SpOoKyTiMe JiNgLeS

noreply@blogger.com (Administrative Specialist) — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:49:00 +0000

May Sneak Preview

The STJ May update is less than 3 hours away! Join us tonight at midnight EST at www.spookytimejingles.com to see all the new work our talented artists created for you this month.

On behalf of STJ, we wish all the Moms out there a very Happy Mother's Day! We hope your day is full of celebration AND appreciation!

Sneak Peak for April 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Administrative Specialist) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:44:00 +0000

Just 5 hours until our April update...

Here is a sneak peak at what the STJ artists have been working on for this very exciting update! We hope you will share in the excitement & join us tonight at 12:00 am (EST) at www.spookytimejingles.com.

If the gusty winds of this month haven't blown you away yet, the new Halloween and Christmas works this month certainly will!

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” ~William Shakespeare

Sneak Peak for March 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Administrative Specialist) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:56:00 +0000

It's almost that time...

The March update is just hours away! It's your last chance this year to purchase original Easter and spring-themed work as our Holiday Hootenanny for 2012 will come to a close on April 12. Our STJ artists have created some truly delightful and inspiring pieces to celebrate Spring's arrival.

"Springtime is the land awakening.

The March winds are the morning yawn."

~Lewis Grizzard

And, as always, new and amazing Halloween and Christmas pieces will also be unveiled in only a few hours at 12:00 AM (EST). We hope you will join us at SpookyTime Jingles to see a blend of seasonal bliss!

Sneak Peak for February 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Administrative Specialist) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:39:00 +0000

Whoot-Whoot for the STJ Holiday Hootenanny!

It's nearly time for the STJ February 2012 update. Our Holiday Hootenanny is in full swing! We hope you are as thrilled as we are with the many new spring-themed original work being offered this month.

New Halloween and Christmas pieces will also bring a smile to your face. Please join us at midnight (12:00 AM) EST tonight at SpookyTime Jingles to get a jump on whatever tickles your fancy!

Sneak Peak for January 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Administrative Specialist) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:53:00 +0000

Happy New Year to all our fans, friends & collectors!

STJ hopes that your holidays were merry and bright. We are all very excited for the year to come with lots of great things happening at STJ. This month we kick off the New Year with the start of our Holiday Hootenanny! In addition to Halloween and Christmas pieces, many artists have created Valentine and love-themed work for your consideration this update. Don't be left broken hearted by missing out on these heart felt treasures. See you for the update at 12:00 am EST tonight at SpookyTime Jingles!

Sneak Peak for December 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Administrative Specialist) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:38:00 +0000

Ho, ho, ho...it's almost time to go for the magical December update! Don't get left out in the cold and miss this one. Head on over to www.spookytimejingles.com at 12:00 am EST on December 12 to get a jump start on warming your heart with all the holiday goodness our artists have created just for *you* this month!

Oh, such party and cheer!

We have an amazing Guest Artist the last month of this year...

We are thrilled to have a very special Guest Artist to round out our 2011 year. Known by many as a huge Halloween FAN, he has created some truly amazing Christmas pieces for STJ this month...one of which is soon to be featured in both FOLK Magazine and Celebrate 365-Winter! He has also been seen in Cloth, Paper, Scissors and loves creating art for all seasons.

Put some Fa in your La-la-la

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Patterson Studio) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:47:00 +0000

It's time for the STJ November 13 update!!! Hop, skip and jump to SpookyTimeJingles at midnight tonight to see the latest creations for the holidays!!!

Just in Time for Halloween!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Patterson Studio) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:53:00 +0000

A little sneek peek.....

Just in time for your Halloween decorating!!! The SpookyTimeJingles site will be offering new items starting tonight at MIDNIGHT (EST) !!!

October's Guest Artist!

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Nuskey Dodson) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:20:00 +0000

Yay for October!

This talented artist whips up precious creations

reminiscent of a by-gone-era.

Can you guess who it is???

Stop by STJ on the 13th for our last update before Halloween!

Our New Update for September 13th

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Patterson Studio) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:36:00 +0000

The SpookyTimeJingles is ready for a new update with new items waiting for you to grab your favorites!

It all starts at midnight just as the clock ticks into September 13th!!!

Here's a little preview of some of the new items.

September Guest Artist!

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Nuskey Dodson) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:11:00 +0000

Hello friends both sweet and spooky!

Here is the teaser for this months special guest artist.

If you have ever been lucky enough to score won of this artists pieces, then you know, it's all in the details!

Can you guess who???

Visit Spookytime Jingles on the 13th for a spectacular update.

Don't forget, Halloween and Christmas will here before you know it!!

Soiree, It's GO time!

noreply@blogger.com (~dani~) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:08:00 +0000

Updated information on the STJ Artist Meet n Greet and Soiree

The Artist Meet n Greet (Fri. 7-9) and the Holiday Soiree (Sat. 10 am – 3 pm) are scheduled as planned! River Rescue at the New Hope Eagle Fire Company has advised that the Delaware River will be cresting later this evening or early tomorrow morning.

Several back roads in the area were closed earlier today, including the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge, due to high water volume. Local businesses and residents residing directly along the Delaware River in New Hope, PA and Lambertville, NJ have been advised to evacuate as a safety precaution.

However, the New Hope Eagle Fire Company, the venue for our events, will be open and is not located in the downtown area along the Delaware River. Though parts of Rt. 29 were closed earlier today, many roads are still open and Route 202 is easily accessible to the Fire Company.

Alternative driving routes may be advisable if traveling tomorrow or Saturday. However, most major roads should be back to normal by later tomorrow afternoon. It appears as though it may be a slow news day, as many reports of flooding seem to equate to a world disaster! Such is not the case and we look forward to seeing you soon!!

Dani & Wendy
Owners of SpookyTime Jingles

http://www.spookytimejingles.com/soiree

Get Ready to Party

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen, The Halloween Hobbyist) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:21:00 +0000

How is it September already? Only 58 days to Halloween! It is busy season for Halloween collectors and artists. Best of all, we are finally into Halloween art show season which means happy collectors will be bagging new treats. I envy those of you who will be heading over to the SpookyTime Jingles Holiday Soiree next weekend.

This is the perfect time to plan your Halloween party (or parties for that matter!). I hold an annual pumpkin carving party. Not only is it a fun time, but once you have a collection of carving tools it is easy to repeat every year.

I’m swooning over a blog/web site called Hostess With the Mostess (HWTM). Their latest blog post is a Vintage-Style Halloween party. After you are done checking out the blog for ideas, head over to their web site and search on “Halloween” for even more inspiration.

Between HWTM and the catalogs/magazines I’ve gotten my hands on this season, it is obvious that the sophisticated party look is still very much in. HWTM features pictures of parties with hot pink incorporated into black, white, and orange color schemes. It’s a great way to be modern and add a dash of POP.

Halloween-themed wine like the Vampire brand available at Cost Plus World Market is a perfect complement to your party. This year, I’m planning to check out Elk Creek Vineyard’s Ghostly White Chardonnay and Bone Dry Red Cabernet. After enjoying the wine, it’s always fun to add the bottle to my collection!

A Special Message to our Artists, Fans and Customers

noreply@blogger.com (~dani~) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:00:00 +0000

A Special Message to our Artists, Fans and Customers:

Wendy and I want to sincerely apologize for the delay that occurred with the site update last night. We recently employed software on the site that has been automatically updating all the pages at midnight every month. This method has worked well for us until the update last night, and we are still researching what went wrong. It took us a while to manually update the site, and for that we are truly sorry. We know a lot of our customers stay up late to "pounce" on artists' new work, and realize this was a major inconvenience for you last night.

We want you all to know we are committed to making STJ a better online marketplace and we promise to do everything within our power to prevent an update delay like this to occur again.

We know many on the east coast have to stay up late or set an alarm to be ready when we debut our new update. This commitment and sacrifice has not gone unnoticed. One idea we are considering is moving the update to 12:00 NOON on the 13th of every month or possibly 10 pm. We will conduct an online poll for you to vote regarding this possible upcoming change.

Finally, we are hard at work on a completely revamped SpookyTimeJingles.com. The new site design will make the shopping and selling experience much easier for artists and their customers. We are really excited about this redesign and can't wait to roll it out in 2012!

Thank you for your patronage of SpookyTime Jingles and for supporting us as we grow!

Sincerely,

Dani Nelson and Wendy Leaumont

Owners, SpookyTime Jingles

Who LOVES Halloween????

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Patterson Studio) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:59:00 +0000

We do! We do! We LOVE Halloween AND Christmas too!!!

SpookyTimeJingles.com will delight you with new work at the stroke of midnight, August 13th !!!

Here's a peek at some of the items created by these talented artists! Be sure to come by and take a look!

August Guest Artist!

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Nuskey Dodson) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:16:00 +0000

This farm gal creates vintage wooley goodness!

Do you know who she is??

Stop by STJ on the 13th to find out:)

Hungry Ghosts

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen, The Halloween Hobbyist) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:02:00 +0000

If you are a Halloween Jetsetter, you’ll wish you were in South China this week. Have you heard of the Hungry Ghost Festival? It’s something I would love to see in person someday.

This festival (also celebrated in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia) is celebrated in the 7th month of the Chinese calendar. This year the festival is August 14. Hungry Ghost Festival is similar to the original Halloween in Europe. Both are holidays when the veil between earth and the afterlife are thin and the dead return. Chinese pay respect to their dead ancestors and give gifts to unknown ghosts who could bring them bad luck. Prayers and food are offered. Incense sticks (joss sticks) and paper money (called hell money) is burned for the dead. Paper representations of offerings like cars and tvs can also burned in offering.

At the end of the festival, some people float lotus lantern boats on rivers to help show the souls back to hell. That must be beautiful.

If you’d like to learn more, check out this link.

You can spend the day after STJ is updated eating Chinese food while doing a decoupage hell money craft project! Lucky people near Northampton, MA can visit Hungry Ghost Bread. I totally need a bag from that bakery!

Who Is The Halloween Hobbyist?

noreply@blogger.com (Kristen, The Halloween Hobbyist) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:25:00 +0000

Greetings fans and artists of STJ! My name is Kristen and I am proud to be a new reporter for the STJ blog. I am a Halloween art collector, a Halloween decorator, and I love to get crafty for the holidays. I will be sharing with you tips and news around topics of interest to STJ fans.

I have always liked Halloween. As a kid my favorite memories are of trick-or-treating in my Aunt Karen’s neighborhood in Bay City, MI with my sisters, cousins, and best friend Erin. No plastic bags or pumpkins for us – we used a cotton pillow case for maximum hauling capacity. I still remember one of her neighbors who dressed up as Frankenstein and laid in a coffin with a bowl of candy. I was so scared to get to that bowl, but I did it.

My interest in Halloween collecting started back around 2001. I fell in love with the Department 56 display at Hallmark. Not long after that I was doing searches on eBay and somehow I stumbled upon some original Halloween art. I was hooked. A decade later we have so many wonderful resources for art collecting – STJ, blogs, Facebook, etc.

I was lucky enough to meet the ladies of STJ at the National Halloween Convention in May. It was at that show that a seed was planted in my head to get more involved. In my next post, I will explore the Hungry Ghost Festival in China.

Can you guess who this Surprise Guest Artist Is?

noreply@blogger.com (~dani~) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:10:00 +0000

This guest artist-celebrity guest artist, is one of the most successful in the holiday collectible industry today! This artist's work is highly coveted and collected the world over and has been for more than a decade!

We are EXTREMELY proud to host such a well known artist here on SpookyTime Jingles. The increasingly heavy schedule our guest artist has makes it almost impossible for them to do anything outside of their current workload. So, to find our guest artist invitation accepted after almost 2 years of all of us courting the idea, we are ESTATIC to celebrate our 3rd Anniversary with this artisan!

Two pieces ONLY will be available. This artist created NEW designs just for their SpookyTime Jingles debut. Which traditionally is strictly reserved for each new seasonal line. To say we are honored is an understatement.
Come join us won't you, to give a warm welcome to such a kind and talented guest artist as..........

Anniversary #3 for STJ!!! Come Celebrate with us!

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Patterson Studio) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:56:00 +0000

Get your party hats on and join us for the celebration!

Here's a little sample of the new works that will be available!

Some artists will be offering a portion of the proceeds to charity

Details on the "Make a Wish" donations, will be on the website!

THREE big welcomes!

noreply@blogger.com (noodle and lou) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:44:00 +0000

what a delight to welcome our surprise guest artist for june...

Ginny Betourne of Trout Creek Tales

Ginny is a licensed artist with Bethany Lowe Designs and

creates the most whimsical folk art pieces using papier mache,

paint and her delightful imagination.

we hope you will join us in giving her a big STJ welcome!

and while we are cheering and welcoming...

let's say hello to our newest STJ family members!

Michelle Miller of Run Red Run

Michelle is known for her extremely detailed and flawlessly crafted

wool fiber sculptures. created by hand and made of 100% unspun

wood. Michelle's one-of-a-kind fiber art dolls have been featured

in Art Doll Quarterly. welcome Michelle!

here is a peek at her halloween offering this month...

and a big hello to

Paul Scott of Paul Scott Designs

Paul has worked in sculpture, illustration and graphic design...

as well as previously designing holiday decor and dolls for

Katherine's Collection. he how focuses on creating seasonal

magic with his beautifully sculpted art dolls and characters.

welcome Paul!!

An Important Announcement Regarding Tonight's Update!

noreply@blogger.com (by Wendy Leaumont) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:39:00 +0000

Hi, STJ fans! Due to a serious problem with our domain registrar, our website update will take place at www.spookytimejingles.nettonight! www.SpookyTimeJingles.com is currently unavailable due to circumstances beyond our control! We are working on the problem and hope to have it resolved soon!. THANK YOU!

Celebrate!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Patterson Studio) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:58:00 +0000

Come see the new items from the STJ group and this month the added 4th of July pieces!!!

It all starts TONIGHT at the stroke of midnight! Get to SpookytimeJingles!!!

Here's a little peek at some of the new items!!!!

You've seen the Rest, Now come view the BEST!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Patterson Studio) — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:28:00 +0000

That's right!!! Our SpookyTime Jingles artist's have new Halloween and Christmas goodies just waiting to be snagged by you!!! Be the first in line to get your favorite pieces!

REMEMBER it all starts TONIGHT (May 12 at midnight,EST)!!! Get to SpookyTimeJingles!

May's Guest Artist!

noreply@blogger.com (Tracy Nuskey Dodson) — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:20:00 +0000

Paintings

Dolls

Funky

Obscure

Original

All of these words describe this months guest artist.

Can you guess who?