The Silver Star Ghoul Mine 2009 Our home this year ...Muahahahahahahahaha!!!

This is our Halloween Display we put up every year. This year we enlarged it and added a tower with a hanging skeleton ....ooooooo! scary hahahahaha We love this holiday as all the others and we have a blast with all the kids. Hope you all enjoy the pics and have fun this year yourselves!
Believe it or not this only takes an afternoon to put up and take down. Lord help me, next year hahahahaha I wanna enlarge it some more! You wouldn't believe how many adults that will not walk the gauntlet to the front door to get candy hahahahahahahahahaha The inside is even scarier hahaha (well at least the kids think so).






(Click on pic for larger view)
Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

Introducing "Big Blue"

Big Blue is an Elephant character I created for a national add campaign for Blue Box Moving containers. This has been a blast to work on and there is more to come and do. So I thought I'd share a few pics of him.



(please click on picture to enlarge)
All Characterizations of Big Blue are Trade Marked and Copyrighted by: Blue Box Container Corp. all rights reserved 2009

The Release of "Jolly The Elf" a Christmas Tradition coming soon

Available this Holiday Season Through Amazon, Ingram publishing and fine book stores. Also Including Jolly The Elf... Plush Dolls, Christmas cards and a soon to be available Coloring and Activity book.

This Christmas.......... make it a Jolly Christmas Tradition!!

The Tradition of Jolly the Elf was first created over 40 years ago by Jo Shepherd Ripley and is still enjoyed by thousands of children through out the Midwest. I am very proud to have been the illustrator to bring the true Jolly to life and into your hearts This Holiday Season.

Announcing another book I've illustrated "The Secret of Willow Ridge"

Due to be Released Soon
Available through Amazon Books and fine Book stores


Helen H. Moore, Illustrated by John Blackford
Foreword by Claudia Black, Ph.D.

Meet Gabe, an extremely likeable ten-year-old. Yet Gabe is almost-friendless, unhappy, and skeptical. He’s reeling from mistreatment at the hands of his addicted father and the effects the disease of addiction have had on his family. The good–and exciting–news is that Gabe is about to embark on a hopeful journey that leads him to take pride in his dad’s greatest accomplishment: recovery. Peppered with Gabe’s insights and enhanced with charming and evocative illustrations, The Secret of Willow Ridge: Gabe’s Dad Finds Recovery addresses the emotional and social issues children of addicts face, through an engaging and contemporary story.

Foreword written by renowned author Claudia Black, Ph.D. who is internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Since the 1970s Dr. Black’s work has encompassed the impact of addiction on young and adult children.

Free halloween coloring pages for 2009

This is the first of 4 new Free Halloween coloring pages, ENJOY Kids



I just had to add my favorite mummy enjoy



Just follow the unbroken web links to the finish...before
The Big Spider repairs her web and eats you!!!!





NOTE:
(Just Have Mom or Dad click on this picture then save a copy of it to their picture files on their computer and print it from there.)

Please allow me to introduce "JOLLY"