Time for some holiday sewing!

This is Hyde the Thanksgiving Owl. I just stitched him together tonight. I have decided that there are not enough happy images to symbolize the Thanksgiving season. So I'm declaring that owls are now officially added as an icon of Thanksgiving. I used this Carnivore Owl Bag how-to and just made him out of felt. He stands up on his own because he has a Spiderman ziplock bag of fish gravel in his bottom. And we named him Hyde because he's a horned-owl.

Over the weekend I started using up some of my VIP craft panels. I really love using craft panels. They come with all the colorful designs already printed. All you have to do is sew them up and stuff them. I made a turkey for each my mom and Michael's mom. They also have Spiderman ziplocks with fish gravel so they'll stand on their own.

Rudy is also a VIP craft panel. I made him specially for Michael Bacon. He looks EXACTLY like the clamation, politically incorrect, Rudolph we all remember.

(Maybe he'll like Rudolph so much he'll let me have a white plastic Christmas Tree this year)

:)

2010 Halloween Village with accessories!

The whole completed Halloween Putz village for 2010.

The How-to section over at Little Glitter Houses is amazing! I'm so grateful to Howard Lamey for sharing his creativity with everyone. I finally added all the silly little Halloween themed accessories I've been buying at Dollar Tree and the 99 Only store.

The Witch house is made with his beginner cottage tutorial. This really is the best place to start with making little houses. The house turns out adorable and has the perfect little glitter cottage shape. I painted it Halloween colors and added a rubber witch that is way too big and an over-sized foam cat. I love it though- anything ridiculous works for Halloween.

This house is by far my favorite! I used Howard's Vintage-Style house pattern and my own goofy, dollar-store accessories.

The Ghost house is the Twin Peaks Beach House from Howard's Sandy Shores Seaside structures. I glued all the trim on cock-eyed and made it a ghost house.

My Spider Church is the church conversion found at the end of the beginner cottage how-to. I added a 13-hour, spider clock, and put webs in all the windows.

Howard's picture window house was the first one that I made. I know I should have started with the beginner cottage, but I don't think it turned out too bad...

We call this Batman's house because my husband donated his Hot Wheels Batmobile and it fits right under the over-hang like it's a carport. This is the Spook Hill Station.

I plan to finish the Christmas village over Thanksgiving break and I'll post pics when I get it set-up.