Everything sans the candy corns, lights and porch goose was handmade and painted by yours truly 🎃 next up is finishing up the indoor decor!
Edit: thank you all so much for the lovely comments! To answer some questions:
Yes I made these! I used pink 1/2” pink panther foamboard from Home Depot and acrylic paints. I used a hot knife to cut them out.
Design by me! I am designing, stitching and finishing a Christmas village myself :) This is the tree for the square, I am very happy with how it turned out!
The margins are tight but since it’s a self finish job I know what I can work with, so it’s not that much of an issue for me. Gotta make them tight to save as much canvas as possible 🥲
Finally done 🎃 I can’t wait to bring some early Halloween spirit on my trip across the states this weekend ✈️
Would these sell at a craft/holiday fair? I make these for my mom and I to supplement our knee hugger/pixie collections. I sculpted the faces on blender to 3D print, then I hand paint and sew/ build the bodies.
I have prototypes for other pixie heads + some
Halloween themed ones but I am still workshopping the face paint and body styles.
Any input is appreciated! I am more than happy to make these just for my mom and I but I am curious for feedback :)
Gifts for my mom and lovely cousins! I sculpted them on blender based off of popular blow-mold designs! Obvs Johanna Parker inspired cat statues (not canisters) which was requested. I will be showing off the blow mold minis for my indoor display later when I have it up :)) the jack o lantern scarecrow/tallest ghost stand at around 9.75” tall.
Heavily inspired by vintage paper mache jack o’ lanterns! I wanted to repurpose a big bag of 5” foam pumpkins I got for a dollar earlier this year :) These will be used of my mantle/garland display indoors since they are easily placed by pins. Needs a good semi gloss coat and the stems to be painted and placed!
Will be making matching paws to go one either side of the doorframe :) pink panther foamboard and acrylic paint!
Painting exclusively tonight 💕 so excited to finish everything soon
I recently acquired some Gurley candles at an estate sale but I couldn’t get any of the jack o lantern pumpkins :( This is the attempt at workshopping sizes and finishes after 3D printing. Once I find a finish I like, all of them will have it :) then to my vintage inspired display it will go!
A quick amendment to my last post, THIS is my final update until I finish the rest of my decor :) My cousin and I absolutely love the Hallmark vampire teeth bowl, but not the price it’s being listed at (200+ 💀). I was able to whip up something on meshmixer and print one out in her requested color!
I have been battling my printer as of late, so getting this to work has given me the vote of confidence needed for my longer prints of my mini blow molds. Fingers crossed 🤞
Edit: u/Relative-Bear254 is completely right, there are multiple versions of this stl on thingiverse/makerworld etc. The one that has been linked in the comments is the base of what I used! Due to the size I needed to make adjustments for the walls/hollows and basic geometry so please DM me if you want to make a bigger version!
After finishing 6 prototype pumpkins, I took a break to try a different painting technique for an indoor “witch on the moon” sign. Then figuring out what I did like from my original 6, I whipped out 14 more pumpkin sculpts today in a couple hours :)
I’m gonna go on a deep dive on the Beistle Halloween fairy pieces for ideas to make micro stands for around the house + Start drafting/painting the witches for my outdoor display this year. Updates with all of those plus the entirety of my pumpkin army won’t be for a long while 🎃
I am very much inspired by 1920’s-1940’s era Halloween decor, and I am more than willing to try to make my own! While I’m trying to fix my 3D printing project, I made an attempt at a bestile witch/moon piece :))
Small update since the Halloween subreddit is down for posting. I have 14 more to go! Any suggestions for future facial expressions is appreciated :)
I'm a Christmas girl at heart, but the craft potential and vintage-inspired aesthetic of Halloween has fully engulfed my craft room. The real-deal vintage stuff I gravitate toward is always super pricey, so I've decided to push the "I could make that" mentality to its limit.
That means I'm doing a little bit of everything atm. 3D printed blow mold minis I modeled in Blender and painted by hand (they're 5 inches for now, but I'm scaling up to 10), a growing army of paper mache pumpkins getting sculpted for my mantel, and my pride and joys: foam-board stands that have become my pumpkin golem children. They need their borders and final coats for weather proofing. They're ridiculous and I love them.
I'm planning to go full vintage (at least vintage-inspired) for both indoor and outdoor decor for the foreseeable future. I'm so excited!! :))
I just need some help trying to navigate this woman and her actions towards DH. For background we are both 27, turning 28 soon. We have been together since we were 16, married for 5 years.
MIL was actually fine prior to us moving in with each other during college. Only thing was in hs she was very pushy showing baby books and videos of DH from the ages of 1-8 years old specifically. We both noticed an uptick in attention seeking behavior when we were on our own but we generally ignored it.
Once we got married it took a downturn, she would buy me 2xl sweaters (I wear smalls/mediums) and take me “shopping” to places like torrid and Layne Bryant. Mind you, nothing wrong with those stores and they do offer good options, I just don’t fit into the size range they have. She was working on weight loss and type 2 diabetes issues at the time so I thought she was going for her but she would make comments once we were in the car about how she is so glad there are shops for “people like me”. I kept cool and just waited for her to get us back to her place so I could get home. I told DH that I will handle my mom and he will handle his and that has been the set up ever since.
She has noticed, and for the five years after she has made an effort to try to encourage us to “make her a baby”, and I told her things like “if you want a baby you can have a baby” or “buy me a house”, then stopped responding entirely bc she just wanted attention.
Then DH pointed out how she only ever talks to him when subjects relate to her or she can bring it back to her. And she only ever cares about him as a kid and can’t bother to remember what he went to grad school for or what his career is now. But she is making up memories and “traditions” from when he was little and tells us about it out of the blue, sending both of us photos of a laptop with baby photos/videos of him unprompted etc. We both think she wants us to have a kid bc if there is a chance it’s a boy she will be an overbearing psycho and pretend it is redo mini DH.
This behavior and rewriting his past and how their relationship was is disturbing to him. She didn’t raise him like a mamas boy, in-fact she seemed to be emotionally neglectful and a serial dater who prioritized men and tried to turn DH away from his Dad.
MIL and FIL were divorced by the time DH was 2. And now she keeps calling him “babe” “baby” “my baby” “my little boy” “my world” purely for attention (he hs told her to stop, she said she always has called him this and he called her out saying she did not) Seeing how uncomfortable he is makes me irate.
He feels awful about it and I have no idea how to support him or address it because I have a pretty good relationship with my own mom. And I think that may be another piece as to why she acts out so badly, bc my mother has a good relationship with all 3 of her kids, and me and my siblings are close as well. MIL is estranged from her own daughter, and SIL is not close with DH at all, I wish I could ask SIL her side bc I genuinely never met her. MIL is actively weirding out the only kid she has left that will talk to her and pushing him away.
I have been holding my tongue for so long and just trying to comfort DH the best I can, but I really want to give this woman a piece of my mind someday. How can I best support DH through this as he is trying to figure out how to address his mom?
Gifts for my mom for Mother’s Day! We collect 1940’s-1960’s era Halloween/Christmas decorations together.
Pixie heads were sculpted on mesh mixer and painted by me, along with hand sewing/crafting their little bodies :)
Due to the paint for the “blow molds” they don’t glow, but they are mostly filler for displays. Planning to R&D for a proper glow effect with tea lights. Blow molds ~5.5 inches tall.