TV Segment: Halloween Crafting

It was soooo very much fun to reunite the crafting team of myself with Christine Collier and Christy Riopel for another fun TV segment!!!  It's been way too long!!!

So each of us agreed to come up with some fun crafting ideas and here they are!!!

Christine created a fabulous necklace and earings set (blinged up with glittery Mod Podge), some oh "sew" cute felt critters (click HERE for instructions) and a bowl full of eyeballs (styrofoam balls with coloured reinforcements and some red inking effects!)

Christy crafted a stack of treat boxes (from Michael's) and I complimented it with a ghostly lollipop (perfect for young kids to make for their classmates using a white napkin and orange yarn) and a witches shoe that can also hold treats (perfect for the teacher).  Click HERE for the instructions for the shoes.

 Halloween is definitely NOT my favourite holiday, but I must say I LOVED the elegant decor that Christy came up with... the hats are made with Crate Paper and some lacy embellishments, the rocks were painted with Christy's favourite paint: ChromaColour... then written on with a white Sharpie marker.

Her willow decor was my favourite not only because it had bling, but I can see using this idea for all sorts of holidays and seasons!!!

And her daughters helped put some fun Apothecary jars together (poison is simple food colouring)!!

And my "Speciman Jars" were inspired from HERE and were both disgusting and yet intriguing!! The "Albino Jellyfish Stingers" are simply strands from a hot glue gun, the "Pickled Brains and Eyeballs" is cauliflower and peeled grapes (yes I sat and peeled grapes!) and the "Unknown Specimen" is one of those "mega grow" creatures that grows 600% when put in water.  This picture was taken less than 24 hours and apparently it will continue to grow for 3 days so perhaps I'll post an updated picture when it's finished!!!  Looks creepy enough for me already though!!!  And I darkened the water simply with assorted amounts of coffee grinds :)  Easy Peasy!!!

Finally, the "Bleeding Candles" were super quick, easy and inexpensive!!  I simply used black acrylic paint to paint red candles then added some small spiders on the holder for extra ickiness and voila!!!!  

And now I'm soooooo ready to start thinking about Christmas as that IS my favourite holiday of the year!!

It's turning into a PARTY!!!!

It's still over a year away and we already have 30 people registered to come with us to Hawaii in November 2012 on our next Crop and Cruise scrapbooking and photography event!!!

IF you are thinking of joining us, we strongly recommend that you register sooner than later as space in portions of the event are limited (and certain rooms/cabins fill up quickly like triple and quad occupancy). 

 Also, the sooner you register, the greater chance of being able to take advantage of PROMOTIONS that come along (like right now you can get up to $250 in cabin credits, but only until the end of October!!)

You had me at Aloha!!!!

Now to completely switch directions...

Be sure to watch Breakfast Television on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7:50am for a fun Halloween crafting segment with my good friends Christine Collier and Christy Riopel!!  We are gathering some super fun ideas... I've caved and joined Pinterest and WOW!!!  I can totally see how addicting it can/will be, but it is a huge resource for ideas like these super cute and easy candles and check this out... 

What a great arrangment with some BLING!!!!  Just click on the picture to go to the websites for instructions!!

And be sure to watch on Thursday for more fun ideas!!!

Halloween Crafting and Photography on City TV

So... I don't really get too much into Halloween, but when my producer asked me to come up with about 5 segments for October's TV appearance, I really had to do some research!

And... because I always LOVE to do things with friends, I invited Christine Collier (Calgary's Craft Diva) and Christy Riopel (www.MondayNightClass.ca) to join me and help gather ideas!

WOW... what a ton of fun we had preparing!!! Know that we stayed away from the "blood, guts, gore" type of stuff (I still don't like that aspect!), but we sure had some fun with "creepy, spooky and crafty!".

Watch here for some project ideas and I will also explain how to do a "ghostly" photo like the one above of my two kids!!! It is really simple and oh so fun!!

For those in the Alberta area, watch City TV on Tuesday, October 21 at 7:35, 8:17, 9:00, 9:20 and 9:40am and enter to win a spot at the Jingle Bell Crop on Nov. 1 and a photography class with me!!