Zoey has not had time to get anything new started yet but she's definately brewin up ideas!

Until next time...

I Did Not Forget...

I wanted to tell you all that I took time out of my day today to stop and remember those that lost their lives only 7 years ago. It's still as fresh in my mind as if it was only yesterday.

Those victims and their families certainly have been and will continue to be, in our thoughts and prayers.

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In response to Zoey's post below, all I can say is that she sure didn't get her chatter skills from me!

Kidding you not, she sat here at the computer for almost 20 minutes typing that up! Next lesson...typing! (at warp speeds like her mamma!...lol) She did put a lot of heart and thought into it and that is what counts!

Oh, and the candles she is referring to are the lil tealights :)

Thank You From Zoey

Everybody who has commented to me was great, because it let me know people like my work. I can't wait to start my next project, so check in any time and post a comment or bid on either mine or my moms wonderful work. Which ever works for you. I am 11 years old, but my birthday is on November 9. I'm thinking about making jack o lanterns with a plastic candle in side. If anyone thinks of something i should make post it please.


From Zoey

A New Prim Crafter Part 2 ~ The Demise and Resurrection!

Ok...I apologize that it took so long to get this post out to you!

So...last I left you, my youngest had sewn and stuffed her ghosts. HOWEVER...it didn't go so easy after that...LOL

And the story goes...she proceeded to ask "Mom, can we put the cheesecloth on now?". "No, we gotta grubby the ghosts first then the cheesecloth then we can put the cheesecloth on". So she grubbies up the ghosts and puts them in the oven. Tapping her foot (or was that mine?) the entire time...and listening to the crickets chirp.

Ghosts come out of the oven..."Mom...can we put the cheesecloth on now?" No, we need to grubby it first." She QUICKLY grubbies the cheesecloth and throws it in the oven, flips on the oven light and watches through the window. She is bound and determined to hurry up and get the cheesecloth on!

While waiting, she sparks a bright idea! "Hey mom, can we put a spooky ghost sounds button in one of the ghosts?" AWESOME idea! So she opens one of the ghosts and puts it in and sews it back up.

"So what do you think I should do next?" The smell should have been a clue...lol. "Ummmm...don't you have cheesecloth burning in the oven?" "OH CRAP!" she says and flies over to the oven.

Cheesecloth wasn't really burnt though..just smelled like it. But I want her to learn to remember she has stuff in the oven while doing other things.

Ok, cheesecloth is out and we proceed to put it on. Well apparently I wasn't doing it right because she fixed everything I did almost. "Mom, ghosts have draping stuff coming off their arms!" "Well excuse me crypt keeper, I'll just sit back and watch then", was my reply!

I let her work for a bit on getting eyes on and figuring out what kinda detail she wants to do.

She seems frustrated so I told her to take a break. She said she was going to ride her bike around for a bit then come back. SHE DIDN'T COME BACK!!! LOL She ended up at her uncle's house playing with her cousins and just left me hangin. I asked her if she was going to finish her ghosts and she replied, "I'm kinda dead from working on those today, can I finish them tomorrow?" Of course she could. If she doesn't want to work on them, that's fine (although my heart was broken and I felt I lost my li'l prim crafter already!

Next day, I waited for her to come to me when she was ready to work on them. She didn't once mention them until about mid-afternoon when she came in the living room and grabbed a witch potion bottle and says "Mom, c'mere! I have an awesome idea if we can get it to work!"

And oh was that idea awesome as ever! Even better than I could have thought up! I helped her put it all together and boy was she thinking right! Look at what her bright idea evolved into! I am soooo proud of her!

We put it on ebay tonight and she is absolutely excited about it! But not as excited as her proud mamma!!! Click the photo below to see her auction.

She named it "Keeper Of The Souls"... they are souls escaping from the bottle...

If anyone would like to comment here to let Zoey know how she is doing, I am sure she would really appreciate the feedback!

A New Prim Crafter?

Today is a nice cool day...the weather has been more fallish lately and I'm lovin every minute of it!

My youngest daughter (the one that made the front page), asked me this week if I could spend the day with her teaching her to sew. She wants to make things to sell like me. So of course I was just tickled to hear that! I think what prompted her is because they just started sewing in school. Except they are doing it all by hand! She has helped me with orders before but mostly paint and putting details on.

Anyway, so she picked out her first solo project. A set of 3 ghost ornies. She has sewn rag quilts before but nothing too complicated with curves and such. So we worked together on the first one, mostly her on sewing the second one and the last ghost, I left the room. She asked "Where are you going?". And my oh so mommish reply was "you can do it, you don't need me!" She came and got me about 10 minutes later (yes 10) and showed me her finished ghost...i think she did better than I would have done! LOL She may have had the sewing maching sewing 1 stitch per 3 seconds but she did awesome!

So, they are sewn and stuffed now. I will be teaching her how to make grubby sauce to grubby up her ghosts. She hasn't decided what kinda detail she wants to put on the ghosts so I gave her some ideas to work with. I will post a picture of her finished product.

And on that note...I will be teaching her how to take photos too. I don't know how long she will stick with this but I am gonna savor it and suck it up as much as I can while I got her in the mood for it! LOL She's almost 12 so of course she has "a life" and may move on to other things...until next time (when we post her pics)...I hope everyone has a marvelous weekend!

p.s. - as I was typing this, she got her first real order for a set of pumpkin ornies! she knows how to make those from last year so she is even more excited and so am I!

Newest Doll...Witchy Witch & Crabby Pumpkin Wand!

OOOOOOHHHHH LOOKIE LOOKIE! I just finished her up tonight and the rain let up long enough for me to take pics of her. I have been working on her all week long...again with no plan in mind for her. She just evolved!

Can't get enough of those witch potion bottles...I had to make her some only they are charm size. Only about a half inch tall...LOL. But oh how fitting!

She is now on ebay! Just click any of her photos below to view the auction...