As I sit here racking my brain as to what I'm going to post today that would fit our theme I realize that Skulls isn't an easy subject to do (lol). So I decided to do something on Sugar Skulls and Day of the Dead. So if you're interested as going with a Sugar Skull look or you celebrate Day of the Dead, here's a tutorial for you that I found on YouTube. Blood Red Catrina Sugar Skull.
While it's typically celebrated when we celebrate Halloween they have different customs and traditions that they follow. People go to pay their respect to the dead (adults and children alike). They bring flowers and toys for children, they also can build shrines to remember all they're lost.
"Mexico, abundant in sugar production and too poor to buy fancy imported European church decorations, learned quickly from the friars how to make sugar art for their religious festivals. Clay molded sugar figures of angels, sheep and sugar skulls go back to the Colonial Period 18th century. Sugar skulls represented a departed soul, had the name written on the forehead and was placed on the home ofrenda or gravestone to honor the return of a particular spirit. Sugar skull art reflects the folk art style of big happy smiles, colorful icing and sparkly tin and glittery adornments. Sugar skulls are labor intensive and made in very small batches in the homes of sugar skull makers. These wonderful artisans are disappearing as fabricated and imported candy skulls take their place." (http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/support/dodhistory.html)
It's quite an interesting "holiday" and if you've never read or heard about it before I highly recommend doing your research.
~This is the secret post for the day. If you read this you must post or send me a Sugar Skull that calls to you on Facebook. At the end of the week, the person with the most tasks done will be entered in to win a Halloween giveaway in October.~
While it's typically celebrated when we celebrate Halloween they have different customs and traditions that they follow. People go to pay their respect to the dead (adults and children alike). They bring flowers and toys for children, they also can build shrines to remember all they're lost.
"Mexico, abundant in sugar production and too poor to buy fancy imported European church decorations, learned quickly from the friars how to make sugar art for their religious festivals. Clay molded sugar figures of angels, sheep and sugar skulls go back to the Colonial Period 18th century. Sugar skulls represented a departed soul, had the name written on the forehead and was placed on the home ofrenda or gravestone to honor the return of a particular spirit. Sugar skull art reflects the folk art style of big happy smiles, colorful icing and sparkly tin and glittery adornments. Sugar skulls are labor intensive and made in very small batches in the homes of sugar skull makers. These wonderful artisans are disappearing as fabricated and imported candy skulls take their place." (http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/support/dodhistory.html)
It's quite an interesting "holiday" and if you've never read or heard about it before I highly recommend doing your research.
~This is the secret post for the day. If you read this you must post or send me a Sugar Skull that calls to you on Facebook. At the end of the week, the person with the most tasks done will be entered in to win a Halloween giveaway in October.~