Martha!

I was at the grocery store the other day, and while in the check out line, I was in for quite a great shock! The 2010 special issue of "The Best of Martha Stewart Halloween Handbook" was out on the stands.

This year's cover

2009

2008 Side One

2008 Side Two

 Every year, Martha Stewart puts out a special Halloween collector's edition that explains how to make, cook, design, and decorate hundreds of things for the Halloween season. There is a combination of older Halloween projects that can be found on her website, and newer ideas that debuted in this year's edition. It's price is $9.95 in the USA, and $10.95 in Canada, and can be found most places where magazines are sold. Be sure to check back on my blog for more posts on this exciting new Halloween Handbook!   

Martha!

I was at the grocery store the other day, and while in the check out line, I was in for quite a great shock! The 2010 special issue of "The Best of Martha Stewart Halloween Handbook" was out on the stands.

This year's cover

2009

2008 Side One

2008 Side Two

 Every year, Martha Stewart puts out a special Halloween collector's edition that explains how to make, cook, design, and decorate hundreds of things for the Halloween season. There is a combination of older Halloween projects that can be found on her website, and newer ideas that debuted in this year's edition. It's price is $9.95 in the USA, and $10.95 in Canada, and can be found most places where magazines are sold. Be sure to check back on my blog for more posts on this exciting new Halloween Handbook!   

The Promise Of A New Season

Today, I went back to school. This was a beacon of hope for fall, despite 106 degree weather and rows of lawns with dead grass. There was a promise of a new season, carried in with a slight breeze and English projects. Soon there will be talks of carving pumpkins, falling leaves, and magic in the air. Each day gets shorter, the nights get longer, and everything feels like fall. What a beautiful thought.


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Sinister Sunday Songs #1

Every Sunday, I will share with you a song that is subtly creepy, darkly quirky, and totally worth listening to! Enjoy!

Paris Is Burning - St. Vincent

Album: Marry Me (2007)

Paris Is Burning starts off with distant-sounding horns and organic guitar-picking, quickly followed by the steady beating of drums, setting the mood for the beautiful and dark lyrics to ramble through. St. Vincent, born Annie Erin Clark, is from my native Texas, and her song-writing skills are superb, transporting you to an anarchy in early twentieth century Paris, France. It makes perfect sense that the lyrics are poetically macabre, considering that she got her stage name from the hospital where Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet, died. To this, she said, "It’s the place where poetry comes to die, that's me."