Foundling
Threadbare
Mimics: Sprouting Tubers
Mimics, Series One
Belladore
Another great tute from Stiltbeast.
It is exactly three months until The Big Day. I have been in the mood to make spooky stuff for several weeks already, but made my first official project of The Season today.
I have been obsessed with fabric lately, wanting to make art quilts and pillows and things. Problem is, I’m not a great tailor. In fact, I’m a pretty terrible one. I stick with either very simple things, or artsy things where my ineptitude is a feature.
So here is a lovely Halloween pillow. Mistakes were made. I neglected to look up how to prevent lumps before I sewed it shut. And that sewing shut looks a bit like a drunken surgeon performed an appendectomy. Still, I think it’s pretty, and it’s a good size to test shams on. Because shams cannot be lumpen, and need not be sewed shut by hand.
Happy beginning of Halloween, everyone!
Because who doesn’t need a Swarovski-encrusted javelina skull? No one, that’s who.
Swarovski Crystal Encrusted Javelina Skull
Hot Pink and Black Swarovski Crystal encrusted Coyote
Bonus, here’s a bobcat skull from Dreamerhill:
Jeweled Bobcat Skull
Beggar’s Bounty fabrics by Patrick Lose
Family builds Munster house replica
Monster Soaps from Bastian’s Boutique. Via Halloween Shopaholic
453-Year-Old Clockwork Monk
Halloween stuff by Carrionboy
Creepy figures made from VHS tapes by Philip Ob Rey. Via The October Country
Alien Bug by Boularis. Via Propnomicon
Peanut creatures by Steve Casino. Via Church of Halloween
$109. Srsly?
It’s that time of year again. Time to look at Pottery Barn’s Halloween collection, ooh and ahh over the pretty things, and realize there’s no freakin’ way we’d pay that kind of cash for them.
A lot of the stuff is pretty nice, but this one killed me:
$24.50. I can’t even.
If you pay $25 for something you can make with an empty salsa jar in 5 minutes, we can’t be friends any more.
Total aside: I noticed Grandin Road had “gost dress” sculptures. Here’s the thing. Those chicken-wire dresses are everywhere as “ghost dresses,” but that wasn’t the original intention.
My memory has as many holes as these dresses
This is from a sculpture installation that had nothing to do with Halloween. I sourced it early on, but sadly, I didn’t keep the link. I should have, because the image has been shared, and the idea copied without attribution so much that the original artist has been lost. These are similar, but came later:
Keysook Geum
So does anyone remember the original artist? Reverse image search is zero help on this.
