The time has come . . .

WOW! So many fabulous entries for our October challenge, and absolutely no sickeningly sweet and cute ones - I'm so proud of you guys! Throughout the year, while we've been admiring all your lusciously macabre makes, we've also been keeping a tally of who got how many votes for how many projects. The dungeon walls have been dripping in blood as we've made notes, mentioned our favourites and drooled over the ones we most loved. After a lot of counting and discussion, and including the October entries, we are so very pleased to announce that our overall winner for the year is 

Teresa!

Your projects have constantly amazed us, and we're delighted to confer upon you the title of "Macabre Masterpiece Maker", along with your very own badge. You also get a bunch of goodies specially selected by our grubby Minion paws, and if you let us have your address, we'll send them all via flying monkey. Or, you know, a local postal service ;)

As a special thank you to everyone who entered the October challenge, we'd love it if you all took our October badge and displayed it on your blogs.

And now we come to the sad, serious part of the post. The Minions are tired. We have LOVED working here in the dungeon, and it has been an absolute honour, but the time has come for us to take a long break. Possibly permanent, but we'll never say never. Maybe once we've all holed up and recharged our creep-juices, we'll be back, but, at least for the foreseeable future, the HDH Macabre Monday challenges will be no more. Thank you so much to every single one of you that has danced on the dark side with us, but the music has stopped. We send out messages of creepy love and darkly delicious well-wishes.

Goodbye, The Minions.