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Via Morbid Anatomy
Karine Jollet anatomical fabric sculpture
Via She Walks Softly
Dan Harding’s Pumpkin King, from the Halloween Art Feature at Creep Machine
Nathan Willison’s Awful Art shop
Via The Spooky Vegan
Drury Holidays
Thomas S. Brown, aka CopperAge, creates work that is both dark and whimsical.
Young Salamandra
He and his wife, Nimue, create the online comic Hopeless, Maine, though as of this writing, it appears to only be available in book form. [EDIT: I asked, and the site is moving, so the images are temporarily unavailable.]
These Our Revels
Don’t bother going to the URL in the illustration, but there is a dead blog, Hopeless Vendetta, with some fun archives.
Spoonwalker
Much of Brown’s work is Lovecraftian, with an extra touch of fantasy, and a sprinkling of steampunk.
Family Portrait
And let it never be said that he doesn’t have public safety in mind.
Library Door
Sweet Tooth from Zachary Shore on Vimeo.
I have seen a few costumes for bearded dragons, and was mighty tempted to make something for our girls, Ellen and Portia. I didn’t want to make them uncomfortable. Just something light that could be stuck on for a minute with a bit of peanut butter.
No lizards were harmed in the making of this project.
In the same box as the Makit & Bakit crystals, there was a large ziploc of tiny hats. They seemed to be made out of pressed styrofoam. They are quite delicate, and most of them are misshapen. I two that look the best, and carefully remove the embellishments.
One gets a coat of black, and the other gets orange. My extensive (really, far too extensive) collection of washi tape yields cute hat bands.
In to the shiny box I go, affixing seasonally-colored rhinestones to the side of each hat.
The bat is a Halloween button I’ve trimmed the shank from.
The black hat gets a cute brad–shank also trimmed. No way it was going through the styro.
Ellen and Portia say HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Ellen in Orange
Portia in Black
Vicki will be receiving the Little Monster note cards! Kisah will get the Ghost Garland.
This concludes the 2014 Month of Spookdays Raffle
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR PLAYING!
Okay, here’s how it works. I’ve assigned a number to each card I’ve received, and used random.org to choose the first one. The first person drawn gets to pick the item they would like. Once they’ve chosen, I will draw a second name, and that person can choose, and so on. I’ll give each person 24 hours to respond, then they lose their place and go to the end of the queue, so look sharp!
I’ve received 15 cards, and there are 15 items. Nicely done! The items eligible to be chosen are in the table below. Click through to learn more about them. Note that there are a few from previous years thrown in, so there’s even more variety.
Once an item has been chosen, an X will appear through the picture.
Raffle drawees in order:
- Ms. Misantropia! chose Dolly Grim
- Kisah Meyer (Kisah didn’t get in touch, so she’ll get to choose at the end)
- Myra Tsung chose Felt Kitty
- Rabbi chose the Grimoire Box
- Witch Kittin chose the Stacked Bead Dolls
- Lisa Harkins chose the Monster Eye
- Lady M chose the Shadow Box
- Lauren Churchill chose Tiny Tombstones
- Ichabod Crane chose Movie Monster Light
- Melissa Putzke chose Specimen Bottle Necklace
- Sarah Fuller chose Makit Bakit Votive Sleeves
- Amber Terry chose Angel of Death Notecards
- Reg Levy chose Soda Can Box
- Wyvern chose Felted Pumpkins
- Vicki chose the Little Monster Notecards
- Kisah will get the Ghost Garland
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The final raffle card of the season comes from Rabbi of The Haunted Drive-In. Yay!
As one person sending a card just wanted to send a card (my friends are awesome), that makes 15 participants. Tune in at 9am ET tomorrow to find out who is drawn first!
Here come the last batch of Cryptkeeper introductions.
Cult of the Great Pumpkin
I have been enjoying the heck out of these guys this month. They’ve been sharing tons of hard-to-find Halloween music, and their posts are just generally great. Or is that Great?
Doo Wacka Doodles
This month, Belle Dee is not only sharing uber-cute Halloween illustrations, there are scans of classic Halloween Ideals–find out about them here.
Airless Chambers
Airless Chambers is a dark papercraft blog, with several talented contributors. It’s hard to find other dark craft blogs, so I was thrilled to follow along this month!
And now, linkies:
Secret Fun Blog shares their Spook Light adventure.
LESS FEAR, MORE FUN!
Toxic Cupcakes by My Scary Blog
Thorough coverage by Gravediggers Local 16 on royalty-free haunt music.
Make teddy bear ghost prints
The fantastic sculpture of Dug Stanat
Werewolf in a Can, and other amazing things from Mythic Articulations
Both via Church of Halloween
The Many Deaths of Ambrose Bierce
Via Cult of Weird
Scary Lady makes fantastic props, and shows you how. I plan to waste several days going through all her videos. Also, I must have that engraver. Must.
The sculpture of Ewgeny Hontor
The delightful Halloween art of Grelin Machin
More Halloween art from Chad Savage
