Fall and Halloween Decorating!

Fall and Halloween decorating has  become as popular as Christmas, so here are a few more of our creations for that season.  I start my fall decorating process  the first of September and my scarecrow is my first welcome addition, this fella has been very popular and is not limited to Halloween.  He can be made in a variety of sizes from 12-18 inches.  Doesn't he just look happy!!  Above him you see our little ghost disguised as a pumpkin, he always brings nice comments and smiles.
FROM MARGE

Just came back from great trip to the East and visited a great gift shop where our snowmen and papier mache creations can be found; the Red Lion Inn, in Stockbridge Mass.  They are in the process of putting out their winter items right now.  If you are in the area stop in to see this beautiful and historic Inn for a great dinner, drink on the veranda and an overnight stay.

Happy 4th of July USA!

Happy 4th of July!  

I ran across some photos of our older santas that really were the beginning of our Santas and Snowmen.  Way way back this is how our santas looked.

Most of these santas were sold at a gallery in Penisula Ohio called Among Friends.  We were so thrilled when Chris and CJ called us artists.  

These are old woodland santas and a couple of our very first snowmen who were sculpted on burned out light bulbs that our families collected and saved for us to use.  I think they're kinda cute and wish I still had a couple of the old snowmen.  Our new snowman are mostly made using recycled plastic bottles now so we still recycle to make our snowmen. 

Our gardening santas were extremely popular, these were ready for an order for the Wizard of Odds in Saddle River, NJ

As our work progressed our santas got more elaborate as well as taller.  

We made and sold almost all the santas.  I wish we had saved a few...my brother has a collection.  I have a couple and Marge has some as well.  I am glad we took so many photos of our work though to remind us just what all we have accomplished.  

These are bad mood bunnies.  Later we sculpted some classical looking rabbits.

Some of our first cats.  

Wide Body Snowmen

Introducing the newest wide bodies on the block.  These jolly snowmen are all wide bodies fashioned papier mache, hand painted...with various pieces added to each one.  I debated whether to glitter or not to glitter...so I glittered a bit and left the snow off of some and added it to others.  Now to find names for the fellows.  Suggestions are welcome!  

The Berkshires & Cape Cod

I know it's been some time since my last post here, but life happens and sometimes that interferes with plans.   Anyway we've been working away on some new designs for Christmas.  Plus we sold some of our  OOAK Santas and ornaments to the gift shop at The Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  If you're in the area stop by and take a peek at them.

The Santa in the middle of this photo looks quite a bit like the santa in the movie "The Polar Express".  Marge added the Believe sign to him because that's what the movie was about.  He was indeed OOAK.  The Red Lion Inn picked him for their collection. 

The ornaments are similar to this fellow,

Or these:

Here's one of our Santas that we won't sell but may at some time try to do another one similar.  He's ooak nautical Santa and looked perfect in Cape Cod where I took this photo.