25 August 2009

Idle hands breed...

ZOMBIE DOLLS!!!!!!!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

ahem. As most of you know, I've been without a camera the last week or so - and I'm really NOT one to do nothing, so I created an army of Zombie Dollies. As you do.

With the help of my trusty Edward (the Sewing Machine) and my dear dear trade friendly etsy friends, the Zombie dolls are now up in my Etsy Shop!

Please let me know what you think - non Zombie Dolls will be added shortly, and - if you're good - perhaps even some handmade clothes (and more vintage of course!)

21 September 2008

It's getting on for Halloween!

It's coming, the best night of the year - I love it - Halloween! When I was a kid, I used to spend weeks, months even coming up with an idea for a costume, and the even longer supervising whichever hapless parent who volunteered to help (read do it all) me make it. I was a bat, a skeleton, a witch, Wednesday Adams (my brother was Cousin It with a coconut hair skirt around his head)... good times.

Of course when I was little we all went off in groups by ourselves without an adult - there wasn't a worry of scary people kidnapping us, or being given poisoned sweets. There's no way now I'd ever let my daughter go by herself - and if kids reported to my door without a parent I'd be tracking down those parents in a heartbeat.

My daughter's going to be a dragon this year - so cute - so I may do the medieval princess thing to take her trick or treating - in a vintage gown of course!

Here are some ideas from my shop - with the right accessories - vintage can make the perfect costume!