Happy Halloween

So I’m preeeetty sure that Jane Austen never spent her Halloweens carving pumpkins, and if she did I’m also pretty sure she looked a lot more serene and dainty doing it, but really, where’s the fun in that? Scraping out the pumpkin goo with your hands is the best! I’m a big Halloween geek – I love decorating and crafternooning to make all sorts of spooky decorations and cooking pumpkin soup and eating it out of more hollowed-out pumpkins and putting together my (sometimes very elaborate) costumes. Oh, and listening to the Monster Mash a bazillion times. Usually I spend a lot more time planning my Halloween, but this year it just sort of crept up on us and left us with not very much time to plan anything. But I did manage to throw together this Jane Austen costume using stuff I already had. Yes, I actually own a cropped pink paisley blazer…um…ew. It may offend some people’s fashionista senses and sensibilities but I was pretty happy it was still hanging up in my bag of “maybe I’ll just keep this old stuff for a costume one day” clothes when I was putting together my costume this year.

Have a very happy and spooky Halloween and maybe listen to the Monster Mash once for me.

Happy Tofurkey Day!

This piece is inspired by those construction paper/hand-tracing turkeys we had to make every year in grade school. Do you remember making them? I probably made at least fifty, some covered in feathers and others in macaroni and even more in sequins; when I was feeling very creative, they would be covered in all three! But thanks to my recent foray into veganism, I’ve been wondering “what about the vegetarians?” This is my take on a very vegetarian Thanksgiving crafternoon at school.

Whether you’re eating turkey or tofurkey this weekend, I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Best Friends

I’ve finally had the chance to make a banner for my blog. I really liked the idea that these two are the best of friends, even though one lives on the ice and one beneath it.  I actually created this piece because I felt like painting the colour blue. But with the onset of autumn I’m feeling like painting warmer colours. Who knows - maybe I’ll have a new banner up soon?