Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #2

A Captain Hook loving crocodile and some lovely mermaids.  :)

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #1

Seth drew a "Peter Pan" series of lunch sacks for our girls last year.  I'll post a set a day this week and start this adventure off with the unrelenting Captain Hook, his companion Shmee, and the even more stubborn Princess Tiger Lily as they head to Skull Rock.

Lunch Bag Friday- Trick or Treat!

 Silly me forgot to post last week... oops. :)  

Here were the Lunch Bag Friday Sacks for October 25th.  Seth has been working crazy overtime hours, finishing up animation on the movie Rio 2.  By the time he gets home at night we have about an hour to play with him and then he's out like a light just to wake at 5am and start the next day.  He came up with an awesome solution to be able to still give his girlies some loves, but not be up all night drawing....  He found some old artwork that he had made a few years ago and printed them onto white lunch sacks.  The girls loved them and Seth was a well-rested daddy/animator. :)  win win

Here are today's Lunch Bag Friday sacks 

and possibly the last Halloweeny drawings he'll make this year. (tear)  :)

I just want to hug that sad little vampire.  Our oldest dressed up as a vampire this year for Halloween so she claimed this sack to bring to school.  She said he was mourning over her- of course.   Love it.

This other sack is another reference to Disney's Haunted Mansion stretching portraits, only Seth replaced the usual tightrope ballerina with ME!  :0)  I can't wait frame it and put it alongside the other haunted mansion picture of our girls in the quicksand.  He's so cool. :)   It makes me happy to see those ballet shoes on my feet in the picture.  I was a dancer from the age of 3 on until I really messed up one of my knees in high school and needed a few surgeries.  It's been a hard thing to let go of.   I always say I'll be dancing in heaven when everything broken is fixed again.  This particular sack is a sweet present to me along with my girls.

Here's the framed "Quick Sand" one.  

It's on our coffee table in our music room waiting for it's friend the "Tight Rope Ballerina" to join it.  

Did you have fun trick or treating last night?  We sure did!  

Here's a pic I took of our group with some family friends before they trekked through the rain and were filled with too much candy.  Seth kills me with his silly Edward Scissor Hands expression. lol

And here are some photos of our girls before they went to a Halloween party at Seth's work a few nights ago.  Do they know how to get into character or what?  We're just a tad dramatic around here.

She actually helped sew this vampire costume last year and it still fit.  It turned out so awesome she decided to go another year in it.   I love how quickly she is picking up sewing.  It'll be so fun for her to express herself and wear her creations all her life.  (such a proud mommy)  :)

Uh- wow!  She's gonna give me nightmares!  hahahaha  A few people asked if she was a zombie pilgrim.  lol  So in case you can't tell she's "Wednesday" from The Addam's Family.

Our little sweet little Pippy ghost wanted to be a character from a story that we've been telling her since she was 2-  the ghost with a black eye.  As the story goes a family is scared to discover a ghost in their house except for the littlest girl, named Penelope, who tells the ghost to get lost or she'll give him another black eye.  hahaha  She slipped just before the picture was taken and was crying and rubbed off her black eye though. hahaha  We sewed this costume for her big sister a few years ago so it was nice to just pull it out of the costume closet and not be sewing like a mad-woman the night before.   Here's a well loved lunch sack from near the beginning of when Seth was drawing them for the kids (a few years old) of the ghost with a black eye.  

We had some friends stick around last night to sing silly camp fire songs with the guitar that have the words changed to disgusting Halloween kind of lyrics (like "My Body Lies Over the Ocean" and "Do Your Guts Hang Low"  and  "Blow Blow Blow Your Nose"  etc.  It was so fun.  One of the families that came by last night is all boys and they create animation shorts like our girls love to (but they are MUCH MUCH better)  hahaha.  You should check out their awesome site- Animations Chefs.  They created a special one just for Halloween and shot footage at the Old Dutch Church and Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow where Washington Irving is buried who created the story about the famous Headless Horseman. (One of my favorite places to visit)  Here's a link... http://www.animationchefs.com/animation-chefs-halloween-special/   You'll seriously LOVE these guys and want to get into stop motion animation yourself!

Well with all that Halloween out of our system  (sort of)  I guess it's onto Thanksgiving   .... And just so you can see we are a pretty normal crew usually...    We hope you had a lot of fun last night and aren't sick from eating too much candy!  We secretly throw out bits of everyone's piles everyday to help it disappear quicker.   shhhhh   Don't tell our girls.        I know... we're evil.  :) 

Lunch Bag Friday... More Halloween! :)

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!!!  :)  A clever monster and allusion to one of the shrinking portraits in Disney’s Haunted Mansion…. only Seth used our daughters instead.  I LOVE THESE!  

Tricky Situations

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!!!

We laughed and laughed over these lunch bags Seth drew for the kids.    I can neither confirm nor deny if these things have ever happened to us. :)    I love the reference of the Haunted Mansion wallpaper in the ghost drawing.  The kids loved bringing these to school.  In fact Makenzie said that along with other kids, her teachers are beginning to look forward to Fridays to see the sacks she will bring and Kendyl has had the lunch room duty hold them in the air for the lunch room to see several times.  It can be hard to move and go to a new school- I’m grateful for these cute presents their dad draws them.  They are great conversation starters for making new friends. :)  Thanks Seth!  Happy October!

A Witch and Her Friend

Here's a witch lunch sack that Seth made last year and her friend.  :)  One of the reason I love Halloween so much is because of the colors.  I took these pictures from my front porch this morning as my girls and I sat out there eating our cereal watching the sunrise turning the purple clouds to gold and burning off the morning fog. 

Lunch Bag Friday: WitchyPoo on a Mop! :0)

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!!!  I always look forward to the "first witch of the season" that Seth draws.   I'm so  amazed with how they never look the same.  I didn't know there were so many different types of witches until I married this guy. :)  

This little Witchy-poo is quite traditional I think.  She's pretty cute.  Kendyl has appropriately named her Esmeralda and is going to make up a little story about her and her feisty kitty when she gets home from school today.  :)  I really love the look of contrast that can be reached on these brown sacks.  The white seems so bright.  I love that moon.  Seth was inspired to create Esmeralda by the animation clip our girls made the same morning as the animation I posted last week of the ghost coming from the fire place.  They actually created this one first.  It's very very brief, but they were excited to discover how to make it look like Kendyl was flying and made about 20 other versions of flying kids. hahaha  This little clip was the first one to jump start a whole new world for them. :)  When I saw it I was so impressed with them that I jumped up and down. hahaha  It's cute to see Penelope in the background eating her oatmeal and watching her sisters be weird.   When she watches this clip now she says, "I don't remember Kendyl flying. I thought she was just jumping, but I guess she was flying really quick when I wasn't looking."  lol  Here is the clip.  You will notice that Kendyl is flying on a mop.  She couldn't find the broom and they were too excited to try out Kenzie's idea of jumping in the air while taking the picture to see if it would look like she was flying.

I like how my kids are inspired by their daddy to create animation like him, who is in turn inspired to make a drawing, which inspires Kendyl to want to write a story, and on and on.  Creativity is a fun, never ending cycle.  Life is art.  Art and beauty and inspiration are all around us.  I don't understand when people get jealous of other's skills instead of being inspired by them or want to surround themselves with it.  It's just a jumping off point for something else fun you could create or in the very least enjoy and find beauty and happiness through.   Well we hope you have a great weekend!  Enjoy those fall leaves and keep your eyes out for any witches on mops. :)