Much Needed Month Off but alot of band stuff going on !

Hey Lovelies!!

I know I have been MIA all month long, but it was very much needed after all of my stressful but very fun month of October! All of the Halloween prepping and blogging had me sooooo exhaustes! I have taken off from the blogging scene for the month of November, but it has been a very busy real life for me, nonetheless. My band Stelladeora has been prepping all month long for our first ever acoustic show on December 1st! We have been practicing 3x a week, and it still feels like we are so unprepared. I'm sure things will be fine, things always seem to come together last minute, or under the pressure of watching eyes, but that anxiety is still there.

Well I just wanted to share some of the stuff we've been working on. Here is a sticker I designed to hand out at our upcoming shows...

Also here is a little doodle that I did in my sketchbook... It is a hot air balloon because our song "Magnetic Poetry" is about a man who takes his lover up on a hot air balloon ride,in a secret plan to throw her to her death because she couldn't be with him due to a mental disorder. He throws her to the ground only to find out that she had put a note in his pocket saying that she is now being treated for her illness and they can finally be together. He screams to himself "WHAT HAVE I DONE!?!" Here is our Hot Air Balloon logo that we are now using on our website

This drawing was done in Ink, water color, color pencil , and the hot air balloon stripes was a napkin I collaged onto the drawing. This image I am working on to put onto some band merchandise which will be available to purchase on our webstore in the near future. Our bass player Ryan also had the idea to make die cut magnets with our "Magnetic Poetry" balloon , lol how fitting !

Also, speaking of Magnetic Poetry, Hollywood Girl decided to use our track again for Quinn's Video Log!

And one last bit of band news! We are competing in Converse's Get Out of the Garage Contest!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR US NOW!

You can vote ONCE PER DAY , PER EMAIL ADDRESS!!! So if you have multiple email addresses, bust out those babies, and help us climb to the top…

One more thing! Don’t forget to check your email from the address you are voting from, because you have to click the confirmation link to complete your vote, or else it won’t count! If you don’t see a confirmation email in your inbox, also try your spam or bulk mail folder!

Thanks for all of your support…

Also here is another sketch which I had done in my sketchbook. It is done in watercolors, color pencil, ink and collage.

Well that is all I have for now. I will post some more updates soon!

Halloween Party 2010!!!

Hey Lovelies,

So finally I am able to wind down from all of the Halloween stress and fun!!! Wow, so much prep went into this year, but it was all worth it , because the party was so much fun!!! Everyone's costumes were so great, and I'm so glad Avi and I have set the bar last year, and were able to inspire our friends and family to be a lot more creative !! The Carubia household really does go all out ! We pull out all the stops, from the food to the decor ... it's the little touches that really make it that much more awesome...

Won't you please come in?

Oh , don't mind them! It's just the spirits of Bonnie and Clyde!

My parents did pretty good at whipping a costume together last minute !

The party space !

The fireplace is a glow with pumpkin spice candles and a skull, the mantle is adorned with a Jack-o-Lantern, Fall Leaves, and Festive Orange Lights!

I want you to meet our hosts for this year !!

Beetlejuice & Miss Argentina !

(Avi & I)

We both made our costumes from scratch and thrift store items. I sewed my dress , and also made my cape from fabric and floral wiring. I also painted stenciled letters onto a thick piece of ribbon bought from Walmart. Avi painted white stripes onto a plain black thrift store suit jacket and dress pants. He bought his boots off ebay and i found my boots at a thrift store for 6 bux! What a steal! For makeup, avi used greas paint, I also used grease paint on my face and chest area, and for my arms I was so impatient, I just used acrylic water based paint. We both got our wigs from Party Stores, and spruced them up a bit to look more like the characters. I pinned mine up into a messy bun, and Avi spray painted his wig a bit yellow and green, and then spirit gummed craft moss around his head and face to give it the rotting appearance. He also used teeth stain, which made his teeth look completely disgusting and unkissable, LOL! Well there's our costumes.. not too shabby huh?

Our guests start to arrive!

Photo by Thomas Campanella

Nurse Ratched

Photo by Thomas Campanella

Hipster Jay & his ironic can of PBR...

Sailor Girl Elyse

Grandma Cristina

Chucky (Figgy) picking us a winner :-)

Danny Joe in her homemade fairy costume :-) It came out beautifully! I'm so proud of my cousin for being resourceful !

Some great Beetlejuice shots

Photo by Thomas Campanella

Photo by Thomas Campanella

Photo by Thomas Campanella

Photo by Thomas Campanella

It's not a Halloween Party without Miss Justina's famous "Deviled" Eggs

Would you like some Ghoul's Grog to help wash that down?

Time for some ghoulish dancing!

Bonnie shows a little leg with her infamous "Roy" tattoo

(How coincidental, that's my dad's name!)

The resemblance is uncanny!

No Halloween Party is complete without a fortune teller gypsy booth!

Welcome to Tituba's Corner!

She does crystal ball readings, tea leaves, tarot, or palm readings...

Your choice!

Palm reading, you say?

Perfect choice!

Tituba says

"I see ............. CUPCAKES IN YOUR FUTURE!"

Soul Cakes anyone?

How bout a group shot !

It's almost daylight ... Clyde is going back to his grave

Photo by Thomas Campanella

Rest Peacefully Bonnie and Clyde,

Thank you for coming!

Photo by Thomas Campanella

Photo by Thomas Campanella

Thanks for coming my little ghouls & goblins!

Thank you to Thomas for some of the photos used in this post!

Until next year !!

Tea Party Under A Halloween Moon! Hosted by Frosted Petunias

Hey lovelies!!

I almost thought I wouldn't make this one, with all of my real life Halloween Party/Costume prep, since I am making my WHOLE costume from scratch this year! It is so much work, but will look so amazing once I am actually able to wear all of it !?!? AAHH! I am so excited, I cannot contain it , at all !!

It does kinda suck though , because I am sick at the moment. I think I have come down with an Upper Respiratory Infection, I am so prone to these , I hate it !! So I had to really pull every last bit of myself together, to get these pics done... At least once that part was done, I got to lay in bed on my laptop as I edited :-) ... I did not want to let Miss Anna down!!

If you have not already, please visit Miss Anna's blog, she is so creative and talented, and it seems like she is such an awesome multitasker!

And now , without further adieu, I bring you La Boheme Magique's Tea Party Under a Halloween Moon!!

There once was a little mouse named Penelope Mouskewitch, and Oh! How she LOVED Halloween! This year she decided to have a tea party and have all of her friend's over to celebrate! But wait! She needed a costume! What was a mouse to wear? So she scratched her little noggin, and scratched it some more, and decided to sit down at her antique sewing machine, and make the first thing that popped into her mind !

Once she started sewing, she couldn't stop! And time ticked away! The party was only in an hour! And she still had to do her witching hour spell, and take her Pumpkin Cream Puffs out of the oven before they burned!!

She headed over to her pantry, where she collected ingredients to whip up a special concoction!

She also sought to her Voodoo magick alter, adorned with idols and statues of magic wizards, china dolls, potion bottles, and a voodoo worry doll!

Alas! She had found the perfect spell!!

When the white dog is out

And trots all about

Under the clouds

That are over the Moon,

And the hag with her broom

Rides high on the wind,

And the cat on the fence

Spits even at friends,

Then it is right

To conjure a light

Against every Spirit

That shadows the night.

Thus Say:

Let the pumpkin's

Candle glare

Into darkness

Everywhere;

Burn all evil

From the air!

When it is dark

And the black trees roar,

Set Jack'o'Lantern

To watch by the door...

She poured her contents into her magickal black cast iron cauldron, and this amazing light had emerged from it! You could feel the electricity running through the room, charging the evening with the magic spirits!

She then smelled something! OH NO!! THE PUMPKIN CREAM PUFFS! She ran to the kitchen and thew open the oven door...

Phew ! Just in time! As the oven door swung open , the Pumpkin Cream Puffs filled the room with such a magical aroma !! Just then the doorbell rang! She had gotten everything done , just in time ! She quickly changed into her homemade costume, and raced to the door!

Her first guest was her dear friend Marvin...

He was a martian, and always hated that everyone got him confused with the character from Looney Toons!! He went to the party as himself, because everyone is always scared of him anyway !

The next guest was Penelope's dear friend Fiona. Fiona had come dressed as a house maid!

The doorbell rang again, and to Penelope's surprise, it was her fun friends Heckyll, Jekyll and Bob! Heckyll decided to be a Clown, Jeckyll decided to be count Dracula, and Bob was dressed as a scary monster dragon!

The doorbell rang once more! It was the trolls from down the mushroom patch ! Higgle, Hoggle, and Gorny!

So all of the guests have arrived!! They all crowded around the dining room table, amongst the Halloween Decor that magically put itself up during Penelope's Magic Spell!

They dined on Pumpkin Creampuffs, cheese and crackers, pumpkin spiced tea, apple cider, and caramel apples! They had delcious conversation , and everyone enjoyed themselves so much! The clock struck 12, and everyone was so pooped from all the ghoulish delightful fun! So they decided to call it a night...

Once everyone had shuffled out, Penelope swept the floor and thought to herself "My , I have such wonderful friends!"

She then went to bed and had dreams of the full Halloween moon...

What a fantastic Halloween it was !

I hope you enjoyed my post... Thank you Anna for hosting such a magical fun filled party !!

Tricks and Treats,