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…through a deep, snow-laden forest by dapper old gentlemen with snowballs in my dream last night! I had to climb up a tree to escape…

WTF?

Not having a car has been good for me, I think. Much walking has been necessary in a season where it’s so much more appealing to veg at home than to bravely blunder out into the damp, grey chill.

On one such mile-eating excursion, I was stumbling over to Cody’s(after stuffing myself on WAY too much coconut soup at Jai Thai AND a mojito) and my eye was caught by furtive(but bulgey) movements in the dark of a nearby yard.

Two ginormous ‘coons scuttled up onto the steps of someone’s house and froze-absolutely in plain sight, lit by the porch light as though it was a spotlight.

They stared me down, as if they could render themselves invisible by the mere power of their gaze and immobility.

It was hilarious and sweet.

After several long moments spent gratefully soaking in their boldness, I gave them an (invisible) wink and moved on, back into the world of humans, where invisibility is so easy to attain, you don’t even have to stop moving.

But it’s more sad than amusing.

Lady-in-waiting to a princess, I was trying to help my mistress save our Royal Midwife-an herbwise woman of unparalleled wisdom, inventiveness and honesty.

Milady’s father, the King, wanted her executed for treason(telling the truth and revealing the magic that courses through all of our lives) and the princess and I conspired to hide her book of magic and her technological accoutrements in the Royal Library.

Alas, the Princess was weak and at the urging of the Duke, her handsome, but entirely too devout betrothed, she betrayed us! The midwife was to be arrested and I attempted to help her escape, but an evil Count(the notoriously sadistic Royal Conductor of Arrests and Interrogations) chased me up the seating terraces of the amphitheatre and caught me at the top…

I was carrying two of the midwife’s gadgets-they were small and metallic, black, odd-shaped and increasing in size exponentially! I tried to sling them into the forest to hide them-by this time they resembled heavy black balls on chains-but only managed to fling one away before the count grabbed me and hit me on the head with the other one.

I fell, grappling with him, fighting for all I was worth and for a moment had him down with my boot on his neck, but he gouged at my eyes and they hurt and I couldn’t see right.

He dragged me back down to where the midwife was. She and her assistant were, mysteriously, preparing a savory dish. The Count, apparently, was a mycologist of great renown, and had been stymied in his search for a certain, rare delicacy of a mushroom. She’d found one(an immense orangey brown fungi of delicate mien) and was cooking a fine meal to offer him.

The Count was no duffer, he knew that this particular mushroom had a poisonous doppleganger, but as this lookalike was too poisonous even to touch and the midwife was clearly handling it barehanded to prepare it, he couldn’t resist and took a bite.

Instantly he fell into a seizure and died. Dumbfounded, I turned to the midwife and to my horror, saw her hands beginning to shake!

She’d killed herself to save me! Grief-stricken, I gathered her up in my arms and carried her over to a seat.

She died in my arms.

Just finished her, been working on her for a few weeks…

My friend Matt hired me to paint him a Cityscape shirt for his Seacompression outfit.

Love the way it turned out! He had fun dancing the night away in it and a lot of folks thought it was a real shirt! And I must admit, it’s nice to actually get PAID to make something beautiful once in a while.

More pics here.

I made antlers(here I must confess I stoled the idea from my friend Seb) and painted trees on a silk slip to create my Halloween costume this year.

I also made an alternative set of horns, which Sam and I goofed off in later…

It was a really fun Halloween.. There was much partying, awesome costumage and much snuggling at Rita and Ben’s house and then I danced the night away at Pheralia with a dead guy and a pirate.

Pics here.

I was working on a new Slender Thunder banner for my Etsy store and just before I put in the lightning streaks a major storm hit!-thunder and crashing branches and lightning galore! Gotta love it when nature jumps up and models for you.

I also added more sculptures, check it out here.

Happy almost Holydays!
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My winner(2nd place) in the Toys in Babeland pumpkin carving contest!

More views here(and past year’s sexy punkins)!

:-}

Amazing Insect Images By Igor Iwanowicz (60 pics)

Or just bugs?

Definitely the A-frame outhouse out in the woods with the child-hating, ax-fondling neighbor.. Go submit YOUR creepiest childhood place memory and read mine here.

Yay Cookieface! This is gonna be fun!