Boo!
Yes, I do own a calendar. It may still be Spring, but with a busy summer ahead of me, I’m already full tilt into fall and holiday projects to sell in my booth. Gotta have a jump start on those things and be a few months ahead, right?
Please excuse the messy pictures, I didn’t set these guys up for proper pics. They looked so cute as is, sat down where I’d left them to dry, that I took photos of them right then and there. Cluttered background and all.
My buddy, Beth, gifted me a stack of old hankies, most lacy or embroidered. At first, I was going to make ghosts to hang from black umbrellas on the ceiling of my booth, but realized all that lovely lace would be wasted, it wouldn’t have been easy to see up high like that.
The plan changed to making the cutesy spookies into standing ghosties instead.
Then, I figured, they’d need a face. I was going to use a black marker to do those typical blob eyes and open mouths you see on cartoon ghosts. Then switched to a finer point marker and drew pretty faces. That wasn’t quite enough, they needed blushing cheeks. (Pictured with marker and blushed cheeks)
But I didn’t like the way the marker bled. So, another change, I painted the eyes with acrylic paint, staying with black and white.
And maybe some could have green, purple, or blue eyes?
My simple booth decor project soon became an all day painting session. Another reason why making holiday decor months ahead is smart. If I’d left this til the last minute, they’d have missed out on being darling creatures and would’ve spent the after life just as flying hankies.