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I also live like ten minutes away from The Headless Horseman, which is like America’s #1 halloween attraction, it was even on the travel channel, and Emeril Live! tapes there every year, it’s very cool!
DragonMistress wrote:I did try the fake ones from michaels and they were a nightmare. You have to have a dremmel, and even then, you get plastic dust everywhere, you have to wear a facemask so you don’t inhale the dust, and it reeks of burnt plastic smell. To me it wasnt worth th effort, though I may try one more time so that I have my contest winner pattern forever.
Hmmmm, I did 7 of the fake ones this year and all I used was a sharp exacto knife and some elbow grease and it seemed to work fine 😕 I’ll put up pics once I do them.
I keep a binder with a copy of any pattern that I’ve done so that I can reproduce it or have it forever.
Doh! I just carved a pumpkin last night and came back to look at this thread, and it looks a lot like Arlla’s! Great minds think alike??
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My art: featherdust.comfoxfeather wrote:DragonMistress wrote:I did try the fake ones from michaels and they were a nightmare. You have to have a dremmel, and even then, you get plastic dust everywhere, you have to wear a facemask so you don’t inhale the dust, and it reeks of burnt plastic smell. To me it wasnt worth th effort, though I may try one more time so that I have my contest winner pattern forever.
Hmmmm, I did 7 of the fake ones this year and all I used was a sharp exacto knife and some elbow grease and it seemed to work fine 😕 I’ll put up pics once I do them.
I keep a binder with a copy of any pattern that I’ve done so that I can reproduce it or have it forever.
Hmm… maybe I got a defective one, the “skin” was really thick and hard to carve, maybe I’ll try again. I also keep a 3 ring of all my patterns, that’s funny!!
DragonMistress wrote:foxfeather wrote:DragonMistress wrote:I did try the fake ones from michaels and they were a nightmare. You have to have a dremmel, and even then, you get plastic dust everywhere, you have to wear a facemask so you don’t inhale the dust, and it reeks of burnt plastic smell. To me it wasnt worth th effort, though I may try one more time so that I have my contest winner pattern forever.
Hmmmm, I did 7 of the fake ones this year and all I used was a sharp exacto knife and some elbow grease and it seemed to work fine 😕 I’ll put up pics once I do them.
I keep a binder with a copy of any pattern that I’ve done so that I can reproduce it or have it forever.
Hmm… maybe I got a defective one, the “skin” was really thick and hard to carve, maybe I’ll try again. I also keep a 3 ring of all my patterns, that’s funny!!
the foam “skin” was a bit thicker in places on the largest pumpkin that I did, but overall not bad. Thinnner than real pumpkin skin 😀
pegasi1978 wrote:I’d be doing more for Halloween, but it’s a deployment year so most of the families have gone home. For Gavin’s first Halloween (also a deployment year) I dressed him up as a lion. He didn’t wear the costume long as it was a little warm for the weather. My friend Mary is holding him. She was dressed as a CanCan Dancer. We had maybe 4 kids come by.
Last year I got Gavin a Halloween shirt rather than a costume. It has a dancing skeleton and says “Just Rattling By.” Since it wasn’t a deployment year we had more kids come by, maybe 20-30.
I got him another shirt for Halloween this year. I haven’t decided if I’m going to carve a pumpkin or not. I do have a sign hanging on my front door that says Happy Halloween.
😯 That second picture looks like half a torso…I had to look twice 😆here’s an interesting bit… been digging through the family history with my mum lately and ran across a couple of names that were vaguely familiar; John and Elizabeth Proctor. My skin started to crawl… so asked mum some questions to confirm my suspicions and, yep our John and Elizabeth Proctor are the same ones that were convicted during the Salem witch trials. John was one of the first men hanged for being a witch. His wife Elizabeth was not hanged because she was pregnant. 😯 My maternal line descends from John and Elizabeth’s child. So, I guess that the sign on our porch that reads “If the broom fits, ride it!” is really appropriate, especially at this time of year 😯 😯 😯 Happy Halloween everyone! (and the story is for real. i’ll show you the genealogy if you want…)
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here’s some pics of how I decorated our house. I will take some more pics while it’s light out.
sorry, my camera phone takes horrible pictures, more pics to come 😀 .Blackdesertwind wrote:😯 That second picture looks like half a torso…I had to look twice 😆
😆 It doesn’t help that he’s wearing tan corduroy pants and my flooring is almost the same color. He can actually wear the shirt again this year, but the pants are too short (finally).
twindragonsmum wrote:here’s an interesting bit… been digging through the family history with my mum lately and ran across a couple of names that were vaguely familiar; John and Elizabeth Proctor. My skin started to crawl… so asked mum some questions to confirm my suspicions and, yep our John and Elizabeth Proctor are the same ones that were convicted during the Salem witch trials. John was one of the first men hanged for being a witch. His wife Elizabeth was not hanged because she was pregnant. 😯 My maternal line descends from John and Elizabeth’s child. So, I guess that the sign on our porch that reads “If the broom fits, ride it!” is really appropriate, especially at this time of year 😯 😯 😯 Happy Halloween everyone! (and the story is for real. i’ll show you the genealogy if you want…)
twindragonsmum
That’s awesome! Though it was pretty horrible what happened to them.
I would help but I am just to tired to get out of bed today~
Engaged to a WeaselBiPolarBear wrote:twindragonsmum wrote:here’s an interesting bit… been digging through the family history with my mum lately and ran across a couple of names that were vaguely familiar; John and Elizabeth Proctor. My skin started to crawl… so asked mum some questions to confirm my suspicions and, yep our John and Elizabeth Proctor are the same ones that were convicted during the Salem witch trials. John was one of the first men hanged for being a witch. His wife Elizabeth was not hanged because she was pregnant. 😯 My maternal line descends from John and Elizabeth’s child. So, I guess that the sign on our porch that reads “If the broom fits, ride it!” is really appropriate, especially at this time of year 😯 😯 😯 Happy Halloween everyone! (and the story is for real. i’ll show you the genealogy if you want…)
twindragonsmum
That’s awesome! Though it was pretty horrible what happened to them.
I agree… 😯
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