{"id":132,"date":"2012-05-07T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:05:39","slug":"2009-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/halloween\/2009-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another year and more stuff made.  No carved pumpkins this year, but I did make a couple of large paper-mache pumpkins (very time consuming!).  Also made some paper skulls and a new half-skeleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet another mod to the “Mad Monk” prop.   I had found a paper model for a skull, and enlarged it to twice normal size.  The full-size skull came out OK, but the 2x skull was pretty floppy despite using heavy card-stock … it needed some sort of internal bracing that I simply didn’t have the time to add.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s the  new & improved Mad Monk 2.   The head was changed to yet another paper-model thing, and the green pumpkin is actually an old paper-mache pumpkin re-painted and with toothpick fangs added.   I also added some “internal organs” to the monk, since the burlap robe is somewhat transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is what the ensemble looked like.  Note the “heads on a stick” (old heads displayed in a new way), last year’s quick&dirty wobbly-things, and a couple of store-bought skull ornaments.  I painted the skull ornaments to make ’em look more like stone, and painted the eye-sockets green.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new skeleton.  The bones are rolled-up newspaper, and the whole thing was quickly assembled using a cloths-hanger for the spine and duct-tape to hold it all together.  Of course the clothshanger was simply to flimsy once the head was added (I tested it with no head), so at the last minute I added a piece of wood for the spine and quickly added some white paint.  Hence the white paint on the grass.  The paper-mache head is a re-worked old one … new fangs and a new paint-job.  Fangs do seem to add something to a pumpkin!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s what the porch looked like.  Yes, the skull ornaments are tacked on with black tape.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A close-up of the LHS of the porch.  The large pumpkin head is a new paper-mache creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the RHS of the porch.  Yet another new paper-mache pumpkin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a group picture of the paper-mache pumpkins.  The two large ones on the right are new, and the two on the left are re-worked older ones.  The large ones, by the way, were made using a new process that I stumbled across.  The form is made by filling a plastic bag with wadded-up newspaper, then tied&taped to form the shape.  Then strips of newspaper are wetted with glue and the form covered with a couple of layers.  Let dry and repeat.  And repeat.  And repeat.  It gets pretty tedious!  But it takes many layers to make a reasonably rigid piece, especially with those larger sizes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another year and more stuff made.  No carved pumpkins this year, but I did make a couple of large paper-mache pumpkins (very time consuming!).  Also made some paper skulls and a new half-skeleton. Yet another mod to the “Mad Monk” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":129,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/1071"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}