Dr Who Halloween

 As all self confessed Dr Who Nerds we all co-ordinated our Halloween costumes as Dr 10 and 11, the tardis and the weeping angel. It was a wet night here in Ireland and the street party we were going to was cancelled which means no one was dressed up when we went out, it's not like I could hide 3 1/2 foot wings!

Halloween House *photo heavy

Ah Halloween, the air is crisp, the leaves are crunchy and children easily scared. A magical time of year!
I want to start a set of classy halloween decorations, classy being a word I don't use lightly! I bought 2 of these houses from Cardznscrapz as Christmas presents so had to forgo one for my project. I painted the edges with a silver dauber and then stamped with black script in versamark  and covered it in Chillingworth Manor paper *warning not every box or even both sides are the same so measure each side!
I bought the new Doc Who magazine because it had the Weeping Angel in it and needed somewhere to house her so it was all perfect! I used a few other bits I had lying around and added Peter the armless Skeleton, poor Peter can't remember where he left them. Don't you hate that!
I'll just put this up because my motion activated flashing neon skull heads, I did mention classy decorations didn't I?

Commissioned Canvases

A friend had a baby so another friend wanted a personal gift to give her. With her being an excellent photographer I wasn't short on photos to steal off her on Facebook but I'm sure she wouldn't mind :)

Altered dominoes and cigar box

This is the front of the dominoes box, with a Charlesque type chap on the front.

A creepy hand coming out from the bottom of the box

Side of the box stamped with script

Two Andy Skinner inspired altered boxes

Close up of the cigar box

 I learned this week my acyrillic paint is crap, I don't own a good paint brush, I have no patience for waiting for things to dry and that I have a very dark crafty side

Handmade train table

Started off with. a sheet of MDF, called in a favour from a friend who cut it to size for me. I primed it and let dry, too wet to do it outside so we had to have the door open for two days!!

painted the colours in that I wanted and sprayed an acyrillic sealer on, another favour from a friend!

I glued all the tracks down, except the bridge because I wanted to stick it in flat behind the couch. Eli loved it, he loves little bits to play with and his nanny in Dublin gave him a train set with over 100 pieces for Christmas so this was perfect. He throws himself on the ground and plays with it for hours, totally worth the effort and I saved myself about €120! Sweet!