Who Broke My Holiday?

© Chromeheart / Oscura Photography

Unfortunately, I can't topcoat my coffin jewelry boxes until I locate my gloss glaze, wherever it's hiding in the aftermath of moving 200 miles southwest.  In the meantime, I'm crocheting little toys.  This adorable palm-sized ghostie is a free Lion Brand pattern available on their website.  Since the Lions are kind enough to allow the selling of finished items made from their patterns, these are going to be listed in my store as soon as I can set some time aside to take proper photos.

A close-up of Skelemouse, by request
© Chromeheart / Oscura Photography

I've been getting increasingly annoyed with the disposable quality of spooky, gothy Halloween wares in all the retail chain stores... so I'm making my own, and if all goes as planned, retailing them on Etsy year round.  Goth is a lifestyle, not a cardboard candelabrum with LED "candles" or a shitty vinyl tablecloth that you chuck on November 1st.  Don't even get me started on the cheap yet somehow overpriced costumes that only look good if you're blind in both eyes, and why does every female costume have to look like a playboy get-up anyways?  I remember when Halloween costumes were supposed to be cute, funny, or scary.  I remember when the "ladies" section of the Halloween store wasn't full of awkward lingerie.  Who broke my holiday?  No, really.

Up next: Frustrated Chromeheart makes brocade bat wing costume piece from scratch.