There’s me and TiffanyStar after escaping a corn maze. I think our photographic awkwardness rivals that of me and Shrinkle. Is it me? I will come AwkwardBomb YOUR photos!

Last weekend, a bunch of us ate mac n cheese at Homeroom and then caravanned to Pleasanton to go to Pirates of Emerson and check out some haunted houses.

I think we managed to go through all 4 haunted houses, plus the “Mental Maze,” and also THE CORN MAZE! It was pretty much really dark over there, so I tried to get audio snippets of us stuck in the corn maze. I didn’t get video or pics in the haunted houses because I figured the ghouls and escaped prisoners wouldn’t appreciate it. I don’t normally do the haunted house thing, but it was good times, except for all the fog machine air making my nose feel stuffy!

More Halloween fun after the weekend! Don’t get too excited. I don’t really have time to put much thought into a fancy costume!

oh p.s. one of my customers is eBaying her whipped cream scarf. Get it!

Sometimes blogging can feel overwhelming, so I take a break from it, and then feel guilty about it for some reason! AH!

Anyway, I have finished shipping out all your Halloween goodies, and soon, we will be on to Thanksgiving….and Christmas! Wheee!!!

In the meantime, I am working on a new crochet painting for Locketship‘s anniversary party, art show, and launch party for their new collection Galactic Glitter. The theme is SPACE!

Here is a sneak animated gif of what I’m crocheting up! I wish the real thing could also wiggle and blink, but….yarn can only do so much!

p.s. you can still buy MUMMY MITTS which I discounted, and peeps in the continental U.S. can still get them by Halloween, but probably only if you order today and tomorrow :).

I added a few pairs of Mummy Fingerless Mitts to my Etsy shop. Last year I wrote a tutorial for these mitts for Elsie’s blog. This year, you can purchase your own! Grab ’em quick, cuz there aren’t that many!

Don’t forget, you have until Sunday, Oct 16, to pre-order an I Scream Ghost T-Shirt, and to also pre-order a Jack O Lantern Slouchy Hat, Jack O Lantern fingerless mitts, and Jack O Lantern hair clip .

I have been sporting what my friend Kera calls “crack ho nails” for a long time. It’s when you never remove your old polish and you’re left with ugly, unkempt chips of faded color. Some of my fingers were worn clean off!

Earlier today I told myself I would set aside some ME TIME to re-do my nails. Since I work with my hands, I rarely feel like taking a moment to take care of my nails, so this was a very nice little treat to myself!

I was inspired by TinyTangerine’s Floral Nail Tutorial for the roses. The only tools I used were the nail polish brush and some tooth picks…so…my roses went a little wonky. We’ll call it Impressionist art! I used a Starbuck’s coffee cup lid as a paint palette.

The disco ball glitter is my new OPI Rainbow Connection polish from the Muppets collection. It’s AMAZING. I put it all over my toes and I feel like I walked through stars. It was getting kind of clumpy on the brush while I was putting all 3 coats on, and someone on Instagram mentioned that I probably shouldn’t have been sitting in front of a space heater blowing hot air all over it…!

The pink glitter is OPI I Pink I Love You that I ordered online from the UK, because I Pink I Love You in the U.S. is an entirely different color!

The mint green is MAC Mischievous Mint, and I used a combo of drug store polishes for the floral nails.

For the first time, I tried using Seche Vite top coat. I’ve heard that it helps semi-wet polish dry up super quickly! IT DOES! It also makes all your polish super shiny!! I have also read that if you apply it too thick, that it will shrink and peel your nail polish off. I am not very good at painting my nails, so I won’t be surprised if this happens…but so far, I really love it as a drying agent!

Worked on a custom cupcake coffee cup cozy and also a wholesale order of cozies for ShanaLogic.com.

I also made this random little video of the custom cozy!

I’ll be working on getting more cupcake hats into the shop, since a bunch of you msgd me and were sad they had sold out already!

Don’t forget, you have until Sunday, Oct 16, to pre-order an I Scream Ghost T-Shirt, and to also pre-order a Jack O Lantern Slouchy Hat, Jack O Lantern fingerless mitts, and Jack O Lantern hair clip . I’ll be adding another fun Halloween-themed item in the next few days ;).