Jack O Lantern Time.

Here are some of our past Jack O Lanterns

Can't wait to make more.


This is Jack

and his friend Ooogie Boogie


A creepy Skully Jack.

Big Cheesy Grin Jack

I think I have a Booger Jack
(By Auntie J)

I have a headache and I'm hungry Jack.
(By Maggie)

I'm confused Jack
(By Mr. Jimmy)

Have no idea what we're going to do this year. The Jack O Lanterns are never planned. We just wing them. Way more fun that way. You never know who will turn up.

Ball Jointed Doll (BJD) Vampire Face Up.

This is Gretel, Maggie's Ball Jointed Doll. The above picture shows what she usually looks like.
However, for Halloween, Gretel likes to dress up!

Wanted to share this for for all of you who want to Halloween up you BJD's

Some things you'll need:

Various colours of acrylic paint. (I use Golden artist grade 'cause I like it best!)
Fine paint brushes
Small stiff brushes (for dry-brushing)
Water (for cleaning brushes)
Paper towels (for blotting brushes)
Light brown pencil crayon sharpened (for drawing in details)
Spray sealant

Draw in the eyebrows with the pencil crayon. (Erase if necessary to correct)
I hold the piece upside down to see if it's symmetrical. Looking at it in the mirror helps too.

Mix a blush colour and load up a small stiff bristle brush. Rub off almost all the paint and use the rest to blush the cheeks and outer eye edges. A little bit goes a long way, you can always add more but removing it means starting over.

Redefine the eyebrows with the pencil.

Add eyeliner in brown.

I added Twirls on the outer corners of the eye.
I used a fine brush and brown thinned out paint.
I also added red lips.

I painted in two fangs with white paint.

Above the eye crease I added iridescent gold.
Golden acrylic paints have some pretty cool pigment choices.

She can see again. I put her eyes back in.

Easy face up for the Howlidays!

Fascinating and a skelly.

Working hard on commissions right now. This time of year is always so busy with Christmas, and Valentines and Easter deadlines looming. Soooo hard when all I want to concentrate on is Halloween.

Last year we woke up one morning to find this happy chappy on our front porch. We had a friend poll and decided to name him Porris Bentspine. He's going to become a regular in our Halloween front yard.

Maggs and I have also made some fascinators. These are adorned with FIMO skulls and black feathers. We also stuck in some beautiful flourist pins with rhinestone heads.

Here is a blurry close up so you can maybe see a bit better what we did. There is a hair clip hot glued onto the back.

Halloween Cookies......and a cake.

Here we have the table all set on Devils night for the Great Pumpkin to have a little treat. How come The fat guy in the red suit gets all the cookies huh?

We always try to make cookies and decorate them for the Howladays. The kids still love it, doesn't seem to matter how old or big they get.

Frightful Witches on brooms.

My personal favorite Halloween cookie of all time........
The ZOMBIE COOKIE!
Delicious!

Booooooooooo, Ghosties.

Gotta have a Jack or two.

Bat cookies.

The ever popular Count cookie. Love his bling!

Dracula cake! We loaded the cake itself with a whole container of red food colouring paste.
It was delicious!

Halloween Windows

We try to do this window idea every year using different silhouettes every time.

It's so cheap and easy and fast to do. You can save them and use them year after year or trash them and make more.
They are dollar store coloured plastic tableclothes cut to the size of the window. We added black plastic tablecloth silhouettes to the coloured plastic sheets. We used double sided tape to attatch the shapes and hang the pieces up.

We cut holes through both layers to show candle flames.

This is looking out from the inside.
The roses were a gift for Mom from Auntie J and the A man!
Soooooooooo beautiful!!!

Here is a blurry shot of the side yard windows. I really liked the giant spider.

Here is the front yard all gussied up.
I love Halloween!!!

Visions of Halloween Past.

I have SOOOOOO MANY Halloween pictures and projects from the past. It is difficult to know what to post. So I'm going to just post things, without sorting them into categories. I like randomness!
Hope you do too.

This is Maggie's Obitsu BJD Gretel. She is always dressed for the holidays. Maggie makes sure she is lurking decoratively somewhere in the background.

Maggie's first prosthetic. We kept it simple. Made her a pair of latex ear tips and painted her metallic green. The ear tips are easy peasy to make. Just repeatedly dip and let dry a large plastic dollar store spoon into some liquid latex. Keep making layers and letting them dry until you have something that looks pointy. Peel the dry point off of the spoon and apply it to your ear with spirit gum and paint it out to match your skin tone.
and POOF! you're a Fairy!

Some of our pumpkins past.

Maggie's zipper eye from last year. She completed this look all by herself. She watched some tutorials online and went to town. (So PROUD!) She won a prize.

Sometimes We Have Unexpected Guests.

Maggie and her BF and I spent a good part of the weekend in the basement being all creatively Halloweenie. I was in the studio and the kids were watching a movie in the big room while playing with clay. After a while I needed a break so I got up to go see what the kids were up to and I found this in Maggie's hands.

Maggs said she's not sure what it is or even if it's a boy or a girl.

The little creature has wing feathers suspiciously the same colour and texture as Maggie's flying monkey wings. Maybe they're related?

I think the tiny tot has Maggie's hair!!!

On closer inspection, it seems to have some red on it's teeth. I think we need to build it a cage? I'm a little worried, what if these things start popping up everywhere? What do they want? Who sent them? Maggs says she hasn't got a clue.

Not Dead!

So.... I'm not dead. It has been a while since I've posted but I have a pretty good reason. I've had that pesky gallbladder removed. All went very well and I can eat again. I had another surgery eleven days after the gall bladder thingie and it has kind of knocked me on my bum. I am feeling pretty good again, just a bit tired. I am ready to get back to work! I can't tell you how hard sitting around doing nothing has been.

Here are the first of many HALLOWEEN nail designs!

I used Martha Stewart sparkles in orange and yellow mixed, and a black mineral pigment with sparkles I ordered from Nail de Royale. (I Love them!!!)

I made a 3D spider pet on my left thumb nail. I think she's cute.

Maggs helped me take pics. She thought we needed some gummie worms to make it more Halloweenie.
Good to be back, I missed you guys!
:P

PSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTT!

There are ONLY 96 days, 1 hour and 45 minutes till
HALLOWEEN!!!!

ZOMBIE SHOES!!! & new gel nails..........

Maggs and I were bored today so we decided to make these!!!

Maggie's are the top pair and mine are the bottom.


These are the inspiration! They are
Iron Fist ZOMBIE STOMPERS!!!!
We have wanted these shoes forever but couldn't afford to get both of us a pair and getting just one pair seemed unfair.

Our colours may be a little bright but we love them. These are mine.

These are Maggie's. Hers started out as black flats from Pay Less shoes for 20 bucks.

We still have to add some bows but aren't they cute?

Here are the new Gel Nails!!!!
first time using the gels. I've been using acrylic powder and liquid for two decades. I like the gels loads. No smell, not as much filing. I'll miss the 3D roses though have to figure that out. Maybe I'll use both.

I did every nail different. Wanted to experiment as much as I could.


HA! I still have green on me from the Zombie shoe painting, and it looks like Sebastien is interested in something across the road. Do you prefer gels or L&P?
Let me know what you think.