Happy Santa and His Snowman Tassel Give Away

So here he is in all of his happy self.  My giveaway at Blue Cricket.  A cute, little happy Santa and his cheering snowman.  This little duo just makes me smile. 

For Blue Cricket's give away that I am sponsering, I am giving away one of these Santa's wrapped in a clear bag with ribbon and a handmade tag and card.  Perfect for gift giving to your favorite someone or yourself.  That's Santa has authentic vintage green trim on him.  I've been hoarding it for a while to do something special with it and he was the one.  

This Santa is just as cute from behind.  I say if you've got it, flaunt it.  Check out his little round rump. 

Everyone of my tassels are handmade and designed by me.  Each one has a lot of time and effort put into designing them.  I love each one and would put each and everyone up in my house if I had the space.  But then I would be known as the crazy tassel lady that puts a tassel on everything and anything.  I'm afraid that I already have a bit of that reputation already. 

What is a tassel anyway?  Well, it's a little decorative touch that makes a big punch in your decor.  I love to hang tassels from obvious places like my armoire, doorknobs and banisters.  But they also look great decorating your candlesticks, vases and pictures.  Try on the back of your barstools and little curio cabinets.  Love them hanging from a single hook.  You are going to love it! 

Head on over to Blue Cricket to enter for your chance to win and if you are in Utah, come on over and pick up some holiday tassels this weekend at Piper & Chloe.  It's a win, win situation!

*Photographs curtesy of Kem Thompson Photography

Giveaway tommorrow

Tommorrow, my giveaway will be featured on Blue Cricket.  Come on over and enter.  Invite your friends, invite your family, invite your neighbors too.  It will be fun!! 

Here's a happy little sneak peak......

In other news, the shop is temporarily closed for the weekend show that I am in.  If your local, come on over to Piper & Chloe.  It's a pretty classy little show if I say so myself. 

Holiday Shows

With October already over, it's officially time for the holiday shows to start.  I don't know where the time has gone, but I'm super excited about my first two shows of the season, Piper & Chloe and Sweet Tweets Boutique.   Soooo........

*Don't forget Piper & Chloe this weekend!  November 6th-7th in Farmington.  Mark your calendars, set your alarms, update your Blackberry.  You won't want to miss this!  

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*Next week, Sweet Tweets Boutique.  This is a new show for me.  I'm excited to go and rub shoulders with all those crafty ladies.  I fixed the link so the correct information will come up when you click on the button over there on your left.  And if that is not enough for you, don't worry.  There will be more.  Just working out the details right now.

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Also, don't forget about Blue Cricket's week long giveaway extravaganza!  Starts today and runs through Friday.  Look for my giveaway on Nov. 5th.  It's pretty darn cute! 

Happy Halloween!

Have an extra spooky, extra sweet fright night!

Favorite Halloween Movies

Thanks for all of your comments and suggestions on new Halloween books. I can't wait to add to our collection!

During the month of October, we can't help but induldge ourselves in some good Halloween movies. Our favorites are:

• It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
• Hocus Pocus  - This is best when watched with my sister.  "Amuck, amuck, amuck...."
• The Nightmare Before Christmas 
• Beetlejuice
• Any of the Harry Potter's DVDs.
• Addams Family and Addam's Family Values 

What will you be watching come All Hallow's Eve??

Halloween Book Basket

I love to have a seasonal book basket for my kids.  We really enjoy it, and even though there are a lot of board books, Jake still likes to read them with us too.  Nothing is better than a snugly soft blanket and a basket full of books to read on a cool Autumn day especially today when it's dark and SNOWING!

Some of our favorites:

• Where's Baby's Pumpkin? 
• Who Said Boo? - Mia loves to read this to us.
• Little Spider - Sam thinks it's hilarious to smush the finger puppet spider back in the book for me to pop out bonking his head. 
• Charlie and Lola's Boo! Made You Jump - I love anything Charlie and Lola.
• No More Monsters for Me - an easy reader for Mia 
• I am a Leaf 
• Stellaluna 
• A Halloween Mask for Monster 
• I Spy A Pumpkin 
• The Monster at the End of this Book - my favorite! Who doesn't LOVE Grover?

 I would love to add to our collection. Do you have a favorite book to share with us??

Giveaway Extravaganza

You are cordially invited to Blue Cricket's week long giveaway extravaganza!  It's going to be fun, especially Thursday's, giveaway (November 5th).  Why's that?  Oh, maybe because it's a little something from moi.  It's going to be extra fun and festive to boot.  Mark your calendars!  Next week is going to be so much fun! 

Project overload

This sign would be perfect in my home.

(Picture found at My Sweet Savannah)

Do you know how many projects my silly brain is trying to figure out? 
Procrastination overload.
  Why the overload?  Oh, because it's only 12 days until I set up for this cute showcase kicking off the Holiday season.  Day after day passes with little progress. 

Be there or be square. 

Quick and Easy Spider Earrings

While shopping at Pier One, I saw the cutest pair of spider earrings.  They were jeweled and sparkly and spooky cool.  They had the whole nine yards going for them but, at $9 a pair,  I just didn't want to spend that.  So I made my own.  A pair of Bo Bunny spider brads with the backs snipped off then glued to a earring post and voila!  Quick and easy spider earrings sure to bring spooky delight on Halloween night. 

Butterfly Chandelier

(Full butterfly tutorial found here.)

The sweet little butterfly chandy that started the whole thing.  Full tutorial found here.  Kits found here.