Who's a busy beaver?!

I have been running around like a chicken

with it's head lopped off! When it rains it pours,

both literally and figuratively.

Seems that everyone has been waiting until to June to do ,

well anything! I'm only five days into June and I have

already participated in an awesome Skull Appreciation hop,

celebrated three birthdays, my shop is sponsoring

this month's challenges over at Smeared and Smudged, 

getting ready for a big craft show next weekend, and let's not

forget creating all of my wares to sell!

Whew!

My husband helped me bring my coffin shaped

jewelry displays to life. I think these are gonna

look so cool with all of my earrings and schtuff

hanging off of them.

I hit the cherub jackpot last week at the thrift store,

and now I have a set of three cherub statues and some

other cherubic ornaments to zombify.

I want to create some more small sculptures for the

craft show, but I have coffin plaques, brain jewelry,

and snowflake skull ornaments to work on.

Never enough hours or stamina in one day!

So, if you don't hear from me for a while,

it's because I am busy trying to make schtuff

to sell to make some moolah next week!!!

I'll post again if I make anything cool. 

First Annual Worldwide Skull Appreciation Day Hop

If you happened here by chance and want
to join in from the beginning, please start
here. We have prizes to offer.....

Well it's finally here!

The First Annual Skull Appreciation Day!

The awesome Skull a Day blog started the

campaign for this long overdue day of recognition

of the cranium in it's many forms. 

As part of the idea behind the holiday and it's

associated blog hopping with Smeared Ink,
we were to create a homemade skull project of any sort
to show our appreciation for the skull. Right up my alley!
I have a special giveaway planned for one lucky
hopper, so keep reading to the end!

This is about as homemade as it gets!

I was inspired by a wonderful shop on Etsy called,

Mi Vida Creations. 

I have admired their art for quite sometime, and was very

inspired by their three dimensional skull art pieces.

  

It is painfully clear to me that I am not able to

recreate a human skull in any medium, be it clay,

drawing, or painting. I decided to go with a more

whimsical or fantastical design and here he is! 

He is sculpted of polymer clay and then I added his designs

with paint and permanent markers.

He has my signature "wonky eyes" with a loverly purple

rhinestone set in one socket.

Finally, I mounted him onto a hand painted plaque that is

ready to be hung proudly on this day of cranial celebration!

Now the pay off for sticking around this long.

I am offering up a $10 store credit to my Etsy shop

for one lucky visitor who is randomly selected from

their comment left on this post. Make sure to leave a way

for me to contact you if you are the chosen one.

I will pick a winner on Sunday, June 12th.

My sister Minion, Susan is next on this wonderful ride,

but if you get lost along the way, here is the hop list: 

Terra

Tori

Alison

Kelli

Jane

Alex

Judi

Kathi

Steph

Lisa

Feddie

Heather

Kapree

Susan

Dianne

Barb Foster

JenniLynne

Teri

Cyndi

Pamela

Prissy

Trisha

Dawn

Lady Brayton

Donna

Black Dragon

Paulette

Creepy Glowbugg - you are here

Susan’s Crafty Chaos

Andrea

Helen

Kate

Fiona

Sugar

Linda

Dragonfly Jane

Debbie

There's alot of us, but it is definitely worth the price of
admission to see all of the wonderfully creative projects
everyone has worked so hard on for this hop! 

HDH091 - E.M.O.

Well, here it is already Wednesday and I still

haven't completed my "to do" list from Monday!

School is almost out and then I can resume my

natural way of crafting, completely unencumbered ,

without stopping regardless of the time or the elements!

I love summer! 

Today I have a "two birds with one stone" project.

This week's Macabre Monday sponsor is Simply Betty Stamps.

It also happens to be SBS' first year birthday!

I have used the cool Christian image from the older,

Summer Emo line at SBS.  

Okay, I may be pushing it a bit here, but

I have Earthtones for E, and Masculine for M,

and then lastly, Oceanic for O.

Like I said, it's a bit of a stretch.

Happy Birthday Betty!

Chill out, and enjoy the fruits of your labor!!

You deserve it!

There is still plenty of time to play along with this week's

Macabre Monday "E.M.O." challenge.

Simply Betty Stamps has generously sponsored

this challenge and is offering up some rubber to

both of this week's Gruesome Twosomes!   

SBS 50's Emos Release

I have been so busy trying to prepare for this
upcoming craft show in a couple of weeks!
I totally spaced my post for the 50's Emo, Christian,
from Simply Betty Stamps.

Here he is in all his ShaNaNa glory!

I guess he is more like Fonzie, but either way,

I thought a black and white color scheme for these

images was quite fitting.

And here is the final image, "Waitress Betty",

which marks the long awaited release of this

line available now at Simply Betty Stamps.



Macabre Monday "Necro Neck wear"

As soon as I heard HDH was being sponsored this week

by none other than the uber wicked,

Kustom Kaskets,

I knew exactly what I wanted to create for the challenge.

The "Necro Neck wear" challenge is to create a piece of 

original artwork that may be chosen as a new design for

Kustom Kaskets, and they will also make the winning design

into a pendant for one lucky wiener!!! How cool, right?! 

Earlier this week, I debuted a re purposed piece of religious

sculpture that turned out quite awesome. My dear friend and 

fellow team mate, Andrea, popped my Zombie Buddha into

an ornate frame and I must admit, I would totally rock this piece!!!

       I actually did come up with an original piece of art

to submit for this challenge as well.

I bought this adorable little 3" x 3" canvas and easel

a while back and thought it was the perfect size

for this challenge. I realize it may be a bit large for an

actual pendant, but it did keep my scale in check.

It was nice to work so small.

   

I think he's cool even with all the zombie drool!

I'll be back a little later with one of the 50's Emos

being released tomorrow at SBS.  

"You're the one that I want!"

Well, there hasn't been many themes that

Betty, from Simply B Stamps hasn't "Emo'ed",

and now you can add the 50's era to that list!

Here is my version of the lovely, "Lola".

She reminds me of the scene from Grease at the carnival,

with Sandy all dressed up in black and (gasp!) smoking! 

I'll be back tomorrow with another 50's themed Emo

and then only one more sneak peek until the release

of rubber on Friday! 

Since I'll probably get there before you, I'll save you a seat.

As I had warned you all yesterday, there is another creation

for your viewing pleasure.

Here's my zombified cherub.

I am still contemplating the size of the brain in his hand.

Maybe a touch smaller, but it is about cherub sized already.

I do like this new brain though. I will probably

cast it and make a new, rounder, more dimensional

brain for sale on my Etsy site. Along with some purple brains.

I would like to say that I will finish this and a few other

projects today, but I am busy trying to prove that I wasn't

in Florida over the weekend at a Walmart buying gift cards with my

bank card. Never even been to Florida.

Why is it so flippin' easy for these dirt bags to use your credit

and so flippin' tedious and frustrating to get it cleared up?! 

I'll be back tomorrow with a throw back to the 50's

from Simply Betty Stamps, unless I end up getting

arrested for acting a fool at the Sheriff's Department, again.

Wish me luck!