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Handmade Giveaway : SmarmyClothes Pumpkins!

This giveaway is closed! Congrats to our winner – Deb!

 

WEE! I’m so excited for Halloween and for the new jewelry I posted about recently that I decided to have a quickie giveaway! You only have until tomorrow (10/22) at midnight EST to enter!

The winner will get to choose one

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Boo! Jewelry!

I’ve been itching to put together some new jewelry designs for a while now, and I finally found some time to do it! Since Halloween was right around the corner, I went with a black and orange theme.

This skull is my favorite. The jawbone is connected to the skull

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Old to New

Lots and lots of sewing happening over in the SmarmyClothes studio. The nature of fabric is that there’s often only a finite amount of certain prints in the world, so once they’re gone, they’re gone!

Even though it makes remaking the same items difficult, sometimes it’s fun to reimagine older designs in new fabrics. Here

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WhatTheCraft Handmade Giveaway – SmarmyClothes tees

This week’s WhatTheCraft Giveaway is sponsored by SmarmyClothes… Hey, that’s me!

The winner of this giveaway will receive: your choice of one of my new line of SmarmyClothes tees

Valued at up to $30!

I won’t bore you with the usual giveaway interview,

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What I’ve been working on…

Aside from the mountain of custom orders and Extreme Unicorns stuff (and I swear new video tutorials are imminent!)… I’ve added a bunch of new custom skirt designs to my shop (and two former dress designs that are now also available on a custom order basis)!

Peggy

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Extreme!

I have rad news! My band The Extreme Unicorns just released our first EP. All the songs make for excellent crafting background music- tested and approved by yours truly.

Check it out!

Here’s the new music video for the first song on the EP:

More treats

My band, The Extreme Unicorns, also released a new song and video. It’s a cover of the Misfits’ Hybrid Moments.

Tricks and Treats

It’s not secret that Halloween is my favorite holiday, so I’ve of course been working on lots of Halloween goodies for SmarmyClothes.com! Smarmy Halloween Costumes, weeee!

Shark Attack! dress:

Nightmare Before Christmas Sally ragdoll dress:

Beetlejuice Sandworm dress:

Red Riding Hood gothic lolita dress:

Ice Cream Cone dress:

Hot

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Smarmy Frocks

We’ve been watching Project Runway Australia, and they refer to pretty much everything as a “frock”, so I couldn’t resist. Frocks frocks frocks. Frockity frock. This zombie brains dress will make a killer Halloween costume!

BRAINS! zombie halloween pinup wiggle dress

BRAINS! zombie halloween pinup wiggle dress

This is my Dark

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I Sharpied my Sewing Machine!

I’ve always wanted to paint my Singer 301, because it’s beige and beige is… well, beige. So when Sharpie asked me to be part of the Sharpie Takeover, and I started thinking, “What will I Sharpie?” the first thing that popped into my head was: SEWING MACHINE.

I chose my other Singer to Sharpie, because

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