{"id":14744,"date":"2026-10-25T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=14744"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:07:23","slug":"spookybana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2026\/10\/spookybana\/","title":{"rendered":"Spookybana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/deathshead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14711 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/deathshead-650x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/deathshead-650x1024.jpg 650w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/deathshead-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/deathshead-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/deathshead.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <em>~spooooky weeeek~.\u00a0<\/em>I originally intended it to be spooky month, but unfortunately life got in the way as it so often does. Instead, you&#8217;ll get lots of Halloween-themed content leading up to the weekend!<\/p>\n<p>First up, Keith found this incredible stoneware hidden at the very back of a shelf at HomeGoods and it was the perfect vessel for a creepy arrangement. I knew I had some gnarled driftwood branches I fished out of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lytle_Creek_(California)\">Lytle Creek<\/a> over the summer. Then I found these deep red-black sunflowers and a matching dahlia and the stage was set.<\/p>\n<p>Typically I aim for natural lighting as much as possible to focus on the natural beauty of the flowers I&#8217;m working with, and normally I would never leave dropped petals in the photo, but in this case the high contrast and dramatic shadows work so much better than sunlight would have. The arrangement calls for it.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more eerie offerings in the coming days!<\/p>\n<div class=\"ays-arp-under-posts-container ays-arp-elegant-layout \" id=\"ays-arp-under-posts-container-14744-6af952c6926f7\"  data-id=\"6af952c6926f7\" data-ratio=\"0.75\"><h2 class=\"ays-arp-under-posts-container-title\">Related Posts<\/h2><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ays-arp-id-6af952c6926f7\" value=\"14744\"><div class=\"ays-arp-under-posts\"><div class=\"ays-arp-under-post\"><div class=\"ays-arp-under-post-header\"><div class=\"ays-arp-under-post-img-row\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/elegant-minimalism\/\" class=\"ays-arp-under-post-link\"  ><img src=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/circular-1-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"ays-arp-under-post-img\"><img src=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/circular-1-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"ays-arp-under-post-img ays-arp-under-post-img-mobile\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ays-arp-under-post-content\"><div class=\"ays-arp-under-post-title-row\"><div class=\"ays-arp-under-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/elegant-minimalism\/\" class=\"ays-arp-under-post-link\"  >Elegant Minimalism<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ays-arp-under-post-excerpt-row\"><span class=\"ays-arp-under-post-excerpt\">One beautiful vessel. 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First up, Keith found this incredible stoneware hidden at the very back of a shelf\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2026\/10\/spookybana\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[545],"tags":[14,1457,60,126,195,546,46,1456,513,673],"class_list":["post-14744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ikebana","tag-black","tag-dahlia","tag-flowers","tag-gothic","tag-halloween","tag-ikebana","tag-red","tag-skull","tag-spooky","tag-sunflower"],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14746,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions\/14746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}