Celebrating Halloween!

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Scratch the watching horror films, that would freak me out! Well the 8 Lovelies decided to celebrate Halloween on our weekly Tuesday meeting, by serving a fantastic lunch with a fun project following.  The hosts were Sarah (above) wearing her amazing and creative witches hat, and Betsy Fry. Thank you ladies for the wonderful lunch! 

The table is set amazingly with a white table cloth and an overlay of black, which resembles cobwebs. The iron candle holders are torch like with an ivory candle inside. The black owls are fun whimsical embellished with glitter. Sarah scattered pumpkins throughout, some sprayed in gold and others in orange. She also layered the table settings with a black charger, ivory scalloped dinner plate, white salad bowl and white pumpkin bowls for the soup. So creative and festive!

These fun gifts were placed at each place setting. They are a set of 24 cupcake liners and assorted toppers. The toppers are ghosts and witches. What a great gift! Thank you Betsy.

After our delicious lunch we made it to Sarah's craft room and gathered fabrics, lace, buttons etc...and assembled sachets. We filled them with plastic bags to fill up space and lavender for a sweet aromatic touch. Pictured above you will find the brown sachet that Tina made. She stitched rows of different fabric, making a quilt like swatch and then adding a simple and plain back. Tina embellished the front also with a satin ribbon and an antique brooch. She is always trying to create different textures and shapes for interest.

Sarah's sachet is made with a dark purple fabric with a black and gold scroll design. She took a chiffon ribbon and wrapped it around the sachet tacked it in place and for the final elegant touch added the gold flower charm. The charm was from a bracelet which was broken. This is a great way to upcycle your old tired or vintage jewels.  Just lovely!

Laurie made an ivory sachet which was made from an extra piece of fabric that Jenny had. It was covered with iridescent dots covering the entire piece. She also took an ivory satin ribbon and wrapped the little pillow and embellished it with the same gold metal flower. So elegant Laurie. Sachets are perfect for closets, drawers and any other place in need of a sachet.

Sheryl made her sachet using a gold toned fabric that she turned inside out. She added a piece of canvas that was embellished with floral trim and a variety of stitching. Adding the handle makes it versatile to place anywhere. The black flower pin was a punch that completes the sachet. Oh so lovely!

Glass Fusion Workshop

 So for this meeting our lovely Laurie had set up a workshop for glass fusion. It was a huge hit, we all loved it. Pictured here you will find Christys glass dish, made with a deep dark red with a black edge. Oh so elegant and chic!

 Sarahs design was more complicated and reminded me of a tetris game. She worked oh so carefully and it showed! Simply Lovely!

 Here you'll find Jennys fun and whimsical design. She went outside of the box and used frit (a form of tiny bits and pieces of glass) along with many layers of glass. So creative and lovely!

 Pictured here you'll find Lauries meticulous dish which is so wonderful. My eye is drawn automatically to the diagonal strip on the left. Our lovely ladies have so much talent and design concept.

 Here you have Tinas design which is reminiscent of a landscape. She is a painter so she thinks of her canvas when working with her glass. Simple and sweet!

A few more completed items from the workshop. The words, letters and pendants proved to be colorful and whimsical, oh so lovely!

This project proved to be successful because the 8 lovelies had never tried glass work before, and we went for it! There is something very contemporary and seductive about glass which makes it so appealing. If you ever get a chance or have a studio in your area, sign up for a workshop. I promise you'll love it.  I forgot to mention that this project was also inspired by a deal on Living Social. So remember that it doesn't matter what the project is, just do it. You can live creatively if you try! Our workshop location was the Mud Room in Ada, MI.

Things to do on a sunny fall day

Tuesday October 4th was our day for terrific tuesday with the crafternooners. So our hostess Sheryl had a wonderful plan of having a light lunch poolside with a fun craft creating chic floral arrangements.

Christy and Sheryls designs were so pretty and minimal in these clear glass containers. Sometimes less is more. 

Jenny added some fun elements such as silver and gold nuggets for added bling, but yet keeping it minimal.

Tina decided to submerse her orchid for another look. 

Betsy wanted to use callas for height. So elegant!

Keeping an arrangement low is contemporary with a huge impact.

Loving this Hawaiian protea, for it is quite elegant especially when paired with black nuggets in the container and yellow kangaroo paws. 

The pink King Protea is so appealing because of the soft petals. Don't you wish you could just touch it?

Another simple but chic arrangement.

Sheryl our hostess at work. Thank you Sheryl for ordering great weather for us. The lunch and project were a great hit. This is a super great idea for a group to not only enjoy each others company but to live creatively while enjoying the great outdoors.