Posted in Halloween, tagged biker, biker costume, Halloween, motorcycle on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
See the cute little boy in the Mickey Mouse costume in this post?
Here’s how he dressed for Halloween this year. (Yes, thank goodness, it IS a costume!)
Looking good, Biker Bro!
Posted in Halloween, Sample Poems, tagged Halloween, Halloween poems, Halloween poetry, Mummy, Poetry, trick-or-treat on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
In honor of Halloween, I posted a poem called “A Horror Story” here, where I explain the circumstances that inspired the piece.
On this blog I thought I’d post a couple more Halloween poems. Happy haunting, everyone!
TRICKS AND TREATS
AT SHORTY’S SALOON
A warped pumpkin face leered
from the ring-marred bar top.
We peered through eye holes
at an electric beer [...]
Posted in Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, tagged 1950s, 50s, beggar's night, craft project, Halloween, Mickey Mouse, tiger costume, vintage Halloween, vintage photos on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
My mother and I were talking over the weekend about what was my first Halloween costume. She said she thought it was the tiger suit she made for me (see photo above, circa 1958). I said I wondered if it was the Mickey Mouse costume my brother’s wearing in this same photo. I don’t remember actually dressing [...]
Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, Needlework, hardanger, tagged 1950s, altered art, altered masks, banner, black cat, Cincinnati, East End, Halloween, hardanger, masks, memories, vintage Halloween, witch on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I was born in 1954, so my earliest Halloween memories come from that decade. We lived upstairs of Grandma and Grandpa in a small two-family house in the East End section of Cincinnati. The outside stairs that led to the door of our flat were too rickety to be climbed, so beggars (as they were often called [...]
Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Folk Art (mine), Halloween, Holidays & Celebrations, tagged crafts, decorative painting, foam pumpkins, Halloween, pumpkins, scottie, scotties, scotty, sheer aggravation on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Simulated pumpkins have been around for a few years now, but only recently did I realize you can actually carve them. The idea of a “permanent” jack-o-lantern doesn’t really appeal to me, and I adore real pumpkins; so I’ve been pretty lukewarm toward the proliferation of polyester pumpkins (or whatever they’re made out of).
This year, though, I’ve [...]
Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Holidays & Celebrations, collage, tagged banner, birthday, collage, crafts, Needlework, pennant, young at heart on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For my mother’s 75th birthday at the end of September, I wanted to try variations on some projects I’d seen in the Somerset Studios publications.
The first is a “Celebrate” banner. I made a triangle template and cut nine pennants from heavy cardstock. I then machine-stitched a variety of papers in collage on each flag. I bought a [...]
Posted in Amish areas, Just Rattling On, Sheep, Travels Here & There, tagged Amish, buggies, buggy, goats, Holmes County, Ohio, pumpkins, Sheep on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Except for shopping (especially at the quilt fabric stores) and eating at the good “home cooking” restaurants, Mom and I have never gotten into the “tourist” aspect of Amish country in the Holmes Co., Ohio area. We never toured a recreated Amish homestead, took a buggy ride in the middle of traffic, or went to an [...]
Posted in Amish areas, Just Rattling On, Travels Here & There, tagged Amish, Holmes Co., Mennonite, Ohio, Sheep on October 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My mother and I just returned from two gorgeous days in Holmes Co., Ohio, also known as Amish Country. The weather was superb (although hot), the fields are still green as opposed to the dry, crinkly grass of drought-ravaged Southwestern Ohio, and bright leaf color is exploding into view.
I haven’t had a chance yet to [...]
Posted in Halloween, The Hooligan Chronicles, tagged Halloween, naming things, weird little kid on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
As I mentioned in this post yesterday, my nephew, J.Hooligan, has a tendency to name things “Johnny” — such as my new car.
I discovered another example: My sister and the kids put up Halloween decorations last Friday, including three pairs of illuminated eyes that peer maliciously out of the shrubbery along the front porch.
Saturday I [...]
Posted in Just Rattling On, The Hooligan Chronicles, tagged Corolla, naming cars, new car, rotten kids, Toyota on October 2, 2007 | No Comments »
As I mentioned in this post, I got a new car last week. My eight-year-old nephew, J.Hooligan, came along with his mother, Diamondqueen, for the final signing-of-the-papers so he could be the first to take a ride in my new car.
For some reason Diamondqueen told J.Hooligan that getting to be the first rider gave him naming [...]
