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| Happy Halloween, in fact. |
Some may recall my Christmas DIY decor I posted about last year. Well, I had the done the same for Halloween, but since this blog was started shortly after Halloween, this post had to wait an entire year to showcase what I had already previously completed on the cheap. Like everything else in my life lately, I've rejected the cheap, plastic, made-in-china disposable goods in favor of authentic experience and goods. Making my own decorations devoid of mass consumerism is far more satisfying than anything I could purchase.
Above, you will see a set of wooden letters costing about a buck each that were painted and then had a nifty scrapbooking paper glued to it. The paper is black but contains another color underneath, and when lightly sanded, the other color bleeds through to create a nice weathered look. These were completed in 2012.
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| Skulls and Pumpkins |
For Halloween 2013, I grabbed some paper mache pumpkins and skulls for less than $2.00 each. An exacto knife later, I had carved pumpkins and a few modifications were made to the skulls too. A little painting, some crumpled parchment paper, and LED candles later, we have a spooky quartet.
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| Haunted House - Spider Haunt |
Lastly, and also completed in 2013, this is the same paper mache house used for two of the Christmas houses', but carved and painted to look in terrible shape, with cracks and gaping holes beyond just windows. A new effect I tried this time out was to draw shapes in pencil on the
inside of the paper covering the windows/gaps. At night, when the LED candle is turned on, the 'secret' inside this house is revealed - spiders and spiderwebs! Like all the other houses, this one is named: Spider Haunt.
Stay tuned for more Halloween DIY for 2014!
-Brent
"When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes." - Susan Orlean
