...It's that Orange & Black time of the year again

Right, been a while due to having some travels, but it's October and that means everything comes in pumpkin-cinnamon spicy flavoured limited edition, wrapped in orange & black, yep, Halloween is on its way again!!!

So a quick couple of hollow-weenie things for you to have a look at on your Inter-web ventures---

 Monkey Cats Studio (Designer Laurie Hardin) has some lovely Halloween artworks, check out her blog, her stuff is really fabulous

http://lauriehardinsaccents.blogspot.co.uk/

Tonight I came upon another great resource, a whole website dedicated to Halloween

http://halloweenfuntime.com/home

Halloween Cheesecake

I recently got an email from a group I follow, The Public Domain Review asking for a volunteer for their social media and I thought I'd have a look at the job description---long story short; I began doing research on their website and found this fascinating book on what to wear at a costume party, amazeballs! (all online free to read), so gotta share that.

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fancy-dresses-described-or-what-to-wear-at-fancy-balls-1887/

Magpie Costume

And if you haven't had enough Halloween yet, come on over to Pinterest and let me show you my many related boards, loads of ideas there.

https://www.pinterest.com/gabyell13/

Gabrielle's Pinterest Page

Happy Haunting on the Halloween web

Until next time!

Gx

Cinnamon Witches for Samhain (Halloween)

Did a little crafty project using a recipe from http://www.marthastewart.com/907577/cinnamon-bird-ornament to create a scented seasonal swag.  It's super simple to create, you only need a few things:

1 cup ground cinnamon

1/4 cup applesauce

Craft glue (Elmer's glue, PVC)

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and stir well, you will need a spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl.  

Add the glue a bit at a time until it becomes stiff and pliable at the same time, like this:

You will then need to knead it some and form into a ball & roll it out to about 1/4-1/2:

Using whatever cookie cutters (baking shapes), cut out the shapes, reform the off cuts, re-roll and cut more, keep repeating until there is no more cinnamon dough remaining. 

Using baking or wax paper on a flat surface lay the shapes

I was making quite a few and I used 3 different shapes, witch, cat and bat---Oh, and don't forget if you want these to hang you have to poke holes at the top of the shape

Allow them to dry, I'd put in a warm place as they took several days to dry just on the counter top.  Turn them over every six hours or so and you will notice that the side that was facing down will be sweating a bit or have a darker patch visible.  When you stop seeing that, you will know they are entirely dry.

I decided to kit a swag using some orange & black yarn (cotton), then after it was complete I hung the dried shapes on it and draped it on our mantle:

I also did some using gingerbread men cookie cutters and will string them up for Yule.

Happy Halloween All! 

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1st and 2nd of the Top 13 Best Halloween Internet Finds List

1. Everything Else Halloweenie

13. How to add a ghost to any of your photos:

I think this would have been improved if it was a demonstration of how to get ghosts out of your photographs, now that one I could really use!

http://www.instructables.com/id/Ghost-Spotting-in-Any-Photo/

12. How to make fake blood:

The presenters are a little kooky, but starting with the Karo is always a good plan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhN6sUNwBWA&feature=player_embedded

11. Extreme Pumpkins:

Now what does this remind me of? 

http://www.extremepumpkins.com/

Yes, that's it!

http://www.randafricanart.com/Bakongo_Nkondi_figure.html

10. Eco friendly Halloween idears:

Some super inexpensive idears on this here link:

http://greenlivingideas.com/2011/10/21/eco-friendly-halloween-ideas/

9. The best Halloween photography exhibit online:

Every photo in this online Halloween exhibit is evocative and beautiful

http://blog.pokkisam.com/content/super-solid-examples-halloween-photography

8. Halloween and stuff about/for babies:

http://www.billybobteeth.co.uk/

Would these be considered a fetish item or a costume if adults wore them?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/21/halloween-babies_n_1024084.html?

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7. Hints for Halloween decor from Disney designer:

I cannot get enough of these white pumpkins, baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLvy-w0-pVQ&feature=related

6. Maize mazes:

Been to one of these...and I guess living on a farm in my youth made me a little less than thrilled to wander about getting lost in the corn

http://www.nickcannon.com/post/insane-halloween-corn-mazes

5. Horrible origin of Halloween:

An obviously well-thought-of personage when alive, judging by the floral tributes

http://edsitement.neh.gov/october-2010-history-and-origins-halloween-and-day-dead-celebrations

4. Evil doll story

Every Halloween needs an evil doll story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWNkDuf-now&feature=related

3. History of Halloween

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-VRAemIvbI

2. Pitt Rivers Museum

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford can be rather haunting
image from:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brett-tully/3823367659/

Still a major Victorian showpiece

http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/index.html

1. Something to do on Halloween

Everything you need is described below:

http://vintagehalloweenideas.com/seance-for-a-halloween-party-1920s

2. Music and Books

13. "Let's all sing like the Birdies sing"

OK this is not a Halloween song, but the cartoon is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TIRVMI1JOQ&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLC109DF02E38060EF

12. Book Surgery

This is truly amazing and somewhat horrible for the librarian in me ;-)

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-book-surgeon-15-pieces

http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/

11. "Pumpkin Syndrome [VOCALOID Halloween Song]"

I just liked the images on these ones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwlMnX_u6kE&feature=related

10. "Pennywhistle Halloween Book"

If you're going to "do" Halloween, you'll like this:

http://about.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?isbn=9780671737917&

9. "Lucille"

I reckon he's going to be #1 viewed YouTube clip this Halloween

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Xyl1B3mZY

8. Dennison's Bogie Book

It will cost you a lot more than 10 cents to download a facsimile copy of this one...still I want it...should I?...it would be the first book download I've ever done....

http://vintagehalloweenideas.com/products/1923-dennisons-bogie-book

7. Marianne Faithfull - Witches' song

Who does this remind me of...?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH-Edq3H3Q4&feature=related

...Kim Novack in "Bell, Book and Candle", no wonder...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bell-Book-Candle-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B00061X9K6

6. "The Witch of Blackbird Pond"

My favourite book when I was 13

http://blot.com/blog/2010/10/the-witch-of-blackbird-pond/


http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Witch_of_Blackbird_Pond.html?id=6WGTMG3bF88C&redir_esc=y


5. "Three Pairs of Arms"

an acquired taste for some, but I love them...

http://www.youtube.com/user/tigerlilliesofficial?blend=7&ob=5#p/u/2/NKjS-jDvUaU


4. "Geek Love"

Not a Halloween book really but it is an excellent read

http://staylit.blogspot.com/2010/10/geek-love-and-palahniuk.html


3. "This Haunted House" -Loretta Lynn

Loretta looking all ghostly in her mock Victorian dress

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOIyPPpkfBI&feature=fvsr


2. Stephen King Tribute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcpTJgcmrD8

From Stephen King's IT

1. "This is Halloween"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOtEdhKOMgQ

Well, it had to be done...glad I don't live next door though! ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5qJCEaTdr8&feature=player_embedded#!

As always, share at will, Gabrielle x, 2012