Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

My day started with a very nice surprise as a mystery parcel turned up on our doorstep. Upon opening this surprise was a lovely bundle of Halloween goodies from my sister (who also loves Halloween) and a handmade card wrapped in black ribbon. Thank you sister! You will have a special gift for Christmas. :-)  

To celebrate this time of year we go to Sherwood Forest on the Halloween Walk. This year’s walk was a spooktacular theme on horror films. Where amongst a lot of screaming (not from myself I hasten to add) we met zombies, the puppet from Saw and the hooded pigs, the charming girl from the Ring, Zombie Nurses ( one of my favourites),  Freddie dear Freddie from Nightmare on Elm Street (thank you for all the nightmares I had as a teenager), Pinhead who rather casually just walked past us, and more Zombies. Right towards the end we meet this fine fellow. Unfortunately in my excitement of meeting a clown and combined with my camera’s limit of taking photographs at night I only managed this picture.

In the grand tradition of carving pumpkins here are our attempts………..

Blegh! This is what happens when you become a pumpkin cannibal!

 

 

 

I hope people out there are having a marvellous Halloween, and remember a clown is not just for Halloween it’s for life.

Yours from the Circus,

Sarah

When the circus comes around….

Insanity has crept within my mind recently what with having the plague and a creative block I felt the need to have an adventure. My rather wonderful partner splendidly mentioned an area to explore called The Roaches which presides in the Peak District. Recommended by Radio Four (a Great British treasure).We are rather lucky as we live fairly near to the Peak District and it is quite simply a beautiful place.

So we set off and whilst travelling we listened to Johnny Cash, my favourite song at the moment is “The man comes around”. As we drove into the Peak District a rather dramatic mist descended upon us, taking on a rather haunting feel.

First stop was to find an establishment that would serve us a cup of tea. In finding this establishment we found an rather interesting graveyard so I took the obligatory Goth shot of a graveyard. 

Behold! The Roaches!

Our adventure was to climb or rather stumble in my case around the Roaches looking for a Wallaby. Apparently a Wallaby has been seen near Windygates Farm. This is just the kind of British eccentricity and bizarreness that I really love. Rather random as Wallabies are not the usual creatures you find in the countryside. So we looked, and stumbled about. 

Just to show the height of the Roaches, in the distance you can see the road. I have to say it was rather windy up there, my partner nearly lost his Top Hat. (really it was a wooley hat).

We did not find a Wallaby, but I felt the cobwebs clear from my mind.

A random gentleman  in the distance, can you spot him? It is a bit like where's Wally?

My partner took a video (Oh the marvels of technology) of the view we had. Imagine a Kate Bush song to the video, no really!

 Upon our return some wine was poured and a rather nice meal was consumed. I cannot wait to explore more of the Peak District as there is so much inspiration out there. I have an tendency to lock myself within the studio and this can therefore lead to an creative block. Still in the mist of a creative block, but getting there as I am sure there a many more clowns and Plague Doctors that are just dying to be created and to meet you all............

Your's from the Circus,

Sarah

Insanity please.

I feel this sums up my day today.............

He is only at the halfway point, and is awaiting for clown make up and hair to appear. Did I mention a strait jacket? I am now wondering what name would suit him and story?

Yours From The Circus,

Sarah.

Its oh so quiet…..

I have been very very quiet. Maybe I should not take on a big decorating project whilst starting a course and trying to run an Etsy store. It will only lead to lack of studio time, neglecting a blog, and generally running around in circles . I feel like a cat with its ears back and a fluffed up tail. 

I keep on saying this, but I so love this time of year. If I could remove summer, have Autumn earlier and extend Halloween then quite simply I would! In continuation of all things Halloween we brought this fine fellow. I am trying to think of a name, but I need to remind myself I do not need to name everything that comes through our door. I decided to put him against a tropical palm tree, I feel he looks rather happy.

I have also gone a bit crazy about bats. I feel that they the perfect accessory for any chandelier in the home.

At the moment I am working on various themes. One is for “Bump in the night” and the other is “The last show on Earth”.  Here are two heads I am working on. The larger head is for a headless bride whilst the other is a hybrid snake girl. For snake girl I may put an apple on her head which is  a biblical reference to Eve. Snake Girl is also based on a horror film that was either a  “Freaks” remake or inspired from the original film. I cannot quite remember as it was a film I saw on the horror channel a while ago. In this film the girl ended up becoming a hybrid of a snake. The original film “The Freaks” 1932 is a truly fantastic film and the ending is simply wonderfully bizarre.

The headless brides dress has been hand sewn with many layers of netting and fabric. The idea is to have the hands holding the head like a bouquet surrounded by flowers. The dress is looking very clean at the moment but I shall be adding blood effect very soon.

In other exciting news I have also become part of the rather fantastic Etsy Dark Team and Etsy Surreal Art Dolls. If you love the dark and macabre check out these rather wonderful and talented artists. You can find them at Etsy and here..

http://etsydarkteam.blogspot.com/ 

Yours from the Circus,

Sarah