Amusements

Christmas is Coming...

Please treat yourself to a shopping adventure in the Land of Tarte this weekend, as Cindy and her guest artists (elves), prepare to dazzle you with their wares!  Getting into the holiday spirit begins with wine and hors d'oeuvres served from 5-8 p.m., Friday ($10, early buying!) and continues the next day, Saturday, Nov. 7, from 9:00-2:00, with exquisite antiques, garden, jewelry and so much more to tempt you! 

     20131 South End Road, Oregon City, Oregon....... See you there!

  (see Cindy's blog Queenoftarte.blogspot for details)

Wishing You A Hauntingly Wonderful Hallowe'en

 

 Please watch and enjoy this killer presentation of the extraordinary Haunted Mansion in France.... oooooh..... Macabre!!!   Happy Hallowe'en, Ghoulies!  (Turn on your speakers.... you wouldn't want to miss a single haunting howl)

Crystals on Cat Eyes for a Friend

 

 

I hope you've been enjoying the autumn breezes, and taking in the colors and smells of fall.  A lot has happened in the past two months, and I apologize for not having posted since the end of August.  But I have my mojo going once again and I am ready to give you all a jolly good haunt.  So get ready, because in the words of the fabulous Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in "Tombstone",  "I'm coming and Hell's coming with me."  Now how delicious is that?!

 

Items in "A Dose of Alchemy" Shop

 

Thank you, for those of you that have inquired or left comments wondering about the items I am listing in my blog shop. They are being posted as I have them available (and have been since Aug. 14).  To enter the shop, click on the button at the top of this page labeled, "A Dose of Alchemy" and "Shop."  Then, when you are in "A Dose of Alchemy" you will see a button to click on in the upper right hand corner, labeled "Click here to Shop."  That's all there is to it.... you'll have found your way in!

I will be adding more items as I have them made, so please check often or you might miss something wonderful!

 

Time Travel

 

I hope when I come back in my next life,  I have better control over my time.  Life seems to interrupt in the most inconvenient spaces.... not where there are holes and voids to fill with random events, but where there are already well-thought-out plans.  I had intended to show you new items today for sale in my shop in A Dose of Alchemy, however the 'time bandit' intervened, (or Life got in the way) and now it will be on or before August 14, instead.  I hope you will take a look then, and that you have better luck at staving off the little things that eat away at the minutes in your day than I do.... and now I have to go.  After all, "time's a waste'n..."

A Dose of Alchemy Shop Announcement

  

Be careful what you wish for...

you may just get it.

Blog Party!

To help celebrate the release of Tara Frey’s new book, Blogging for Bliss, I hope you’ll plan to be part of a fun blog party hosted by Kari of Artsy Mama. I am so pleased to have been asked to take part in Tara’s book, and along with Kari and a lot of other truly wonderful blog authors, the book is a complete blogger’s guide, brimming with inspiration.

Kari’s blog party kicks off August 4, the release date of Blogging for Bliss, so please mark your calendars  and visit Artsy Mama by clicking on the link. And of course, look for Blogging for Bliss!

Something New

 

A Touch of Red, White and Blue

 

Inspired to create a few new pairs of slippers for Lady Liberty, I came up with a small collection ready for you to see at my new blog and on-line store, "A Dose of Alchemy ."  You will find a button at the top left hand side of "A`Musements" to enter "ADoA" and I hope you visit often! 

I plan to add more items (jewelry, antiques, ephemera and of course my creations) every week, and I will devote a lot of space to Hallowe'en.  I hope you'll go now, and take a peek!

Dark Arts, or "Is it Hallowe'en yet?"

I have been up to no good.... having 'dark' thoughts.  It's the time of year when I have had my fill of the light colored whimsies, and long for the deep dark aubergines and inky raven's feather blacks... like a John Galliano dress, baroque and fabulous and fine....

  

So, I've given in to the voices, and made this velvet Maltese Cross, encrusted with jet beads, perhaps saved from a mourning dress. Fragments of time in glistening black.

And I had fun with an assemblage, attempting to invoke a Victorian parlour piece...saved bits of a person's life, perhaps....  What do you think?  Is it Hallowe'en, yet?  Oooooh, macabre!