Yup, today starts the fun and festivities with our beloved Jennifer at her annual Holiday Sale. She transforms her entire home into a glittery, ruffly, wonderful wonderland and friends stop by to take in the beauty of it all...and of course, eat cookies...and leave with bags and bags of Jennifer's love.
You'll find her signature ruffly paper products, ornaments and banners, lots of pillows in her fablous fabrics and sooooooo much more. 
Of course, there will be bolts and bolts of her signature fabrics just begging you to take them home and cobble up something special. You will go into immediate sensory overload...give yourself lots of time...there is soooooo much to look at. And you get to see Jennifer and GEORGE, the world's most perfect dog!Her show runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday (12/6 thru 12/8) from 9am to 6pm. Click here for more info. If you are anywhere near the area, drop everything, run, hop or crawl to this amazing event. The GlitterFairy will be stopping by, too, if I can get out from under this mountain of glitter... I never miss this show!!!
Hope to see ya there...
Hope to see ya there...
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Happily, my client was thrilled with them and they will flank a beautiful display case in the main window of a lovely jewelry shop. It's kind of hard to see in my poorly taken pix, but each tree has a glass glittered butterfly, a bird in nest, lots of glittered bumblebees, a bumblebee in its bed, a hummer in its bed, a glass glittered praying mantis, love fruits, a sparkle star and a treat cone. Truly a labor of love...I sort of hated to let them go, but they will have a fabulous life in a wonderful store with lots of people admiring them...(we ALL should be that lucky!!!)...lucky dogs!
I know, I know, the clock is ticking down to Christmas. Thanks for your emails and interest in my glittergoods.
These babies are a full foot taller than any I've done before and they are a bit more work to manage...but they are turning out beautifully. (I'm just tired from my week of selling, singing... yes, I had another concert last nite...and partied afterward til 2am... and filling orders. ) I'm lucky to have such a full life but have to admit I'm looking forward to the day after Christmas and spending some time with my family!
This shot above is my pal, Betsy Lowe, who sells fleece hats, vests, mittens, scarves and just about anything else she can cobble out of fleece. She comes all the way down from the Boston area and had a few more serious hours of setting up to do. It's a heck of a lot of work to set up these shows...
And...voila! The Great Wall of Fruit!!! I"m not kidding...there's a full 15 feet of frutiness there...
Do you think I can cram any MORE glittergoods into my area??? I sure don't want to bring all this stuff back to the studio...gotta make some moola and send this stuff home with other people!
This baby is almost 4 feet tall, and is perfect for small ornaments, treat cones, or in this case, lots of glittered bumblebees and dragonflies! 
I really can't wait for this workshop. Working with copper wire is such fun...We'll dust our urns with a bit of vintage silver glass glitter, and I'll show you how to shape ordinary 7 stranded electrical grounding wire into a gorgeous tree trunk, roots and branches. This is the Holiday version of the one I did on the Martha Show for Halloween (10/15/07), except this one will be a bit bigger. We'll be using 3 foot lengths of wire, so it will be wider...and you can shape the branches any way you want...squiggly like mine, or angular or compressed or stretched out...it's your tree, to shape as you wish. ( If you have a pair of double round nosed pliers, please bring them. ) Also, please wear work clothes as we will be mixing and pouring plaster to set the roots securely into the base. We'll pop some sheet moss over the plaster, shape the roots and branches and voila!....you will have a spectacular tree that you can use year after year, season after season. (By the way, there is absolutely NO reason why you can't use this puppy at Eastertime, for hanging eggs and bunny ornaments...or hearts for V-Day, for that matter!)
We hammered wire into hooks....
and of course, we glittered faux pears and papier-mache walnut boxes from Germany...and made some gorgeous glittery goodies!
And I made some wonderful new friends.
and a nifty papier-mache walnut box, perfect to hide a handful of chocolate inside!!! I know, I know, I need to shoot a picture of the walnlut box...just haven't had time! T'will be fun, I guarantee, and you WILL get glitter on your face!
You know, you can also put Cristmas ornaments on those trees...or mini glittered dreidels or Easter eggs or hearts for Valentine's day. I am an "equal-opportunity" glitter-er! And the glitter color on the base can be any color you want to fit the holiday! Untreated over time, the copper wire will develop a nice patina..It will actually oxidize to a brownish color but you can polish it if you want to keep it shiney and even spray it with Krylon sealer to keep it shiney, or you can spray paint it any color you'd like with Rustoleum paint. And, yes, you can also glitter the branches...it takes a while, but it gives it an entirely different look.
A very talented group of women gathered 'round and we crafted some outstanding crow Trinket-or-Treat boxes and glittered pedestals.
And of course, there were glittered eyeball sugar cookies, made by my friend Susan of The Painted Cookie, (they were yummy) and Pellegrino to sip. 
All the ladies did a spectacular job on their boxes and pedestals - each one turned out to be uniquely beautiful. I shared many of my glitter tricks-of-the-trade and TT put out wonderful embellishments for us to use. The beautiful black, pumpkin and orange vintage glass glitter flew! Crows got headdresses & necklaces while the afternoon also flew by...
Thanks to Marcia, the owner of Tinsel Trading Company, for inviting me and to the lovely ladies who braved torrential rain and unrelenting traffic to throw around some glitter with me! Tinsel Trading Company is a most unusual shop, part museum (75 years of amazing history...read about it on TT's website...it's fascinating) and part store...and you can never really see it all in one visit. Yards and yards of sparkle, ribbons, trims, tassels, ribbons and glittery stuff line every wall and I see something new every time I turn my head. It really is an experience, and doing a workshop there was truly an honor for me. It's really the "mecca" of the craft world!
We'll be making some wire trees and ornaments for the Holidays on December 15th. There are still a few spots left in this workshop, so visit 
Even if you don't have the time to stay for the workshop, you really should stop by the 
I'll be there on Saturday, October 27th from 12 - 4pm, and we'll be making the Trinket-or-Treat Crow Box, shown above. You will be embellishing it with all manner of stuff from Tinsel Traders...trims, ephemera, leaves, you name it, they've got it! 
Hope to see you there or at a future GlitterWorkshop. We're probably going to do a "Glitter-Tree" Workshop in December so stay tuned...
This feathered fella on a pedestal is also flying along to keep Horace & Bill company. Honestly, I think my decorations have a way more exciting life than I do!!! Beverly Hills! Wow!
My purple passion paper plate pedestal (how's that for an illiteration?!) is going west, ( young man), all the way up to the northwest corner of the US.
And spidey 1 and spidey 2 are headed to beautiful Minnesota. I'm so glad they will be together...they've never been separated before and I want them to be happy. 
