#halloween nerd

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Do you celebrate Halloween 🎃 👻?

Can’t deny it, I am a total holiday geek 🤪 (I bet that doesn’t surprise you, huh😊)

Appreciate the ask 💜💙😊

[horrorandhalloween]

by Casper Spell

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Who is also a proud Halloween nerd? Shirts, mugs & other goodies are up on my Threadless shop. CasperSpell.com 🔥🎃🔥

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🎃🍂today it's Halloween🍂🎃 time to be sPOokY🎃👻🍂🎃👻🍂🎃🍂🎃🍂👻🎃👻🎃

[halloween-nerd]

12.22.2014

Well, it's official: I suck at blogging. By "official" I actually mean "painfully obvious", but this way it sounds like it's a new problem which hasn't been an ongoing issue for FOUR years. That's making denial work for you. Well...me.

I tried to force myself to update only when I finished a project of some sort. Long story medium, between moving, trying college again, and many bouts of the Laze, some were started but none were finished. I'm starting to gain control of this psychotic roller coaster, so I think it's safe to take on posting again.

Quickly, the following is stuff that missed mentioning so far - 

I have obtained yet another paper skeleton. Because, you know, reasons.

I may never own a single piece of the Michaels' Halloween Town (which is a sucky reality), but my good friend Dollar Tree has their own version that I'm totally cool with and now own most of.

I'm hungry.

as I mentioned, I moved. I now have a year-round Halloween themed bathroom. Booyah.

That's everything I can think of. I'm currently in the middle of holiday break, so I'm working on some quick posts in hopes of possibly getting something up here before returning to classes.  I can dream, can't I?! 

[halloween-nerd]

10.10.2013

I'm going to start this post with a Halloween Nerd blog history lesson. Lucky you.

According to Tumblr, this blog existed a year (and then some) before I started posting anything. That's not exactly true. I started this blog September 13th, 2010 and by the end of day one I already had a post up. That was the last of my promptness. From that point forward, posts were so infrequent that I had a total of 4 in over a year (including the intro post). So I took it down and went on hiatus.

A few months later I revamped a bit and started over. Things don't seem to be going much better this time 'round. Not for the same reasons as before, mind you. Okay, so, partly for the same reasons. Outside of laziness, I'm trying to stay away from my bad habit of "shit I bought" posts. Those started as a  "sometimes" thing and ended up being all the things. My second post here was a craft post (I melted plastic). That was the original idea for H.N.. Not just crafts, or stuff I have, or food, but a mix of things. So to get on track, I've been buying projecty-type materials, both edible and not so much.

I'm starting with fabric ghosts A.K.A. The Ghost Project. The ghost project gained an alias because it has been living in my mental pocket (that's a thing, shuddup) since the original inception of this blog. It was the intended first project, and after 2 failed attempts and a blog redux, I will finally be able to say "Look at this. I MADE it.".

Okay soooo, materials. The original materials list called for cheese cloth and fabric stiffener. Turns out gauze pads and watered-down glue work too. And are cheaper. The original instructions can be found here, in case you're not as parsimonious as I.

Crap you need:

Gauze pads/ white cheese cloth

Bowl

Balloons

Disposable PLASTIC cups

Watered-down white glue / fabric stiffener

Tape

Stabby-type pin

Googly eyes / black circles

Now do this:

1. If you've ever made a papier mâché anything, you should be familiar with watered-down glue. If you went to public school, you should be familiar with papier mâché. If not, it's glue and some water. If using the stiffener, pore it into a bowl. I used Glue-All, 'cause it's boss. No, you can't eat it. I said no!

2. Stack two plastic cups butt-to-butt or mouth-to-mouth. You'll want to tape them together, unless you feel that you need a balance and/or cleaning challenge.

3. Air up a balloon just a bit. Put it in/on the top cup.

4. Go get something to drink, you look thirsty.

5. Gauze pads: Remove any cotton padding. It's stupid anyway. Stretch the gauze about. Say you accidentally tear a whole or two into it. That's okay, they're dead, they can't feel anything. Cheesecloth: Cut some 8 inch squares. Wee.

6. Soak your cloth o'choice in your liquid of also choice, then put it over the balloon. This step may result in icky hands, so man-up prior to it. Then let it dry. Wash your hands while you wait. Then continue to wait a long-ass time (like half a day, this shit takes forever).

7. Stab that balloon right in it's soulless face.

8. Remove the cloth. You now have a ghost carcass.

9. This is the time to glue on some eyes. Onto the ghost, I mean. Not yourself. 

10. Put some...Where the hell are you going? 

10b. Put some string or fishing wire through the ghostly head. Somehow, that sounds dirty...

11. Just stare at it. Yeah.

Bam. Craft project complete. 

Nothing amazing, I know. Lemme get it out now: this is about the level I stay on with projects. Not to say I won't ever do something more "advanced", but for the most part, this is the bar. Don't trip on it. 

[trekkiepirate]

I am usually strict about waiting to indulge in my Halloween movies until it is at least the 1st of October. But Hocus Pocus was on last night and when Hocus Pocus is on you drop EVERYTHING and watch it!

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08.21.2013

  [For once, the lateness of this post isn't on me. See the title image above? It took me two weeks to get it up there. Two. Weeks. Get it together Tumblr.]

  Hey! It’s Halloween Extreme part two! (If you've no idea what I’m talking about, go read this. Or your fired.)  "Hauls" seem to be a thing right now, so I thought I'd get in on that action. I’ll tell you now, the most expensive thing I bought cost me $10 and most of it is cardboard. That whole “randomly become a millionaire" thing hasn't really panned-out yet. 

First thing on the list: The bat mobile!

na-na-na-na-na-na-na, oh... Never mind.

Yeah, an actual mobile with non-actual bats! Exactly what you pictured, right? One of the selling points, besides disappointing people when they realize that bat mobile does not equal Batmobile, is that it's totally customizable.

You can hang the bats however you want, as long as you want to hang them in the 3 pre-cut holes. I guess you could use them as separate pieces, though that ruins the "mobile" part and people will throw rocks at you and then you'll be exiled because WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?!

Oooh, cornery

Also, unless you have a stupid high ceiling, this thing works best in corners. (Not sure what "stupid high" converts to in the metric system...)

Onto the next thing, which is more than one thing, really.

These Hallowe'en cut-outs I saw from afar, and were an instant sell. Glossy on one side, not so much on the other. For reasons unknown I am on team matte. I don't know if I'm using the whole "team" thing right. Should've just said I like the papery side better, but I already typed it so screw it, I'm committed now.

Didn't notice it when I took this photo, so no, I'm not sure what was going to the left. Whatever it was, it pissed off the owl and offended the witches completely. Pumpkin man seems to be happy about it. Maybe it was a matching outfit for his tie. The disapproval makes sense now.

In part one of the H.E. posts, I mentioned that I bought some stuff from the Sinister Signs booth. I did, and if you can guess what I bought, you're a stalker and that shit is creepy. Stop it.

Keratinized filamentous epidermal growth fashion accessories

I bought hair bows from a sign booth. Because I'm an adult. It says so on my driver's license. And on my hand so I don't forget that. Thanks mom!

Now that I got the only things covered that aren't made-a-paper, time for more paper.

I'm not gonna lie, I had trouble with this next one. There was a big 'ol selection of these and I went back to this vendor three times in two days, struggling to make this decision. It was ultimately between a "Halloween tree" and cannonball corpse here. The tree was great but skeleton man was cheaper. The only real problem I had with him was, I just didn't like the eyes.

I solved that problem. With acrylic paint. AND PAIN.

An invisible lady for each arm!

Oh look, a random stuff party is happening.

I wasn't invited. Apparently paint-blinding is a faux pas of some sort.

Are you one of those people who suck at keeping things alive but got drunk once and decided to buy a dozen mice just because? If so, have I got just the thing for you!

Introducing Mouse Graveyard! (Mouse Coffins sold separately.) 

Alright, so, maybe it's just table décor and not specifically for mice who have ceased to be. There's actually 6 tombstones and the fencing is longer, but it's in my contract that I have to be terribly lazy when setting things up. I tried to fight it, really I did.

  The only complaint about it, is that it only has three pieces on fencing so it's more of a "put up against a wall and hope no one notices" decoration. 

But hey, if you don't like the incomplete fence, you can nix it completely for alternative use. The backs don't have any text, making them ideal for place cards... For guests... At your mouse funeral!

Welp, that was all the things I bought. Other than soda to mix with liquor and food to counteract the liquor. And water. Sooooo much water. 

Oh, and just one more thing: I found out yesterday* that Dollar Tree is already selling Halloween merchandise, so here's hoping the gap between posts isn't unforgivably long.

One can dream, right?

*14 days ago....