Are any of ya'll welcoming back your dead?

[fflo]

I'm gonna clean up a little tonight and make me a small altar. I'm late getting to it this year, but it's not too late.



This popular Muertos image was created by José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913).
It was modeled in the French style, after the ladies of the early 1900s. --azcentral.com

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[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

That looks like a Lynda Barry cartoon! Hooray!

Bev's sister sent us a whole pile of Day of the Dead items from Mexico last year (my favorite of which is a shadowbox depicting a skullface on Marilyn Monroe's Seven-Year Itch body), so our house is pretty cheerfully morbid right now. Moreso than usual.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I actually had an anonymous gifter of Day of the Dead figurines this year. Am wondering if she/he/they will reveal the secret identity now that the holiday is upon us. I also acquired a motorcycle sittin'-on and smokin' babe myself, and houseguests left me a surprise dead chanteuse I'd admired (and thought of leaving a note in the style of the anonymous gifter, just to throw a further wrench into my reckoning).

I want more tin stuff. I like a lot of those shiny thin metal things. Somewhere recently I saw a whole muertos tableau in a sardine can---that was cool.