Mushroom Clock

Hello there!

I have another finished project to share. A little wall clock that I painted with a happy mushroom. I got the wooden form on sale last year at Hobby Lobby, and just now got around to painting it.
All in all I am happy with how it turned up.

And now here it is on the wall in my room, right next to Sam the Mushroom man.

Here's a little close-up of his face.

He's happy to see you!

Can you tell?

I thought I might leave you with a photo of my sweet Sheila, snoozing on my yarn.

What a cutie she is.

:)

Happy Thursday!!

xoxo, Callie

the magical bean

Yummy Amigurumi

I made some amigurumi food!

First up is a crochet cupcake that I made from the book Amigurumi World: Seriously Cute Crochet, even though I ended up making alot of alterations to it. Firstly I changed the frilly part on the icing because the way the pattern in the book said to do it and the way it was showing up on my cupcake was totally different, so I just did my own thing.

I did buttons for the eyes, felt for the mouth, and added a red pom pom to the top.
:)

Remember this little guy? I got the pattern for him all the way back in September 2009, which I wrote about here.
I actually started and finished him in the same day, it was so quick to do :)

Hooray for finishing projects!

How's your Thursday coming along?

XOXO, Callie

the magical bean

Clay Goodies

I love working with clay, and luckily I got to do just that a few weeks ago. I made an owl, a mushroom, and a little clay bowl, as well as some other things I have not finished yet.
I was obviously on a red and white theme, but then all of a sudden blue just had to be done!
:0)

I wrote free as in 'free as a bird'...get it?

This little shroom is just that: little itty bitty and cute!

Probably my favorite I made!

Oh wait he's hiding in the bushes :)

He likes you!

No really! He does.

How's your Wednesday goin'?

XOXO, Callie

the magical bean

Giveaway for two Not Your Average Ornaments!!!

Hello everyone... I realize I said come back later today and unfortunately as you can see four days later I am fianlly doing a post about it, so sorry about the delay...but here goes!

This giveaway will be for two mushroom ornaments (one green and one red) from my Not Your Average Ornaments series and will come in a nice little box with Santa Claus on it. The giveaway will start on Thursday December 17, 2009 and will end on Saturday December 19, 2009.This will be the last in a series of three giveaways for each of one of my ornaments, so be sure to come back on Sunday December 20, 2009 to see the winner of this giveaway.

Here is how you can enter:

1. Leave a comment on this post saying your name and email address

2. Leave a comment on this post telling your favorite holiday food

3. Become a follower to my blog, and leave a comment saying you are (if you already are a follower just say so)

4. Make a post about this giveaway and leave a comment saying you did

5. Tell me a what ranks the top of your gift list this year :)

Make sure to leave separate comments for each one of these (if you do all of these ways you should have five comments) and be sure that you leave a way for me to contact you if you win.

Good Luck!

Callie the magical bean

(Also do visit my shop for the rest of the Not Your Average Ornaments. Feel free to stop by.)The winner will be chosen at random from the random number generator website : http://www.random.org/I will ship anywhere in the world including overseas and APO addresses.
Also another big thank you to everyone you participated in the last giveaways, it really made my day to see so many people like my little ornaments :D

Not Your Average Ornaments

Hello!

Thanksgiving was so much fun with my family. As a whole it was very relaxing and the food was so good! In the mean time, I have been working like crazy on making many ornaments for an update in my etsy shop and still have more to do. I have finished my little gingerbread men and am rather happy with the results.

I am also making candy canes and green and red mushrooms.
I plan on doing a giveaway for one of these little men so I'll keep you posted when that is coming up. In between now and then I'll still be finishing them up and enjoying time with my family and finally being able to watch TV for the first time in a long time :D

XOXO

Callie

All the rain we have had recently has made some really beautiful flowers and stange mushrooms pop up...all the grass is so green and looks so happy! School has been pretty crazy thus the pause in the posts, over the weekend we went to see the Terracotta Warriors in Houston which my sister made a really great post about here. I will try to catch up on all the things I have been up to soon! Hope everyone is having a utterly happy Tuesday. :)

Mushrooms

After all the rain we had, so many plants that looked dead are now bright and green again! Also I found these little mushrooms out in our back yard. I love mushrooms and have missed seeing them since we lived in Germany. It was a pleasant surprise!