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halloween

It’s never too soon for handmade Halloween cards!

Halloween is just around the—wait, it’s not at all around the corner—but still… HALLOWEEN! When my friend Tim Holtz releases new Halloween products, I’m going to be first in line to snag ’em! I had a blast making this card, featuring his new Bold Text Halloween Thinlits plus some of the Translucent Crackle Paste. I even […]

Free 3 x 4 cards: Trick or Treat Yo Self

Y’all know how much I love Halloween, right? Yes, the Bee Dance has been a thing, but today I just wanted a share a little card file with you for your Halloween-loving pleasure. I’ve been on a bit of an Aziz Ansari kick of late (loving Master of None on Netflix), and figured I’d make […]

I am a genius

As you are well aware, Halloween is coming. I think I made that point perfectly clear with the 2015 Bee Dance. But there’s one problem I have with Halloween—the only problem I have, in fact—and that is this: the candy. What I have done every year on Halloween, regardless of whether I’m taking good care […]

Bee Dance 2015

They said I couldn’t top last year. Or the year before. Or the year before that. They said you can’t catch lightning in a bottle four times. They also said Silence of the Lambs was too dark to ever win an academy award. What do they know anyway? Happy Halloween a few days early. Consider it my […]

Without further ado, I present the 2014 Bee Dance

First things first, I’m the realest. Thank you. Do you know the story behind the bee dance? Would you like to? It all started back when I was about 14 and my mother made me a bee costume for my job at the RollerFair Skate Deck in Everett, Washington.  She filled the suit with balloons, dropped me off at the […]