Sneak Peek #8

HauntForum $20 Prop Challenge entry.

Photo #8: Zygomatic Bone.

Clue #8: Anatomy lesson for the day, you may now resume your normal programming. Helpful wasn’t it?

Sneak Peek #7

HauntForum $20 Prop Challenge entry.

Photo #7: Great balls of fire….um, foil.

Clue #7: Obviously balls of foil serving as the armature for eyeballs. The contest is limited to a $20 budget so I wrapped two small sheets of aluminum foil around a core of crumpled newspaper. Recycled newspaper is free…aluminum foil is not.

Haunted Busts

Managed to finish my March entry for The Mad Lab contest.

For those unfamiliar with The Mad Lab, it's a monthly contest that challenges you to create something from a specific item. The item or items are different every month and the contest proves to be a challenge and great motivator. In addition to the satisfaction of creating something cool you are also eligible to win some great prizes.

This month's contest required you to build something from plastic CD cases or jewel cases. My concept was to use the cases as the base for some haunted busts. The busts were made from papier mache as well as an assortment of recycled items such as aluminum cans, cereal boxes and newspaper.

Check out The Mad Lab at www.themadlab.com and give the contest your best shot, it's fun, it's rewarding and before you know it you will also have a bunch of new props for the Halloween season. While you are in the lab make sure to stop by and say hello to your host Marsha aka jekyllandhyde, she is devious, conniving and scheming but that's what makes her special.

Seriously Marsha is a great haunter and a very fun person so check out the lab and see what you've been missing.