A RETRO HALLOWEEN

October 25, 2012

Just a quickie posting for SUNDAY POSTCARD ART. Their blog challenged artists to create a retro style Halloween piece...my first one is on the previous post...not very retro. Here's my REAL RETRO Halloween piece...the good old days!

ALL HALLOWEEN

Thanks for the challenge, Sunday Postcard Art!!

Hugs,
abbyj

VIRTUAL FINLAND and 

MORE HALLOWEEN
October 24, 2012

Autumn leaves flutter down
like tired souls
at the end of their lives...

Hard to imagine that October is almost at its end and here we are at Halloween! Before we turn around, it will be Christmas and our lovely Autumn colors will be just a colorful memory. Time marches on, so they say... I think time RACES on is a more accurate assessment!!!

This week, I had to do one more Halloween piece...this one for both INSPIRATION AVENUE and SUNDAY POSTCARD ART...

and I played with a piece about NIGHT for COLLAGE OBSESSION's blog challenge...

My weekly challenge (until year's end) is Art and Sole's POSTCARD CHALLENGE. This week, our virtual journey is to Finland, land of a thousand lakes (actually, 180,000,) the midnight sun (where the sun is ALWAYS above the horizon in summer) and polar nights (when the sun is NEVER above the horizon...darkness ALL WINTER!!) It's also a place where there are no public payphones, where a speeding ticket fine is based on your earnings, and Finland probably holds the world record for hosting world championships...not ordinary ones...rather, things like mobile phone throwing, ant hill sitting, sauna sitting, mosquito catching,  swamp soccer, boot throwing, air guitar and my favorite, wife carrying... and that's just a few. People from all over the world participate in these events! Bizarre, no? Fun, yes!

Enjoy your week and have a fun-filled Halloween. Hope you get lots of little gremlins at your door!!  :)

Hugs...and thanks for stopping by,
abbyj