Part Two of the Retro Zombie Ball.......

The food was amazing and sooooo creepy.  Why yes that is guacamole in the skull head.  What else could it be?

The benches looked great although we weren't allowed to use the fog machine.  Something about setting off alarms and fire dept.

The cupcake stand worked!!!  With a few modifications of course.  The chains just added to the vibe even more.

Everyone loved the dip heads, although I now have them staring at me while I type this.

The centerpiece was easy, moss mat from dollar store with little skulls and vase and glitter skull.

The mini coffins were a sacrifice of extreme love.  Both me and my husband was up past midnight folding and taping together.  Just so I could put gummi brains in them.  And various other candy body parts.

I was hoping to have more dead roses in the vases but I only had an hour to set everything up and a lot of teenagers helping me.  Yeah, so I am happy that it got done.

Party dippers.  :)

We did have security to restrain any stray zombie but then it became fun.  And they found reasons to attack and restrain.

The melon brains were too good.  No one knew they were edible until I ripped one open.  Now there could be brain feasting.

The stand held up so well.  It also now sits here staring at me next to the dip heads.  With these words emanating "now whatcha gonna do?"  To which I sigh "I don't know".  Can't throw you away, and don't know who wants you.

Cheapie to Creeeeepy

So I was at the Dollar Tree because that's what I do.  I wonder around looking for deals.  They had just started putting out the Halloween decorations.  Not full blown, but a little area.  Now I had been keeping an eye out for hands to put on my cemetery benches (which I still have not completed yet).  I had looked at some sites that sell these things but they were either to expensive or just tooo dang creepy.  I'm not making a movie it doesn't have to be THAT real.  Can I just say ewwwww, especially the zombie babies chewing on an all too realistic hand.
Like I've said before we are aiming more toward campy than true terror.

Then, behold, I found plastic hands.  But they looked like plastic hands and only the right one.  There are a lot of left handed plastic dudes running around.

Yet, I was not satisfied with it, so I totally went all Phineas and Ferb on it.  I pulled out my sharpies and picked up a set of fake nails while still at the dollar store.

All I did was take my black sharpie and go along the lines that were already there.  I shaded it a little with black, then brown, and then finally red.  Added a few more black lines (by following the lines already there).  

I then colored the finger nails with the sharpies too. I also cut notches out of them like they had been broken trying to get out.  A little super glue and tada!!!   totally creepy without wanting to hurl.

So once again a Before and After

Just to kick off October

I have finished Alice Cooper just in time for Halloween. Although I no longer celebrate Halloween, I know a lot of people do and am sooooooo hoping that someone will purchase him for their own. (sigh) I made him extra creepy with the odd choice of green and red paint that looks like blood. I think he looks pretty cool and at this rate if I make 9 of these I will do a large square of them on a wall. I am trying to do ones I know are easily recongnized and yet are not all in the same genre. If anyone has any suggestions for what or who to do next I'm all ears.

I am at this time working on my daughter's clown identity and props. It's fun and a little exciting to come up with visual puns. You know holey mackrel, holey cow, and things like that.

Her character's name is Sunny Sue and her first gig is next week. I hope she does so well she will continue on to the hospitals and others to bring giggles to many.