Free Vintage Images For Use!

I've just spent the weekend investing in lots of lovely new materials for some new Hallowe'en crafting projects. I really can't wait to get some time to myself and make a good go of some brand new designs!

One of the items I invested in was a CD-Rom of vintage Hallowe'en postcard images which are now in the public domain for use free of charge and free of license issues. However, it's worth pointing out that you don't need to buy such images on a CD - if you have the time and patience you can always trawl the Internet and download them to your PC for absolutely free! Or you can just pay £1.69 and have them all compiled on a disc and sent to your door (eBay is a good place to find this)! 

Either way, these fabulous free resources are invaluable when crafting and make a nice personal and vintage touch when used for gifts and cards.

A couple of sites that compile some of these for you are:

Vintage Holiday Crafts

Squidoo

Card Cow

Enjoy and get crafting!

Growing Is Another Form Of Crafting

I've had my eyes opened recently to the possibilities of being green-fingered. Yes, there is another way to be craftily creative other than pricking your fingers with a needle!

Four of my pumpkins on their journey of life!

For my birthday my sister got me my very own 'Grow Your own Peter Pumpkin' set. OK, so this is clearly for kids, but when you have a seed phobia as I do, you may not have done much growing as a child. And for the record, any seed the size of a pumpkin seed is pretty much exempt from the phobia.

So, I planted the little beggers and look at how they are coming

on! I'm so excited to see my own pumpkins start sprouting their tentacles and blossoming their little pumpkin flowers! I seem to increase my stock of pumpkins by one every year but this year will (hopefully) be a record year with at least six pumpkins to adorn my home with this Hallowe'en!

Of course, now that we've entered into July, I can't help but get all excited in anticipation of that most hallowed of months. I've started getting my crafting list ready and I'm about to make some big purchases. This year I intend to do more crafting than ever before - so look out for some exciting new products, including ghoulish greetings cards, petrifying plaques and boo-tiful bags!