Oldhalloween

Happily married living in a jumble of artsy stuff I like to call home. Owner of Dragonfly Design Studio. When not chained to the computer, bike riding in a gorgeous park, gardening, thrifting, and eating yummy vegetarian food get me outside! The past and things with a rich patina will catch my eye over bright and shiny.I collect old photo's, Halloween costumes, and paper ephemera. Blog for the Halloween Business is at: http://oldfashionhalloween.blogspot.com/

Doctor Who, Top Chef, Project Runway, Anthony Bourdain No Reservations, Shark Tank, Martha Stewart, The Graham Norton show, Secrets of the Dead.

Sewing, altered art, gravestone rubbings, and photography are mediums I like to work in. Some of my work can be seen here.

Princess Mononoke, Amadeus, Harry Potter Movies, On a Clear day you Can see Forever, Funny Girl, Cat's Meow, Orlando, Spirited Away, Ingmar Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL, The Sixth Sense, Memento, Lost Boys, Sleepy Hollow, Practical Magic, Hocus Pocus, Corpse Bride, The Others, Shaun of the Dead, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, A canterbury Tale (1944), The man from earth, The Science of Sleep, Revengers Tragedy, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, The Court Jester, Penelope, Dogma, Big trouble in Little China, Enchanted, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Mirrormask, Desperately Seeking Susan,
Serenity, Dangerous Liaisons, Up

Fiction: Someplace to be Flying-Charles De Lint, To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee, Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

Non-Fiction: Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance by Geoffrey Batchen, Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween -Costumes and Masquerade by Phyllis Galembo

I collect Victorian Mourning items and study the ritual of grieving and mourning. Cemetery preservation and restoration is another hobby. Taking classes on how to clean/repair gravestones and do some volunteer clean up. There is a wealth of history and some amazing examples of period architecture in cemeteries. My web site still in progress is here.

As you may have already guessed I am a Halloween fan and have been collecting vintage ephemera for years. A former theater costume designer I love to play dress up!

Colors: Earth tones rich brown, copper, and bronze.

Love: Crows, tea, fabric, buttons, stars and moons, sci-fi, english toffee, vintage sewing items, hat pins, bats, steampunk, Egyptian revival, X-rays, movies, Victoriana, theater, thaumatropes, Cyndi Lauper, parasols, dia de los muertos, Doctor Who, memento mori, fortune telling, Pfaff, magic, witchy, Mac, vegetarian, swirly skirts, Bert's Bees products, daguerreotypes, jet beads, glass floats, cabinet cards, card de visite, carnivals, Goodwill, firefly.

Don't Send: Scents: No perfumes scent allergies. Thanks!