Put on a mask...

Hello Lovelies!

So much to share as usual! First, this will be the last post before the post next Sunday (November 1st), announcing the winner of the giveaway! A ton of great suggestions so far... I'm glad you Poppets get it. For those just coming onboard, the giveaway that ends October 31st is for an entire set of my Alice in Wonderland photo illustrations ($65 value). All you have to do to enter, is give me a movie or book idea you think I'd like and leave your email or shop name so I can notify the winner. Less than a week left!

I went to a superhero themed costume party last night and how much fun was that?! We got all decked out. Here are some pics of us ready to go. (Mystique wasn't messing around, her costume was amazing.)

Oh, and one of the Sword Swallower pieces was featured in a great Treasury this week. So many other neat carnival-themed photos in there too. Love it.

It's no secret I am a big fan of the Morbid Anatomy blog. You wanna know why? Oh, because every post is sheer awesome and talks about things I've never heard of. Case and point, a recent post talked about Cabaret du Néant or Tavern of the Dead in Paris circa 1899. This tavern had a death theme down to the coffin tables and a meander through some catacombs guided by an undertaker. More details at Morbid, but how much does it make me wish I had lived in 1899, in Paris? Awesome.

And, let me wrap up with another favorite movie of mine based on a book by William March; The Bad Seed. The book is very good and pretty astute for its day (1956), and the movie is even better. Like so many movies about sociopathic children, it covers the various nefarious doings of one Rhoda Penmark. Wow. Really. Just watch it. Between the killings and the manipulation and the internal struggles of her mom and the acting, it's first rate gang. Truly. *Shudder* Enjoy.

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...

Down the Rabbit Hole...

Hello Lovelies!

I hope this post finds you all doing well. I have so much to share! Whew. So, first, my Hortensia the Bearded Lady piece has been featured over at the Totus Mel blog, center for all cool things steampunk. I was happy to get one of my gals up there! Thank you.

I am also wrapping up my three scratchboard pieces that I mentioned in my last post, part of my Night Revery series. These three gems are perfect for Halloween or anytime and they come framed in letter pressed frames from The Curiosity Shoppe that I just got in the mail today! These pieces truly are great and so is the Curiosity Shoppe, check it out. I will be listing these this week.

I am also working on an exciting series of paintings for the Down the Rabbit Hole curatorial at my gallery. That's right, for October, all the artists of SKG are doing Alice in Wonderland related works! Now, I already have an art photo series based on Alice (because I'm obsessed), so I decided to do some paintings this time. "But on what?" I asked myself. Then I found 5 old shoe forms in a junk shop and they were perfect. Here is a taste of the series, the Queen of Hearts. I will age these so they look like they're years and years old and I will post them all for you next time!

I have also found some fascinating new things I wanted share. You all know I'm a sucker for macro photography so it should come as no surprise that Slinkachu's pieces fascinate me. Go to the site and see the little world that's been created. It's cute and wonderful.

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of the Morbid Anatomy blog, I regularly mention various wonderful posts that bring to light things I've never even heard of. Well, here we go again with a recent post on the Anatomical Machines of the Prince of Sansevero created between 1763 and 1764. These amazing pieces were meant to be detailed portrayals of the male and female anatomy that at the time was of course a mystery for the most part. Go to the blog to read the tale of scandal and mystery and scientific discovery that surrounds these two amazing pieces.

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...

Halloween Circus...

Hello Lovelies!

Prepare yourselves, this is going to be a long (but good) one. First off, I'm happy to announce that Cigar, Creeper & Dark cards are now available in the shop for Halloween or that eccentric friend. I even matted them with an old photo matte I scanned in and modified. Check them out!

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In a mere week (September 12th) I will have a booth at the 2nd Annual Picnic Art Show in Portland, Maine. I am SO excited! This will be such a talented group of people, I'm glad I was accepted. Consequently, I'm stepping it up and I'm doing a circus theme in my booth. That's right, pennants, sawdust, peanuts, the full nine yards. I even made a pair of circus pants with suspenders (not to be confused with clown pants) for the occasion! [See the pic below.] I think it will be great. Oh! And I ordered some huge photo prints [16 x 20] to display/sell at Picnic from iprintfromhome and they are beautiful, truly. They're so great, I plan to offer large format prints in my shop upon request... so FYI on that. I will take plenty of booth pics and post them here next week. Wish me luck!

On to wonderful things I've discovered. If you haven't visited the Morbid Anatomy blog you are missing out! Covering everything from tombs to medical oddities to sideshows and circuses all with beautiful pictures, articulate write-ups and links, this is the cream of the blog crop in my opinion. Check it out.

Coming from this blog, I learned about a pretty cool place that I plan to visit if I'm ever in San Francisco, CA. The Musee Mecanique is a museum that houses the world's biggest privately owned collection of coin-operated machines, music boxes and slot machines. From the homepage with that laugh that makes you want to run for the hills or punch something to the dusty apparatuses themselves... this looks like it would be a hoot to see.

Totally random, the Halloween issue of Martha Stewart Living is out and I don't know about you, but I look forward to it every year. (I know, I know, it's Martha), but the ideas get me inspired to create some creepiness and ironically (since I'm making a hearse card set this year), Martha is on the cover as a haunted equestrienne. Check it out!

And let's wrap up with some humor, shall we? Sure we shall. Did you Gentle Lambs read about Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama's wife who wrote a book claiming she has in fact been abducted by aliens and taken to Venus in a "triangular-shaped UFO"?! She also believes Tom Cruise was Japanese in a former life. All of these adventures are chronicled in her novel entitled Very Strange Things I've Encountered... Riiiiight. I don't think I need to read that book to know the ending...

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...