Enjoy these beautiful grave markers that caught my attention while photographing the Hellement.
My favorite quote I came across:
" He has slipped the surly bonds of Earth"
Friday, November 01, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Halloween Decor 2024
Here is the 2024 Halloween decor in all it's glory!
Not too too much new along with a bunch of dittos of last year's layouts.
I may have hit my high mark and everything will just be same same for all following years. I'm pretty pleased.
Creep through the Demented Decor of the Past:
Falloween Theme Halloween 2024
The past few years I have been doing a separate decorating theme along with my regular Halloween classic stuff. I like to give myself more work I guess. This year I wanted to create a look that was all the rage a few years ago called Falloween. It mingles fall colors with Halloween icons that are more in line with those hues. It's kinda tame but if done well it's got a great ambiance to it. Another rage all the kids were doing awhile back was buying autumn prints from thrift stores and adding some Halloween flare by painting in ghosts and bats and shit like that. I took both of these dealios, doing it my waaaay of course, turning my dining room into a spookifed fall forest you'd want to get lost in.
I had full intentions of doing the jazzed up thrift store painting idea but apparently the supply has dried up so I improvised.
I bought this vintage fiberglass TV tray for my Fall decor a few years ago and it's 'painting sized' so I just drew up some little ghosties on white decal vinyl and attached as appropriate. Easy peasy, and using what I already got, yep yep, I likes it.
So the Halloween icons that work in line with Falloween in my opinion are going to be the white/ black things like ghosts, skeletons, bats, spiders. No JOLs, witches, frankensteins, bright oranges, greens, or purples.
Here is the sideboard in full as it's the primary focal point. I probably should have dropped that middle spider web juuuust a skoosh or raised the tray but really it's fine, it's dandy.
The brittle crumbly vintage ghost blow mold is off to the right, Hang in there buddy! One of these sad days when I go to unpack him he's just going to be a pile of plastic shavings.
The table centerpiece came together pretty well. It's a melamine partitioned coffin shaped serving dish filled with some bitty faux pumpkins, spiders, skeletons, and vintage plastic fall foliage.
The china cabinet and Bernie Bones, our diner guest. He doesn't eat much.
It's a fairly understated look but believe me it's a product of quite a bit of overthinking and rummaging through multiple bins !
The previous other themes I have done were turning the entire living room into a Tiki Voodoo Swamp Hut and last year the dining room became a Fortune Teller's Atelier so this is definitely quite tame.
HELLEMENT Hearse
For the first time ever I made a Halloween costume for my car, a 2006 Honda Element!
I made the 'curtains' by first tracing the full windows onto paper. Next I somewhat freehand drew the curtains then cut all the bits out. I then traced them onto 1.25 Tree vinyl, cutting all of those pieces out. And then applying all of it to the windows. The 'landau bars' I traced from my computer screen kinda like a light box. Confusing and labor intensive? Why, yes. I wouldn't do it any other way! I don't have a cricut machine, nor do I want one or want to learn how to use it.
But I do have a friend who has a cricut and knows kinda how to use it so I had her make me a badge/title on the rear.
It's hard to read but says: HELLEMENT Funeral Parlor and Crematorium
Here's a few more views:
A better close up...but don't look too hard. Everything is wonky.
I think it turned out looking pretty awesome. The thought crossed my mind to leave it on permanently but I think it's a bit much. I honestly don't like drawing attention to myself. I like to be wallpaper.
Friday, October 25, 2024
Billy Joel Big Shot
I've had Billy Joel fever for about 6 months.
I can, will and have listened to the Glass Houses and The Stranger CDs about a billion times.
And his new song? Turn the Lights Back On. Absolutely glorious. His music has been my escape, sanctuary, and a block from negative shit.
So it only made sense that I was going to become a man for Halloween. I don't look good as a dude though. Yikes. I'm definitely giving girl's PE coach vibes.
"What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing?"
I based my costume from his 'You May be Right' (absolutely love that song) video:
Here's a few very classic sullen Joel looks:
The head to toe:
White tie, white sneakers:
Went light on the props, but did have me a Piano Man Tips jar:
For my photo shot background I was able to get into the music hall at the University with their fancy Steinway grand piano!
"You may be right. I may be crazy. Ho! But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for."
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Halloween Tree
We got ourselves a first here, a Halloween tree!
The ornaments are the bits and bobs pulled off a few Dollar and a Quarter Tree Halloween garlands from the high dollar aisle of 3 bucks each.
There's pom pom bats and spiders along with felty pumpkins. I added the googly eyes and sharpie markered on some facial features since the originals were blah and boring.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Beetlejuice Yard Decor
Check out this amazingly themed decorated Beetlejuice yard, not mine, but in my neighborhood. This actually is the design they put together for last year with an updated set this season with scenes from the newly released movie. I haven't gotten a chance to get photos of it just yet so enjoy the wonderment of the original:
Let's turn on the juice and see what shakes loose!
Woah, Sandworms. Ya hate 'em right? I hate 'em myself!
I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself! If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane and I will take you with me!
If you act now you get a free demon possession with every exorcism.
Are you gross under there? Are you 'Night of the Living Dead' under there? Like all bloody veins and pus?!"
Go ahead. Make my millenium!
Cute couple. Look nice and stupid too.
And here a few night shots:
The homeowners didn't lean into all store bought licensed stuff except where absolutely necessary and handmade the rest with a great artistic edgy appeal. I thought this was just so well done!
Here's a past post that's Beetlejuice-esque: