Halloween Creative Fun

Its that time again & we thought this year for Halloween we'd not only carve a pumpkin we'd also set a spooky scary devilish scene! We had great fun making it. I'm chuffed with the result,but should admit had id not been so tight and refusing to pay no more than a £1 for a pumpkin it would of been even better and more proportional to the rest of the scene.

              We began by cleaning off the pumpkin and free hand drawing a face onto it

we find it better if you remove the base as it stands much better and i like to see the lid left intact

now to set the scene in the garden,we went to our local woods and gathered some twigs,leaves etc,i made a small broom stick with the twigs & lay some leaves down where i was going to arrange my spooky scene. I found an old top and pair of trousers,cut the sleeves and stuffed them with the inside of a pillow to make them look like legs. I took the trousers and cut one leg of and done the same (stuffed with pillow filling) & could now see things starting to take shape.I took to bamboo canes and slide them into the stuffed sleeves and put a pair of my boots onto them... thats the legs made!Now to push them into the ground to make it look as if there was someone part burried. The Pumpkin was then placed onto the pile of leaves and the leg that i stuffed was placed into the pumpkins mouth giving the impression the pumpkin was tucking into it! Now red sauce and lots of it,at the base of the legs,over the pumpkins mouth,all over the leg coming from the pumpkins mouth and not forgetting all over my hands and the knife. Ooooh sting!!! cheap red sauce in full of vinegar and vinegar in cuts equal mega STING!!!! the things we do hey?!?!?

                                         Was a great day and we thoroughly enjoyed it!

Up- cycling project. Pine Bed into Memorial Bench

Hello heres a picture of what we have made/upcycled  The bench was once a pine double bed owned by a loved one and is now a very special memorial bench-The bed use to be my darling Mums-we had to get a new bed, but i just couldnt bring myself to part with the bed so thanks to my husband we managed to turn the bed into a very special memorial bench

Its lovely to....

Repurpose, Reuse and Upcycle Old Things 

We dismantled the bed and took the foot board & cut in half & then this was used for the sides of the bench. The side rails of the bed were used the front cross support. The bed slats were used for seating area. We used an external undercoat & gloss to paint it & a good quality yacht varnish to protect it from the weather.

Many have a memorial bench to remember a loved one. I have very special memorial bench - with huge thanks to my darling husband for making it for me.

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