Halloween 24/7 Team Interview: Alura

This week I am featuring interviews with your Halloween 24/7 leaders, so we can get to know then all a little better.  After all don't you want to know what drives them to the love of Halloween?  What divine horrors they delight in?  What weird and wonderful things decorate their holiday?

Our first interviewee is Alura, team captain, founder, and owner of Moonspell Crafts.  So without further ado, our interview.


1. Why Halloween/Samhain?
Since I was little I loved Halloween. I'm sure at first it was the candy but it was always a big to do at my house. To this day it reminds me of childhood fun. I've grown into appreciating Halloween as the Celtic New Year, known as Samhain. I feel that it is a special night, when the veil is thin, where we can send messages to those who've gone before us.   Magic is a foot

2. Your inspiration:
My inspiration comes from my husband and cat...a vampire and a black cat to be specific. Can't get better than that. But I also love the vintage Halloween images and games from the late 1800's too.
Vampire Victuals Menu and Recipes  Black Cat Card

3. What color makes you want to create and why?
In creating Halloween items, I use a lot of orange and black, eluding to pumpkins and cats of course! For me those are traditional if not old fashioned colors!   Gift Set Bag & Card, Primitive Greeting Card 

4. Spooky, Creepy, or Cutesy?
For me it's kind of Victorian Folksy really. Maybe cutesy...  Goth & Spooky Journals

5. Lestat or Eric Northman?
Ummmmm Lestat and even more, Louis du Pont du Lac!!   Lestat Live Sign

6. Do you have a favorite Halloween/Samhain tradition? I've always loved giving out treats. Nut as of the last few years I've made a table by the door with candles and pumpkins and a big cauldron! And I sit right there with my cloak and hat on!   Witch with Attitude Sign

7. Trick or Treat? Why? Treat always! I love sweets and nice things!   Vampire Coffee

8. Interesting tidbit about yourself?
  I love classical music and love to eat devil dogs...lol. Antique Music Book,  Music Journal

There you have it teammates.  Our first interview.  Get a taste of Alura's Halloween by clicking on the links after each question. 

Until next time when we interview leader Kim of SassySteampunk! May I wish a macabre evening and delicious nightmares.......

The Heart of Halloween 24/7

Alura, Madame LaPierre, is the proprietor of Moonspell Crafts and beloved leader of the Halloween 24/7 Team beating as the heart of the team and carrying the spirit of Halloween into perpetuity.

This week we honour her shop on our team blog with a wonderful outing.  Let's go shopping!

As we begin to wander through Mdme's shop, our eyes are immediately drawn to the dark and beautiful cards she creates.

What talent you have Madame.  Then before we can fully enjoy each card our eye falls on a journal. Oh what secret delights we could record on the inner pages!

Onward we go until we come to a warren of dusty shelves.  It's vintage tomes of knowledge and adventure! What hours we can pass sifting through aged pages.

 

There in the back a shelf are wonderful signs, tags, and boxes to decorate your home year round for the Halloween feel.

If you are a mind to create your own Halloween items then be sure to pick up one of Madame LaPierre's wonderful ephemera kits.  They are unique and vintage with no copies to be found.

 And as we wander back to the front of Mdme's store, arms loaded with goodies, we are invited to sit for a spell, enjoy a delicious cup of coffee from Madame's home roasted beans and choose a reading from the tarot.  Perhaps you want a dash of knowledge with a reading?

What a wonderful gloomy afternoon of shopping we have enjoyed.  Madame's is a place of enchanting gothic wonder.

Oh and don't forget to scritch the black kitty before you leave.