Thread: Here's all I got this year!

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My camera died after 3 pics, those 2 of the graveyard & the one of my car. The others of the groundbreaker & the RCPM-kin (which wouldn't have been possible without Ondeko THANKYOUVERRAMUCHA!!) were taken inside much earlier.

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The last 3 pics are from Halloween night:

Nice! The graveyard looks great!That groundbreaker is awesome! My camera batteries were dead too, but my son had just put some fresh in his.

I have no backup.

Which reminds me, while I'm sitting here on the puter, I'm gonna look for a second battery.

the ground breaker is awesome!

amk

WOAH! That is a crazy ass monster!!! LOVE!

Nice work! Love the groundbreaker and the skele in your car! Your cemetery looks good to!

I'm good for one project a year & he was it! He's all mache (except the nails, those are press-on nails I bought a couple of years ago & just cut 'em down) & the hubby did all the highlighting & sprayed the gloss coat on him.

I learned that fake nails will melt when glued on with hot glue. But that worked for him, it was just something that never occurred to me before they started melting as I put them on. Not that I'd ever have a reason to know this since I don't have fake nails & don't use them & if I did I certainly wouldn't be hot gluing them to my own nails.

His arm was higher up when I started but with each layer of paper gravity worked & brought his arm lower but still, it worked & I've learned not to sweat that stuff.

It was my first attempt at something like that so I think maybe next time I'll have the arms separate from the rest of the body. He was pretty wide & it would've been easier to move in & out & around if his arms were detachable. Then I could position them however I wanted them. Now I gotta store him like that but for now that's not a huge problem.

Lessons learned for next year!!

Wicked groundbreaker I really like the black pumpkin in the graveyard, also Too bad that your camera batteries died That is never fun...

The graveyard came out great as well as your projects. Those hands on your ground breaker are creepy and I like the coloring you did on the boney structure.

BTW for the future, DOLLAR TREE sells set of fake nails for $1, in fact this year picked up a few sets myself..

Also, during the year you might look into picking up a low-temp glue gun for your temp sensitive projects. Look for one of Michaels 40-50% off coupons during the year to save some money. The glue gun I bought recently has a dual temp setting which is really nice. Think it was made by Stanley but don't recall where I found it. Might have been from Big Lots or Goodwill even. Just remember it was new and still sealed in the hard plastic packaging.

Ahh the dreaded dead battery. Now that I take all of my photos with my iPhone I just have to remember to keep it charged. I'll run it down a lot of times and then it's always the most inopportune times when it finally dies. Do that with my iPad too and will be in the middle of a making a post (having noticed but ignored the battery warning messages) and thinking I can finish the post before having to recharge.....screen to black....most of the time have a charger cable handy but guess I live for to tempt fate!