{"id":1563,"date":"2012-03-27T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2012-03-27T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:04:46","slug":"halloween-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Halloween in March?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know I should be thinking about Easter and Spring and be painting things like Easter Bunnies and Colored Eggs but I just have not been feeling that.\u00a0 Instead I have felt like painting for Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of wood candle holders and decided to make them into Halloween Decor.\u00a0 The first one is the Mean Jack-o-Lantern.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaetto.com\/Pictures\/jack_front.jpg\" alt=\"Mean Jack-o-Lantern Candle Holder\" width=\"592\" height=\"444\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mean Jack-o-Lantern Candle Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaetto.com\/Pictures\/jack_close.jpg\" alt=\"Mean Jack-o-Lantern Candle Holder\" width=\"444\" height=\"592\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mean Jack-o-Lantern Candle Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mean Jack has been sculpted with paper clay to look menacing. There are a couple painted skull bats on the base.\u00a0 There are other bats flying about above and below Jack.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Black Cat Candle Holder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaetto.com\/Pictures\/img_1299.jpg\" alt=\"Black Cat Candle Holder\" width=\"592\" height=\"444\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Cat Candle Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaetto.com\/Pictures\/img_1308.jpg\" alt=\"Black Cat Candle Holder\" width=\"592\" height=\"444\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Cat Candle Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaetto.com\/Pictures\/img_1312.jpg\" alt=\"Black Cat Candle Holder\" width=\"592\" height=\"444\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Cat Candle Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"fullimage_link2\">\u00a0The Black Cat is sculpted from paper clay.\u00a0 There are 4 feisty black cats and 4 rats on the base. There are also bats and stars above the Black Cat.<\/div>\n<p>Both of the candle holders are listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/ArdoriaStudios?ga_search_query=ardoriastudios&amp;ga_search_type=seller_usernames\">Etsy<\/a> in our store.\u00a0 The Bat Wing Clock is listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/330707532122?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&amp;_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649\">Ebay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/Pictures\/IMG_1351.jpg\" alt=\"Bat Wing Clock and Candle Holders\" width=\"608\" height=\"456\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I know I should be thinking about Easter and Spring and be painting things like Easter Bunnies and Colored Eggs but I just have not been feeling that.\u00a0 Instead I have felt like painting for Halloween. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I had a couple of wood candle holders and decided to make them into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,132,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-projects","category-holidays","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}