Posts Tagged ‘halloween’
11.01.2019 31 Ways to Say ‘I Scare You’: The Collected 100-Word Drabbles of October
A hundred words is not very much. Especially if you want to tell a whole story. But a fantasy publication put out a call, looking for 100-word drabbles with a Halloween/scary theme, and I gave it a shot. The five I spat out fairly quickly were all rejected. And yet … I was not deterred.…
Read MoreAre you out of your skull? Actually….
A heady feeling Well, the skull that scared Ciara is done. Or about 95 percent so. Here she is hanging up and drying, but I had to reinforce the head and am reinforcing the bottom where all the candy will sit when it's hanging up, full. Mike bought half-price candy today and now it's all…
Read MoreHalloween cupcakes: The first batch
These were harder to do than they looked! But tasty, too. My fingers are all multicolored and smudged from where the icing melted a bit there. Anyway, as promised back here, with the Mandala O' Candy (sounds like a porn name) I have now designed several cupcakes for tomorrow's gathering. (The big gathering remains on…
Read MoreGetting ahead with Ciara
I've been working on a Dia de los Muertos skull pinata for Saturday's party. It's a paper mache thing, and it's still got the balloon inside keeping it filled, so I dangle it upside down while it's drying from the latest coat of gluewater. Ciara has finally taken notice. Ciara Meets The Skull You can't…
Read MoreEarly versions of Halloween makeup
Amateur! That's some bruise there, missy Probably the fingernail should face the other direction.
Read More‘Tis the season
Went out shopping for Halloween candy today. (Dylan's has all the best stuff. Gummy brains!) Not the prepackaged stuff; kids don't come to my neighborhood. No, no, the candy to put on top of the Halloween cupcakes I will be making closer to the date. And then I felt arty about it all. I Want…
Read MoreNoted: In Petco, Union Square, NY
Red flag Is it just me, or are there multiple things deeply wrong about this Halloween toy I spied in PetCo this morning? Does it make it better or worse that it's made in China?
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