Steampunk Industrial Show This Weekend In Mount Dora, FL.

Look whats coming to town this weekend!

Don't miss it all you locals!

 

 

This is such an awesome event! Renningers is right

around the corner from me and last year I went to

the Steam Punk show. It was jamming with music,

great food, games, and some great steam punk art,

very cool hats, lots of jewelry and clothing! And, you

should have seen all the folks dressed up to the nines

in their steam punk outfits! I had never been to an

event like this before and really didn't even know

what the heck steam punk was! I took my camera as

always and had a blast! I even liked so many of the

things I saw....really got into the hats! They were

awesome! And the talent found was incredible! It

was amazing to see what people created with

industrial type items.

 

I did a post on it with lots of photo's here.

 

They must have liked my post and photo's

because I saw today in their advertising of

the event on their website, my blog and the

post and photo's I did was listed in the ad!

That made me excited!

 

There were also lots of vendors set up selling vintage

and antique goodies, and of course the outdoor and

indoor flea market was open along with the antique

mall and little town shops along side and behind it too!

 

Renningers is one of the largest flea and antique

markets in the state of Florida and it's jamming

darn near every weekend with some event or other!

With the Fall here, all the northerners will soon be

here setting up their booths selling their wares!

That's the best time of the year! They stock pile stuff

all spring and summer and you wouldn't believe

all the cool things one can find! Flippin awesome!

 

If you're in the area, set some time aside to go!

I'm pretty sure you will love it! You don't have

to be a steam punker to have a good time.......

there is something to be found and a good time

for all! GO!

 

Don't forget....it's this Saturday and Sunday!

Oct. 18th & 19th from 9am to 5pm!

 

Hope to see you there!

 

TaTa Till Later!

 

 



Faux Wheat Stalks With Twine

 Hello World and Happy Sunday to You!

Well I am three weeks into knocking off pumpkin making from my two year old list, and doing a bit of Fall decorating. In my surfing the net for some decorating ideas, I came across a lady who I admire from a far. I'm sure many of you know of her. Her blog is called Craftberry Bush, her name is Lucy. She is one very talented lady and I love her mind and ideas and her creativity.

In this post I was looking at this very cool chicken wire pumpkin she made, along with this amazing idea of making wheat stalks with twine. I immediately thought the wheat stalks would look great in my vase of pretty colored Fall leaves.

So I searched her site to see if there was a tutorial for it. I didn't find one but she did mention using a "Fishtail" braid to make them by. I didn't know what a fishtail braid was so I did a search on the net and tried to figure it out myself. After playing around for a while I finally figured it out! Yea! I made twenty stalks and added some to my Fall leaf arrangement and it was just the right of something to give a little interest to the arrangement...I thought anyway. I also added some to my basket of faux veggies I have on the table in the breakfast nook. They were fun and fast to make once I got my rhythm going, and I was tickled pink to conquer the challenge of making them. The only thing left I want to do is to take the shish kabob skewers and rub some coffee grounds on them to age them just a tad.

I made a tutorial for creating them if anyone else thinks them pretty cool too. There are pictures and steps below! I hope you don't get confused by anything, because I confused the tar out of myself trying to come up with an easy way to explain and show how I did it! Hopefully it came out ok, but the pictures I think show it well enough for you to be successful. If not just ask me to explain further on what ever you might not understand. I have to give thanks to Ms. Lucy for the whole idea. It was a great one!

  

Now let's make some wheat!

Supplies Needed:

Twine

Scissors

Glue Gun

Glue Sticks

Wooden Shish Kabob Sticks

Cut two pieces of twine 16" long. Find the middle and

fold in half to look like the photo above.

If your right handed, take and hold with your left hand

the top center of both pieces of twine making sure to

keep one piece over the top of the other. Now take your

the left outside strand of twine and lay it over the left

inside strand of twine. (over one strand)

Next while still holding the top and now the strand of

twine you just laid over with your left hand, take the

strand of twine on the right outside and lay it over the

right inside strand AND the left outside strand you

just laid over in the first step. (lay over two strands)

(A note to keep in mind. When laying over from the

left, you will always lay over just one strand, and

when laying over from the right, you will always be

laying over two strands.) Hope that makes sense.

 Now again take your left outside strand and lay over the

one strand next to it.

Now take the far right outside strand and bring it over

two strands and to the left....(it will end up being the

left inside strand.) Stay with me!

Again, take the left outside strand and lay over just one

strand....the one right next to it which would be the left

inside strand.

Again, the right hand strand over to the left and over the

two strands to the left of it. Got your rhythm yet? Hope so!

Keep doing this until you get to the length you want

your wheat stalk to be. Mine measure about 4" to

4 1/2" long each give or take.

This is what it should look like when you get to your

finished point. Now make another one to complete

our one stalk of wheat.

When you have your two pieces of wheat made

take a wooden shish kabob stick and lay it at the

top of the wheat where we started our braiding...

which now is actually our bottom of the wheat now.

Take your glue gun and glue the stick to the wheat

like in the photo above.

Lastly, take your second piece of wheat and lay it

over the first piece of wheat with the stick in the center

and glue it just like you just did with the first. Now

spread some glue all down the strip of wheat to glue

both pieces of wheat together and press the wheat

together keeping them both straight and even on the

sides. At the bottom where the stick goes in between the

two pieces of wheat, when gluing on the second piece

press it real tight together and pinch the sides together

so you don't see the stick in between. And then your done!

You can also take and cut some of the strands at the

top in different height variations to give it a more

natural look if you like so they aren't all even across.

There will probably be some variation in lengths

anyway when you are finished with the braiding.

   

Well there you are! Make some more stalks and use them

in your Fall displays, or basket of pumpkins, or veggies

or whatever you may think to use them for!

That was fun! Enjoy!

Thanks for spending your time with me and I hope

you have a great and blessed week!

TaTa Till Later!

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The Pink Princess Parfait Collection ~ Vintage Chenille Pumpkins

A Weekend With A Princess And Making Pumpkins!

 

 Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing well!

 

It's been a busy two weeks here at the Willhoite

Manor as my hubby calls it. I have been up to my

neck making all the pumpkins I have wanted to make

for the last two  years or better! I've made a huge

dent in that list finally! Well, not really. I love

pumpkins and as I am making them I get more ideas

that I want to make them with and how I want to make

them so as my list is getting knocked off, more ideas

are being added! Brother! 

 

I have NO idea what I am going to do with all of

these pumpkins, but I did have fun making them all!

I thought this last weekend would be a break from it,

but my little granddaughter Miss Emma came to

visit us this weekend....And guess what she wanted

to make after she saw all my pumpkins!?

 

Yep.....PUMPKINS!

 

Like a good grandma I was all in!

 

Ms. Emma will be seven next month and we hadn't

had a just us girls time without her brothers and boy

cousins in quite some time. So this weekend she wanted

to do some crafting and of course some shopping. And

let me tell you, this little six year old who is major girly,

and quite the princess to boot, knows how to SHOP!

I have to keep reminding myself that she is only six

not twenty something! I have to remind her of that too!

 

She has three older brothers and she can be tough

as nails when situations arise with those boys,

and she can knock the tar out of anyone who messes

with her. But she does it all with class! She generally

always has her nails polished....toes too, her high

heels or moms on. (When she is here, every pair of

shoes I own are dragged out.) She always has her

jewelry on and is quite the fashion statement in the

clothing department. And her hair....well it always

has to be done in some fashion or other too. And lets

not forget the make up! She is quite the Ms. Priss!

But don't be fooled by this tiny thing of a little girl!

She can hold her own! I can only imagine what she

is going to be like when she is a teenager! I tell my

daughter all the time that she is in for a real treat

with this child! She is much like her mother was

when she was little. God help us!

 

One of her favorite colors is guess what? Yes, it

would be pink! I brought out several fabrics and

lots of chenille when I started on my pumpkin

binge so lucky for her, grandma had several

different pretty pink vintage chenille bedspreads

out. Of course that was the pile Emma went to first.

She wanted to make princess pumpkins! Being just

like her grandma, she wanted to deck her pumpkins

out with bling too. Us girls love our sparkly!

 

We went to get all my bling for crafts box, when she

spied a white feather boa. She loves feathery fluffy

stuff so she insisted on using the feathers on our

pumpkins too.  Feathers, bling, and pink! I think

 I see  her vision and now we are on a roll!

 

As we got started we also got hungry so we made

some fruit and granola parfaits and sat down to the

task of creating our pumpkins. I showed her how to

make them with no sewing involved, and no needles

or thread. Her little hands had a hard time gathering

all the fabric up so I had to help in that area, and with

the glue gun. We cut out several circles from different

designed chenille's, laid handfuls of pillow stuffing

in the middle of the circles, and then gathered them

up and tied them off with rubber bands.

 

Then we took some soft white yarn and wrapped it

around and around the top part to create our stems

and used the glue gun to glue the ends in place. Then

we added just a bit of bling and some feathers to finish.

They came out simple but sweet, and very princess

looking. She is a pretty creative little girl and she loved

our creations when we were all done! I did too!

I've got a partner in crime!

 

After we were finished, we had to give them a name.

Because these were fit for a princess, and because we

love parfaits, and they were pink, we called them...

"Pink Princess Parfait Chenille Pumpkins!" But of

course, what else could they be called! So here are

our sweet pumpkins! I think we did a good job.

Emma thinks we did, and that is all that is important!

 

 

 

 

We used a rhinestone necklace for the large pumpkin.

This chenille is such a pretty light soft pink. All three

chenille's that Emma chose were different shades of

what I would call, baby soft sweet pinks in color.

 

 

 

And the matching earrings for the two small pumpkins.

 

 

I love love this pink squiggly chenille! The pink is such

a sweet color! I have this in so many colors as I use

to make little chenille pantaloons to go with the vintage

pillow case dresses I use to sell. I have tons of chenille's

and hundreds of vintage pillowcases that I have collected

over the last fourteen years. I really should get back to

making the pantaloons and dresses again. They sold like

hotcakes! They even worked great for pumpkins too!

 

 

This is the popcorn chenille! Another sweet pink color

and the pops are so soft! This made us some sweet

little pumpkins too!

 

 

 

We had so much fun! Aren't they just sweet!? I wish the

pictures had turned out better. It was a stinkin cloudy

day and me and my camera were just not getting along!

 

 

She found these in my china cabinet as we were

taking pictures of our pumpkins. I had forgot I

even had them. A couple of faux pumpkins painted

pink and sprinkled with German glass glitter and

decked out with pretty pink roses and pretty light

 green seam binding. Emma loved them, so we got

them out and set them with our new creations too.

 

 

This is my sweet princess Ms. Emma, and she is an

adorable little girl too! I just love her to pieces and

she makes me laugh all the time! She is like a big girl

in a little girls body. She just cracks me up!

 

Saturday we went shopping and she found several

pieces of jewerly she just had to have of course, and

a writing pad as she loves to write and draw. On

Sunday after church she had one more project she

wanted to do that she had seen that I had done with

her cousin....my littlest grandson Blaze. So before she

had to leave for home we got that done too.

 

 

This is her handprint owl. I saw this on a website here

and thought it so cute. We used canvas board for ours

and I lined the sides with some heavy twine and made

a hanger out of twine also, stapling it on the back. We

finished it off by brushing Mod Podge over all of it for

a good seal and a bit of a shine. This is a fun project for

the kids. Emma and Blaze both love theirs!

 

After we had painted Emma's hands for the handprints

I had sent her into the guest bath to wash her hands. I

wished you could have seen my sink and my WHITE

wash cloth and towel! What a MESS! I got the sink all

clean but I think the wash cloth and towel are shot lol!

Just full of little brown handprints and smears!

How did I not see that coming!

 

I had a great time with my Emmie and I hated to

see it end. But, we have lots of weekends to play

and shop again. She wore this grandma out so

I really need some time to recover anyway!

 

TaTa for now!

 

Thank you for visiting with us!

We always enjoy the company!

 

 

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