Can You Guess What This Is About?

The papercut is entitled: Mother Said This Would Come To No Good  (click the link to find out...).


You can see the artist's blog here and the rest of the pieces in the gallery here.

Youtube Party at Our Blog

If you lived around here, I'd invite you over to watch these.  But since you don't...



Ghosting 2.0 (slightly more PG-13 content)


and this (as if you didn't already have Ghosting to keep you occupied):



Mucho thanks to jamila for alerting me to these (and Patrick for finding them in the first place). --Lu

Because What's November Without a Little Writing?

The rumors are true...I'm doing NaNoWriMo.
(and so should you).








--Lu

Halloween Construction Paper Drawings

The extent of my decorations this year...

The cat with the spiky tail and the robot are my favorites, though the ghost's eyes are the inspiration for my upcoming Dead Bride costume.

Have a great Halloween!  --Lu

Shall I share the magical how to do your hair videos?

I shall, indeed.

In case you need some serious hairdo help for your Halloween costume.

Love,
Your New Life Coach
Lu

The secret to big hair:



Quick updo.

More hair rat.  (you've always wanted a rat!)

Marie Antoinette (seriously, there is enough room in there for a three layer cake!)

Poof you're a frog!

For the FP's Halloween carnival last night, I dressed up as a Fairy Godmother.  Five yards of tulle, one yard of silver mesh, 2 yards of satin ribbon, a poofy white skirt, a sparkly necklace from an estate sale, and a bunch of glitter eyeshadow...now that's my idea of a great costume!

The shoes, however, were my pride and joy.  And now, I share them with you.  Sadly, there are no "before" pictures, so just imagine with me that there is a pair of Very Pink high heels before you (straight off the shelves at Goodwill).  And with a wave of my tinfoil covered cardboard and dowel wand....

These shoes are the results of silver screen print paint, copious quantities of silver glitter, plastic "jewels" and modge podge.  (And that's the wand making an appearance there at the top of the photos).

In a stroke of I'm-trying-to-sleep-but-my-brain-won't-turn-off inspiration: it came to me that I should hand out "wishes"--gifts I might bestow on people if I really were their fairy godmother.

"Broccoli will taste like candy to you."

"Your bike tires will never go flat."

"You will find buried treasure."

"Your breath will never be stinky again."

"You'll never have to cut your toenails."

"You'll never be kidnapped by pirates."

And if you were here, I'd bestow just such a wish on you.  POOF!  --Lu

Yet another reason why watching the Food Network during workouts is such a good idea

This is the Barefoot Contessa's Easy Cheese Danish. (I would have included a picture of the ones I made, but my camera is hiding from me and only the burned ones are left. Which reminds me: if you have two cookie sheets in at a time, watch the bottom one Very Carefully.)

I thought I had orange zest in my freezer (to substitute for the lemon zest) but I didn't, so I used a teaspoonfulish of orange juice instead. So, so, so delicious. The consensus was that adding a bit of jam to the filling would have been a good idea, though I think they taste wonderful plain too.
--Lu