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Interesting....

Just because I haven't posted in a while doesn't mean that I've abandoned this account.

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I managed to destroy my email inbox! So if anyone is waiting on a response, you'll have a long wait! I may be able to repair it later today, but I've been fighting a cold all weekend and sleep is the order of the day.

Some good ideas for projects using
my Victorian Clip Art will be posted shortly, I've been sketching and planning and thinking while the cold has me knocked out.

More soon!

IDEAS FOR HALLOWEEN

IDEAS FOR HALLOWE'EN PARTIES.
DECORATIONS
Autumn leaves, if they still be available, should be massed in large jars—pails covered with dark green or brown crepe paper and weighted with stones will answer; cornstalks and cat-tails can be artistically arranged against the wall; black and orange or deep yellow festoons are effective, especially when a black and an orange strip are twisted together and a canopy of these strips radiates from the center of the ceiling to the side walls. Halves of pumpkins can be hollowed and used for bowls to hold fruit (line them well with waxed paper) or autumn leaves and flowers; a half of a pumpkin with several candles inserted about the rim at the top makes a pretty decoration. A moon upon the wall (made by putting a light back of a large pasteboard box, having a circle cut from the front, with pale blue tissue paper over it), adds to the attraction when the room is dimly lighted.
Cats and bats cut from black paper or cambric must be pinned to curtains and walls. Paper owls fastened to branches are not hard to make; pennants, alternating a black and a yellow, hanging from wires across the room, are especially effective. Of course there should be a large witch riding a broom (can be cut from stiff wrapping paper and covered with cambric) in a conspicuous place on the wall and smaller witches in various out-of-the-way nooks. A scarecrow with a Jack-o’-Lantern head, standing among cornstalks, is decorative for a corner. Apples stuck upon the ends of sticks, the sticks emerging from a jardinière, make a suitable bouquet. Cats and bats suspended from the ceiling by cords of varying lengths, add to the weirdness as they sway. A frieze of yellow paper, with black cats and bats at intervals upon it, pinned along the wall, produces good results.
Fussy and elaborate furnishings should be removed and a room given a plain look, except for the Hallowe’en trimmings. Doilies and covers of yellow cloth or paper, with black cats and bats and black Jack-o’-Lanterns with large yellow eyes, nose and mouth, basted or pasted on, give an added touch. For serving refreshments, paper dishes with tiny cats, bats and Jack-o’-Lanterns pasted on, can be used. The Hallowe’en paper for sale by the publishers of this book will be helpful in securing pumpkins, cats, etc., both for patterns and to use as cut-outs.
Find out more at http://www.VictorianHalloween.com

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