Creative collaboration

This bad-ass creation was made by me and Tara a couple of years back, with bits and pieces of black, orange and yellow wrapping paper, mask, gloves and spider web; in an effort to score first prize in the decorate-the-door contest in Finland. We had just arrived earlier in the month so we were still without our household goods shipment and standard Halloween decoration supplies, and Mike thought it'd be "fun" for us to decorate his office door. I should mention that Halloween is not celebrated in other countries like it is at home, so even finding these bits was a challenge. I think I've also mentioned before that Mike likes to win, so we knew this - we wouldn't be making little pumpkin cut-outs for this task. How we came up with this idea, I'm not exactly sure. I think the goblins of inspiration were among us that day as the 3-D skeleton reaching out through the flames of hell to win that damn prize slowly evolved (the prize: a lousy chocolate bar as we later found out). So, we started cutting out flames, then we stuffed the gloves and mask and stapled them to the black backdrop, glued a spider to his head (skeletons are always male, right??) and covered it all up with some spider webs and there we were - winners of the first (and last) door decorating contest in "Hell"sinky! The picture of Mikayla on the left was from a previous Halloween in Hawaii. If you click on the picture you can see the genius of our work :)