Love owls? Artist Joseph Paul Johnston is offering free downloadable Screech Owl and Barn Owl masks on his blog. Simply download, print onto cardstock, cut out, attach elastic, and wear. Johnston originally designed these in Illustrator for a “dress up like a bird” themed party, but they’re great for a last-minute costume idea.
By Vickie Howell If you’re like me, you pretty much start celebrating Halloween by about September 15th. Skulls, witches, bats, and ghosts make me smile like a kid at Christmas (no disrespect). Instead of keeping the visions of pumpkins dancing in my head, though, I prefer to sew them onto cloth. Join me won’tcha, by […]
Get the new Subversive Cross Stitch Halloween Patterns Kit that comes with 4 patterns, instructions, black material, orange floss, needle, and glow in the dark floss! (Disclaimer: The other 2 patterns not pictured above contain profanity.)
s this rightly called a “hologram?” Either way, it’s pretty sweet. David Hartig of Santa Clara took a short video clip of his daughter in creepy makeup and an Alice-in-Wonderland costume, mirrored her image, and projected it onto some cardboard cutouts draped in muslin. “Come and play with us, Danny….”
Rob at Threadbanger did a “bang-up” job (forgive me) on his Michael Jackson Halloween costume this year, check it out!
I sent this link over to Becky for the CRAFT blog but I got jealous after she put it up and had to post it here, too. Chillingworth may be the coolest stuffed animal I have ever seen. He was made from an antique bodice by Ann Wood of Brooklyn.
For the last 12 years, I’ve been perfecting my technique of scaring kids. This project shows you how to build a tool I use in my haunted houses: a relay board that switches on electrical devices in time to an audio file that’s playing on a laptop, connected via parallel port. Using this setup, you can write code that synchronizes lights, motors, fog machines, pumps, laser pointers, and other devices to cues in a spooky soundtrack.
