Painted and glittered nutcrackers

 This weekend is the First Fridays shopping event in the Old West Bottoms.

While my spot is full on, Halloween/Thanksgiving/ Fall themed, I have to be ready to go for next month’s set up for the sale on 11/3-4 right after this sale.

November will be my winter wonderland and I’ve been so excited about it, I just can’t wait!  I get to play with all of my favorite things!

Glitter, trees, Santas, reindeer, sugarplum fairies!

There is a plan I’ve been impatiently waiting to implement that involves a whole Nutcracker/Sugarplum Fairy corner.  I had thought about doing a canvas backdrop of nutcrackers, then I saw these wooden cut out guys, and bought three to paint and embellish.

I even splurged and used some of my very, very best vintage trim on this guy.

 All of them are painted with metallics, sprinkled with glitter, and trimmed with vintage rhinestones and white mink, but no two are the same.

I will be headed to Florida mid October for a Guncle visit, time with Terry and her baby girl at Disney, then beach time with my sissies and their baby girls, all jammed into one, way too short week.

Speaking of “way too short”, my time for set up at Juju and creating gets shortened by this week away.  So I’ll be spinning my wheels to get it all pulled together before the vacation. This is going to be a hectic week, trying to de-black my Halloween booth and transform it into glittering whites. 

Yum! My type of challenge!  I am going to love every minute of it.