Winner Announced!!!

Bayou Bill is dancing his Happy Dance because a winner has been selected!!!

                        The envelope, please!

Now I am dancing too!!!  So Excited!!!

The winner is...Melissa at melissa.nace@verizon.net!!!

This is your Prize!

Please contact me at carolynsmith906@gmail.com

As Always, Love and Friendship,

Carly Anne

Last Reminder for My Give-Away!

Last Reminder
You only have until Midnight January 28th to enter!!! Don't miss Out!

100 POSTS Give-Away!!!

Win this Wreath!!!

I think I buried my Give-Away in such a large post and blogger wasn't working right, that I am reminding everyone to sign up. Follow these three steps to enter

1) sign up to follow this blog

2) leave a comment on this blog

3) click on this link and go to http://witchesofgiggleswick.com/ and sign up for the free membership!  This is our new website dedicated to artists and enthusiasts alike

Love and Friendship,

Carly Anne

Update on Punkin' Bunnie

Wow, I must be on a roll...just blogging up a storm!  Here is the latest progress on Punkin'!

Should have some more pics later today or tomorrow!  Please let me know what you think and don't forget to scroll down and enter my Wreath Give-Away!

Love and Friendship,

Carly

Punkin' A Work in Progress!

This is my first clay and cloth Bunnie...I plan for her to be a ballerina, but she may have other "more" bunnie adventures in mind!  We Will see!  I am making her for Art Doll Quarterly's Fall Anthropomorphic Challenge!  What do you think? Hope you like her!

Love and Friendship,

Carly

Give-Away!!! !00 Posts!!!

100 POSTS Give-Away!!!

Win this Wreath!!!

I think I buried my Give-Away in such a large post and blogger wasn't working right, that I am reminding everyone to sign up. Follow these three steps to enter

1) sign up to follow this blog

2) leave a comment on this blog

3) click on this link and go to http://witchesofgiggleswick.com/ and sign up for the free membership!  This is our new website dedicated to artists and enthusiasts alike! 

Give Away!!! 100 Posts

 A Chance to win O'Skullivan Wreath!
It is about 15 inches outside diameter and
the Skully is 9 inches tall!!!
An $85.00 Value!

I think I buried my Give-Away in such a large post and blogger wasn't working right, that I am reminding everyone to sign up. Follow these three simple steps to enter

1) sign up to follow this blog

2) leave a comment on this blog

3)  go to http://witchesofgiggleswick.com/ and sign up for the free membership!  This is our new website dedicated to artists and enthusiasts alike!

Give-Away to be announced on the 28th! 

As Always,

Love and Friendship, 

Carly Anne

Special Discount!!!

In appreciation of our new members, we are going to 

be offering a 50% discount on all membership levels!

The offer will be effective until April 15th, all you have

to do is enter the coupon code SLASH50 in the box

when signing up, or renewing your membership! Join

 up and see what great benefits are in store!

So lets go together!  

 witchesofgiggleswick@hotmail Any 

questions...please send them to the hotmail mail 

address in the link above!   

X0,

Carly 

Milestone!!!

                                                 100 Posts!!! 

25% OFF Any of my items on Witches of Giggleswick!!!
This is a long post so be sure you are at the bottom in order to find the comment section!!!  If you run into the next post and LeeAnn's cupcake...you have gone too far! 

O'Skullivan Wreath

Give-Away!!! 

Time for My Own Give-Away and Sale!!!

All you need to do are three things...1) Follow me on this blog  2)  Leave a comment on this blog and  (FREE) on Witches of Giggleswick...
http://witchesofgiggleswick.com/ 
1st level membership is free, so what have you got to loose?  Deadline for signing up is two weeks away...January 28th
You may be saying...well what if I'm already a follower?  Then just leave a brand new comment and sign up for the free membership at Giggleswick using  the link above! Just remind me that you are already a follower!

Here is Boggy Bottoms’ Own Bayou Bill Doing our Celebration Dance!

Well Friends, I just realized that I have reached 100 posts…I can’t believe it!!!  Seem that I just start this blog yesterday!!!  How long has it been…I don’t really know off the top of my head!  Maybe I was still making Teddy Bears?  I know they are  here under Past Creations…

Miss these  little guys!!!

I do miss making my bears!  Exploring and learning how to make my patterns to get just the right shape of muzzle…using actual mohair fabric (boy is it expensive!) to try out exactly how well it looked when stuffed!  Sometimes it was such a grand moment when one turned out just right…other times, the head went flying across the room!!! LOL! But one of my Bears was selected and published with My TDIPT Group's artwork in 2012 in Prims Magazine: 

 Say Hello to Boo Bear!

Next came the softer side of Sculpting!

 

 After Bears, I was still all about the softer side and went into soft sculpted dolls.

Some of you may remember these cuddly ones… A few of these had their arms and legs jointed, like my bears. I really enjoyed taking a muslin doll and jointing it!  

Now,  We all know what comes next don't we...I'll give you a hint...I'm still doing it! Yep...still in LOVE with my Paper Clay!!!....So first were some such as Eudora and Jimmy.  

 Much to my excitement, They were published in Art Doll Quarterly!!! Then another Miracle...This past year I was in three magazine...or rather my dolls were!  

Fall 2012 

                                    
                                                                         
                                                                         Fall 2013

A few of the featured Dolls, Spool Ghouls and ornaments are shown below:

 

                                                                                                           So Everyone  That's all for now!!!  Isn't that enough...oh, but I loved our trip down Memory Lane...How about you?

Love and Friendship,

Carly Anne

Winners Announced!!!

Here are the Winners of Our First Give-A-Way!!!

Winner # 1

Michelle Smith

Cupcake Cardholder 

made from paper clay, wire,embellishments and Paper Products

Winner #2

Laura Roth

Victorian Favor Cone 

and is made using A German Dresden embossed paper cone embellished with Dresden Paper, paper product,crystal and ribbon.  Inside is a mixture of miniature pip berry/pumpkin floral with orange and black pipe cleaner candy canes

Winner #3

Karen Barbara

Cupcake Cardholder 

made from paper clay, wire,embellishments and Paper Products

Winner #4

Dianne Rice

 Victorian Feather Tree Ornament Set 

and is made from German Dresden Paper, Other paper products , Crystals, and ribbon.

It's Not Too Late!

There is Still Time!!!  Click the Link Below!!!

http://witchesofgiggleswick.com/ and register to win our Give-Away! Be sure to sign up before midnight!!!

Also, Here are a couple of new Works in Progress I have to show you!  I've been working so hard on the Giggleswick website that I haven't had much creative time...so nice to be working on some new ADQ Submission pieces!

Meet Priscilla!

Priscilla is going to be a Ballerina...I think...I want to send her in to ADQ for their Anthropomorphic Challenge that will take place this fall!  That's plenty of time? No...not at all!  ADQ (Art Doll Quarterly) gets started in March so they have plenty of time to get everything together for their big Fall issue...so Folks, she is due March 15!

Meet ?????

I haven;t named him because I haven't decided who he is...?  Is he a Dwarf with a scruffy beard or a Goblin with pointy ears...?.....or a mixture of both???

Maybe ya'll can help me decide...?  How about it?  Please leave a comment as to which one of  the above he looks like to you..I really will take your comments to heart. I plan on sending him in too, by March 15! Along with opening a big website...I think I'll be busy!!!!

That's all for now! Don't forget to stop by and register as a new member   at http://witchesofgiggleswick.com/ !!!

Love and

Friendship,

Carly Anne

P.S.   Bigger Give-Aways to come!

Grand Opening Event!

In celebration of our website's Grand Opening, we will be hosting a new members raffle.  ALL new members, at ALL

levels will be entered to win handmade prizes!

All you have to do to enter is register for an account at www.witchesofgiggleswick.com by midnight tonight (That is Sunday the 12th of January)!  Monday we will announce four lucky winners chosen at random to win awesome handmade pieces from our artists!

Sign up for FREE at www.witchesofgiggleswick.com ! In addition to automatic eligibility for the drawing, you will then have access to our website...Come on by...we are entering new pieces of art and content everyday,  This is THE place to interact at a whole NEW level!

Giggleswick Has Opened

Giggleswick has opened it's doors early due to the high volume of requests! Please hang in there while we are in the process of opening as we only have one squirrel pedaling this bicycle (our Webmaster Mark Mock) and we don't want to delay!

This is truly a dream come true for LeeAnn of Charmed Confections and I (Carly Smith of Boggy Bottom Bayou).  We

have wanted to unite Halloween enthusiasts and Artists under one roof for some time.

While the Witches of Giggleswick is underway, Mark is currently entering new memberships.  Please go to
http://witchesofgiggleswick.com/  to learn more.  

Regular Membership is FREE!  So hurry over and join us!  There will be upcoming Give - A - Ways, so stay tuned to this blog! All new members will be automatically placed in the Give-A-Way drawing!!!

We hope that you will join us on this Wicked, wild broom ride and come to love Halloween and other Holidays as much as we do!

Love and Friendship,

Carly and LeeAnn

Carly and 2014!

Well, here I sit blogging...not really knowing what to blog about...just want to ring in the New Year with my friends and share what I'm looking forward too...hoping everyone had a Merry Christmas. My eldest son was here from Colorado.  We were altogether and I am a happy MOM!

Looking forward to:

1) being able to walk...the surgery seems a success, so far so good.  Getting around with a walker and a wheelchair. It is difficult as I now have lost length in my left leg...so if you ask me how tall I am, well, it just depends upon which side you are asking about!  Have climbed my stairs numerous times...but to tell the truth...I'm not consistent enough.  I tend to go all out some days, which sets me back a day or so...then I wind up not doing much.  I recognize this now and am making efforts to change this stubborn pattern of mine!~

2) launching Giggleswick the Website!!!  It has been delayed and delayed due to my surgery and the holidays...so now we (LeeAnn, Mark and I need to jump on it!)  Be looking for us and we will be looking for you!

3) collaborating on a new birdcage doll with my dearest girl, LeeAnn!  We promise to deliver something very special and hopefully give you a little giggle in the process!

4) submissions of my newest creations to my Editor and friend, Jana Holstein, at Art Doll Quarterly!

5)  getting rid of this awful weight I've gained throughout this whole leg ordeal (yes my dears, I changed the subject yet again...kinda just putting my thoughts down as I go....

Here are a few sneak peeks at parts of Our Collaboration…LeeAnn and I had a blast talking about her today…Everyone, welcome Boolinda!!!

                          Isn’t she Bootiful?!

That’s all for now

Love and Friendship,

Carly Anne