Stiltbeast Studios

 If y'all wanna learn how to do some cool stuff, check out Allen Hopps over at Stiltbeast Studios on their Youtube channel!  Good stuff, and entertaining!  He's got some great videos on how to make cool Halloween props very simply and VERY cost-effectively.  Check it out!

StiltbeastStudios

Hump Day! Goliath V.2 progress

 Worked on getting that important base layer of strip mache on top of most of the duct tape.  Now I can see better what I'm working with and my future mache clay has something better to stick to.  Good times!

Goliath is looking like something finally!

 Got a lot of the "fleshing out" part done, and he has a head now!

Follow the progress here:

http://theghostess.com/goliathV2.htm

Goliath V.2 Progress Sunday, October 11

 

So, it's moving along.  I have the frame done and attached to the base, and I have the duct tape top and bottom on and am trying to get it stuffed tonight.  It doesn't look like much now, but he will be magnificent when he is done!

Progress on Goliath as of Friday, October 9

This evening, I finally have been able to get back to work on Goliath.  We finished up the duct tape part  and picked up a couple of supplies yesterday, and today I took measurements for the frame and got started on that part.  I ordered a couple of male wig heads off Amazon that should be here tomorrow or Sunday for this project and another one I have in mind later for next year. 

Here's my progress so far:  Goliath V.2

Happy weekend!!

Wicked Makers

 So, I mentioned before that I have been spending a lot of time on Pinterest.  Well, I've also been spending a fair amount of time on other sites too -- ya know, for research purposes -- and I stumbled on to the Wicked Makers channel on YouTube while perusing some glowing embers tutorials.  Jaimie and Jay have some pretty cool projects, both for Halloween and non-Halloween things, and they make their videos fun and entertaining.  Y'all check 'em out!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxpEPfEgqyXC6jaFKQSKVQ

Slow-going.... but going.

So, work for my husband has gotten in the way of my duct taping a copy of the rest of him so I can get rolling on Goliath V.2, plus I lost a day to cooking and cleaning for Tom's birthday, and I have been a little under the weather, but I have managed to get 3 coats of mud on Bird Girl and am now ready to sand most of her.  I still have some spots to add mud where I was holding on to her to keep her from falling over while I spread the mud on her.  I have tomorrow off from work, so I'll be trying to get some good progress going on that.  I have house projects that I'm also trying to work on at the same time, so I get distracted a lot from the Halloween goodness.

Speaking of distractions.... I have wasted so much time looking at Pinterest lately!  I have so many new ideas floating through my brain, and it's not helping me focus at all.  Most of my website traffic these days comes from Pinterest, so now I feel obligated to check it out.  There's an article on FabartDIY.org that I get a lot of visitors from for my Grim statue.  I also started a hubpages account, and have published my first article!  I got a notification today that it's been featured and selected for a Hubpages Network site, so that's cool.  I love to write, but I always find it hard to come up with a good topic, so tutorials will be my main go-to there I think.

Time to get some work done on Bird Girl.  Hope y'all are having fun with your projects, haunts, and decorating!