When we first started this blog I made a series of posts beginning with each letter of the alphabet starting with A. Unfortunately, they ground to a halt after L. So in honour of The Alphabet Club hosted by Chiara I have decided to resurrect the original posts and link up each month with the rest of the Alphabet Club posters. To learn more about this SAL follow the
Alphabet Club link to Chiara's blog.
E is for Eek from A Dark Alphabet designed by Julie and Becky's
Note of Friendship blog. There are lots of things in this picture to make you go "EEK!" from spiders to ghosts and bats.
One friend of mine was told that to keep spiders away you should place a conker in each corner of the room. So every time we visited in the Autumn there were little piles of conkers all over the floor as the children wanted to play with them.
I found a great list of
Hallowe'en related phobias while searching for Things That Make You Go EEK including this one:
Eisoptrophobia - fear of mirrors, or seeing oneself in a mirror
E is also for Ectoplasm - a supernatural viscous substance that supposedly exudes from the body of a medium during a spiritualistic trance and forms the material for the manifestation of spirits.
And when you have ghosts, who're you gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS!!
The final E is for Enchantment, the act of putting someone (or something under a spell). Sometimes used as a curse (Sleeping Beauty's Enchanted Castle) or as a Love Spell, we also use the word to describe something which captivates our attention - "your stitching is enchanting!"
Teresa Wentzler has to be the Mistress of enchanting designs and here is one fittingly called The Enchanter:
Teresa has this to say about the design on her website:
This piece was designed in response to numerous requests for a "wizard". Since I am an avid reader of fantasy, inspiration for this project was certainly not lacking! The challenge, of course, was to come up with something original: ideally something that was a synthesis of my favorite impressions from all that I'd read and/or seen. I chose to show a young wizard (mage), perhaps an apprentice, studying and practicing his art. Exactly why I decided to show this aspect instead of a grander portrait of a wizard in full regalia doing something appropriately fantastical I'm not sure. Perhaps it's because I feel the process of "becoming" (growing in knowledge) is a journey that never truly ends....
And here is another Enchanted design -
Which designer enchants you most with their creations?
