Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween, Samhain, and Day of the Dead!

We celebrated the trifecta of spooky days by going to the Day of the Dead cultural festival at the Seattle Center with our friend Lisa.
A brightly colored skull.
Sand painting. There were many art opportunities at the festival. We tried our hand at linoleum carving and printing.

An offrenda to Pancho Villa.

Our scary sugar skull.

Ancestral dancers. There were many, many types of dancers at the festival in beautiful, bright costumes.

An offrenda to the ancients.

Offrenda of pan de muerte and lights. A bakery was selling the bread on site. Yum!

Offrenda by local school kids.

Lots of skulls on this one.

A simple family offrenda.

Bread and fruit offrenda.


The jaguar on a wild offrenda.

Hope you all had a happy Halloween, Samhain, and Day of the Dead.


BOO!











1 comment:

Ellie Leonard said...

Before I forget, happy happy happy birthday Alex! I can't believe you're 15 years old. That's it, stop it. No more growing up. I mean it! I miss you lots and I hope you have a wonderful birthday.