Happy Hallowe'en!!!! Day 31

Today's the day!

I can't believe we made it!

I feel good that I pushed myself to finish, even though

I really wanted to just quit and sleep. A few times. 

Glad I made it to the end.

I wanted to share a smattering of my actual Halloween-type shirts.

The three are from Toxic Toons/Eric Pigors, and the Jack Shinnington

shirt is from Fright Rags. The chick in the coffin glows in the dark. Bonus! 

I had been dying to make these pumpkin spice cupcakes. 

That is until I was halfway through making the buttercream frosting by hand,

and realized that this was way too labor intensive for me! But I was almost

done and wanted to try the pumpkin spice frosting and the cupcake together. 

So here is a great shot of my crappy piping skills.

Good thing this isn't chocolate frosting....

Despite their slightly 'rustic' appearance, they were/are delicious!

And they photograph pretty well, also. 

Have you heard of the "Busy Mockingbird"? She is an artist

who draws gorgeous faces and heads of people or whatever,

and then she lets her young daughter 'finish' the drawing in her 

own style. They both are some amazing ladies. 

As if that weren't enough, she has begun to sculpt these adorably

creepy, and kinda fugly, Monster Puppies!! 

I chose this one to come and live with me. Isn't he sweet?

This one is actually a brooch, but she makes necklaces and actual

plushies with these kinds of faces.   

I just wanted to share this photo because it is beyond

cool! And beautifully shot.

Here is the final page of that Halloween themed paper bag album

I have been working on all month. I still have some fine tuning to do,

but pretty much like Halloween, this thing is done. I just need to add covers

and add ribbons to the binding edge. 

I used a cool raven image (from parts unknown) and a Happy Halloween

image from Stampin' Up. I clear embossed the 31 after I colored it orange

using Copics. Then I used some distress inks to finish off the background.

I'm happy it's done, and I'm proud of the work I put into it. I couldn't have

done it without these Halloween hops. Lots of work, but great fun.

I hope to see you guys lurking and whatnot in the future.

I'm going to go hibernate for a week or two....  

I will leave you with a couple of snapshots of my squirrel baby, 

Foxxi.

I'd say she is feeling 100% better than two weeks ago.

Gabbi is 100% as well, but declined to have her photo taken. 

Diva.  

Thank you again, for all of your kind words and prayers.

I am positive it made a huge difference for me, which in turn,

helped my babies.

You guys ROCK! 

   

HAPPY HALLOWE'EN!!!