Thread: Showcase your most recent craft!

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This is a thread for everyone to post pictures (preferably) and maybe even a brief tutorial as how to create what they've made.
I'm not a big prop builder so i normally stick to crafts, but i'm not even good at that, but hey.
Theres pictures of the Skull Candle i made and just two pages of a spell book which will be permanently open on those pages.
I made the skull by -
Covering a hard plastic skull with foil, then masking tape. I then papier-mached it all over. Cut it in half when it was dry, cellotaped is back together and applied more papier-mache. I used acrylic paint to do the base and then i used a dark brown oil paint to make it look more aged and give the detail. I then just melted a few shavings of wax and stuck the candle to that, then lit it so the wax dripped down.
The spell book was made on Microsoft Publisher and was just printed on coffee/tea stained paper and then i dripped some of the red wax from the candle on it to resemble blood.
So if any of you have recently made something you're particularly proud of, post it!

By the way, i know that you can see the pages have been stuck on, i just haven't got to trimming it.

I really love the spell book! Great job!

Great thread! I love seeing others crafts. Here are a couple I have done this year so far. I made "shadows" for the upstairs windows and glittered some pumpkins. I apologize for the blurry pictures. I could not figure out what camera setting to use.

Great crafts everyone!
Halloween Princess, I love the shadows on the windows, what's your technique? They look very authentic and spooky!

Jacks attic are those necklaces made with dominos? I want one....

Mongo, I just love your spell book, you did a fantastic job! I just love the wax dripping blood effect, it really adds an authentic look to it

Jacks Attic, Awesome Skelly necklaces, did you paint them yourself, and what is that, that they are created on?

H.Princess, Totally Wicked window shadows,wow! And I've gotta ask just like the Scientist did, what technique did you use to create them, they're so real looking.

Oops, I didn't realize I didn't tell everyone how I made the shadows. I got the idea from Martha Stewart's website but went with an even easier method.

I just found old white sheets & cut them to about the size of our windows. I freehand drew the outline of the figure with a black marker them just used black craft paint to completely fill them in. I just pinned them up with push pins behind the blinds. If you leave the light in the room on you get the effect of a shadow.

Spell Book. Tutorial is in the "Tutorials" section ( go figure!) .

and the picture doesn't come close to showing the detail that you see in person. It really looks like an old, leather, wrinkled book in real-life!

Great job