Welcome to the Candy Shoppe!

Hello Everyone,

I'd like to introduce to you the new line of charlotte parts and other doll parts in my doll part supply line, these new pieces are apart of the Candy Shoppe Color line, aka Cupcake Chic!

Without further ado, I like to introduce the girls of Pinkville:

-Cotton Candy Cooperson
-Cherry Licorice-stix
-Sour Cherrystone
-Sugar Plum Princess
-Magenta Brightwood


Now meet their friends over in Blueville:

-Blueberry Pie
-Electric Blue Pop
-Bleu Fondant
-Taffy Aqua-stone
-Soda Pop Fizz


Now meet their friends over in Sprinkleton:
-Limeade Sticklestixs
-Bleu Raspberrywood
-Chiffon Lemonstixs
-Plum Fruitcake
-Cottoncandy Fizzlepotts


Now Meet the Carnival Queen:
-Candy Cooperpuff


Now meet the Rustics:


Now meet their friends from Sugarville:
-Madison
-Ginny


Now Meet the New Pixie from Pixie Fair:
-Tuesday Pixiestixs


New China Girl in town:
-Lady Bluebelle

The dolls inside the Candy Shoppe have a few more friends to introduce to you. These girls are from Magic Caverns, they are called: The Rustic Charlotte Dolls!

NOW AVAILABLE for sale! All these new doll parts are currently located in my Etsy Store!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/moonfaires

They will also be available in my website store this week as well!

Nine Days of Christmas, Post Two!

"Enchanted Woodland Christmas"

Miss Flora Van Huysen, Little Bo Peep's cousin from Switzerland's Sugar Mountain!

For decades decorating with pine cones has been a design treat, using them in home decor, as a vase filler, turned into a wreath, a swag, used in floral arrangements, glittered, turned into dolls, ornaments, holiday decorations, trees and in partyware.

During my move a few years ago, I came upon several boxes of vintage ornaments and holiday decor, inside were some pinecone ornaments, some were pinecone elves, birds, angels, santa's, and a wreath doll ornament. They were glittered, some had knitted hats and gloves, felt clothes, clay, spun cotton heads, wings, a halo and pastel paint.

After studying their homemade presentation, I decided to create a few myself, a carnival of pinecone dollies. If you love to recycle, then this is a great eco friendly/green project by simply recycling pinecones from outside or pinecones from older Christmas/Fall projects. Then glitter them, or turn into dolls and ornaments.

Miss Plume Sugarite, Miss Webb and Miss Flora's Fairy-ology classmate, all are from Switzerland's Sugar Mountain!

Miss Plum signed up for sugar plum magic at the Luppin Stahl School of Magic, just outside Sugar Mountain.

In class she met Flora and Adeline. Miss Plume Sugarite, is learning sugar plum magic, so she can one day open her own sugar plum farm on her vast estate. She already knows how to make magic sugar in 12 colors. She is waiting for the Nutcracker Music Studies Corse, which starts next week.

Miss Adeline Webb, Miss Flora Van Huysen Fairy-ology and Flowers classmate, both are from Switzerland's Sugar Mountain!

Adeline decided she wanted to study Fairy-ology and Winter Magic, so she signed up at the Luppin Stahl School of Magic, just outside Sugar Mountain.

In class she met Flora, both became instant friends. Flora also met Miss Plume Sugarite, who is learning sugar plum magic, so she can one day open her own sugar plum farm on her vast estate.

I have created a project for this which can be found on the Art Glitter Blog:
http://artglitterblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/pine-cone-tinsel-ballerinas-by-lisa.html

and at the Spellbinders Curiosities Project Blog:
http://spellbinderscuriosities.blogspot.com/2009/12/tinsel-pine-cone-dolls.html


Hope you enjoyed all the Enchanted Woodland Creations I have made, my take on a vintage Christmas w/Cupcake Chic Colors!

"Ten Days of Christmas, Post One"

Theme Today: "Cupcake Chic"
From now until Christmas I will be blogging about holiday Crafts/Projects, Handmade Wares, Christmas Trees, Events, Parties and Recipes. To find extra inspiration, search for new and archived projects, see guest designer works visit: http://spellbinderscuriosities.blogspot.com/

This new blog is dedicated to all projects, published/printed projects from me and Moonfaires World Guest Designers.
I'd like to start the ten days of Christmas with a theme I have labeled: "Cupcake Chic" which is a color palette I use to categorize creamy cupcake icing colors, pastels, new brights, wrapped in a 1940's to 1960's color scheme and style, set in a storybook sweet shoppe setting. There is room for fairytale style from the 1920s and 30's, and the Rainbow bright era of the early 80's which can be classified in this category as well. So can distressed whites, pinks and neutrals which when combined with a cupcake color, some peppermint stripes and cherry red, boom instant cupcake chic. Candyland stripes, sweet sprinkles, painted pastel metals, color aluminum, spun cotton, plastic foam, forget me knots, 1940-50's corsages, party wares from the 40s-60s, Kewpies, Celluloid Carnival, Fair and Send Away Dolls, Penny Dolls, Bisques, Cutesy Tasty Cake Dolls, Nancy Ann's, Campbell Kids, Revlon Dolls, Tin Toys, 50s Space Toys, vintage and frou frou prom gowns, feather trees, tulle trees, mercury glass, plastic charms, charm bracelets, rhinestones, honey comb paper and decorations, tinsel, tinsel/foil decorations, kitchy deers and stuffed animals, ice cream fountain sodas and shoppes, 5 and 10 stores, all these categorize inside "Cupcake Chic". I've been working back into this color palette and theme for quite some time, originally I was grungy in colors, moved to bolds, back to grunge, then to bolds, finally finding my home within this theme, my favorite color combos right now are aqua and pink, lemonade and violet, blueberry and violet, a pastel rainbow mix wth creams.


For Christmas this year I started in September, re-dying and painting my display trees a cupcake robins egg blue/aqua color, bringing them to Silver Bella, mixing them with all cupcake chic colors. For Tinsel Wonderland I mixed these same trees with tinsel colors, silvers and creams.At my house I opted for shine brite trees in the sitting room, one is tinsel silver, the other tinsel pink, keeping only vintage and vintage handmade ornaments on these two trees with aluminum foil rolled vintage garland and tree toppers.For ornaments I re-visted the bottle brush material for trees and wreaths which were transformed into ornaments and dolls, By simply bleaching and dying either vintage or new bottle brush trees you can really create some fabulous things which don't have to be reserved for just the holidays. For the project on bottle brush tree dying and the Storybook Toys visit the Art Glitter Blog here:

http://artglitterblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/glittered-toy-blocks-storybook-toy.html

or visit the Spellbinders Blog here:

http://spellbinderscuriosities.blogspot.com/2009/02/dresden-trim-ornament-project.html

Tommorrow I will have before and after photos of the bleaching process of the trees on the Spellbinders site.
I upgraded the tear drop boat ornaments by replacing vintage images with my handmade dolls, decorating with Dresden, bouillion and more. You can see some of them on the Victorian Scrapworks Site

http://www.victorianscrapworks.com/

You can purchase many of the supplies to make these ornaments there. Once you finish shopping visit
http://spellbinderscuriosities.blogspot.com/2009/02/dresden-trim-ornament-project.html

this is the place for the project instructions and video on how to make them.

Stay tuned for the 9th day of Christmas post tommorrow on the Pine Cone Carnival of Ornaments: Fairies, Sugar Plums, Little Bo Peep and Wizard Pine Cones and visit Spellbinders blog for the project instructions!

To purchase any of the finished pieces visit my etsy store at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/moonfaires

To see more of my holiday trees and pictures visit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonfaires16/sets/72157622892468832/

Magic and Happy Holidays!
Lisa!

Silver Bella Part 3, Friday Night Soiree!

After a morning workshop, day of shopping and late lunch, I probably could have used a nap, but AnnDenise decided to keep going and finish up last minute details for the Vendor Night Event of Silver Bella.Now I could finally slip into my new 50's style dress by xoxo and vintage camisole jacket I just bought at Second Chance, add in the necklace I made from vintage wares, some strappy sparkly shoes, a bunch of hand dyed trees in yummy aquas and pinks, Altered Art Circus and goodies from my home workshop, and I was ready to open up the Vendor Night Festivities.

My theme for this year was what I call" "Cupcake Chic" which is the term I have come up with a few years ago which labels creamy cupcake colors, 40's to 60's pastel colors, sugar craft and storybook sweetness all wrapped up into one hence the name: "Cupcake Chic". The trees for this year where discounted trees I purchased which I hand bleached, base coated and spray painted Aqua and some pink. The tiny trees were bleached and hand dyed w/either koolaid dye mix or Rit Hot Water Dye Mix, 2 were spray painted w/creamy bright pink hair spray paint. (Visit the Art Glitter Site early next week for the bleach recipe and project.) The pieces I created blended into this color palette that I have been primarily working with over the year. I created Vintage Bottle Brush Tree and Flocked Deer Ornaments, Vintage Pine Cone Fairies and Ornaments, Storybook Toys, Confectionary Kids, Charlottes, Handmade Chic Dolls, Cupcake Toppers, Cupcake Topper Boxes, Cupcake Topper Dolls, Sugary Sweet Charm Bracelets, and more, plus I had on hand autographed copies of: "Altered Art Circus", which sold out, which I was so happy about. All the girls at Silver Bella rock, everyone made my night a magical and enchanting one. A special thanks to Teresa and her staff for all they did, Jo Packham, to the instructors, artisians, attendees and everyone who support what I do, my works, designs and books.

And a huge hug and kisses to my roomie and Buddy AnnDenise, you rock Crepe Paper Queen.

Hugs to all, and hope you enjoyed my adventure.
xoxo!
Lisa!
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