Day of the Dead Wedding

This was so much fun to make! It was part of CatPratt's Secret Halloween gift, and thus I could not show it off until now, as she has received it. What we have here are two paper dolls in their own little scene that slots neatly inside an 8.5x10 inch sleeve. The bride's boquet is removeable. Both are able to move their head, shoulders, elbows and legs, although only the groom has jointed knees.

If anyone is interested in making their own, let me know and I might make up a pattern for the two.

Here are some other pictures of the happy couple:

 

 

Wedding of the Dead

My second instalment in the Circle Journal swap - which now means that I have no more to do until next year!! This was - like the first one - for someone who likes dark, creepy etc scenes. As you know, I am not highly skilled at dark nor creepy. Conveniently, she also suggested I might like to do something Tim Burton-esque and listed in her profile that she was quite partial to Catrinas.

Not knowing what Catrinas were, I did a little google search and decided that yes - that is what I would do.

Initially I intended to do a Graveyard picnic, but alas, that did not do so well - Catrinas look wrong sitting down, so then I did a little bit of a search for "goth brides" and found some lovely cake toppers. Which I pretty much just copied. But the cat, horse, squirrel and bird are almost original. And the graveyard is our local Barbadoes cemetary - except the gravestones are standing up. I had some pictures of it that I'd taken for the "cemetary photo swap".

This was fun, and kept me up until after midnight on 31st October - All Hallow's Eve. I was contemplating starting on my NaNoWriMi novel after midnight, but it was hard enough to colour, let alone to write.