Hauntingly Fun

I can honestly tell you that Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year.

It tops Christmas and my birthday.

Black Friday is close second.

I know its not officially a holiday but it should be.

All those sales and clearances and ..oh my

I'm getting excited..lol

Anyways, as i was saying

I LOVE HALLOWEEN!

I decorate every year,
but because of moving so many times

Ive had to start from scratch this year.

There are a few recent pics I'm missing

(camera died)
 but ill be sure to keep you updated
with new Halloween crafts and the display as i go.


Potion bottles
It all started with jagermeister bottles i had stashed.
I cleaned off the labels by soaking them in

soapy water. The labels came right off.

I laid those flat to dry and kept them for later use.
then using Dollar store scrapbook labels
(rubbed with black paint)
I put a label area on them
most of them currently don't have names..lol

One bottle was filled with 'Tears of the willow'

(as in a weeping willow?!)

I thought i was pretty clever with this one....lol

I found corks at goodwill, and used some nylon 'string' i had in my stash

The lettering is from rub on letters i had forgotten i had in my stash

Next was a bottle of Murliver Oil

It is filled with water with food coloring

 ( blue and green , to make it really dark)

I dipped the top in green wax from a dollar store green tea candle.

i also dripped wax down the side

Bottle O' Snake

Next was a jar of Severed Serpent of Gorgon
or
Separare Serpens ab Gorgos
removed from each of the Gorgon sisters
Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa

I started with a large Carlo Rossi bottle

and found some 'growing' snakes at the dollar store

I started out with just one to see how large it would grow

i just placed the snake in the bottle

and added water

and watched it grow!

It grew to be pretty large.

its head wont even fit thought the neck of the bottle!!

next i added two more

I removed the water and added both in

Then added water once again

here is  a Lil bit of its growth. i don't have any pics pf the final result
but i will post it when i can

its filling up nicely!

I still need to make a label,

and i might add coloring to the water..

Gravestone

i had this gravestone from last years after Halloween sale

its cool but something didn't quite  fit for me

so i spray painted a light layer of black

along with the lids of my bottles

allowed to dry

and the used sanding paper

(found at the dollar store)

and sanded some areas

looks better to me

Bones
another part of my display are bones...
I made chicken and dumplings one night for dinner.
I put the chicken legs into my crockpot for a day, until the meat literally fell off the bones

I picked out all of the bones

when i heard about bleaching bones..I took it literally

so i placed them in a bowl with diluted bleach

it got pretty disguisting

when i pulled them out i noticed the bleach was eating away at the bones

so i actually did research and found out i was all wrong.

so i instead placed them in hydrogen peroxide

and they turned out much better

I let the bones dry and place them in a 'cauldron'

My daughter got this cast iron pot for christmas and it worked perfectly

along with a lil dollar store spider of course!

Next was a bottle of 'eye of newt',
a classic spell ingredient.
It was created from 2 jars of liquid air freshener beads

I simply removed them from their jar and

 filled a rounded bottle with them

I still need to paint the lid and make a label

and maybe find a way to 'age' the bottle

I saved the air freshener containers and plan of filling them with other creepies

( a later post)

Creepy Hand

start with a dollar store hand

Lame and totally fake looking

i used a variety of green paints

and painted a layer of light green as my base

then went painted dark green over, rubbed out a few areas and painted over with a med light green.

also painted the nails black

i cant decide whether its a zombie hand or Frankenstein's hand

Ill either lay it out as is or maybe place it in a large jar...

so i suppose this might be a good place to leave off.

Next post will be more projects and maybe a showing of my display!

keep an eye out for more coming soon!!

And we leave you off with a total cost of $9

all items were from the dollar store or on hand!

Scrapbook Labels-$1

Green Tea Candles-$1

Snakes (x3)- $3

Ceramic Gravestone- $1

2 Small Spiders-$1

Air Freshener Beads (x2)- $2

Fake Hand- $1

Merry Crafting and Happy Halloween!!