The hubby and I went to a friend’s pumpkin carving party last night. Check out some of fun pumpkins that were carved!
Now I’m off to shop a few yard sales! Happy Saturday.
Tag: halloween
Halloween Wreath
Dana asked me to make her a Halloween wreath so she can spookify her house. I told her that she should totally make one herself because they are easy and fun! She said she’d rather bake. I said I’d rather make wreaths than bake — guess that’s why we are best friends!
Dana picked up supplies for her wreath and dropped them off at my house, so I quickly got to creating a spooky masterpiece.
I used a wire wreath form and lots of spooky garland.
To start the wreath, I tucked one end of the garland into the wire wreath form. I dabbed some hot glue to keep it secure, then proceeded to wrap the garland around the outer edges of the wreath. Once the garland was all of the way around, I secure the end with hot glue and tucked it into the wire form.
Note: If you use hot glue on this sort of plastic garland, it smells like skunk. Oh so pleasant.
With the wreath part complete, I started to add the fun, spooky additions Dana gave me: Spider rings, glitter spiders, and a glitter skull. I added all of these to the wreath with, yep, hot glue.
Totally spooky cute 🙂
Have you made any fun Halloween decorations this year?
Occasional Symphony performs HALLOWEEN
I’ve had the pleasure of working on a poster for my friend’s fiance’s symphony’s (say that three times fast) upcoming performance at the end of October.
Occasional Symphony is a new symphony in Baltimore whose goal is to celebrate holidays by playing concerts at unique venues all across Charm City. For their performance of Halloween (which is on, yes, Halloween), they rented an old church and will be playing eerie music while showing the silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The creepy tunes were created by local composers — too cool!
I was so excited to help, especially on such a unique project! I was able to grab shots from the movie — the copyright has run out — and tweak them in Photoshop using the dry brush filter. I added a brick texture to the background and found a super creepy font to use. I think it looks fantastic, and Rachel, Norman and crew are really happy with it. Yay!
Here’s what I came up with:
If you live in or near Baltimore, make sure you check out an Occasional Symphony show! It sounds like they will be doing some really cool things.
Oh, and because I think it is super awesome, look at the shout out I got on their site *squeals of excitement*:
A Smith of All Trades 