Riding off into the Darkness

It seems everyone is socially distancing this year, even within the www, our Dark Dreams faltering under the weight of pandemic and indifference.  Maybe life is so scary there's no room for "imagined scary".  Whatever, Dear Reader, you have become almost extinct.  And so, this is our Last Post.

Asylum Anne has had time to find more random stuff in her stash, and this symbol of Georgette Heyer's Regency-period novel abductions, elopements and other social misdeameanours, reinforced by Jane Austen re-runs on tv, is a 7 Gypsies carriage.  Quite how it rolled in to the Asylum is not known, but it was there to be found, rather worse for wear:

The wheels have been hot-dipped in embossing powders several times to strengthen the rust, and texture paste scraped over the panelling to fill the holes.

Then the painting began:

Someone was slacking off for a while!

Doors rehinged and given "windows"

Inside, the carriage was fitted out with lace fabric, and bench seats recovered in leather:

A bunch of strange people turned up wanting a ride

 And were invited to travel with us:

 All aboard, and the Darkness Dreamers travel away from this blog, searching a more populous Community of Darkness and Creepiness:

Farewell.

The Final Winner of our Darkness Challenges is... Cathy with awesome entry number 34
Please contact us for your reward, choose either this very lonely skeleton:

or this set of cling mounted rubber stamps:

GONGRATULATIONS TO CATHY!!

And with heavy hearth I (Granne) also say goodbye to

this little blog I have so much treasured.

And with these movie inspired ATC's I wave to all you wonderful artist that

shared your art with us during these years.

See you in the blogland!!