Dia de los Muertos is one of our favorite holidays, and for the second year in a row, we’ve carved a pumpkin depicting some skellington friends. This year we decided on making a skeleton lady (last year was the Duke), as inspired by a mural put up on 5th street downtown for the Dia de los Muertos festivites a few days ago. Sadly, I didn’t have our camera on hand, but the lovely Angeliska got a couple of beautiful shots:

(Another view)

These beautiful ladies made me want to make one of my own, and below are the results. A little rough, but this is only my second (!) pumpkin carving ever – with the help of Dave of course. We also found this wonderful Santisimia Muerta (The Holy Dead) candle that seemed all too fitting for the festivities. You can view the whole set on flickr here.

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Redline Hookas. While walking around earlier, we saw these little guys and had to snap a photo. Edited to add: these guys have since been painted over.

Actually, a walk through the alley. Click through for fullsize.

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Eventually, we’d love to showcase little bits of street art that we find around our home town of Austin, Texas. And yes, I know this is not the best street “art” but its a funny start at least.