Cardboard Haunted House.

I was done with Halloween costumes 3 days ahead and thought I would rest until then. But looking at some pictures of Halloween houses, I really got itchy to make a box house.
Growing up I always wanted a doll house, and there was never a box big enough to make a house. But lucky I kept some boxes of out bathroom renovation from the Summer.
I pulled all the boxes I had and started to build the house. It was a lot of cutting, ripping a lots of glue gun.
After painting all over, I could add the details. The paper figures I cut in my Cricut, the cute Halloween faces are buttons I found at AC Moore and the drawings my son made.

My son that fits in the box is planning to give out candy from inside the house. Hopefully it will work well.

Steampunk Halloween

Because I made a jet pack steampunk style this Summer, I decided to make the rest of the outfit for Halloween.
And better than making a mechanical arm is to have a shoulder piece attached.

To start making that, I used material from last year's costume. Mega Man lost his shoes.
I used the foam that was used to make the foot part and bent in the shape of shoulders and arm piece using the heating gun.
Then glued some details around using thinner foam board and tubes from the hardware store.

And the important detail that makes it look more real: googly eyes.
Next is to paint everything in black.
Then to give the nice effect some brushes of gold.
The final part is to glue the gears and little accessories. Some of them I bought at the craft store, but most of them I made using my Cricut.
Then using the same techniques, I painted this foam hat from the craft store.
And used swimming googles, too.
Everything was completed with the jet pack.
And that is my first complete steampunk outfit.