~Spun Cotton Jack~O~lanterns & CAT~O~Lantern

My friends ~ I am SO pleased to be offering these to you.  A HUGE THANK YOU to Lisa of Full Moon Wares for her wonderful class  ~ her teaching made this (finally) all come together for me.  As you may know, I have dabbled in spun cotton for a while now, but nothing ever really made it click for me until I took Lisa's class!!  I love making these sweet treasures.  Today I offer you three spun cotton Jack~O~Lanters and one spooky Black Cat~O~Lantern.  Each one is made beginning with a paper clay base to which I then applied several layers of cotton.  Once dry I painted each one, inside and out, and gave them lots of character. They are purposely made to look old and worn ~ much like antique spun cotton ornaments of the past.  Each one is hung from rusty wire and will come with two little balloon lights.  One of the Jacks has a removable spun cotton witches hat. :).   The spooky kitty has antique wire thread whiskers :).  He's just so cute.  Well, they all are actually.  Each one has my