As you can see, it was make-a-silly-hat day at our house this week. Did everyone have a fun Halloween? The Short One was completely beside himself as all of these strangely dressed kids came up to his house and took the brightly colored things in the bowl that his Mommy wouldn't let him touch. He spent twenty minutes putting on his shoes, taking them off, putting them back on and staring out the back window waiting for Daddy to show up to take him trick-or-treating. And to think we actually were considering not going trick-or-treating at all, since the SO doesn't eat c-a-n-d-y yet.
H and I had discussed how to handle the whole candy issue and had settled on a little quid pro quo for the SO. While he was excitedly dragging H around the neighborhood, I wrapped a little Playmobil race car and driver in white tissue paper and pasted on two black construction paper circles and a smiley face to make a ghost. When the SO came home, we negotiated a trade - the brightly colored thingys in the SO's pumpkin basket for a present from the Great Pumpkin. It worked (huzzah)! The SO clearly felt that a new toy was much better than some brightly colored pieces of paper with lumpy things inside. I imagine that this little trick-for-a-treat will only work this year, but I also imagine he will have a very good idea what c-a-n-d-y is by next year anyway, so it will all be a moot point.
Anyway, here are your intriguing bead and jewelry links for the week:
1000 Jewelry Inspirations Book Review
Barbe gets run over with inspiration from this book.
Art Bead Scene
Art Bead Scene Gives a Primer on Jewelry Displays, just in time for your Holiday Show!
Carmi's Art/Life World
Carmi salutes the sock monkey with a fun to wear necklace.
Carter Seibels for Divali Glass Jewelry
Carter gives us an inside glimpse at setting up for craft shows at the Contemporary Crafts Market in Santa Monica
Get Your Bead On!
Check out Katie's latest news and notes!
Jennifer Jangles Blog
Holiday or Anytime Ornament Project
Jewelry & Beading
Take a look at the beautiful way artist Beth Cummings has combined photography and jewelry!
Katie from Art Jewelry magazine and studio safety
Read about safe studio practices during this busy jewelry-making season
Snap out of it, Jean! There's beading to be done!
Jean intervews Sara Hardin of Soft Flex Company for her wonderful Links collection of interview stars!
Strands of Beads
Melissa reads a little Sylvia Plath for inspiration this week
Thanks for visiting!
1 comment:
Ha ha - what a clever trick with the sweets .... I think you're right though - next year he may get wise to you .... you'll have to make the swap prize even bigger!
Loving the little feet ghosts in your last post!
:)
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