Friday, September 29, 2006

All Us All the Time Gothic Stationery Sachets...We make gift giving ghoulish.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven is one of my favorite poems; in fact, Poe is the one who inspired me to try to become a writer. His prose and tales with rolling cadences are mesmerizing to me. I long to create that type of spell binding magic of Poe and that of which my sister captured perfectly in her Victorian Gothic Sachets. I can’t be objective on this at all; my sister designed an absolutely gorgeous stationery set based on this fine-feathered friend, Mr. “Nevermore” Raven. The color palette is simply stunning with deep purples, reds, and oranges. Like the poem, her cards are quite mesmerizing with a brilliant colored Gothic rose, a vase full of gold and blue cobweb feathers, two black ravens in flight carrying a feathered gown lit up by a fantastic harvest moon, are they the beginning or the end of a mysterious tale? Then of course Mr. “Nevermore” Raven himself, looking ever so stately perched on his gourds with purple top hat and feathered tails. All the cards are reproduced from my sister’s recent original watercolor paintings.

Victorian Gothic Stationery Sachet
The Gothic Sachet is just as stunning as the stationery. The fabric is gorgeous with a rose pattern in deep red, whimsical vines in purple, floral bouquets in silver and black, rusted red pinstripes, and of course it wouldn’t be complete without a touch of black velvet and the ribbon would be black velvet too. Each Gothic Sachet comes with 8 Gothic Greeting Cards, 8 Gothic note sheets, 8 black envelopes, and 2 gel pens, silver and gold. They will go perfect on that antique writing desk in your sleeping chambers of your 13th century castle. If you don’t have a 13th century castle, I am so very sorry, but they will look gorgeous no matter where you reside.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

All Us All the Time Boo in a Basket...We make entertaining eerie.

Witchy Kitty and Spooky Spider Boo in the BasketThe tracking down and then harvesting of wolf bane, the city-wide search for fresh eye of newt versus that frozen imitation stuff, the back lighting of those cobwebs you spend all year cultivating, and the detail flight planning for all your guest arriving by air or spontaneous apparition. Let’s face it; throwing a Boo Bash is hard enough work without having to fuss over party supplies.

Luckily, my sister is an expert in planning phantom parties and came up with a time saving solution, a Boo in a Basket. A one-shop stop for a boo bunch of party supplies all bundled up in a very handy basket. The Boo in the Basket consist of either printable or fill-in invitations with coordinating envelopes, place cards, printable menus, disposable party coasters, and disposable drink charms. All of this comes in a “bootiful” basket that then can be used for bat wings and screaming sauce at your grand All Hallows Eve Ball.

Oh but wait my fine fiendish friends, there is more. Also included is a Boo Booklet with devious decorating ideas, monstrous menu suggestions, and sinister recipes. When your mansion is going to be up to the ceiling (literally) with grooving gremlins, ghosts, goblins and ghouls, you need all the assistance you can get. You don’t need to be worrying about party supplies, when the focus should be on collecting dragons’ scales for the main centerpiece of your Booffet.

Gothic Boo in the Basket

All Us All the Time, not only making entertaining eerie, but easier with the Boo in the Basket.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

All Us All the Time Halloween Felt Gift Tags...We make gift giving ghoulish.

Witchy Kitty Felt Gift TagMy sister loves felt and she loves Halloween, combine the two and you end up with delightful wool felt gift tags for Halloween. In the classic color palette of orange and black, my sister has put together a cute..er, I mean frightening quartet comprised of Witchy Kitty, Spooky Spider, Mr. Nevermore Raven, and Mr. Skull N. Crossbones. The wool felt gift tags are embellished with hand sewn details and a festive Halloween ribbon for hanging. An adorable,..er, I mean scary treat for all gifts this season.

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Fall wool felted gift tags are on their way...

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

All Us All The Time Halloween Gift Tags...We Make Gift Giving Ghoulish

Halloween Button Hanging Gift TagsWhen we were making our Halloween buttons, we came up with a neat trick to give packages a cool treat. We added a ribbon tie and instead of a button pin back, we put a coordinating To & From label. We thought they would add a little fun to Halloween gifts and then an extra bonus in that they can then be used as decorations too. They also can be put around bottles of wine or vinegars to give an extra little treat to hostess gifts. The Halloween gift tags are 2.25” in diameter made from a sturdy metal shell with mylar protective coating and have a black and orange or white ribbon for hanging with a coordinating To & From color label on the back. We have all of our Halloween designs available in these gift tags, Witchy Kitty, Spooky Spider, “Bootiful” Bat, Mr. Prancing Pumpkin, and the gorgeous Gothic Nevermore Raven set. We also added a colorful Day of the Dead set with a festive blue and green ribbon, featuring my sister’s sugar skull designs.

Back View of Gift Tag

Making their spontaneous apparition soon, frightfully fun wool felt Halloween Gift Tags.

Monday, September 25, 2006

All Us All The Time Boo Bling...We Make Gift Giving Ghoulish

Withcy KittyIf my sister had her way we would be wearing boo bling all year. In her mind there is really no time where sporting Mr. Prancing Pumpkin is inappropriate. I, myself, just love to make buttons. Thus all our Halloween designs are available in boo buttons. We have Witchy Kitty, Spooky Spider, “Bootiful” Bat, the Gothic Nevermore Raven collection, the Day of the Dead collection, and making his debut, Mr. Prancing Pumpkin. The Halloween designs are also available in magnets, compact mirrors, key chains and luggage tags.


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Can you ever really have too much boo bling?

Friday, September 22, 2006

All Us All The Time Halloween Place Cards...We Make Entertaining Eerie

Spooky Spider Place CardsIf you are having a formal sit-down Halloween Feast this season, you will definitely need assigned seating. We don’t want any unpleasant incidents. I think we all know what can end up happening if a werewolf and vampire end up sitting next to each other or worse yet, Witchy Kitty and Mr. Nevermore Raven, which then truly would be nevermore. Luckily my sister is an expert in Demon entertaining and came up with a “purrfect” solution, Halloween place cards. Make sure those beast are sitting where you want them to during your feast. The Halloween place cards also make a “purrfect” way to label your eerie edibles. What could be more embarrassing for someone to mistake your marinated eyeballs for something as silly as an olive tray, what a nightmare! There are four frightening sets to choose from, Witchy Kitty, Spooky Spider, Mr. Nevermore Gothic Raven, and Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Also available for your ghoulish gathering are coordinating Halloween printable or fill-in invitations, printable menus, disposable party coasters and colorful disposable drink charms.

Thursday, September 21, 2006

All Us All The Time Halloween Coaters...We Make Entertaining Eerie

Don’t you just hate it when those goblins and ghost you so graciously invited to your All Hallows Eve Ball, set their ghoul drool goblets directly on your expensive antique walnut coffee table casket? Luckily my sister is an expert in spiritual entertaining and came up with a “purrfect” solution, Halloween disposable party coasters. Not only will they save rings from your coffin, they are stylish and a quick clean if any one is trying to beat that sunrise. There are six sinister styles to choose from including those frightfully fun creatures, Witchy Kitty, Spooky Spider, and “Bootiful” Bat. The enchanting Gothic Raven and Feather set will add a splash of soul striking color to your All Hallows Eve Ball, and then start up the fiesta with two festive Day of the Dead disposable coaster sets. Also available for your ghoulish gathering are coordinating Halloween printable or fill-in invitations, printable menus, place cards and colorful disposable drink charms.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

All Us All The Time Halloween Printable Menus...We Make Entertaining Eerie

Gothic Raven MenuMy sister throws an All Hallows Eve Macabre Ball every year, it is quite the event, and the part I love the most is the fiendishly fantastic food. Her menu planning is superb or in this case should I say supernatural. We thought others too may possess this culinary magic for planning fiendishly fantastic food, so we created Halloween printable menus to properly show off their monstrous menus to all their guests. The menus are 5 x 7” printable flat cards with haunting headers: Horror D’ Oeuvres, EntrĂ©e, Dessert, and Spirits. We have four different Halloween sets, Witchy Kitty, Spooky Spider, Mr. Nevermore Gothic Raven, and Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). The Halloween printable menus are the same size and coordinate with our Halloween Printable Invitations, so they can be included with the invitations if you would like. Also available are coordinating Halloween disposable party coasters, disposable drink charms and place cards.

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If you need some Halloween party ideas, our September Tip is throwing a Halloween Fiendishly Fiesta Feast, featuring a recipe for those sinisterly scrumptious maggots in banshee blood (Spanish rice). For all the gory details, visit our Tip Page.

“Bone”-appetite...that is so bad.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

All Us All The Time Halloween Invitations...We Make Entertaining Eerie

BooBashGothicFillinWe added a new treat to our invitation line this season, Halloween printable invitations. Of course we still love our traditional fill-in invitation style, therefore, we decided to offer both styles this Halloween season. For our Halloween fill-in invitations, we are offering a Boo Bash and a Hallows Eve Ball set. The Boo Bash has our favorite fiendish feline friend, Witchy Kitty, on the front, with her eight-legged pal, Spooky Spider, on the inside. The Hallows Eve Ball set is done in a Gothic style featuring ravens and feathers in striking hues of reds, oranges, purples and golds. These cards are reproduced from my sister’s original watercolor paintings and, though I may be a teeny bit prejudice, they are frightfully fantastic.

Then for those who want to print their own invitations with their own macabre message, we created Halloween printable invitations in several chilling choices. Making their appearance in the printable invitation arena are Witchy Kitty and Spooky Spider in four haunting colors. Also making his appearance as a Halloween printable invitation is none other than our fine-feathered friend Mr. Nevermore Gothic Raven, looking quite dapper in his top hat and feathered coat. Then for those celebrating Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), my sister came up with a festive set of sugar skulls and Mr. Celebration Skeleton in a bright array of colors. Each set comes with 12 printable flat cards measuring 5 x 7” and coordinating color envelopes. Also available matching Halloween printable menus, disposable coasters and drink charms, and place cards.

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With these Halloween invitations people will just be dying to come to your party...sorry couldn’t resist.

All Us All the Time...We make entertaining eerie.

Monday, September 18, 2006

All Us All The Time – Halloween Fiendishly Fiesta Feast

WithcyKitty
Boy, I have been very delinquent on my postings haven’t I? I did not realize how delinquent until I saw the date of my last posting. Oops. Where on earth did the time go? Well, actually, it went on working on our Fall and Halloween product lines, which we just finished uploading the first waive of “spooktacular” products in the form of Halloween printable and fill-in invitations, printable menus, disposable party coasters, disposable drink charms, and place cards. A Halloween haven delight! We also have available autumn and Halloween greeting cards and stationery. My sister designed a gorgeous stationery set based on my favorite poem the Raven. The colors she used are stunning. Another new addition we are quite ecstatic about is our Halloween hanging gift tags as well as our Halloween buttons and magnets. Okay, I am getting a little ahead of myself here, sorry about that, it is just that I get so excited when it comes to Halloween. All week I will be doing blog entries highlighting in more detail the products mentioned above in addition to the second waive of “spooktacular” products we hope to have up soon such as Day of the Dead buttons, Gothic stationery sachets, and Halloween felted gift tags. If you haven’t been able to tell by now, my sister and I LOVE Halloween.

Alrighty then, let me actually get to my original intention for this post, which was to announce the September Tip, a Halloween Fiendishly Fiesta Feast, featuring a sinisterly scrumptious Spanish rice recipe or what we like to lovingly refer to as maggots in blood sauce. You will also find other recipe tips for frightfully fun dishes such as mummy wraps, monster mash, ghost cookies, and ghoul drool. There are a few devious decorating tips as well. Visit our Tip Page for more details on throwing a Halloween Fiendishly Fiesta Feast and the sinisterly scrumptious Spanish rice recipe. Next month’s tip will be treating you to a fun party trick with a mischievous menu.

Stay tuned for Halloween product highlights....Spooky Spider

P.S. Got a fun Halloween tip? We would love to hear from you.