I'm still on my Halloween kick. I bought all kinds of things for making decorations. I've been looking up fun recipes, and images on
pinterest. A whole flurry of activity on my side, but I just can't seem to get anyone else to be excited about it right now. It is the middle of August so it's understandable, but still! Though.... last weekend my friends and I had a girl night, and I made them all watch "Vincent" my favorite short film by Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs. But other than that no interest. The thing that always irritates me is that by the time I am in the mood for it Halloween is a week away with no time to savor the festivities. This year was nice because we had one day in July that had a little of the Halloween smell in the air for a few hours, and that did it. I was in the Halloween zone from then on. I'm thinking it might have to do a little bit with the fact that I am moving, and I want to hide my head in something fun that I dearly love instead of in long, long lists of things to do and back breaking work. Don't get me wrong this move is going to be the best of my life. I finally get to live with the man of my dreams and build a life with him, but everything that goes with it to get to that point is a little overwhelming. So I let my head swim with thoughts of my favorite season to get me through the finish line.
This pretty little festive rosette was made with Recollections Halloween paper. Around the same time Michaels had a sampler pack of fall color light weight cardstock. That is what makes up the actual rosette. It wouldn't be a proper Halloween decoration without tons of black and diamond stickles. And the owl from my favorite Martha Stewart Halloween stamps Elegant Witch looms from the center. Oh and of course you can't forget a little bit of black satin ribbon to finish it off.
Kris Kuksi has to be one of my all time favorite artist. The intensity, detail and scale for his work simply breathtaking. A quote about his work from Guillermo del Toro explains his work perfectly... “A post-industrial Rococo master, Kris Kuksi obsessively arranges characters and architecture in asymmetric compositions with an exquisite sense of drama. Instead of stones and shells he uses screaming plastic soldiers, miniature engine blocks, towering spires and assorted debris to form his landscapes.The political, spiritual and material conflict within
these shrines is enacted under the calm gaze of remote deities and august statuary. Kuksi manages to evoke, at once, a sanctum and a mausoleum for our suffocated spirit.”
