How-To: Hanging Lantern Ghost
Cindy of Skip to My Lou shows you how to make this hanging lantern ghost for your Halloween decor using a plastic two-liter bottle and some liquid starch.
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72-hr Microchip Technology giveaway beta – GO!
Beginning at noon Pacific time today, October 9, and closing at noon Pacific time Monday, October 12, we will be accepting comments, below, describing the Halloween-y use (or uses) to which you would put the prize bundle consisting of one Microchip Technology PIC10F Cap Touch Demo Board and one MCP1650 Multiple White LED Demo Board. […]
How-To: Autonomous mobile pumpkin (AMP)
OK, so I made up that name. Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories calls it a “Rovin’ Pumpkin,” which is a perfectly respectable moniker. But it’s never going to score a juicy government defense contract for this technology, the military applications of which, I should think, are obvious. [Thanks, Becky!]
How-To: Packing Tape Transfer Halloween Votive Holders
Jessica from How About Orange shares how to use packing tape transfers to add a little Halloween flair to your votive candle holders.
Make: Projects – Pages of a forbidden tome
They could be from The Necronomicon, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, or simply Poe’s “quaint and curious volume,” but everybody needs at least a few tattered leaves of ancient mind-blasting arcanum lying around to impress guests. Especially around Halloween.
This tutorial presents an easy method for producing weathered “antiqued” paper without much expense. The trick of soaking white paper in coffee or tea to give it an old, yellowed look is very familiar, but the process for selectively burning the edges of the paper is my own invention. A simple and safe chemical treatment is used to selectively burn the page, only where it has been applied, upon mild heat treatment.
Dowloadable Owl Masks
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.
Halloween Doodle Embroidery
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 […]
