There's a zombie on the lawn!

 Halloween started this morning with a visit to Gleaners Inc to deliver some sugar skull garlands. I made these ones a bit rockabilly with lots of black decorative stitching and finished on vintage black ric rac

 Liz is hosting a wonderful Day of the Dead exhibition - I got a sneak peek and was dead impressed (no pun intended?) with the wonderful skully art work on display! Looking forward to the opening!

 Then I had a zombie on my lawn!

 My daughter Mattie is studying costume and make up and went to town on her five year old sister Pepper.

Pepper is playing the part to the hilt! Her identical twin sister Wanda doesn't like it at all and says it's too scary.

F.T.F...well almost.

I attempted to have a Finish Things Friday - and almost got there. I finished these recycled felt sugar skulls and flowers for a garland...

but they didn't quite make it onto the string yet.

Last year I made these with the sewing machine.This year I hand stitched (and glued) them. Yes it takes more time but it was so much more enjoyable. I sat and stitched in the back yard on a warm afternoon while my legs were used for the game of elastics the kids were playing.

Magpies warbled and wattle birds yodeled. We did a bit of warbling and yodeling too.

Do you remember elastics? What was the routine? Ours was: over right string, over the left string (twice) then in the middle and over both strings (twice) then a criss- cross move and out. I also remember the routine of landing on the strings but the little ones found that a bit tricky. I must say that my ankles are not as bouncy as they used to be!

My Creative Space

Cutting, gluing and stitching - my creative space today is all Mexicali skulls in sugary sweet bright colours.

Like last year, I’m making some sugar skull garlands for Dia de Los Mertos (The Day of the Dead)from mostly recycled materials. This year I’m using lace flower eyes and trying to make them more decorative. The lace is coloured with fabric texta (thanks Pepper for that idea!).

Better get back to work…..