Tag: Halloween

  • Happy Halloween

    Happy Halloween

    As a Wiccan I avoided Halloween for years, observing Samhain, this wasn’t hard as Halloween wasn’t that big in Australia.  But in the last 10 years interest in Halloween has skyrocketed. So I had been giving treats to visiting trick or treaters but I wouldn’t let my kids go out.  Then  a couple of years back Tabby…

  • Experiments in Face Paint

    Experiments in Face Paint

    In between melt downs; mine & the kids, this weekend I tried my hand at face painting. Years ago I volunteered to help a face painter at a Primary School for Australia Day; she didn’t turn up.  I enjoyed the experience so much that I have wanted to repeat it ever since, but nobody uses…