Last Minute Costume Ideas

While I was in the store this afternoon, I couldn't believe how many people there were rushing around trying to get costumes. They weren't so much for children though, they were for themselves. Maybe there are some Halloween parties to attend this weekend or they just want to dress up for when the little ones go "trick or treating".

If you are one of the people who are scrambling for an idea for Halloween, try this site: http://www.costumeideazone.com/ ! There are hundreds of great ideas listed there and a good majority of them you can probably create with things that you already own.

One idea that I think is pretty funny is dressing up as a "Chick Magnet" bottom of this page . There are many, many more! If you don't dress up and go out on the town, you'll definitely get a few good laughs when you read about the many different costume ideas.

Me? I'll be sitting here at home with my daughter, with a large bag of Lay's Potato Chips and a 2-liter of ice-cold rootbeer, and the TV tuned to the 7 hour Ghost Hunters Special on Sci-Fi! It's going to be a great nite!

Enjoy and Have a Happy Halloween!

Here I am in one of my many handmade Halloween costumes!

A rare shot of me a few years back on Halloween. Hard to see all of the costume's features, including the finishing touch-- my hair was wrapped around a huge, bleached Ham Bone!
I made this costume myself out of many old fur coats from the thrift store (I removed all fur from the coats to create the dress), a pair of blue slippers were the base to create the fur boots that were laced up with leather strips. On my right arm is a fur band with criss-crossed, bleached, chicken wing bones sewn in place. There is a long piece of thin leather that ties around my waist and on that is a small medicine bag that I made out of thin leather also. My necklace and earrings were made of a variety of bleached chicken bones and leather.
Oh, I also won second place that year. :)

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Burnt Symbols

My latest pyroengraved Art Card has been completed!

I started out with a simple Celtic design without any insight as to where I wanted to go from there. I may be burning the edges all around this card to give it a more finished look. Other than that, it is done. :) The entire design on this card has been done by pyroengraving onto 140lb. watercolor paper.

Many beautiful sepia tones can be achieved by burning on paper...the additional use of hatch marks, cross-hatch, and stippling can really add a lot more visual interest and depth to the work. As you probably have already figured out, burning is also a very unforgiving medium. Once you burn a mark onto your paper, it is there forever. :)
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The time is 10:57 a.m. and it is already 81 degrees. They are calling for temps in the 90s today.

You may be wondering why I talk about our temps so often and weather in general. The area where I live usually is never this hot and we usually never have terrible storms that spout tornadoes. It seems that ever since 1991 (a summer where we saw many tornadoes) our weather has been changing drastically.

Our growing season usually was from end of May until September. Some years we still had snow on the ground near the end of May. Most years, we would get frost warnings in June. One year, when I was in grade school, we got snow on July 4th. Our supposedly normal temps for June were between mid 60's and upper 70's. Our winters lately have really been lacking in snowfall and this past winter we had hardly any snow at all. Our lack of snowfall can have terrible effects on the following summer months.
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On the agenda for today is a new art card done with a medium I haven't used in awhile. That's all I am going to say on that, it's a surprise! :)

Oh and a leeeeetle reminder for all of you paranormal fans: It's Wednesday and that means Ghost Hunters is on tonight!

Have a creative day!

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TAPS is back!

Today marks the first episode of the new season of !


I LOVE this show! It's been a long, long wait for the new season to start. If you click on the link, it will take you to their homepage, The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS). They have a lot of information on their site including forums, show information, TAPS family bios, videos, articles, chat, and more! If you haven't seen their website yet, take a look, it's terrific!

Starting at 6 pm central time on the Sci-fi channel, you can watch two of their great, past episodes with the Season Opener starting at 8 pm central time! Woohoo, can't wait!

Still needing a solution to this problem:

If any one of you that stops by Twisted Thicket happens to know why the content of my blog reduces in size as you scroll to the bottom of the page, please let me know. It has to have something to do with the code for the table/background I put in the middle, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what went wrong.


Please leave a message here if you know the answer. Thanks!


Heck, leave a message either way....I love messages! :)


Off to create! Have a great day!

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