Fashion Friday: The Well Dressed Witch

I spent a really lovely day at The Castle in The Air yesterday.

I took The Witch Box class from John McRae, with my sister Lassen, and a delightful lady named Sally.

It was a great, fast paced, fun and engaging class.

John was a great teacher. Funny, and informative and just a delight to spend the day with.

And as you can see, the results of a good teacher, with a fun project, and beautiful supplies is delightfully frightful witch with a secret hiding place inside.

I highly recommend taking a class at the Castle. I have made friends, made things I'll always treasure and picked up a crazy list of mad crafty skills. A Very Worthy Indulgence.

Tutorial Tuesday: Spider Egg Sac Chandelier

Boo, Ya'll.

Well, a week squeaked by and I was so busy having fun with the Houseplants (I entered the contest over at Instructables.) and getting ready for our big Halloween party I just didn't post at all !
If you asked me a question about the plants or the crowns I put most answers in the comments on those posts, because Blogger keeps your secret identities pretty secret!

I have a huge Bloggy Love and gratitude post to do tomorrow that will be completely off the Halloween Theme, but for Tutorial Tuesday (The Wednesday Edition) I need to keep it SCARY.

This is the decor for the bathroom for our little soiree.



I don't think you need be an arachnophobe to appreciate the creepy feeling you get sitting under this little fixture. I used red Christmas lights to give the feeling of radioactive glowing spider eggs still hatching inside, but this looks good without a light or would be cool glowing with a single dim bulb as well.

Supplies: Cheap white Japanese paper lantern available at Cost Plus, or Ikea or places like that, webby stuff, Christmas lights ( mine are all red) Lot and Lots of Plastic Spiders and a cup hook and tacks.

You simply:

• stick a large circle of tacks in the ceiling
• suspend a Japanese paper lantern from a cup hook or something similar
• fill the lantern with all red Christmas lights
• wrap it in the fake webby stuff that is every where this time of year.
• Stretch the webs up to the tacks and embellish liberally with plastic spiders
• Sit beneath and SQUIRM.

Tutorial Tuesday: Horrifying Houseplant Costumes

Okay...all you people, making cute pet costumes...

My pets just won't have it. So i decided to pick on some residents that are slightly more cooperative... and in doing so,
I am going to show that I have more time on my hands
than anyone else in the whole wide world...
Mwah-hahah.

I made costumes for my house plants.
And I made a tutorial too...
(in case you find yourself with a little time to kill.)

The Ferocious Ficus


and

the Rest in Peace Lily

Materials:
Stryrofoam balls, acrylic paints, vampire fangs, crepe paper sheets, pins, floral wire and tape
Tools:
Hot glue gun, knife, wire cutters, scissors

Ferocious Ficus:

• Cut balls in half

• Paint outside green and inside red. Add lips to outside cut edge and let dry
• Cut crepe paper with squiggley edge

• Cut leaves out of darker crepe paper
• Place vampire fangs between halves of painted styrofoam ball

• Pin in place with a straight pin in the back

• Secure fangs with hot glue in the corners

• Use hot glue on the fronts of fangs to create a sappy drool. Let harden.

• Wrap around the outside of the ball with the squiggley crepe paper and hot glue in place.

• Insert floral wire, (1 foot long- bent in half) into the back of the stryofoam ball with an end in each half.
• Secure with hot glue and wrap crepe paper to cover.
• Wrap wire with floral tape.

• Glue on leaves and wrap floral tape to end.

• Wrap wire on tree branch.

Oh, The Horror.

Rest In Peace Lily is just a much larger styrofoam ball, painted like an eye and wrapped with cut crepe paper, hot glued in place. It is anchored with a bamboo skewer.

Look Out!

Little Boo Peep

Yesterday I got a rare treat. I got to help make a costume for my niece.
She is little Boo Peep.

We recycled or thrifted every bit and I think it came out just perfectly.
Rescued squashed vintage hat. Totally restyled.
thrifted eyelet top embellished with recycled ribbon.
1.25 for thrifted chintz swatch for over skirt.
borrowed petticoats
And a kid friendly "crook " from recycled pipe
insulation used to pack a bicycle,
wire hanger, bamboo garden stake
and recycled ribbon and trims.

Total cost 7.00.

It certainly restored my faith in chintz.
Shepherdesses look great in it!