Decorating Pumpkins with the Rascals

I love fall, I love October and my children love decorating for Halloween; I took them to Michael's this weekend and we purchased two foam pumpkins for decorating. My daughter picked out an orange one and my son picked out a white one (he said he was going to paint it a color), while she slept, my son and I got to work on his. I thought markers would smudge, and paint would be ok; then I mentioned if I had orange tissue paper we could decoupage it - and wouldn't you know I found one crinkled up sheet in a box of Halloween stuff and he liked the idea so he ripped and I applied and it looked really cool. He picked out google eye's and cut out a mouth and nose out of construction paper and then added a few stickers; turned out really cute. He was proud of himself and loves his little pumpkin.

Now when little rascal woke up, she saw her brother's decorated pumpkin so we sat down to work on hers. She loves ribbon and found my halloween colored rick rack and wanted that on her pumpkin, I glued it in stripes from the top to the bottom, glued on google eyes and she had her brother cut out a nose and mouth "in pink". I told her we could add a bow to the top of hers because I had some cute polka dot ribbon in orange or black, she picked out a light blue - of course. Afterwards when her pumpkin was supposed to be drying, she got into the stickers and put stickers on most of the area of her pumpkin that was showing (back, sides, bottom), she's so funny - but she loves her pumpkin.

My sweet little rascals, they sure do take after their mommy when it comes to creativity; thank goodness (if you could see how my husband draws you'd understand). Happy Monday!

Kusudama for Dee

A couple weeks ago I went through a networking phase, I was promoting on etsy, entering giveaway's on blogs and it was a very positive experience. I actually won something, which is rare; and I found some awesome blogs to follow and I met new people. One particular lady is Dee of Barefoot Bath and Body, she saw the Kusudama ornaments I had posted on here earlier and wanted some of her own. We chatted and she decided on 3 ornaments and how they would display - I was excited to see how it turned out and if I do say so myself they are just awesome. She liked the paper used in the other set and we stayed with that and I incorporated another print with the same colors, the ribbon used has the same red as in the paper; turned out gorgeous.

Hmm, what a funny custom order.

I've recently been creating magnets and received a request from someone for a set of magnets - definitely more unusual than what I normally create but what the heck. I sat in my studio (computer room) Saturday evening creating these sets of...how shall I say this politely; boobies. I finished them and had them on my filing cabinet and don't you know those little things had me chuckling all weekend - they're just too funny. I don't think they will make it into my etsy shop, although I did think about it; especially with October being National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Anyways, they're still making me laugh thinking about them and just wanted to share.

Giveaway

Want to win this pretty set of magnets?

Please visit http://lemondropstudio.blogspot.com/ for rules to enter. Contest starts today and ends Thursday (10/1), at 11:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time. The winner will be announced on Friday (10/2), when her next giveaway is posted. NOTE: Friday is also my birthday, and I love birthdays so there may be a extra goody included with the magnets so get on over there and try to win.

Wedding Cake Card

Another version of my Here Comes the Bride wedding cake card - custom order for an October wedding. I chose a lovely mustard color for the card and kept the cake white on white with quilled flowers and spirals, a hint of sage green in the leaves and a touch of white glitter. This card will definitely stand out in the crowd, one the lucky couple will remember forever. A lot of my cards are like little pieces of art, this could even be framed for a memory to last a lifetime. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like a custom wedding cake card.

and a close up

Quilly Nilly is having a SALE

Are you looking for some unique paper products, starting your xmas shopping early; well stop on by www.quillynilly.etsy.com, I'm having a sale. Get 25% off everything in my shop, yes; everything. Trying to unload some inventory to make room for new stuff. Come on by and check it out. Here's an example of an item you could get for a great price, Ollie the owl magnet - now HOO doesn't love magnet's.......Reg $4, with the 25% off that would make him only $3 - that's an awesome price for such a super cute magnet. Sale ends Saturday Sept. 26th at 6 pm CT.

Custom Order - Kusudama

I have a coworker who loves everything I create and if I show her something it's almost certain she'll buy it. I was playing around late one evening on the computer researching origami and found instructions for the Japanese Kusudama - paper ball, on an awesome website www.foldingtrees.com. I had created just one of the flowers that would create this ball and showed it to my fabulous coworker and explained what it would create and she asked if I could create two for her to hang in her husband's office. I found the perfect paper for it and started working on them, it took forever; especially since this was the first time I had ever created anything like this but they turned out just lovely.