Now For the Hallowe'enie Stuff
Oct. 18th, 2008 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Someone commented on my okcupid journal & mentioned these cookies... They look freakin' awesome and I wants them! The commenter said they were morbidorable, and I completely agree :D
Maya's Dia de los Muertos Cookies
Went out & got some stuff to make my Mario Brothers mystery-box costume out of. I could have just gotten a big-ass cardboard box & cut arm & neck-holes out of it, but there's a logistics problem with the whole thing. How am I going to sit down and do my job? I'm done w/the standing for 8 hours crap. Went to Joanna's Fabrics - their foam was expensive, to say the least. So went to Wal-Mart & picked up a couple of twin-size eggcrate foam mattress pads for 1/2 of what Joanna's wanted for a single sizable piece of foam. Now I just have to make a box & paint it. I figure I'm going to get some yellow & red spray paint for the front, back & sides, & then paint the '?' mark & some brick-lines on with a big jar of acrylic paint. I figure it will probably crack a little here & there, but it doesn't have to be durable, just recognizable. I'm also going to pick up a deely-bopper headband & put a red flower on one side & a mushroom on the other. Either that, or pick up some of that stiff, thin crafter foam & glue red petals or a mushroom-shape onto a headband. I'm going to wear black pants under it w/a yellow t-shirt or something so if I end up sweating to death I can take it off & still be 'casual Friday' ok for work. I figure even if people don't get the Mario reference right away, I can still be the Mystery Box.
"Do you want what's behind Curtain #3... Or do you want the Mystery Box?"
Maya's Dia de los Muertos Cookies
Went out & got some stuff to make my Mario Brothers mystery-box costume out of. I could have just gotten a big-ass cardboard box & cut arm & neck-holes out of it, but there's a logistics problem with the whole thing. How am I going to sit down and do my job? I'm done w/the standing for 8 hours crap. Went to Joanna's Fabrics - their foam was expensive, to say the least. So went to Wal-Mart & picked up a couple of twin-size eggcrate foam mattress pads for 1/2 of what Joanna's wanted for a single sizable piece of foam. Now I just have to make a box & paint it. I figure I'm going to get some yellow & red spray paint for the front, back & sides, & then paint the '?' mark & some brick-lines on with a big jar of acrylic paint. I figure it will probably crack a little here & there, but it doesn't have to be durable, just recognizable. I'm also going to pick up a deely-bopper headband & put a red flower on one side & a mushroom on the other. Either that, or pick up some of that stiff, thin crafter foam & glue red petals or a mushroom-shape onto a headband. I'm going to wear black pants under it w/a yellow t-shirt or something so if I end up sweating to death I can take it off & still be 'casual Friday' ok for work. I figure even if people don't get the Mario reference right away, I can still be the Mystery Box.
"Do you want what's behind Curtain #3... Or do you want the Mystery Box?"
