New Dreaming Tree Soaps Available At The Rhinestone Housewife!

Just in time for the best holiday season around, we’ve got new Dreaming Tree Soaps available for your bathing pleasure at The Rhinestone Housewife.  These lovely beauties will be available while supplies last so don’t wait, pick them up while you can!   We’ve also added a couple new classic soaps to our line up.

Arcana Hallowe’en Reviews – Sunken Lyonesse, Terrors, Ravenous II

Oh, I know you guys have been waiting for this!   The Arcana Hallowe’en collection is always highly anticipated so without further ado, here it is! Isolde:  White chocolate, pale almond milk, delicate vanilla, cream, and a touch of sheer musk. In bottle:  Delicate cream. Wet on skin:  The almond milk is the first note

Arcana Grotesquerie Reviews

Hello hotties!   Today I bring to you a review post a year in the making.  I know, I know….it’s al ittle late for Hallowe’en reviews but in the honor of A Christmas Carol I’m trying to bring you reviews of collections past.   I feel like this Arcana collection didn’t get as much love

Halloween 2014 Jack O Lantern Carves 20-27

More Jack O Lanterns!  I’m in the home stretch now, only seven more to go before tomorrow night. Carve #20 Lotsa Carve #21 Zuul Carve #22 Vinz Clortho Carve #23 Slimer Carve #24 Peter Venkman Carve #25 Ray Stanz Carve #26 Egon Spengler Carve #27 The Riddler

Halloween 2014 Jack O Lanterns #15-19

More carves done today! Carve #15 Evil Witch Carve #16 Snow White Carve #17 Facehugger Carve #18 Alien Xenomorph Carve #19 Winston Zeddemore Snow White Trio Alien Duo

Halloween 2014 Jack O Lantern Carves 9-14

Ok, I’ve been busy!  I have six new carves to show you.  On to the pumpkiny goodness! Carve #9 Cat In Box Carve #10 Eric Northman Carve #11 Killer Klown From Outer Space Carve #12 Lady Of The Dead Carve #13 Wolverine Carve #14 Poison Apple

Halloween 2014 Jack O Lantern Carves #3-8

I’ve been a busy Hottie! Now I bring you carves number three through eight.  Some scary, some cute and just plain, well…….twisted. Carve #3 Booberry Carve #4  Chernabog Carve #5  Olaf! Carve #6 Frankenberry Carve #7  Keaton-a classic grinning jack Carve #8 Twisty The Clown from American Horror Story-Freakshow  (fyi, this is by far my

Darling Girl Who Ya Gonna Call Swatches

Well, I’ve got a lovely swatch post for you today.   Up for your viewing pleasure is Darling Girl’s Halloween collection, Who Ya Gonna Call.  As usual Susan took customers suggestions for names in this collection and I’m happy to say that one of my suggestions made it into a color this year, The Flowers

Carves #1-2

Hotties!  Those of you new to the blog might not know how big of a deal Halloween is around here.   I carve between 10-35 pumpkins every year and will post them all here as I do them.  It’s a month full of disposable art fun and this year I bought 850lbs of pumpkins at

Arcana 2014 Hallowe’en Collection Live At The Rhinestone Housewife

Omg, omg, omg…it’s here and it’s marvelous!  The long awaited Arcana Hallowe’en collection has swooped into and landed at The Rhinestone Housewife.  This is a really interesting and unique Halloween assortment.   It’s propped up on a back bone of autumn and Halloween favorites like apples and pumpkins but they are presented in new ways

Arcana 2014 Halloween Collection At The Rhinestone Housewife

Hotties!  I’m so sorry for my long absence from posting but I’m back with a bang!  The summer was super busy:  new hair, promotion at my day job and one of my dogs had TPLO surgery.   Whew!    What I can tell you is that I’m ready for fall and all that comes with

First Carves Of The Season!

Jack O Lanterns.  Pumpkin Carving.  Grinning  Jacks.  I don’t care what you call them, I just love doing it each year!   This year we picked up over a 1,000lbs of pumpkins and I’m not even kidding.  They made us drive over to the truck scale and weigh everything.  lol  The folks at Schuh Farm were

The Sexist Asshat Was Wrong

Hello Hotties!   I’m so sorry that I’ve been lax in updates lately.  Sadly my camera battery and charger went missing so I haven’t been able to do swatch posts, but the new replacements should be delivered today.  Yay!  Instead I’m going to post about something that happened on Halloween.   A couple of months ago, a

Morgana Cryptoria Swatches

I picked up some of the new Morgana Cryptoria Halloween shadows and swatched them up for you.  A couple of the shadows are the new silicone coated formula and I like them a lot.  I find they work well if you break the shadow up a bit with your bush and then apply on top

Geek Chic Cosmetics Science Fiction Double Feature Swatches

Hello hotties!   It’s been so very long since I’ve updated with a lovely swatch post so I’ll have a few in a row for you.    This one shall feature the loveliness that is Geek Chic Cosmetics Science Fiction Double Feature collection.  There are four shadows, one blush and one lippie.   (there’s a rouge color in