Halloween Giveaway

Hello lovelies. So we meet again at Halloween! It's always such an exciting time of year, isn't it? Little ghosts and ghouls roaming about, grinning skulls and cute green monsters every where you look. I hope you have something wonderful planned this year. As for me, I've been so busy organizing my Halloween art and displaying them in my Etsy shop. I just love how Halloween seems to have taken over every corner of the internet world. It feels like we're all having fun together! :)

I even have new printable digital stamps available. You can use them to create craft projects such as card making, scrapbooking, coloring pages or last minute party decoration. I drew these witches out and scanned them to create high quality JPEG images. But then I just couldn't resist coloring them in! I absolutely loved coloring books as a little girl! I remember having a high pile of them in my room and I kept getting more every time I went shopping with my mom. These days, I do the same with my little ones. Although my eldest has outgrown her coloring hobby, my boys still love it. Only they prefer racing cars and robots, of course. :)

I do plan to add more of these digi stamps to my shop very soon. I love the idea of someone out there using their creativity with my drawings. So to celebrate Halloween, I'm giving away these witches digi stamps to three lucky readers! To enter the giveaway, you simply need to sign up to my newsletter through my online shop, and leave a comment right here.

It would be so wonderful to see what can be done with my little witches. So please, if you win these or purchased them in my shop, feel free to send me a photo of your creation to my Facebook page and I will gladly post them there.

So, until next time...and enjoy your Halloween weekend! :)

Much love,

A Special Surprise for Hallow's Eve

October is coming to an end, and like a ritual, the 31st will come and go without fail. So are you ready to show your ghostly spirit and let your hair down like a true devilish creature? Come take a look at these awesome finds for your Halloween inspirations and click on each one to see the link...

Feeling inspired? Well, maybe a little excitement will help boil up that cauldron of adrenaline inside? Like a fabulous giveaway, perhaps?? Yes, yes! It's about time I have another one, isn't it? So here it is....

One winner will receive my brand new, collectible Black Cat from Whimsylandia!! All you need to do is enter the giveaway through Rafflecopter below and keep your fingers crossed! :)

a Rafflecopter giveaway


This giveaway will end on 30 October... so the best of luck to everyone! May the best ghostly spirit wins! ;)


Big hug,

Haunted...

...not by a ghost, fortunately! Just the littlest things that can suddenly turn into monstrous forms, whether I like it or not. Meaning, that life always seems to have the knack to poke and nudge at me when I am feeling like staying idle...

So, my apologies for not replying to any of your comments on my last post, dear friends. My one year old boy caught the measles just a few days ago, and being the panicky mother that I am, I automatically went nuts. Can't help it, I'm sort of built that way. LOL. I was even going to post this new spooky piece on Halloween, but alas that failed miserably. Well I'm just glad that the worst part is over, and my boy is recovering nicely. :)

Anyway, I'm afraid I'm going to keep this post short. I hope you all had a gruesome Halloween and found a finger or two floating in your soup! :)

See you soon!

Hugs,

It's Never Too Early for Halloween

That's right! I know that it's still a month away from Halloween, but it is always such a highly anticipated event of the year, so there's no reason why we can't spice up our dwellings and get ready for the Spooks to come out! :)

Don't you just love Halloween? :)

Spider kisses,

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A Little Detour Goes a Long Way

Hey there! Have you been busy? Well I sure have! Ever since my unwanted guest came to visit, I have been trying a lot of things to get my creativity mood back in shape. Making sketches, stalking art sites, watching movies (although usually only half way through), and even sorting out my portfolio cases which are now beautifully organized, by the way. Strangely enough, after all that I still found myself sitting in front of a blank paper with an idle hand. But then I took a detour...

...and I had an absolute blast! I've forgotten what it's like to create something just for the fun of it, without thinking too much, analyzing this and that only because I'm used to doing things in certain ways. Yes, now I know that I've been so terribly bored and desperate for a change of scene. After making these Halloween ornaments, I went on the next day and got a little carried away some more...

It just felt surprisingly good to create something very different. Now I can feel that creativity juice brewing and bubbling nicely inside, ready for the next challenge! Isn't it incredible how our mind and emotions could work harmoniously together when we really know the key? I have been pushing myself too hard in the wrong direction, forgetting that my imagination is not a machine that can simply reboot whenever I need it too. I may have used different templates and mediums for these little creations, but they still reflect myself in each of them. And that's what really matters. :)

See you soon!


Love,



***All of these Halloween goodies are now happily frolicking in my shop. :)

Portraits of Halloween

Yes, you guessed right. These ladies are my Halloween portrait series that are now available in the shop. The bottom three are actually making a comeback from last year, seeing how eager they all seem, to be roaming inside The Wish Forest once again. :)

Well to be honest, I should really work on some more Halloween stuff, but this week I have been going through one of  those creative dead ends. It's like facing a blank wall and nothing is coming out no matter how hard I try. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Some people say that relaxation is the best medicine for this, but with three kids to handle 24 hours a day, relaxation is actually a very rare thing around here! I seriously think that someone should just invent some kind of magic potion to relieve the problem.  Now, wouldn't that be awesome? LOL.

How about you? Do you get these nasty dry spells too? What do you do when you're going through a creative rut? Do share! :)

Hugs,

Monster Abduction (Scary!!!)

Now who would post about Halloween on the 2nd of November? Hmm, I don't know... maybe a cranky, sleep deprived mommy who had planned on doing it before the actual Hallow's Eve, but got abducted by the diaper monster right before she did? Hehe. Yeah, she would be it (make that me!). I'm sure the sight of the beautiful dark circles around my eyes alone would scare the bejiggers out of everyone, but I'll spare you just this once. :)

So instead I'll show you this drawing I made while the diaper monster wasn't looking...

Beastlings, graphite on paper

...which was something I thoroughly enjoyed! Especially because I haven't been drawing cute characters for a while now. It's always fun to play, isn't it? In fact, I think it would be a good therapy for me, considering the load I'm taking right now. Believe me, it's serious business to raise children, and so far the best advice I've been giving myself is to stop, inhale, exhale, count to five, then carry on.... well, it works for me. Most of the time, anyway. The Beastlings itself is inspired by my three kids, of course. Salma the calm and self reserved, Kinaya the bubbly easy going boy, and Rayyan...who is still too tiny and in need of protection from big brother and sister.

And speaking of Halloween, here are some of the cutest spooky themed treasures I found on Etsy...

1 - Original art by moonandlion

2 -  ACEO print by DanitaArt
3 - Skull decoration garland by RawBone Studio

4 - Art print by atpalicis

So anyway, how was your Hallow's Eve? Was your party a huge success? Well, I hope you all had monstrous fun and came home with your bags full of treats!


A BIG hug from the monster's lair,

Amalia, oxx

The Lost Soul

When I was little, I lived in a haunted house. It wasn't the kind you see in horror movies where you enter a huge gate that leads to a spooky decadent mansion. It was just a relatively large, two levels house in a normal urban area, looking very similar to its neighboring houses. The only difference was that behind our house, there was an empty plot of land with a massive odd looking banyan tree that had stood even long before I moved in as a toddler.

The house itself was always very quiet, and I remember how still it seemed to be during the day. With my parents at work, my much older siblings minding their own business in their rooms, I was left to entertain myself doing whatever I could think of. Strangely enough, even in that very spacious house, I never felt lonely. It was as if someone was always there to keep me company. Not that I ever saw anything, but my family told me that I could spend hours in the most creepy parts of the house, talking to myself (or someone?) and never once looked scared or bothered.

The Lost Soul, pencils and digital mediums

I lived in that house for over ten years, and as I grew up, I started to notice things that didn't really agree with my common sense. Like a chill behind my neck even if there was no breeze, a tick-tocking sound that seemed to come from a large clock, which we didn't have. Even a presence that continued to linger wherever I went. But again, none of these ever bothered me because I was already a permanent part of the house and it was also a part of me.

It wasn't until the day we left for England that I felt a very strange feeling whenever I thought of the house. After we left, I started to have the same dream where I would seem to float on air, roaming about the empty house, from one room to another, as if looking for something I'd lost. What's even more bizarre, the dream carried on well throughout my teenage years and suddenly stopped the day I came back to Indonesia, a few years later. It turned out that the house was sold a few months after we had left, but stayed empty for years because for some reasons the new inhabitants just didn't quite fit in.

I guess the dream explained everything.


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A note:

I'm sorry I haven't been the best of blogger lately. I have missed visiting your blogs and leaving a few words. But seeing that I'm going through an excessive nesting period at the moment, I find it hard to stay too long in front of the computer while my home seems to be begging for some tidying up (no matter how many times I tell myself how tidy it already is!). I hope you're all having wonderful lovely days and maybe I'll have more time visiting after the baby comes. :)

Hugs,

Amalia, oxx

PS: The Lost Soul is already haunting my shop right here.

Warming Up for Halloween

It's just coming near to September and already Halloween is making its magical spooky entry everywhere. If you're an eager devotee of this particular holiday, here's a little something from me to get you warmed up for the coming event...

Signs Wallpaper

Feel free to download this desktop wallpaper for your personal use through this link. I hope she brings a little eerie chill every time you turn on the computer. :)

Amalia, oxx