2008 Patterns Availabe

Hello and I hope you all have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend. Seems like the summer has flown away. I am very busy here getting ready for holiday shows. Naturaly my sewing machine took a dive on me and is in the repair shop for a week!! Gives me an excuse to work on patterns. I have 4 available now for fall. They are the snowman/ pumpkin man combo (great deal- 2 patterns in one), a witch and ghost shelf sitter doll and a ghost door doll. I have a new Santa door doll that will be offered in the AB4B group launch for September. Heres a pic of the patterns I have done now. Have a great weekend.

Haunted Happenings Group Launch

Here is the Haunted Happenings entry for the AB4B group lauch. It was fun to make.

Look at my prize from Daisy for AB4B August launch

Look at the fantastic prize I got from fellow member Daisy of AB4B for best in show in the August Hanuted Happenings group launch. I just love the candy cane. Make sure to check out AB4B in Ebay for other fantastic offerings from the talented group of gals. They have a themed group lauch the first of every month!!

First Pattern On EBAY

I finally got my first pattern done and have listed it on EBAY. It has long been a goal of mine to put some of my creations in pattern form. I plan to promote them at my shows, shop space, EBAY and ETSY. Boy was it ever a lot of work. Right now I am just offering the paper version but hope to be able to offer epatterns in the future. I'll blog my patterns when the next ones are available! My kids are back in school so its craft city for the holiday season here!! Holiday pics coming soon.

Lil Birdie

Look at the sweet little birdie who decided to hang out my window on my yellow flowers yesterday morning. He sat there the longest while looking around while I was on the computer.

Shop Space

Mercantile Antiques
Fall Prims
Fall prims
Shop Space
Thought I would share a few pics of the space I rent in Mercantile Antiques in Saint Joseph Illinois. If your ever in the neighborhood make sure and stop by. St Joseph has several anitque shops if yiou want to make an afternoon of it.

A day at the Illinios State fair

The Butter cow
Going on the rides
First time milking a cow
Ready, aim, fire!

My children and I went to the State fair last week and had a blast. They had never been and were quite impressed. They even got along ALL DAY!! To much to look at to argue. Thought I would share a few pics. Check out the famous butter cow and skunks. Its a tradition to see the butter cow. Weighs about 500 lbs.

Patterns comming soon

Being a pattern designer has been a goal of mine for quite a while. While I make most of my own designs, I have not had the time to sit and write them out. (much less figure out the technical aspect) I have been working on making a few patterns. I hope to offer some soon. What do you think of my versatile holiday door dolls? I made the pumpkin one last year and he was a hit so I thought I would start with him.

My little helpers

Lots of activities going on here. The days have been buzzing by before school starts. In the last week both kids have been in the local parade with scouts, we had a town fall festival, my son is still playing ball, we went to the Illinois state fair and a water park. Been a pretty busy week. This weekeknd is not much different- two swimming parties and company from out of town. I have worked a few shifts in there to. Still managed to get a little crafting done, just no pics taken yet. Thought I would throw in a few pics of my little helpers.

New witches 2008

Good evening. I had a full crafting and creating day today. I came up with these witch door dolls. I will be listing them on ebay soon. Thanks for looking .

New to Blogging

Pardon me, Im still trying to learn the blogging ropes. I posted a picure of fall creations in the above blog but it did not show up. Im going ot try it again.

It looks like it will work for me now (just need to read the fine print) Hope you enjoy peeking at my firepalce. I tend to stack what I have finished there.

Fall Haunted Happenings

Hello as the dog days of summer are winding down. I have been very busy with fall creations. Be sure to checkout my ETSY and EBAY listings under Primitivepalace. Holiday shows are jsut around the corner. I will be listing fall through August then on to Holiday items. Where has the year gone? It seems like the kids just got out of school. We'll be school shopping next week already!