Día de Muertos

Here is my Cheyenne, sporting her Día de Muertos look.

She used varius eye shadows and eyeliners to complete this look. Doesn't she look so cute???!!!

You can find her facebook page HERE. Maybe we can get her to do a tutorial on how she did this look.

Till Next Time -
Happy Creating ~ Tara Nickole

Vanilla Maple Bacon Cupcakes

Today my daughter, Cheyenne and I, baked some cupcakes for a Halloween party she was attending later that night. We made vanilla cupcakes and topped them with Betty Crocker's Maple Bacon Frosting. Well some got the bacon topping and some got topped with candy corn.

Happy Halloween

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Halloween!!
So what are you being tonight? Is it beauty fabulous or are you being ghoulish?
Well what ever you go as, please be careful & stay safe tonight.

Happy Hauntings,
Till Next Time ~ Tara Nickole

Pumpkin Carving

My eldest daughter, Thea and I carved some pumpkins tonight.
No one else wanted to join us(boo...hiss..boo..no holiday spirit, I swear!!!), so we each got to do three pumpkins each.

(puppy pads, not only good for puppy training, but are excellent for pumpkin craving(makes clean up super easy), and other crafty things.)

Mani-Thursday

Happy Almost Halloween!!!
I'm in the mood for some Halloween nails.

Another Day Older

Ahh..Today, I'm another day older and another year wiser.
It's funny, how much we can learn in a year, about ourselves, relationship, people, things around us, and life in general. Some of it can be really good, and some of it can be really sad and depressing.

Friday Night Finds

This week's Friday Night Finds are " Black Cat Art"
A beautiful collection of black cat art, to honor our black kitty Spyder.

See you next week with another great treasury.

BlahBlahBloggerhood - Challenge Mandala

Here is my BlahBlahBloggerhood - Challenge Mandala
It has been over 20 years since I have tried drawing on, and it really shows. Don't know how many I threw out because I was not liking it (my girls loved seeing me messing up that much, lol) I really don't like this on either..Guess I will have to try and draw them a lot more and see if I can get better.

Till next time ~

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BlahBlahBloggerhood - Places I've Been

This week's Blah Blah Bloggerhood is "Places I've Been or Would Like to Go"
Places I've been is pretty boring. I do not get out much now. In the past, I've been to Myrtle Beach, SC to visit my mom, and see my middle sister get married. I really liked it there, but boy was it hot. I've been to North Carolina to the Outer Banks, really loved it there, just beautiful, also been to the mountains in North Carolina, loved that too. Been to Virginia to visit family. When I was younger(I've been up there a few years ago too), we use to go to the Pocono Mountains, I really love it up there. It has to be one of my favorite places to go. So calm and peaceful.

Places I would love to travel to Coastal Maine, London, France, Ukraine, Germany.
Till Next Time ~
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BlahBlahBloggerhood - Summer Bucket List

Summer Bucket List
This prompt is making me think, because I didn't have anything planned out for this summer, but now that I am thinking about it there is a few things I would like to see done this summer.

House Repairs
I would like to finish repairing the main hall way, and get it painted up nicely.
Along with finishing work on the up stair steps and the down stair steps.
I really want to repaint my bedroom/studio, a blueish grey. I'm getting tired of the orange walls and think it will be a nice change.
Get the one room cleaned out and turn it into a game room/hang out area for the kids. (that way hubby and I can reclaim our living room back, lol) ;)

Trips
Would love to take a few trips with my family up to the mountains. I'm not really a beach kind of girl anymore and would rather go up into the mountains and enjoy myself camping.
Would love to go to a few art shows and galleries.

Art
I want to work on and perfect my spray paint art.
Create some big pieces of art.
Work on a couple project with my girls and husband.
Work on some digital art.

Learn
I want to learn soft pastel and pastel pencils.
I want to learn French.

I think that is about it. That should keep me plenty busy. :)
Till Next Time ~
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BlahBlahBloggerhood - Five Things You Didn't Know About Me

This week's prompt for the Bloggerhood is "Five Things You Didn't Know About Me",.....Let's see if I can come up with five odd or quirky things about me(this shouldn't be to hard,* winks*)

1. I do not eat the ends off of french fries!!!!! I don't know why, but I started doing this when I was pregnant with my first born back in 1994. There is just something about the pointy ends/hard ends, that I don't like. So yes, at the end of a meal, I have a pile of french fry tips(my eldest daughter, eats them most of the time, fitting beings I started doing it when I was pregnant with her, lol) Oh, and after all these years of doing it, my hubby even does it know with his fries. Goes to show, if your with someone long enough, you start to pick up their habits.

2. I collect teapot houses. You would not know it by looking around my house, and not many people that are close to me know this. Started collecting them not long after I got married. On day we were shopping, and I seen this cute little house and Hubby got it for me and it started from there. I will have to see if I can dig them out of storage and take a picture of them.

3. I love to write!!! I was even published when I was in school. I love to write poems, stories and songs, even though I don't let anyone read them expect of my husband(and a few of the kids have come across a few of the notebooks and read a few things before I noticed) Started writing to deal with my life when I was young, and a lot of it was morbid and about death and dying because that's how I was feeling. My writings now, still have a dark & morbid feel, but also follow along with with the paranormal and erotica.

4. Shoes!!! Love to collect and shop for shoes, but...........I hate wearing shoes. I hate, hate, hate wearing them with a passion. You can always find me barefoot, unless I have to have shoes on to go someplace. I also always have to have nail polish on my toe nails(and most of the time on my finger nails, unless I working with something and I afraid that the nail polish will chip off.)

5. I'm a trained Multi-Medical Tech and Commercial Baker, but I have never worked in either field. My job has been raising my kids. We have an old fashion way of thinking and wanted one of us to always be there for the kids and to raising them, making sure they didn't get into trouble. Don't know what I'm going to do with myself in 3 years when the last one graduates high school. Maybe I will go back to school for art, who knows...

Till Next Time -
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What's New 5/26/2014

I know it's not a Friday update, but I had fun with hubby today, and tried my had at some spray paint art. I have been watching a lot of youtube videos on it, and it's so cool how pretty and quick the art comes about. It can take anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour per piece. I need a lot of practice as you can see below. They make adding mountains and rocks look so easy, but dang if I could get it to come out right, lol

Well below you can see the two pieces I completed.
The first one was done on a 8x10 canvas, and was my second try at it. I like it, but not happy how the land and trees come out.
The next one was done on foam board, and I love how smooth and easy it was to work on(but hate how easy it is to ding up). I really love this piece. That was my 3rd try at it.

Thanks for stopping by
Till next time ~

BlahBlahBloggerhood - A Few of My Favorite Things

My Favorite Things
I have a few favorite things. I'm not very materialistic, I could care less about the newest fades and this and that, & I always put my kids needs first, but there are a few things I hold near and dear to my heart and are must haves.

Books/Kindle
Books bring peace to my life. I love to grab a new book and crack it open and head on into whatever place I'm reading. I read every night before I go to bed.

Nail Polish/Perfume
I have a major nail polish fetish, and most times when I go shopping I pick up one or two new nail polish colors. Most times I only wear the color once, because I always have a new color to try out, expect for my favorite color one, which are browns, bronzes, oranges and grey/silvers.
Pink sugar perfume is my all time favorite perfume. It is my must have perfume because it smells so good on me(well hubby says it does, lol). I switch between Pink Sugar, Gold Sugar and Pink Sugar Sensual depending on the season.

Candles
I love love love candles, and buy some whenever I find a scent or candle I like. There is nothing like when the kids head of to school, lighting a candle, putting on some music and just relaxing while working on the web or painting.

Violin
I love classical music and the sound of the violin. I had always wanted to learn to play the violin when I was in school, but ended up playing the clarinet and singing in chorus instead. When my girls were old enough and wanted to play an instrument they both wanted to play the violin too. One ended up playing violin and the other ended up doing viola and cello. So one day, I finally decided I was going to get myself a violin too when we were shopping for instruments and got myself a nice electric violin. I'm still slowly learning to play it, but love it!!!

Art Supplies
Hubby and I have a really bad problem collecting art supplies of all kinds. We have totes upon totes filled with nothing but supplies. This year we just starting going through them and getting rid of stuff we are never going to use and only keeping what we need. My favorite art supplies are my colored pencils, oil pastels, pastels, watercolor and acrylics, plus my beads and felting supplies.

These are a few of my favorite things........
See you next week ~

Green-Haired Treasury

My green haired unicorn was featured in a lovely treasury of green hair.


Thanks so much for including my art this lovely treasury!!!

Two Lovely Treasuries

My art was featured in two lovely etsy treasuries.
The first is, ACEO Happiness. Full of colorful and bright aceos.

And the second is, Snow & Fire. A wonderful collection of Fire and snow creations.

Thanks so much for including my art into these two lovely treasuries!!!

Happy New Year 2014

Happy New Year, Everyone!!!
I'm starting 2014 off with a nasty cold. In fact, my while family has it, so everyone is just laying around taking it easy. Did start on my first creation of 2014. I still have some work to do, like add feathers and a few things, but I am loving it!!!

I also got a bunch more wrapped so I can make up more once I am feeling better.(well also get better pictures once, I'm feeling better too)

Lifebook 2013 wk 45

Today, I worked on Lifebook 2013's new lesson. I loved the idea with working on in graphite and maybe some color for the background.

The lesson as working on a feather. I decided to do a dream catcher with feathers.

I used two different graphite pencils, a prismacolor and a mechanical graphite pencil. Blended them with a stump and for those really white highlight areas, I used my Derwent battery eraser. Then splashed some blue watercolor for the background, and went over my main lines to darken them up.

Hope you enjoyed this piece as much as I have.
Till next time ~

What's New 10/4/2013

Happy October!!! October is my favorite month of the year, not because my birthday is at the end of the month, but because of the beautiful colors, the temps being cooler, and of course Halloween!!!! I love the sound of leaves crunching under foot, along with the smells of apples and pumpkins being baked in yummy pies and breads. There is nothing like the sights, sounds and scents of autumn.

This week, not much is on my desk, I have been making stretchy bracelets for the past 2 weeks. Last week, was making them for my kids to sell in there high school for school spirit. This week, I have been making them to put into my etsy account on Friday, and I even made a video on youtube with how I make my beaded fishtail. Below you can see some of the bracelets that I have made. I will have some think pink and go gold bracelets.

I plan on holding a give-away in the next few weeks, so keep checking back.

Till next time ~

What's New 9/20/2013

So here is what is sitting on my art desk this week.
It's not much, because I have been doing computer work, most of the week, but I did manage to get two pieces of art done.

The first is called, "The Change"
A girl got infected by bats and now is starting to turn into one.
8 x 10 Watercolor crayon, ink, pencil

Then we have, "Button Eye Sue"

Poor Sue, lost an eye, and in place of it, she sewed a button.

ACEO(2.5 x 3.5) Watercolor crayon, ink, acrylic, and pencil. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Independence Day 2013

Just popping in, to wish everyone a Safe & Happy July 4th.
We are just spending a quiet day at home, with the kids, grilling turkey burgers & hot dogs with all the fixings. Yum! Then going to watch the fireworks later tonight.
Be Safe & Much Love to All ~