Halloween 2013

It absolutely kills me that my apartment doesn't have better natural lighting. The light over my kitchen table tints the most decorated part of the house (this sofa table) a gold-ish yellow. That's one certain thing about sharing a big building with other folks - only one side of your dwelling has windows. I apologize to your eyes now.

This year's Halloween theme was "heads". I always try to create a different look with the things I already have plus a few new treasures. It's not as gruesome as a head-inspired theme might suggest but decorating with a more apothecary/thriller theme scares the crap out of my kids. So we can call this "Happy Halloween Heads" and feel safe as we walk past this to go down the darkened hallway to the toilet.

Here we have a collection of faces, masks, busts, pumpkin heads and silly bobbley heads hanging from a tree. Some fall favorites, a parachuting faerie, and the Black Pumpkin herself in the center of the kitchen table. Happy Halloween!

Halloween 2011 and 2012

Front door

I went with a more vintage, fun theme this year instead of my normal witch's apothecary look.

These busts got their Halloween costumes on.

This is the famous sofa table that gets decorated every month.

 

The following are my Halloween 2011 displays...

Announcing my break this time

Haha! Yes, like I should have done about 5 months ago, right?

Many changes have occurred in my life the past 5 months. New directions. New goals. New paths to be taken are ahead. Currently, we are waiting on a few go-aheads, but come what may we will for sure be moving husband, children, FeyaVanya's Haunt (well, all the lovely things inside it anyway) and all the Black Pumpkin dollies and goodies to Utah! Most likely by the end of the month.



This is an exciting and terribly stressful/busy time for me so I am going to close the Etsy shop down for a couple months just until things get settled again and I can have time to cook up some Halloweenish goodies for the reopen October 1st!

See you on the other side!

The Best Halloween Dress EVER!

So I must post this because it is some sort of dream find.

It's vintage. 1940's.

It's witchy.

It's orange and black.

Will you LOOK at that collar?

It is from Allen Company Inc. on Etsy.

And if I was a size xs/s I would totally be blowing my money on this RIGHT NOW.

See? Sometimes it pays to be as plump as a pumpkin.

Wolfy Pup Boy!

"Woof, woof!"

This is what I think Pup Boy would dress up in for Halloween. Because if you're pretending to be a wolf, no one will know that you really are one, right?

He is "half-naked" in jean shorts and wolf hat - both are fully removeable. I've painted pecs and a six pack on him and his arms are really buff! Pup Boy definitely beefed up for his Wolf costume! LOL!

He is made of mostly muslin and his hair is wool felt. Cut-off shorts are denim with a little frayed edge. The hat is faux fur tied with a satin ribbon. The Black Pumpkin tag is sewn onto his back.

Both Wolfy Pup Boy and Little Unreliable Dracula are in the shop now!

Little Unreliable Dracula!

Allow me to introduce you to our Little Unreliable Vampire dressed in his Halloween best as Dracula!!

He vants to sahck your blahd! Muwahahaha!

(standing)

(sitting)




He sports a tiny fang (fake, of course) and a drop of blood, like he just partook of a nice, juicy neck. ♥





His little cape is removeable. I just had to give it a little bit of a batmanish twist.

(without cape)

One of my friends, (yay, Karyn!) suggested that even though I state the size of the dolls in their listings, she, being a visual person, would like to see them next to a commonly known object for size comparison. So obviously, everyone knows the size of the Twilight books, hence the following pictures....

Pup Boy

Little Unreliable Vampire

Tiny Dancer

(although her name would indicate she is smaller than the others, this Alice inspired doll is a little bit bigger than the other dolls in the collection so far. She would look great sitting next to your Twilight book collection by herself. I've also had some customers purchase her when their hubby's would complain about a Jacoby or Edwardy doll sitting around. *wink* Smaller Tiny Dancers are in the works and should be available in the next week or so.)

Wolf Pup Boy is getting finished up tonight and both he and Little Unreliable Dracula will be up in the shop by tomorrow morning. There will be 2 available of each for now, the rest are coming with me to the TwilightMOMS New Moon Experience in about 3 weeks.