Tarantula, poppies and belladonna on some scrap illustration board ... it was nearly impossible to photograph and it lost a ton of detail x_x

Happy New Years, don't get Herpes!

There was this (really hot) guy in highschool that my mom always called "Sir-Herpes-alot"  


don't be that guy.

Christmas Fuckery with my BFF

We tried to make a Gingerbread house from a kit.
We failed.

Snow Blob wishes you a happy holiday season

After carefully icing all the sides, Kate ( <- BFF)  stuck the house proudly together and admired her results. Just as she started to say how surprised she was that it worked, the side closest to me fell over, bounced oddly off my lap, and landed on the floor in several pieces.  We just stared at each other for a few mortified seconds before collapsing into possibly the most hearty fit of giggles I have ever been a part of.

She broke another wall about 5 minutes later, after we had decided we'd just fake it by only taking a picture from the front to disguise or missing back patio. It wasn't as funny the second time, but making super fucked up iced gingerbread cookies, dicking around with icing and marshmallows, and laughing at our utter and complete ineptitude was way more fun than making a lame ass gingerbread house anyways.




 

Oh,Home - 7 craft tutorials of cozy,home-y goodness

In a little less than 8 months the Spook family will be moving into our very own first house! I need FURNITURE! I need like.... shit to put on my walls, and shit to sit on...and spice racks and shit!   


I've made colour palletes via colourlovers.com to help me plan for the big move! 
This first palette is the basic color scheme for my house, with the exclusion of the last wine-red color, which is just a kitchen thing:
 
Color by COLOURlovers
Color by COLOURlovers

These 2 are the extras,to make the rooms "pop"
 
Color by COLOURlovers

Color by COLOURlovers




Use your imagination with me, and lets see how The House of Spook is gonna look c:


1.Chair Makeover from Domestic for Dummies

For The House of Spook: Cream+Dark wine upholstery

2.Fabric Tapestry by CraftCuban on Craftster

For The House of Spook: Keep the super sweet Indian/middle eastern imagery but in neutral creams, whites and yellows

3.Chevron Pattern Fan Blades on DesignSponge


For The House of Spook: Spray the whole fan creamy-white and stencil yellow floral swirls

4.DIY Dessert Tray by Ladypie on Craftster

For The House of Spook:  just change the color to a blackish-brownish-red

5.Pompourri Rug on Cut out + Keep

For The House of Spook: Peaches+Cream colored!

6.Checkered Floor Tutorial from Craftzine

For The House of Spook: Dark Wine + Cream

7.Paint-Dipped Cutlery by Oh!Crafts

For The House of Spook: All my chosen colors, plus maybe a few teal ones....

Sell-able Graphics Ideas

Know photoshop? Maybe you can create these customizable products and sell the files to online customers:

Logos
Business Cards
Banners & Icons for online stores such as the ones on Etsy, Artfire, and Zazzle.
Clip Art
Scrapbook Printables and Paper Sets
Printable Toys and Paper Models
Patterns, like sewing or crochet
Stencil Sets
Recipe cards or Cookbooks

Custom Order, Da-da-da-dun!

Alyssa, a super-cool lady who owns an Apairy, sent me about 50 of her bees to use my jewelry    :)

I've made her 2 pairs of earrings:

2 Necklaces:

AND

A Queen Bee brooch :

More insect jewelry at www.etsy.com/shop/killjarjewelry

What I've been doing (that's not blogging)

Keeping it real with my Etsy: 









 Creating designs for my Zazzle store, Simon Spook:







Being ill. Don't have pictures.

This is what I did today.....

Had lunch with my BFF Kate and my good friend Yolanda (who is sitting on the other side of the table) at a Vietnamese Bistro

Went to the National Funeral Museum with said friends. Took a picture in a coffin. Saw some super sweet old school hearses, caskets of various materials, a history of embalming annnddddddd:

I GOT TO KNEEL IN FRONT OF A MICHAEL JACKSON SHRINE. This was just randomly stuck in the Dia De Los Meurtos exhibit- the candles on the floor are those cheap "Jesus" candles but with Mj's face- there are also a few photographs and on the table sits a jar of Peter Pan Peanutbutter emblazoned with Michael Jackson! I can die now, I've seen everything I need to see.

Bugs!

I caught these guys over Labor Day weekend in my hometown of Lufkin,Texas. Aren't they AWESOME!? The moths are huge!