My Day of the Dead shrine has officially taken over my house! The smell of flowers, tequila and chocolate is unescapable. Each day I’ve worked on it and added to it, and it’s finally covered in the nostalgic personal touches that represent my family and loved ones who have passed away. I will continue to […]
The sponsors of this year’s Halloween contest have sent us a bundle of, er, bundles to give away in the weeks leading up to 31st, and we’re gonna start chucking ’em up in the air pretty fast now. Beginning at noon PST today, and closing at noon PST tomorrow, 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 (shown above) and one MCP1650 Multiple White LED Demo Board (shown below). The winner will be announced tomorrow afternoon at the bottom of the comment thread.
Looking for a little way to add a big scare to your Halloween decor? Sheila from Cheeky Magpie shares instructions and printable templates for putting together these mini tombstones.
Everybody’s favorite Xeni recently linked to this cool collection of slayer kits from around the web. Many of these are antiques and have sold for large sums at major auction houses, but I remain dubious as to how serious anyone ever really was about the whole business. [via Boing Boing]
Reader JC just submitted this fantastic haunted house prop to our Make: Halloween Contest 2009. It’s a recreation of the always-lovely female lead from 1962’s sci-fi camp classic The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, immortalized in 1993 as Mystery Science Theater 3000’s experiment 513 (and, arguably, before that by Steve Martin’s The Man with Two Brains).
“She won’t be doing any heavy lifting for awhile…”
This week’s flashback brings you more Halloween goodness excerpted from our Make: Halloween Special Edition, a collaboration between the editors of MAKE and CRAFT that came out back in August 2007. In the Frightful Feast section, our own Managing Editor Shawn Connally offered up a fun and easy Graveyard Cake that’ll have you treat or […]
Marie LeBaron of Make and Takes has a new ebook out called Monster Mania: Crafts for Little Monsters ($7). The ebook contains 70 pages of 15 all new crafts for kids. Each craft comes with a supply list, learning objectives, step by step instructions, and detailed photos. With projects like Monster Stew and Hairy Monster […]
