Add your costumes to the MAKE DIY Halloween pool!
Add your costumes and Halloween projects to the MAKE DIY Halloween pool! The deadline is 11/4 to win prizes! – Link.
Halloween
ToughPigs: Halloween Parade 2007!
Andrew writes – While Makers everywhere nurse a post-Halloween hangover I thought they might enjoy the Tough Pigs Halloween Parade 2007, an annual feature on the wonderfully snarky Muppet fan site Tough Pigs that features the best and worst of fan-made Muppet costumes. ToughPigs: Halloween Parade 2007! – Link.
Knitted Eyeballs with Pattern
Mary Jane, Midge and Mink have created knitted eyeballs and posted the free pattern online. It might be too late to make for Halloween, but who wouldn’t want knitted eyeballs in their stocking this Christmas? [via] Link.
Bloody French Necklace
A day late for Halloween, but this polymer necklace is still a pretty neat project. French artist Delphine Roche de Montgrand created the bloody necklace based on an illustrator’s drawing, the “M.A.” necklace. [via] Link.
A Carl and Jerry Halloween story
Jeff writes in – Carl and Jerry were Halloween Makers in the grand tradition. This story, from November 1960, explains how they built a very creepily effective severed hand for a seance, magnetically enabled so it can tap out messages by remote control on a glass tabletop. A Carl and Jerry Halloween Story – Link […]
Dia de los Muertos Pet Cemetery
Carla Blackmar of Sparrowpost has a great Dia de los Muertos sugar skull how-to. She decided to pay a gorgeous and hilarious homage to the fallen pets of her childhood: Making candy skulls out of sugar is a Mexican tradition. According to internet sources, each skull is painted with the name of a deceased loved […]
Enter the DIY Halloween contests!
This is it gang, it’s Halloween – We have a MASSIVE DIY HALLOWEEN contest this year! Makers and Crafters, enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the contests. MAKE, CRAFT, Instructables and Popular Science have teamed up and there’s plenty of time to win! Here’s […]