Let's show our new stuff!!!

One Eye'd Jack · Post by **One Eye'd Jack** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:46 pm

Real spiders, that's just too cool!!!!!

Britishwitch · Post by **Britishwitch** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:48 pm

I'm struggling with it a little...but hey...they are dead....they won't be walking around my house......I think I can just about cope

I B Howlin' Wolfman · Post by **I B Howlin' Wolfman** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:15 pm

That is too awsome! You don't even notice the lack of the ribcage! You should get into building these things. I'll bet you could end up with some serious folding cash.

Sadly, I don't know of an available source for mummified spiders. Might have to search the country workshops.

Dutchess of Darkness · Post by **Dutchess of Darkness** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:32 pm

callumsmith, Hi and welcome here. Hope you enjoy checking out all the threads and meeting all the wonderful spirits that call this place home

Look forward to chatting with you

Awesome decorations by the way, looks like you've been a busy shopper

Dutchess of Darkness · Post by **Dutchess of Darkness** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:34 pm

britishwitch, wow your dad did a Fantastic job on that skeleton and coffin, now can he come over and do one for me too "please"

looks awesome though

MHooch · Post by **MHooch** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:16 pm

Callum, thanks for the pics, you've got some great stuff there...

And Britishwitch, to borrow a phrase from my man Harry Potter: your Dad is BRILLIANT!!! Fabulous job on the coffin and Vlad....I think he does have a talent that he needs to develop!!

Stranger with candy · Post by **Stranger with candy** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:01 am

Britishwitch wrote:You know you may well have an idea there!!!! My Dad is finally giving up work this week and retiring (he is 71 afterall!!!!) I think I may have found him something to keep him busy!!! Thank you S W C!

I seriously think it would be awesome. Just picture it- you and your dad can have Halloween spirit all year

eBayer's love this kind of stuff, especially handmade items. I used to make/sell light switch covers on ebay..people went nuts for them. nuts. Sometimes I felt bad taking their money when the auctions would go $50+..I'm thinking "this is just plastic that cost me 30 cents and it took me 10 minutes to make" and I'd even give them the chance to back out (

) but no, they wanted it and they loved it. Go for it, girl!

chocoholicmom · Post by **chocoholicmom** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:29 am

love it british witch

excellent

I B Howlin' Wolfman · Post by **I B Howlin' Wolfman** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:24 am

The squeemish need not reply!
(nore do wussies, pansies or chicken shi*s!)

In a perfect world, there's Walgreens...Yup! Found a big bag of bugs today.
Included are eight large spiders, eight medium spiders, and 8 big beetles.
Then there are the big cockroaches and centepedes. Great for those mummy props.

A smaller bag of black insects includes an assortment of flies, ants and spiders.

The spiders are what I'm especially interested in. As I plan to hang a lot of webbing.
And you're lucky if you get more than one plastic spider in the webbing bag.
Having an assortment of web monsters is going to be great. I got a huge inflatable
for the backyard. It's going to be attacking a dummy wearing a zombie costume.
I might have to buy some more webbing to make something of a cocoon of the zombie.

Mind you, (and I have already tried this,) hot melt glue doesn't stick to these plastic
rubbery fellows. So you'll have to figure out some other way to glue them to a surface.

Mostly, I wanted to put a number of them in the Pyrex kitchen canisters I got recently.

I planed to fill the canisters with water, so that the critters are magnafied, so that they
appear to be bigger than they really are. But the canisters are square, so that means
the magnification illusion isn't going to work as well as I had originally hoped.
But, for $3.00 for a big bag of bugs... how can you go wrong??

I just got another brainstorm! A great idea for using these big spiders! I'll keep you updated.

kallie0509 · Post by **kallie0509** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:01 am

i've bought alot of my decorations at walgreens! they're very inexpensive and if you see something you kind of like, but somethings about it is wierd, you can always paint it or alter it to look really cool.

Stranger with candy · Post by **Stranger with candy** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:20 pm

I LOVE walgreens!!!!!!! I've picked up so much unique stuff there. Yesterday I saw glow in the dark puffy paint in a spray can

I just can't figure out what to do with it, so I put it back. But I'm still thinking 'bout it.

Love the new stuff, wolfie!

I B Howlin' Wolfman · Post by **I B Howlin' Wolfman** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:39 pm

All new Halloween Hack is tutorialed on my website. If you need an excuse to do the blackened cabinets hack,
this just might do it, because this is an option you may want to use with the blackened kitchen cabinet doors.

ENJOY!
Bug Bomb

MHooch · Post by **MHooch** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:41 pm

Latest progress in Hogwarts decor:

Here's the Transfiguration classroom blackboard, it will hang from the ceiling over the rest of the Transfiguration stuff:
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n154 ... ons054.jpg

the new and improved Mandrake root:
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n154 ... s065-1.jpg

And just something to replace the everyday lampshades:
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n154 ... s061-1.jpg

And I've had this tapestry for years, just wanted to show you guys:
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n154 ... ons064.jpg

I B Howlin' Wolfman · Post by **I B Howlin' Wolfman** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:59 pm

MHooch wrote:Latest progress in Hogwarts decor:

Here's the Transfiguration classroom blackboard, it will hang from the ceiling over the rest of the Transfiguration stuff:

the new and improved Mandrake root:

And just something to replace the everyday lampshades:

And I've had this tapestry for years, just wanted to show you guys:

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chocoholicmom · Post by **chocoholicmom** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:20 am

love the mandrake root and the batty lampsahde-fab mhooch