Gettin into grunge....

I have been gettin into grunge this past week!  The latest is grungy hang tags for Halloween!  I printed and applied the images to the tags then hand grunged them with cinnamon several times, sealed them, and topped them off with clear German Glass Glitter!  Two of them have a little rusty bell on the strings and three of them have rusty bells attached to the hole with a rusty safety pin.  This is the first time I have used the glass glitter and I really like it!  Hope you do too!

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   These would be well used on a year round tree, in scrap booking, or hanging on pegs.  You may even have another creative use for them!  They require several hours of work to create and I ask only $3.00 per tag.  If you would like to purchase some of them, contact me!  Thank you for reading my blog!

Clearin' Up Days and a Brand New Box Lamp!

    I've spent the past 4 days re-organizing my work room and trying to decide what to cull and what to keep.  I call that a "clearin' up".  (If you have ever read "Uncle Tom's Cabin", you know what it means.  I read the book several years ago with my kids and discovered it, but I knew it from my family using the term when I was a kid.)  While sortin things out, I found a crow and 3 little pumpkins that I had made in the past and never used, so this is what I have done with them!
   Yesterday and today I put together a lamp in a box that I made from an old sign that I messed up and laid aside.  I eventually cut up the sign, created the box, and repainted the front of it with a star and 2 olde crows.  I have been using that box ever since to store my rusty wire, until today.  There was a small tote box that I was going to use for this project but it had a handle on top that was in the way, so I switched the two boxes and made up the lamp.

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Everything but the moss is grunged with cinnamon and sealed.  The cinnamon stick stems on the punkins are scented with cinnamon leaf essential oil.  There are also curly, rusty wire vines attached to them.  I did the grunging over the past 2 days because they were not grungy when I found them.  Nothing in the box is glued down.  They are all "tucked".

I hope you like it!

Grunged box front.

Grunged crow.

Grunged box end.

Grunged lamp.

A Grungy Apple Cider Cellar Jar

   I finished this grungy "Cider From the Cellar" jar yesterday.  It is heavily grunged.  The grunging is a technique that I gleaned from reading several online tutorials and adjusting it to make it my my own.  I am still tweaking it and this is the 3rd grungy project I have done.  Each one is a little different.  Hope you like it!  This  jar is listed in my Facebook shop. (  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Louisville-KY/Pigeon-Creek-Primitives/101301143243832?v=app_135607783795  )

A Whole Set of Primitive Pantry Labels

  I have created an entire set of 8 Pantry Labels that can be used on jars, cans, boxes, scrapbooks, or whatever you may come up with to use them on!  I personally use them for jars and cans.  They are sent via email as a pdf document that you can download and print to make your own.   I can also customize a set for you for a fee of only $10.00, with whatever you want on them!  Contact me for custom orders!

 

This can is for also sale!