Workshop - Success!

I love doing and making and designing................. and children.  Put all these elements together and today's Hallowe'en workshop (with very simple designs) at the Tam O'Shanter in Bidston was right up my street.  I was a bit apprenhensive because they said there could be between 20 and 100 turning up, depending on weather.  In the event it was between 35 - 40 so that was fine. I did panic a bit but then I remembered that I'm a woman and so multi (multi) tasking (more stereotyping) should come easy! The children were so sweet and the parents did as much folding, sticking and glueing as their offsprings. They want their own 'grownup' workshops too, so more opportunities to start those Creative Hubs I keep waffling on about.  Procrastination............The Art of Delaying Action............who me?  I'll keep more on that for another blog, another time!

I haven't taught workshops like this for a while but after today's fab response, I think I'll start to for look for more venues ..............and Christmas is coming - yeahhhh!!!

Start of Hallowe'en Weekend!

Once the children were grown up and no amount of coaxing could persuade them to forego dating for duck apple (as if!), I fell out of love with Hallowe'en for a time. However.......for some reason I have re-discovered it in the last couple of  years and love it again.  Tonight I'm having a coven with a load of wizened old witches (former friends and family after that!) and it should be loads of fun! 

I thought I should make a bit of an effort for them so I have been a self indulgent, domestic witch today and made ghost biscuits (although bits keep falling off - all the better to eat!) and instead of having normal flowers, I have swapped for dead leaves, decaying foliage and a few spiders - gross!  There is a goosegog crumble in the oven, steamed pud still to do and home made burgers and bits in fridge.  Add a few bottles of vino and with a wave of a wand and a twitch of the nose, it should be a spellbinding evening - groan!  There might be more photos tomorrow and Sunday, depending on whether or not I have a hangover - betcha can't wait! Wish I could really fly off on a broomstick............well, that wasn't a nice thing to say!  Do witches get hangovers???