Vintage

Nothing says Halloween like a good, vintage orange.


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Fabric Frights

"Halloween Fright Night" Holiday Inspirations Fabric at Joann's.

I haven't seen it, but at least it's not "online only". :)



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Stabby Craftin'

Super cute felted pumpkins by The Dwarf Ram on etsy.

Check those viney tendrils! That little detail makes it. That takes skill... and patience. ;)

Deflated

Before the Hammer Fell

Kinda makes me feel bad I took that hammer to them.

Kinda. ;)

Pun'kin Head

One of my most favorite blythephotos Blythe doll customs EVER.

See more in cybermelli's set of Pun' Kin HERE

HallowDoodles

Carved

This is what you get for buying your pumpkins in September and letting them sit outside till you're ready to carve; the squirrels get hungry and decide to carve them instead.

Call me crazy. I kind of like it. Think they'll do me the favor of carving the rest? :)

Twisted Treasuries #8: Panic in the UnderGhourds

I have no idea where September ran off to. This week was the last of it-- that last little bit of cushion I had to keep calm and trudge on before October hits. There's no hiding, the Haunters crunch has begun! With September gone and a new lady-like job starting up for me about a week around the corner, I'm forced to face that maybe* there just aren't enough days. Despite a weekend-long marathon last weekend of spray paint and mache, I'm feeling so behind on my build. I take some solace in knowing I'm not the only one. And I'm not just talking fellow haunters.

One thing etsy has clued me in on: Pumpkins can panic too! As briefly hinted last week, this week Twisted Treasuries visits the UnderGhourds of etsy to help convey the various stages of haunters emotions when the clock starts to really tick.

DanceSippyDance was one of my first favorites when I joined etsy way back. I've adopted many bloody monsters and other pieces from her shop and love every one of them like children. They're so expressively, disturbingly adorable! This Halloween there's a whole army of pumpkin headed cuties that know EXACTLY how I feel.

a little trepidatious to start:

then the nerves really start to settle in and I wonder "am I crazy?":

and then, comes the full-on Kevin McCallister freak out!

by dancesippydance

All that stress can cause breakouts. This little guy looks like he know what I'm talking about. But then he's got a little more to worry about, living with the hordes of Candy Corn Zombies running amok in his shop!

by ALittleCharacter

Inevitably something won't work out quite right; the pristinely mached skull shifts where it's drying, sticks to the floor or plastic sheeting and tears irreparably when you try to pick it up, the teeth crack on the ghoul or the dog knocks over and steps on a tombstone or snaps a corn stalk, and you feel like screaming and bawling your eyes out...

by Fishstikks

On rare occasions you even get a little jumpy and your own decorations start to creep you out!

by paperjar

Most of the time though, you just feel like a deer in headlights, perpetually wide-eyed and in shock at all you have left to do. And you totally did it to yourself, which dumbfounds you even more! If you're lucky, you won't develop a weird eye-twitch to go along with it...

by NattyKnits

I guess all you can really do is fake it and try to put on a (relatively) happy face...

by TheGrayCafe

Don't forget to check out the rest of this week's treasury! Maybe even adopt a sad sack underghourd of your own. Give it a much needed sense of self and security this Halloween.

I'm off to make the most of this weekend before my gainful employedness takes over my life next week. CRUNCH TIME!!

*notice I said "maybe". There's still some delusional little Halloween-happy speck of me still willing to churn out the monster yard haunt I've been obsessing over since April.

Pumpkin Feet

Painting by Judy Murphy
Image via nimasonry

Abbott Punkinman

Primitive Pumpkin Art Doll Pattern
Image by Brenda of theVintagePolkaDot

Six More

Picked up some more pumpkins at Wal-Mart (of all places) yesterday-- really the only thing of note in the Halloween sense on the shelves. At $4 a pop for some remarkably big and fresh-from-the-farm-filthy pumpkins it was too good to pass up.

Every year I  dream of a yard full of dastardly wide orange grins glowing all the way up to the front door. Maybe with $4 pumpkins this'll be that year. Here's hoping they'll last till the carving hour in a few weeks.

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Carven der Pumpkin

Saw my very first pumpkin stand out doing errands today! I can't wait to start carving some pumpkins, but for now I'll have to live vicariously through the Swedish Chef...

A Quick Face Lift

*before*
 

I stumbled upon this little number at Home Goods last weekend. They've finally put out their Halloween. I was originally eyeing the  plaster house at Michael's as a quick and easy (borderline brainless) craft project to take a break from my heavy lifting haunt projects-- the little kid in me can't resist a 3-D coloring activity like that-- but they weighed a ton and shed plaster dust like crazy. I had a place to put it, but it's on a shelf on the wall over my bed. Wouldn't THAT be fun to wake up like the Wicked Witch, with a plaster house on my head after the shelf gives out in the night...
On a whim I went in to HG to check things out and there it was-- a sad little mess, all by itself, a bit vacant in all it's glittery genericness on the shelf. None-the-less I thought it was cute and packed with potential.

Best of all, it's lite enough to put on those persnickety bed-hovering shelves of mine. I'd much rather be pummeled by some cardboard and glitter than a 5lb plaster cast.

*after*

Some dried out cherry stems for weeds, a new "wreath" and some pumpkin-esque pasta (also found at Home Goods) with stick bits from the yard and it's looking super homey. Still a work in progress, but for the moment I'm enjoying the simplicity.

I almost, kind-of, miss the "Beware" sign, but it's found another, more appropriate home.

Cause Goldfish are just that dangerous... ;)

123 Days

It never gets old, it always seems new...