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Mummy Costume: How to make a Homemade Mummy Costume. Classic monsters are so much fun!

Mummy Costume: How to make a Homemade Mummy Costume

They’re easily recognizable and quick to create costumes for. Due to original source images generally being from very old movies, and having been portrayed in so many forms over the years, they allow for some artistic freedom. While everyone can recognize that this is a mummy costume, no one is going to hassle you about the specifics. Assuming you care about such things. Materials used to outfit a 6’2" individual: Gauze (about 8 yards minimum), black tea, underclothes (several yards cotton muslin fabric + elastic), pair of socks, Halloween makeup kit, black nail polish.

After purchasing (off the bolt, not pre-packaged) yards of gauze from Joann fabric store, the first step was to dye them in black tea to give them an aged look. Since the gauze is rather, well, gauzy, we need a layer of clothing underneath. This gives a good amount of coverage but allows for movement and doesn’t use much gauze.

30 Dark Halloween Digital Artworks. The Halloween Art Guild - A guild for artists and collectors of Halloween or Dark art. Halloween Decorating: 5 Easy Inexpensive Ways to Decorate. Which is the most celebrated holiday of the year?

Halloween Decorating: 5 Easy Inexpensive Ways to Decorate

It’s Halloween, of course. In fact, Halloween is even more popular even than Thanksgiving day or the 4th of July, and this is why this day should always get the attention that it deserves. Besides wandering at all the houses from the neighborhood for candy, there is another custom at every Halloween: each house must be decorated with scary decorations, so the spirits – which are supposed to walk free in this night – will be scared and won’t come in or near the house. Five Scary, Extreme, Bizzare Carved Halloween Pumpkins.

It's Halloween season, and I would be remiss if I didn't include at least some photos of scary, carved pumpkins to enjoy looking at, but also to give some ideas for our home pumpkin-carving plans.

Five Scary, Extreme, Bizzare Carved Halloween Pumpkins

The first two below are compelling to me, and would be pretty easy to carve out. I like the way they look at they eat their unfortunate smaller victims. And the one with what appears to be a spaghetti squash in his mouth shows you can use different types of products to carve out your scary art work. The one immediately below is especially nice from the obvious frightful aspect, but the art of the Halloween pumpkin carving is very well done.

It's very detailed, and I like the stitch tracks on his forehead. Last but not least, we have the scariest one of all below, as we think of the hyped up promises which never had a chance to be delivered. Halloween Decorating Ideas - Simple Halloween Decorations. Halloween Decorating Ideas. Indoor Halloween Decorations In this Halloween article we'll look at ideas to decorate on Halloween; both those that you can buy and place in you home, and those that you can get your children or grandchildren involved with which you can than put out to enjoy and give them ownership and a lot of fun in making them.

Halloween Decorating Ideas

We'll focus on Halloween decorating ideas you can do within the home in this article, and look at Halloween yard decorations another time. The ideas we'll look at here are presented so you can get some inspiration that will fit into your unique situation. It's surprising how simple ideas and tools can really generate some creative and compelling ideas that the entire family can enjoy.

Halloween Decorating Outdoor Ideas. These are some of our favorite Halloween decorating outdoor ideas.

Halloween Decorating Outdoor Ideas

Look at simple yet haunting silhouettes, gorgeous gourde lanterns, festive autumn entrances and more. Image from Martha Stewart Seasonal gourds and pumpkins make spectacular outdoor Halloween lanterns. You can make your own assortment of lanterns by cleaning out the insides of several gourds in all shapes and sizes. Using different sized drill bits, drill hole patterns into the gourds. Image from Better Homes & Gardens Greet your Halloween guests with this ominous porch decoration. Halloween pumpkins - Modern Homes Interior Design and Decorating Ideas - Tagged on Decodir. Wire trees. Halloween Art Projects. Dark Art 020. Copyright ScreamingScarecrowStudios As the cold unnatural mist at the foot of my bed materializes into a hooded figure, a claw like hand begins to take shape, what can this apparition want from me?

Dark Art 020

See More Of Screaming Scarecrow‘s Dart Art! Hope You Enjoyed Our Dark Art Number 020. Cheers ScreamingScarecrow. Zombie science roundup. By Iddo on June 22nd, 2011 I am fascinated with zombies.

Zombie science roundup

Always have been, but even more so since I took an interest in microbiology. The zombie apocalypse is the best known and best chronicled viral infection which hasn’t happened. But it could happen any day, so stock up on non-perishable food, medical supplies, water purification tablets, chainsaws, machetes, baseball bats, crossbows, semi-automatic firearms, and as many disposable acquaintances as you can get hold of.

Signs of the zombie apocalypse may include your significant other turning a putrid-greenish shade of rotten and trying to chew your neck off. Here are three interesting studies all having to do with zombies. The Zombie Roach One problem that has to do with zombification is the loss free will. Unlike most other parasitoids, this tropical Ampulicine wasp does not simply paralyze its prey to immobilize it. A. Halloween Party Decorating Ideas. 50 Do-It-Yourself Halloween Ideas. Boo, Blisstree Reader.

50 Do-It-Yourself Halloween Ideas