Glittery vampires and sugar skulls

Oh hallowe'ening we shall go,,,

Dressed in our trick or treating outfits,with a fair dose of ghoulish face make up,we hit the streets of Avalon to try our luck on the treat factor.. 

Hudson made for a very handsome Dracula,topped with a golden glittery top hat and a ball and chain

Malia was a sugar skull from mexicos day of the dead celebrations

Complete with neon orange feather and spider headband

Nevada moon was also a baby sugar skull,in a festive red flamenco suit

And guess what so was I!! 

A sugar skull that is!!

complete with an embroidered Mexican dress,and my red leather jkt for when it got nippy later 

It was funny watching other adults reactions to me!

Some smiled,some encouraged me

And some looked at me like I was a complete nutcase!!

From house to house we wandered,collecting lollies and treats and running into friends along the way

Occasionally catching glimpses of Levi and his friends,dressed in crazy galaxy print tights and a Dalmatian fur coat with a bare chest,he was having a ball but decided this year he was too big to hang with us(sad but true)

Hudson had to do a naughty pee break but no one was wiser as his cape was a great disguise!!!

Nevada had the best idea,cruising in her pram!

Some houses went to a lot of effort :)!!!

There was blood bath stations(raspberry cordial),

find your lollies in the worms(lollies buried in cold wet spaghetti)

And flesh eating booths(hot dogs on rolls)

All helped add to the magic of the night

Spider webs in trees,hanging ghost and skull lights,cackling witches on broomsticks and bloody psycho doctors and nurses were all out in force as our pillowslips filled with junk!!!

As the light began to fade...

The excitement got too much for my littlest sugar skull

Tired and exhausted we headed for a friends house to devour a pizza and then home to divvy up the loot

And what a lot of loot there was!!! 

I love halloween❤️

Not for the lollies and junk the kids collect(although I'm sure that's their favourite part)

I love the spirit in the air,the excitement,the dress ups and the sense of community but most of all

I Love Magic!!!!

And Halloween definantly has magic in the air💀💀💀🌟

Love and rainbows,

Gypsygirl x

Caravan of love

In an ideal world this would be the gypsy caravan that I would love to have in a pretty corner of my garden,

but alas there are very few gypsy vardo's in Australia as we have never really had any Romany gypsies travelling our roads,selling their wares and telling our fortunes,

Just  some of the descendants of those sent out here for stealing with all the other convicts,

like my maternal great great grandmother Amalia

 So when it became obvious that my boys weren't working out sharing a bedroom and we didn't really want to do another extension on our home 

we started looking around at other options,when the idea of a retro caravan to be placed on the side of our house for our eldest son Levi  came up,

To my surprise he embraced the idea and we set about scouring gum tree and eBay for a retro shape,metal clad funky little van of love that we could make special for Levi

 

After a few months of searching we eventually found this little beauty out on a farm near bendigo Victoria 

It didn't matter that she wasn't pretty inside,we were going to gut her anyway,

We just needed a good solid shell and a cute shape and that's what we got

Unfortunately her little hatch roof blew off on the truck on the way here!!

Why do these things always happen to me???

We ripped out the insides and scrubbed her exterior until she shone and then manoeuvred her into position in her new home on the side of our house 

We had a tradesmen come in and reline the interior in plywood and replacing the hole in the roof with a lovely new roof that resembled the interior of a little boat with caged lights

Only the overhead cupboards were kept from the original interior and a large u-shaped bed was built on one side under the horizontal windows and a long desk was built on the other opposite window

We set a new little garden around the caravan with a raised bed for my tomatoes and herbs,

And pots of citrus trees and lavender to smell nice as you brush past

Coming soon:

Next step was finishing off the interior and making up the bed linen and upholstery as well as painting murals of sugar skulls dripping off a vine along the feature wall....

That's what I'm doing now so I will show you stage 2 in a post coming shortly :)

Love and rainbows

Gypsy girl x