Halloween Jack O Lantern Candy Dish

Here is a vintage Halloween style candy dish that I just listed on ebay tonight. I found this unique candy dish and thought it would look great with a Halloween theme. The knob was broken on it, but I planned on sculpting over it any way! The jol is hand sculpted out of paper clay and then painted. I repainted the rest of the dish in black, orange, green and gold to match. Then I antiqued it to give it an old vintage look and gave it a protective clear coat. I thought it turned out quite elegant looking. It measures around 8.5 inches wide and 11 inches tall (including the jol).













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OOAK Vintage Halloween Art Candy Dish

Tombstone Trade Treasure!

I recently participated in a tombstone trade put on by Dani at Ambitions Design and got an awesome partner, Marie Patterson. If you have not seen her blog, you should really check it out. She does some really great stuff!!

Here is the tombstone that I made for Marie. The rules were to sculpt a tombstone and it needed to measure around 2.5 x. 3.5. I made this one out of polymer clay.


Here is the tombstone that Marie made me! Isn't it just the coolest?! I love it!! He has a little marker in his hand that he used to cross out "RIP" and wrote "Never".


I had a really fun time with this swap and hope to do it again next year!

More Fun After the Show

I thought I would share some more pics of our trip after the show. I know there are a lot of pics, it was hard to narrow it down to this many. We had a lot of fun! Thanks to family that had timeshare, we were able to stay longer than we originally planned and at a really cool resort too!

While I was at the show, my husband took our daughter to the Central Florida Zoo. I thought this pic was so cute!


The whole long drive from Kansas to Florida, all my daughter talked about was getting her pic with Mickey Mouse and going to the largest McDonalds in the world. As you can see we found the McDonalds, it had two floors with games and lots and lots of kids!


We decided to go to Sea World and see Shamu. This is what we saw driving into the park.


The shows were really great!


We even got to dine with Shamu. Here he is saying "Hi".


Unfortunately, the next morning,our daughter, Kaylie woke up with a fever. The next day she started to get a sore throat. We were starting to get a little worried because of the swine flu thing going around so we started to call around to find a doctor. Fortunately, the resort that we stayed at had a doctor that came to the rooms. Kaylie ended up getting tonsillitis! So, we ended up having to stay in the room a few more days. Kaylie was starting to worry that she wouldn't see Mickey before we had to go.

Here is the view from the back of our room.


I thought this was a pretty cool pic!


The day before we had to leave we decided to try and check out the beaches. We ended up at Vero beach. Another cute pic!


The day we checked out of our room, Kaylie was feeling much better. We decided to sneak over to Disney World for a few hours. Okay it was more like most of the day. We had to leave at a decent time though because we had a LONG drive ahead. Here is the view driving into the Magical Kingdom.


I loved the Halloween decorations that were around the park!


Here is my daughter and me with a huge Mickey pumpkin!


Of course we had to go check out the Haunted Mansion!


And finally after waiting more than an hour, Kaylie got her pic with Mickey AND Minnie!!