Day of the Dead artwork

The above photo effect was achieved by placing my finger over the flash but I was trying to cover the red out light too, didn't work too well but the photo looked cool for this post anyway.

This is how it really looks although I am not done with it yet.

This is what I am working on.  I noticed a lot of neat Sugar Skull artwork on Etsy.

I looked it up on Google to find out about it's history and really got interested in making my own.

This is my second skull done on a large wine bottle with Gallery Glass paints, it's not done yet, I'll be adding more skulls, working like this takes time.  I have to do one side of the bottle and let it dry overnight.

I took the picture indoors so when it's done I can get a better pic when dried and can take it outdoors.

Now here is the first one I did with glass paints

I'll have to get an upclose shot of this when it's daytime.

But you get the idea.

I have other fall items to work on.

Halloween is like my most favorite holiday but after reading about 

Dia De Los Muertos

and seeing all the neat Sugar Skull artwork on Etsy

I just had to find out more about the holiday

and of course make my own Sugar Skull artwork.

My background is a mix of Scots/Irish English and perhaps a bit of French

(most Americans do anyway) and German and a smidgen of Cherokee

I'm a Christian but one side of my family descended from a large Jewish family that over time married into different branches of Christianity 

So in other words I'm a MUTT!

I love cultures and I envy my cousins who have traveled to different places over the world

One of them married an artist from Africa.

I read a lot on different cultures.

I am autistic (Aspberger's type)

Meeting people is NOT easy for me, and I have allergies to a lot of things

so I travel in my head.

Well, now I"m in Mexico I guess with all the Day of the Dead stuff.

I have been familiar enough with the celebration, read an article on it in a kid's magazine

seen the Crow 2 with its references to that day.

Now I see it all over on Etsy, on earrings, paper mache, paintings, mosaics, 

so I am jumping on the bandwagon, for this Fall anyway and looking

to do my own interpretation of the art form.

Day of the Dead

Check out the link for more information on the Cultural History of Sugar Skulls

It's really cool!

It's still warm but Fall is comming

Children's Tube Scarf in blues, purples and whitish pinks

Some places may be getting cooler than others, I live in Kansas where the freakin weather can't make up it's mind.  But I have this lovely children's tube scarf available.  Nice and soft and done in merino wool. I bought the yarn from Wooly Rhinoceros and each yarn is different, hand dyed you don't get the same yarn twice.

This is so ultra soft superwash yarn and I loved knitting it, it is a thick and thin yarn and knitted it in stockinette 

stitch but in a way that the scarf rolls in itself, making an interesting tube.  It is a fun piece and my kids want one of their own, they have to wait on that, besides I have made them scarfs of their own why do they want more?? 

 Well, kids just love it when they have a mom that can do this sort of thing.  Ok I'm not chiding those mothers who may not have the creative bug (mine's an all out virus!) and I am not miss perfect Martha Stewart so relax on that one.  I love to knit and I was trying to teach my nine year old to knit, but she has little patience on the matter. She loves the kitchen though, I'm pretty good with the cookies and cakes and muffins, but I'm not all that thrilled about the kitchen to be honest.  My HUSBAND can COOK!  His favorite shows are Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Confidential  and I like Cake Boss, in fact my daughter wants me to make a red velvet cake with chocolate Ganache,  I had to look that one up in my Betty Crocker book and thank GOD it's THERE!!  

Fall is coming and to make it easier for me as I create holiday inventory I am looking for Crock Pot recipes.

Yes, I'm a lazy cooker, but because my husbands health is iffy during the winter months I want some things planned ahead that will be easy to do.

I homeschool, create paintings on every conceivable surface I work two hours at the library five days a week to have some extra money  and I need time to be creative or else my life would suck.  Really it would and my oldest understands, my four year old is starting to get it. 

My husband is learning to understand my frenzy, sometimes he just needs to look away.

Once I did a Thanksgiving dinner just for my family, not BIG family just me, hubby and kids.

I can't even remember what I MADE!

Well, my husband and I are learning to cook meals together.  When we leave the kids with grandparents

we try out a new recipe, one took us a few hours to do, Chicken curry and Aloo Gobi, ever since I saw Bend it Like Beckham I wanted to do Aloo Gobi.

Something warm to eat in the fall and winter months, mmm Indian spices make my tongue sing!!

Oh and neither one of us in Indian by the way, we just LOVE the food of other cultures.

German, West African, Cuban, Italian, whatever, we just find the recipes online.

Sorry for all the babble, I haven't been on here in a bit and I hope to change that, just had some hard times at home and now we are getting things back in line.

MMM can't wait for Halloween, my favorite month.  Here is my Painting for Halloween

POOKA AT NIGHT

A Irish legend of terror, the Pooka, or Puka, in some areas of Ireland it's a slimy horse from a bog, 

in others it's a troll.  Sometimes the Pooka is a horse with long ears like a rabbit.

Mine is slimy green rising out with it's legs in the middle of forming so they looks a little misshapen.

I have fall bottles and candle jars bouncing around in my head, I have to start working on my designs.

Soo much to do, so little time.

Fall Around the Corner

I have this item on Etsy HERE

I got a better photo of it, finally.  The only problem is a little bit of the red flash leaked through when I was holding my fingers over it trying to block the flash.  Other than that little red spot the picture is much better.  On the shop there is a pic of the photo by itself so lookers can really see it with no color problems because it was scanned.  I really love this frame and will make one for my other prints but I want to make some empty frames using my hummingbirds to decorate them.  Can't wait to do that one.

I have been busy today dyeing the cut up socks from VBS.  I am making wrist warmers, the first batch is dyed in a grape Koolaid dye.  Every mom knows how bad that stuff stains right?

I did mine outside, I got the recipe from a favorite book of mine called Kids Knitting.  They tell you how to dye your own wool using koolaid.  It does stain the hands a bit, don't have any gloves but scrubbing with my facial scrub gets it out, as well as all the dead skin cells.

I'm letting the socks dry out now.  Then I will embroider the cut edges so they look nice and don't fray out.

I think these are going to be wacky things for the preteen teen set.

Well, things have changed since I was a teen.  I'd probably would use a pair that's jet black with dragons or vampires or skulls on them.

Hey your reading about a gal that dyed her hair black in order to be Eric Draven from the Crow movie!

I still like things a little on the dark side but I love bright colors and have that innerchild smiling, but once in awhile picks up a meatcleaver.

MMMMMwwwwahahahaha!

Halloween isn't here yet and I'm already getting morbid, which reminds me, I have to bring out my fall items.

This is my Purple Passion Muppet Scarf

I showed a part of in scanned in in an earlier post.

I paired this up with a rust brown coat I have, and it looks great.

The flash made the scarf look lighter than it did.  I have to try again to get the color right.

I did a neat styleboard with this scarf on Kaboodle to show how it goes with Fall fashions.

This scarf is one of a kind not because of it's pattern which is simple but because of the yarn which is from 

Lambsears and each of her hand dyed yarns is unique, you won't see the same yarn again.

She may do another purple but it won't be this purple.

I have other scarfs coming up too.  The yarn is original because it's hand dyed and you won't see the same color again.  If you really like this scarf, get it now.  Check out the link to it and see if the color is you.

If it doesn't work out you can return it for a full refund.