Hi, all. I'm practicing making shrunken heads. This is just a "practice" one unless it happens to come out good! I didn't use lemon juice so he will be slightly light to medium brown.
Here he is...after I took these pics, I fixed up his nose a bit, rounding it off so it wasn't so much of just a flat "triangle":
Sorry the pics are so blurry. I think it's because I didn't use a flash. Anyway, here's an ear, from sort of a three-quarters view:
He's in a salt water soak right now for 24 hours and then I'll be hanging him by his stem.
His mouth looks a bit too smiley for some reason, but who knows how it will look once it's shriveled, so he may be a keeper yet. Those are cloves for eyes. After he's dried (about 2-ish weeks, I think) I'll be snipping off a tiny piece of a clip-on ponytail I used to wear. I don't wear it because at this point my hair is longer than the fake ponytail. Anyway, I'm just going to stick a few tendrils on very sparsely.
I want to make a bunch of these over the summer for my witch's kitchen.
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Re: My very first shrunken head
Here's my little guy hanging up to dry:
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Re: My very first shrunken head
ooooooooo SWEET!
Beware Beware your in for a scare
The chair is rocking but nobodies there
The owls are mocking the Ghost are stocking
Beware Beware your in for a scare!
The chair is rocking but nobodies there
The owls are mocking the Ghost are stocking
Beware Beware your in for a scare!
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Re: My very first shrunken head
Yo, MEL!
How's the little guy doing these days?
How's the little guy doing these days?
All you that doth my grave pass by,
As you are now so once was I,
As I am now so you must be,
Prepare for death & follow me.
As you are now so once was I,
As I am now so you must be,
Prepare for death & follow me.
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Re: My very first shrunken head
Hi, Andy! How funny...I never saw this until now. (What's today's date again?) All my little guys are good. And hey. I made two more shrunken heads. They're for my Witch's Ktichen; I'll have four of them in a jar with some moss, labeled "Garden Gnome Heads".
I am such a goof.
I am such a goof.