I painted the rest of the cats into skeleton cats.

On a similar note, the Cheshire cat has gone missing.  However, I've heard a curious mewling from under the kitchen sink.  Will investigate tomorrow.

Look at these guys.  Seriously, give them a click, and take a good long look.  Isn't their paint job a little... scary?  I got all five of them in a pack at the dollar store.

All I did is repaint a couple with good ol' fashioned acrylic.  Now the house has the Cheshire cat, and a skeleton cat.

Quick post today.  I made the attic ghost for the dollhouse.  Her name is Lenore.  I didn't make her for Halloween; honestly, I just wanted the house to have an attic ghost.

Here she is, chatting with Poe:

Making her was simple simple simple.  Much easier than pie.  I just took t-shirt material, slathered it with glue, and let it dry over a plastic baggy and a pen that was large and rounded, for shape.  Then I sewed on eyes with eyelashes, and cut out flower shapes, and sewed that on with a gold bead.

Voila!  The house is haunted.

Pay no attention to the scarecrow.  He's just writing hipster poetry and doing the Kanye shrug.

All like: "Whatevs, Kant is overrated."  All like: "Mozart was a two-bit hack. Way too mainstream."  All like: "I don't even scare crows, I just tell them that they're poorly deconstructed bourgeois sheeple."

Today is a day for bats in the belfry.  I know I say this a lot, but you really have to click this to make it bigger, otherwise they're just black blobs.

I made them with wire, black electrical tape, and foil for the body. 

First I made the 'fingers' on the wings with the wire, threading them together.  Then I applied the tape, sticky side to sticky side, so the outside was rubbery and black.  I pressed it down, and it made the 'bones' stand out, like for an actual bat.

They need names now. Any suggestions?  And as always, happy arting!

Halloween approaches, my most favorite of holidays!  So I'm going to make Halloweeny stuff for the house.

I realized this scarecrow was going to be a hipster when I had to spend three hours trying to turn jeans I sewed for it rightside out.  Super skinny jeans of the skinniest sort.

Basically, all you have to do is sew clothes, give it a pipecleaner skeleton, and sew the pants to the shirt, the head to the neckhole.  I used needlepoint canvas for the burlap, because it looks just right for it.

Batman is wary, mumbling about some sort of waterbird.  The Doctor looks guilty and is muttering about things he did when he was John Smith to some sort of sanguine family.

Look at how cute  he is!  He is like a cutie mccuteberg.

Three new books in the house.

In order of appearance: Cinderella (completely illustrated in watercolor, no words except for the title and 'the end'),  River Song's diary (empty, because spoilers), and the pirate code which is pink and sparkly with a purple fake gem eyepatch because I'm a jerk.

Toad doesn't look thrilled at being saddled with the Cinderella book.  It's better than getting Beauty and the Beast; that would be insulting on a number of levels.

Click to make it bigger, if you want!  The illustrations on these two pages are my favorites that I did in the book.

Happy arting!

Okay, you seriously have to click this picture to make it bigger, because there is a lot going on.  This isn't even half of the presents I got yesterday!  (Eeee!)

Starting from right to left, there's a Jack Sparrow who is already blitzed and leaning on the wall with a bottle in hand, right in front of him (and under the time stamp) is a bucket and a roll of paper towels for the ensuing mess.  The Doctor is standing in front of a roll top desk holding a basketball.  Next to him is a cappuccino machine on a table.  Batman is wearing a poncho and futilely trying to vacuum by a stool.

There is a platoon of babies and a little dog in front of a jukebox, with a broom and a golf club leaning against it.

Back to the front, there's a calendar and a letter opener on a desk... thingy, on another table; next to that is a baseball bat and a super cute turtle with an open mouth like it's saying, "Yooo" in a cute turtle voice.

Now to the heavy drinker corner.  Poe and Oscar Wilde, with a bottle of something antiseptic, a case of beer, a can of beer-y stuffs, a chair, a table, and in the far corner, a hatrack.

Whew!

Tomorrow I'll come at you with some more books that I've made.