crafts and magical gifts

The heat has arrived!! Well, a little bit..

It will get much hotter before we get out of the month.

Good news is...Monsoon season starts on Saturday!

I look forward to hearing thunder and smelling the rain come in.

It peaks in July😀 but sometimes we get lucky and it drops sooner.

It's getting closer to Halloween!

We only have 

139 Days left!!!

 I have a few things I've been making lately..

This is a book trinket box

A couple of cookie cutter witches

made of clay..

 

These paper mache dolls are a work in progress,

(Can you tell one of them is Frida?)

So is this junk journal..I absolutely love

Where The Wild Things Are!! 

It's the first book I remember reading.

I'll show you the pages 

once I'm done with it.

I found this quote a while ago, and I feel it's

fitting in perfectly with how I want to live my life.

I think if you look for magic everyday, you WILL find it.

Lately it seems as though magic and gifts keep 

drifting into my world.

Here's a little list of amazing things that have happened:

 

I recently had a visit to my doctor and he told me I 

was done with my post-operative bi-annual appointments, 

I don't need to go back!

That is Magic to me!!

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 oooh, I was given this candle the other night!

It smells like the green tea perfume

from Elizabeth Arden:)

 

This next candle smells just like a coffee shop, SO GOOD!!

It's so saturated, the whole house was filled with this 

incredible scent...

 

 

The view out of my kitchen window,

 

 

 

New magazines with my favorite birds

and projects!

I love all things Haunted Mansion so

this giant box with the hitchhiking ghosts was

such a great surprise.

This was gifted to me yesterday.

One of the lovely little hummingbirds

posing for me...

These are bookends!!!

Incredible, stunning, glittery bookends💫

I love all these amazing treasures!!

I think my favorite one is this one:

Peeves just getting ready for a nap.

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Well, I have to get going for now..

I hope everyone is doing well.

I'll be by later to visit.

 

Spring birds

How are you today??

I'm doing well...other than a little back pain, I've been working

outside, outside, outside!!

Spring is definitely here! 

It's breezy in the low 80's

& I have to be out there.

That's the main reason I've been away..

You see not long from now 

the temperatures will be holding steady at

105+

so....taking advantage of this cooler temperature is a must.

Yesterday I sat out in the tiny "backyard"of my gypsy wagon and

created a little project using some of

my awesome Lisa Kettell products.

It's simple and it's a little tribute

 to this beautiful season.

Supplies

unfinished china doll head  

6x6 canvas

paper mache bird box

hot glue gun/glue sticks

acrylic paints: black, navy blue, medium blue, dark pink, light pink, orange, peach

oil pastels:dark brown, green, light pink, fuchsia, peach

red lace trim

Directions

paint canvas dark blue

add a bit of light blue for interest.

using the oil pastels, draw branches and flowers

paint china doll head peach, add facial details and hair color

cut the top part of the bird off

paint dark pink, orange and light pink.

Hot glue china doll head to bird body

add lace trim

hot glue to the canvas

paint feet on with light pink paint.

There's a lot of different things that can be done

with this one...

she could be a raven for Halloween, or a dove for Easter

her body can be covered over in sheet music

or she can placed in a little cage...

there's endless possibilities1

I hope you try this out & have loads of fun.

Visit Lisa's blog and artfire shop 

for a happy inspired day:)

 

Blackbird

The
Take a word challenge 

 this week is 

BLACKBIRD

"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. 

Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. 

So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. 

And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” 

-Stephen King