This was a Halloween project that I was going to do, but Jessie took over when I screwed up on the painting. I bought this flat sided fish bowl (at Goodwill of course) and I wanted to paint the inside, I made a mess of it and that is when Jessie took over.
She painted the outside with glass paint, which was so much easier. That was when she claimed the project as hers. She did the rest.
I purchased the witch headband at the thrift store and a big bag of yarn with the black and gray yarn in it to add to the hat. She added wiggle eyes. I made some clay that you bake to harden. Jessie made the shape of the nose, wart, mouth and tooth. After baking she painted them and attached it to the bowl with glue. I put a strand of 50 Christmas lights inside to illuminate her.
And here she is:)................
So Cute!! She now sits in our Bake Center. I removed the little lamp that you can see sitting behind her.
My great thrift finds??? You know that bag of yarn I bought for the witch hair? Well I sold the rest of the bag in 2 separate auctions on ebay for a total of $28.00!!! I didn't realize it but this bag had some Tilli Tomas silk yarn in it. That doesn't mean anything to me except it made me some money. I had no idea who Tilli Tomas was before, but now I will look for her at the thrift stores!
I had the HP56 toner cartridge on my shopping list for a couple of weeks. I wanted to use a gift card I had at Office Depot. I just couldn't seem to make it over there, it wasn't on my usual driving route. One day I stopped in at the little thrift store down the road from my 2nd job and guess what was waiting there for me???
Just the cartridges my printer takes! Two twin packs packaged in a plastic bag for $4.99!! That is about a $95.00 savings!!! Yahoo!!!I was beginning to feel real lucky, until Hubby's office computer crashed and then my laptop at home crashed two days later! Do you think I can find those at the thrift store??
Be back soon!
2 comments:
Oh no, not the computer!! How will you ever get everything done without it?? My condolences!!
But, Yippee with your savings on the cartridges and $$ making on the yarn. I'm just starting to learn the differences in yarn.. you've peaked my interest with Tilli Tomas. I'm gonna check her out as well. Yarn prices can be crazy expensive.
And, what a great witch idea! A fish bowl??? Where on earth did you come up with that? Super duper cute. You and Jessie are quite the team!
The more I read your blog, the more envious I get of all your comments... you need to blog again!!
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