Spiffy new glasses...

Art in the Park this year had a great booth with crazy treasures made with kitchen doo-dads.  This pair of glasses that look as awesome on me as they do on the skull is made from egg beaters, salt/pepper shakers, and an adjustable car antenna.  If the antenna is pulled out to its full length I cannot walk through doorways.  They also made fabulous head bands with meat cleavers, cork screws, bats, knives, etc.  Trouble is I've lost their card.  I will keep looking...

Pretty fangs...

It always makes me wonder when people say, "I saw this and thought of you."  I do have a Halloween obsession.  True.  I do have a tendency to look at things differently than some of my friends.  True.  My friends go on walks and find the unusual/unwanted and haul those unusual/unwanted items home as gifts for me.  I have a unique collection of bones, skulls, etc that is growing because of my friendships.  I always wonder at how often I'm thought of.  I am loved...

Gifts of love...

Devil's Claw...

Devil's Claw grows in the Southwestern part of the US.  It has a nasty barbed/hooked seed pod with two long thin "arms".  Truly is a vicious plant...

Devil's Claws

Smile for me sweetheart....

Oh baby....oh...

Pumpkin, Hemlock, Auntie Ellen...

Jawbone of an ass...

Well, it's not really jawbone of an ass but that is the term that popped into my mind when I filled this old milkshake bucket with deer jawbones.  Nope, not a hunter but I do gather the strangest things when I go for walks.

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Awe inspiring....

I don't know about anyone else but he has inspired me for years.  His vision, his craftsmanship, his dedication, his imagination, his creativity, his humor, his integrity, and his lovely Bean........thank you for all you've given the world of orange and black.  Thank you....




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Johanna Parker Designs....

I do love Johanna Parker's Halloween designs....

Would love to have the owl candy jar to match the black cat on the left...sigh....

I have a vision...

Part of the reason Halloween fascinates me is the unexpected.  Nothing more fun than a double take.  I found eyeball flowers on Pinterest.  This would be my vision.........

Pretty little witch's boot

Add a little light...

Pretty green eye.........

So screamingly ready for fall, Halloween.....

Screaming for fall...

Potions...

I'm always thinking about potions, potion bottles, where, what......
I found some bottle labels on Etsy that I like a lot.  As I was searching the Bedlam Supply Co. page I found a couple of bottles that she's made using her labels.  I bought the Cthulhu bottle.  The little charm appeals to the girl in me. You never know if the item is as good as your mind thinks.  These are.  I'm very excited about working with the labels I bought.  It was a good find.

Bellam Supply Co.

Had me at the little charm

PS ~ The Blood Root bottle is the real deal...original

I actually like the bottle of spikes on the left

Small cauldron....

I love the small cast iron cauldrons.  I also love my Pumpkinrot Creatures.  I have 5.  You'll see them in little vignettes throughout my indoor Halloween insanity.

Cauldron of tiny pumpkins

Evil Pumpkinrot Creatures standing watch

Waffling....

Hate it when he waffles...

Nobody does it better...

He's the reason we try.

He's the reason we try harder. 

He's inspiration.

He's talent. 

He's Pumpkinrot.    


           Thanks for  yet
         another great year.


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Sherwood Scare - 2014 Walkthrough

I don't know how many of you have seen this video from Sherwood Scare but it's pretty darn amazing for a home haunt.  Definitely worth watching.....

With or without.....

I found these amazing realistic eyeballs this year.  I tried them everywhere.  I put them in cast iron ladles, bird nests, turkey claws, bird beaks.....you got the idea.  I'm thinking I'd like to put one in a cast iron ladle and surround it with leather.  In my mind it would look like "Book" in "Hocus Pocus."

Turkey claw without?

Turkey claw with?

I do like the red of the fingers in the background.

I do love green eyes!!

Idanha Hotel...

Isn't this a great spooky photo?  We had a full moon last Thursday night and I got this photo on my phone.  Gotta love old architecture.

Idanha Hotel ~ Boise

And this is what it's all about...

Halloween night.  I love the kids, the crowds, the adults, the smoke, the excitement, the candy.....I love it.  Ususally I don't get photos of the crowds.  This year I got a few.  We have 314 kids that actually made it to the door.  At least another 40+ that did not.  Maybe next year they will.

The kids

And more kids

Got an audience

A little smoky