Getting the Halloween Fever!

Anyone in the mood for Halloween?  Look how fun and cute this is!!!!!  I am a partner in JoAnne's Halloween Matchbox swap or Vintage Dragonfly's monthly matchbox swap flickr group.   My partner, Karen Hess karensmondaymusings.blogspot.com just left for a trip to Germany today, so she wanted to get a jump on it.  Here is the amazing little gem of a matchbox she sent to me.  We were asked to put in 4 handmade items.  Heck the altered box counts as one thing.  Well Karen spoiled me good.  I was tickled pink (or should I say orange) with my box and all of it's contents.  Enjoy!
You can tell that she really put a lot of time and effort into it.

She put the so cute box up on these adorable bead legs.  I just love it!

She altered the matchbox into the cool lift up trunk style.  The velcro tab and tie kept it closed.

this is a Spooktacular little swag that says "spooky"  Another sweet little gem.

She made this cute little poison bottle from a tiny matchbox (I think)  on the other side it bears a tag that states "Drink me"

There was this way tiny (1"x1") book that says, "things that go bump in the night. . .BOO!"
Those are brass jump rings for jewelry.  I can only imagine how hard it was to get that all together being so tiny!

And on  the outside of the box she sent along some more goodies.

A bagful of buttons and flowers, a really cute ATC signed by the artist, and this way cute pendant made from a bottle cap.    I couldn't love it more.  I still get giddy when I look at it all and I will post what I made for Karen in a later post!  I have her's done, but will wait to post that a little later on.