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Tonight I went to use my camera and realized I had left my memory card snug in the card reader of my computer. I figured I would use the tiny bit of internal memory the camera is equipped with but found it was already full. Seems the pictures were all prop pictures.

I took very few pictures of this guys being made, but here is one pre-hair picture I found of him in my camera’s internal memory. This is during painting…

A tiny paper pulp skull residing in a little glass box….
This little skull was an experimental sculpt made entirely of paper pulp. He is currently looking for a new home.

In October I tried making a little skull with plasticine clay. Though its not exactly a correct skull and it has odd teeth, I was pretty happy with it.
I made a mold, and cast it in resin. I made a few solid resin casts and a few foam filled. I love the weighty feel of the resin ones!

This little guy is just drying now, I will probably put him into my Etsy shop after he has been sealed.

So we had the party on the 25th in town, and had hauled all the halloween decor over there. Then quickly took it all down and brought it home. I set everything back up on the 31st and took it all down again by 11pm that night.

It rained, hard… I already posted a few rainy pictures. The props all held up fantastically, no paper mache fatalities thanks to sealing everything. Though I live on the Canadian west coast so we expect it to rain here.

The October 31st forecast called for rain.
…and WOW did it RAIN!!
All my paper mache props are sealed, so I didn’t need to worry about them being out in the bad weather.

The only thing I had to alter because of the rain was the hag’s cauldron. The cauldron, like almost all my props is made of paper mache. It has a faux liquid toppper, and inside has a blacklight. The rain was seeping in under the faux topper and pooling inside. I had to drill a hole in the bottom of the cauldron for it to drain.

Luckily the weather cleared by about 6:30pm and a nice fog filled the neighborhood.
More pictures to come…..

This year we threw the costumes together last minute… I don’t know what we were supposed to be, just sort played off the ‘DeadSpider’ thing. I am usually the one behind the camera so hopefully I receive a better picture of us from one of our friends.
Here’s me and the Hubby: