Behind the Scenes: Making the Leprechaun Pumpkin

I hope you all were able to see my Leprechaun pumpkin in person, at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel in Scranton, before he was cooked for pie. If you were lucky, you also got to have a taste of gold coins from his pot.

Here’s a special behind-the-scenes look at what went in to creating this “silly,” as my niece calls it, Irish sprite (seven photos included).

 

A special behind-the-scenes look at what went in to making my silly #Irish sprite for the #radissonhotel in #Scranton. #NEPA For more about my #pumpkin #art, visit my website at cbaloga.com (link in bio). #Halloween #leprechaun #behindthescenes #makingof #design #Pennsylvania #sculpture #artifeature #artistic_unity_ #creative_instaarts #tacart #artnerd2017 #artcollective #artnerd #supportart #artist_4_shoutout #ArtBasel @art #artistsoninstagram #artwhisper #artcollective #artnerd #supportart #showyourwork #feelingcraftsy

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Winning ‘Official Eden: A Vegan Café T-shirt & Merch’ Design Contest: TBT

My design won the front of the Official Eden: A Vegan Cafe T-shirt & Merch design contest on April 9, 2011.

Each time I see someone wear it online or on the streets it makes me feel so good. As a Scrantonian, and for the last sixteen years, a vegetarian/vegan, I’m proud to be a part of Scranton’s first & only vegan restaurant: Eden: A Vegan Cafe. 

 

My #design was chosen for the front of the ’Official Eden: A Vegan Cafe T-shirt & Merch’ design contest on April 9, 2011; Each time I see someone wear it online or on the streets it makes me feel so good. As a Scrantonian, and for the last sixteen years, a vegetarian/vegan, I’m proud to be a part of Scranton’s first & only vegan restaurant: @EdenAVeganCafe #TBT #vegan #vegetarian #veg #Scranton #govegan #vegancommunity #veganizeeverything #veganfood #veganfoodporn #goveg #veganlifeisgood #plantbased #bethechange #animallovers #mercyforanimals #animalRights #VegansofIG

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VOTE for me!

The US presidential election is over, but there’s one more election I want to direct your attention to.

New Book Underway . . .

12,081. As of today, that’s the number of words I’ve written in my newest book.

I couldn’t be more proud of what I’ve written this far about a series of unworldly events in the early 1900s that were so obscure, so startling, they never made it into textbooks. The story begins in Scranton, Pennsylvania,