i’ve been working for weeks on thoroughly cleaning and organizing my studio and have an ever-growing pile of fun things i will probably never use. i was going to post them on my etsy, but then i thought “oh, i can give them away!”. so, today will be my first of several little give-aways on my blog over the next several months.
these are just random embellishment images i had, not what i'd send
first up, a 4.25″ x 5.75″ blank black accordion book still in its packaging, 8 custom quarter-page collage sheets based upon your favorite few on my site, and a couple embellishments (beads, buttons, fiber, etc.). in the spirit of halloween and goodies, i will also toss in a free download of my crackle tutorial, mentioned in this post. please note that this book was a gift to me and i never opened it or know how it’s constructed or anything. 😛
all you have to do to enter is comment, and if you feel like it, share your favorite, funniest, scariest, weirdest, grossest, most supernatural, or “whatever” hallowe’en/samhain story (or whatever you celebrate on this date). i will have my husband be the judge if there are stories so as not to have to feel the pressure of choice, and if no stories, i’ll randomly chose via random.org. the winner will be announced next weekend and the parcel shipped.
happy hallowe’en! happy samhain!! i hope you all have a great and safe night tonight.
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1 November, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Lisa Sarsfield
You Americans are so behind, halloween was yesterday here! lol.
Lovely stash you have…I am going to be de-stashing myself soon. I’ve given myself til New Years to sort it all out and I really think I will need all that time!
1 November, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Sam Marshall
Beautiful items! I love the last picture!
1 November, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Patti Edmon
OK, I want to enter, but to share my strangest story, you have to visit my blog and see what I did to myself!! I don’t think I can post a photo on your blog:
2 November, 2009 at 12:58 am
evilseamstress
My strangest/scariest/weirdest Halloween has got to be the year that I made my husband the Tinky Winky Teletubby costume. This was only a couple of years after that “Moral Majority” homophobic nut bag Jerry Falwell got his panties in a twist over the Teletubby in question because he thought that the big terrycloth buffoon was gay and/or teaching preschool aged children to be gay or some such shite. Anyway… I equipped the costume with a big green dildo in the front and it was a riot. I dressed as a “naughty cigarette girl” that year, which of course involved a corset (because we all know Halloween is really only an excuse to whore it up).
In an unrelated (to the costumes) twist of fate, we got invited to go to the Egyptian Room with some friends that year (for anyone unfamiliar with the E-Room, it is a local lesbian bar). So here we are, a straight couple, one of which happens to be a 6’ Teletubby and the other with her tits hanging out all over the place, in the company of a building full of lesbians. My husband’s costume was a big hit (as you can imagine)! Mine was equally well received on the count of the massive cleavage showing and all. A good time was had by all… that is until my husband ditched me and left to the T.W.A.T. Team she-man of a lady.
The hubby, who was actually my boyfriend at the time, made friends with a group of women who were at the bar. The way that he won them over was hilarity in itself because he went over to get our drinks and they all complimented his costume. When he told him that his girlfriend had made it for him they were a bit standoffish about his being straight and all so he said “thank you all for being so accepting of my lifestyle… I know it is hard for you to understand but I can’t help it, I was just born this way”. This made the crowd of rather large lesbians laugh hysterically (that could have gone either way and I am glad it was well received) and they started buying him drinks! The laughter soon turned to congratulatory pats on the back when they asked who his girlfriend was and he pointed me out to them (apparently they heartily approved of my costume as well).
Now all of this is well and good, but in the process of making his new friends and hanging out, he completely forgot about me and the T.W.A.T. Team lady who had become obsessed with me. I should explain the nature of this person costume before I go on. She was dressed in a S.W.A.T. Team uniform that said T.W.A.T. instead. She had a flat-top, which I am sure was not a part of the costume, and she was carrying around a billy-club with a giant dildo attached to the end of it, oh, and did I mention she was fargen huge? She decided that she really liked me and once the hubby was voted an honorary bull-dike (this actually happened) by his new buddies he because far too distracted to pay attention to the fact that I was being harassed on a non-stop basis by this scary T.W.A.T. Team person.
The harassment stared with her lifting my skirt with the dildo on a stick every time she walked past me and escalated throughout the evening until it got to the point that she shoved the dildo on a stick in my cleavage and thrust her hips against me every time she managed to get me between her and a hard surface. This only stopped when she decided that she hated my husband and I after he won second place and scariest costume in the costume contest. My husband’s new buddies tried to explain to her that is was OK that he won second place because they had decided that he was an honorary bull- dike earlier in the evening but she was having none of it and she was really drunk and seemed capable of violence, and in case you forgot, she was HUGE! We narrowly escaped the bar after employing the services of our friends, new and old, to distract the angry T.W.A.T. Team person and ducking out the back door, cutting around the block and riding away to the cheers of my husband’s new buddies in our big old Cadillac with the top sawzalled off (so as to be a permanent convertible).
2 November, 2009 at 1:09 am
alteredbits
hahahahaha, i totally remember that night, katie, or at least the stories. i love the e-room! that place rocks — or rocked? is it still open? i don’t get out much. that costume kicked arse and i wish i still had the photos! i should share my gender-bender night at the e-room story one of these days… unless i already told you. it was a pretty great night indeed!
and thank you lisa, kim and patti for your comments too! LOVE your halloween photos, patti, and your costume was great.
2 November, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Debrina
Don’t count me in my lovely friend…I’m about to have a de-stash too! Also, I know I’ve got some Altered Bits goodies coming my way….tee hee.
Oh and thanks for your comments on my blog! I love what people have been suggesting for my portfolio cover!
Oh and another thing – I was asked by Jill to participate in the art exchange. She pipped you at the gates my friend…so Seth got something from me when I accepted her invitation. Which means that I didn’t tell you that I was already in it…? Oh lordy…I’m sorry Alicia!! Kicking my butt is what I’m doing now!
2 November, 2009 at 8:53 pm
remnants
I had this on my blog a while back as part of a larger post. Is re-posting allowed? : )
Before I share this though I just want to say in no way do I think this can remotely come close to Katie’s wild Halloween adventure. That was hilarious!!!
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One of my favorite holidays (no surprise) is Halloween. One year I went to a party that had been an annual tradition for over a decade. Although it was in a very remote location, people would come from all over Northern California to be there. It was one of those great events that was not to be missed. I think that had a lot to do with the wonderful hostess who was amazingly fun and cool. Anyway, it was my first year to attend and I went with my boyfriend and his brother who had been going there for many years. Hardly anyone really knew us and honestly they really didn’t pay too much attention to us. Can’t blame them though! I think our costumes didn’t help because we were wearing simple khaki pants and plain white shirts while everyone else had really gone all out and they prolly thought we were serious dorks.
So as everyone smoked our hostess’ home grown herbs and drank generous helpings of Halloween punch we just hung out off on one side of the room with our little secret. Once the party really started rockin’ some of the people from San Francisco got up to dance. This was our chance so my boyfriend and I joined in. And that is when everyone *noticed*. You see, our costume was deceptively simple. What I had actually done was sewn the two pairs of pants and two shirts together. The pants had only one (large) leg in the middle which didn’t really show since we were just always standing next to each other. We had practiced walking and dancing at home that afternoon so we wouldn’t fall over. It was all about cooperation since we had no choice but to move in the same direction. So when we started wildly dancing with only three legs and waiving around our two arms, many of the party goers were literally falling on the floor and laughing hysterically. Ah yes! That was a great party. : )
3 November, 2009 at 10:05 am
Jill
Such wonderful stories! How can I compete? Would love to enter my halloween hat for your give away! Since I’ve almost always stayed home for the kids that would come to my door, the only funny thing I’d do was as I’d open my door- in a loud voice- I would shout out “boo!” and the little kids would be so taken aback by surprise that they’d let out a scream! Fun for all and then they got to take home some candy!
3 November, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Kim
Is it too late to enter for the giveaway? I once had a ghost cat sit on the bed I was sleeping in at an old farmhouse in northwestern CT
5 November, 2009 at 10:18 am
Donna Watson
I’m BACK! and had a wonderful fabulous trip to Kyoto– LOVED IT there and want to go back already.
and I don’t have a Halloween story 🙂
7 November, 2009 at 2:53 am
Jonee Platt
Enjoy your site and ideas, I would love to enter the contest. Our family has a favorite Halloween story. My dad was answering the door one Halloween when a child dressed as a pirate knocked. Dad asked him, “Where are your buccaneers?” The little boy answered, “Under my buckin’ hat!”
8 November, 2009 at 8:51 pm
caterina giglio
oops probably too late for this! xo cat