Happy Halloween 2021!

Happy Halloween!

The night is still
And the frost, it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
And murmur like a ghost

"Trick or treat"
"Trick or treat"
The bitter and the sweet

The carefree days are distant now
I wear my memories like a shroud
I try to speak, but words collapse
Echoing, echoing

"Trick or treat"
"Trick or treat"
The bitter and the sweet

I wander through your sadness
Gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween... Halloween

A sweet reminder in the ice-blue nursery
Of a childish murder, of hidden lustre
And she cries

"Trick or treat"
"Trick or treat"
The bitter and the sweet

I wander through your sadness
Gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween... Halloween

http://siouxsieandthebanshees.co.uk/

Trick Or Treat 2021

But don't go to that house, it's haunted...

What Are You Going As For Halloween?

Here is a great collection of vintage masks...who are you going as this year? Col. Sanders? John and Jackie Kennedy? Starsky and Hutch? Cleopatra? A gypsy? Batman and Robin? Spock? Scooby Doo and Shaggy? The Pink Panther? A Reese's Peanut Butter Cup?

A wonderful collection of more vintage Halloween masks can be found here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/93779577@N00/albums/72157616202184878

BEAUTY: Dioramas For Halloween--GlassdomeGift

GlassdomeGift is a family-owned and run workshop who make charming miniature scenes under a cloche (glass dome) of locations from the Harry Potter series. And they light up! Take a look at the Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor Common Rooms as well as the Herbology classroom.

You can buy your own at the GlassdomeGift Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/GlassdomeGift

BEAUTY: Art for Halloween--Jess Adams

Loving the skull and skeleton lovers of Jess Adams...

...available as prints and tee shirts at her website!

https://jacreates.com/

BEAUTY: Dioramas for Halloween--ChimericalReveries

These spectacularly realized dioramas by Andy Acres of ChimericalReveries are perfectly spooky for Halloween. The precision of these eerie tableaux need to be studied so, like any good piece of narrative art, the story arc can assemble itself in the mind of the viewer.

Top to bottom: Derelict Farmhouse; East London, 1880 - That carriage doesn't belong on these streets; Haunted Mansion Conservatory; Mistley Hall; Oh, Mother; Taken Back in 1884; The Other Women - A Filthy Shade of Hollywood; The Witch, banished in 1861; title unknown

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ChimericalReveries

BEAUTY: Art For Halloween--Olly Jeavons

 Olly Jeavons has created Dead Western, a series of illustrations based on classic Western films using skeletons instead of cowboys...

https://www.instagram.com/artofolly/