The Big Halloween "Push"

Well, here we are less than three weeks from the kick off parade for this year's big "Haunted Happenings" festival. This city wide Halloween party started out as a simple 5-day event focused on Halloween. Now it is the signature celebration here in Salem and runs for damn near the entire month of October. Last year with Halloween falling on a Friday we had an estimated 150,000 people come through town. This year, with Halloween being on a Saturday, we're expecting even more! This is the month when local businesses make the money that will carry them over the lean winter months until the tourist season starts back up next spring.

For those of us who sell hand made items, the next couple of weeks becomes almost frantic as we make sure we have enough stock to carry through the month. I have pictures to print, bag and tag, hand made journals to put together, copies of my book to print and bind, and of course mini dragons to sculpt. My little candle holder is ready to go to the shop, and I'm almost done with a couple of mini dragon wind chimes. And I have a new box all set and waiting for e new reclining mini dragon to sit on top. I'm really looking forward to making this one provided, of course, that the little bugger chooses to cooperate. They don't always.

I have a mottled sapphire and pearl finish on the box ans I'm hopping to do a pure white dragon to go with it. It looks very pretty in my mind's eye, but past experience has shown me that just because I want a sculpture or picture to look a certain way is no assurance that it actually will. But hope springs eternal, as they say...

As always, when the dragons are finished pictures will be posted so, please, stay tuned!