Late Summer Crafting....Howlets and Ghouliwogs!

I Heart Howlets!

 

You may ask...What is a Howlet?  It's an old Scottish word for owls or owlets that I discovered during my "I Heart All Things Scottish" phase...lol!  I think I first saw it in the lyrics in the liner notes of a  Dougie MacLean CD...either that or it was in a Robbie Burns poem...I forget.  But I really, really like it!  I thought I would make some "Howlets" for my front porch. 

 

I usually turn to my old stand-by crows and sunflowers for late summer.  When I dug out my "remarkably realistic crows wearing plaid scarves" I noticed that their feathers had faded even more than I remembered.  It was time to send them to the Old Crows Home in the Sky.  Or I could give their feathers a dye job with some black paint and give them another year...we'll see.

 

Kitchen Junk Windchime 

Used a four-sided cheese grater for the base.

The large holes look like feathers.

Rusty wire and odd bits make a face.

 

Jar Lid Howlets

I got the idea for these from Pinterest...of course.

Super easy...the hardest part was finding the old lids.

The red and yellow things were from my pal Paula's booth at Treasures.

 

 

Late Summer Door Décor! 

Sunflowers and Howlets.

 

Wreath with Ghouliwog.

"Gouliwog" is my new made-up name for whatever that is.

Old rusty cheese grater and assorted junk.

I love the toothy mouth.

I am making a few more for Halloween.

 

More Mushrooms...

I was a little late to the "Toadstools in the Garden" party.

But they look really cute under the lilac bush.

Tallest is about 24".

Found wooden bowl at thrift store and red pots at Hobby Lobby

for 80% off.  Too lazy to paint spots...they're vinyl.

 

The kids in the neighborhood went back to school yesterday.  I don't know why that makes me happy, but I'm already feeling my "Fall into Halloween" good crafting mood.  Of course it's rained for two days...but the acorns are starting to fall off some of the scrub oaks in the Highland Glen park.  I will be picking up pocketsful on my walks around the "wee loch" in the glen.  Maybe I'll see some Howlets with insomnia...it's been known to happen.

 

Happy Fall Crafting!

 

A Few Interesting "Howlets."  For Whoooo?

You!



I Heart Mushrooms, Gnomes and Fairy Gardens...and Kitschen Clowns!

Oil Can Fairy Gardens...

I kind of went overboard this weekend on the fairy garden front...but Hobby Lobby had these really cute rusty oil cans in their "Man Cave" department...and they were 50% off!  I have wanted to make a fairy garden for some time.  I collected a bunch of ideas on my "I Heart Mushrooms, Gnomes & Fairy Garden" board on Pinterest, but just couldn't seem to settle on anything...until I found the cans.  Normally I would have used old coffee cans, but that would have required trolling the aisles of every antique store for reasonably priced rusty cans...and you know how lazy I am...lol!  I saw the perfect can in a cool store in Boulder City, Nevada, but they wanted $75 for it...so Hobby Lobby got my money this week.

 My first can...I liked how it turned out, so I went back and bought a few more.

The mushrooms are tart pans and sticks.

The gnomes are cake toppers...Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

I bought them from one of my bloggie buddies.

This can uses a Christmas ornament I've had for a few years

I thought Quaker State would be a good match for this gnome.

Snow White finds a wheel barrow full of "poison apples."

She doesn't look all that intelligent...she may eat them.

By the fourth oil can, I was running out of ideas, but there is a cute deer hidden in the weeds.

Steel Days Inspired...Kitchen Clown!

I found this clown's head in my pal Paula's booth at Treasures Antiques and stuck it

on one of the tins I painted for mushrooms.

Daughter Sascha said this tin would be perfect.

More circus figures from Paula.

Spice tins and a glue gun...it's starting to come together.

Come one, come all!  It's a Kitschen Klown!

Hope you're having a crafty week!

I've had a lot a fun with all this nonsense...lol!