My Black Plants...

I love them =) I'm collecting as many as I can possibly find =)

Stingy Jack Sculpt...

I've been busy .... >=) He's no whre near complete... but, it's a good start =)

Am I Taking This Too Far???

Nahhhhh =)

Wish List 2010

Last year, I made a list of projects that I wanted to complete for Halloween 2009 and I completed most of the list, plus a bunch of extras. So, to get myself on the right track for this year, here's my 2010 list:

1. Toe pincher coffin, with slamming lid
2. Animate flying skeletons
3. Embelishments for crypt
4. Stingy Jack character w/ animation
5. Cemetery gate spider w/ animation
6. Homemade tombstones
7. Window facade with stained glass effect for both windows.
8. Pop up creature
9. At least one new ground breaker.

Animation is our main goal this year. Last year we had the little ghost in the crypt, but this year, we want more movement throughout the yard. I'm so excited about it all!

What?!?

Someone please explain to me how a Jack o' Lantern in front of a church is sacrilegious?

Mom saw my sketch this weekend and insisted that it was sacrilegious... 'because it is'.

I don't get it. Weren't Jack o' Lanterns carved to ward away evil spirits? I tried to argue the point, but she wasn't having it!

Plus, this is the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans... how much creepier of a town can you get? She'd flip out if she saw the Vampire Tour people doing a portion of their tour on the church steps.

I don't see the harm in the JOL in front of the church. Geeezzzzz.

The Beginning...

of my Halloween obsession =) I was 2 1/2 years old =)

Ready...

The turkey is gone, no more presents under the tree and the last of the firework wrappers are blowing away in the wind, and in the distance, I hear Halloween calling me back. Somewhere, deep in the pit of my chest, the warm, candle in the JOL feeling is flickering to life =)

I have small projects in the works now, but I can feel that creative hunger coming on, ready for me to start tackling bigger things =)

Soon... very soon >=)