Urban Debris Artlog: halloween

Last minute paper pumpkins

Need a cute last minuter decoration or Halloween favor?

To make these: orange crepe paper, florists tape.

- Cut a circle of paper 25cm in diameter. You can make a cardboard pattern and coppy, and cut several at a time.

- Place candy or prizes in the center.

- Lift the edges to form a pocket

- Twist careful and try not to tear the paper to form the stub.

- Wrap the tape around the stub to close

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Flavorwire » Incredible Carved Pumpkins by Ray Villafane

‘Tis the season for creative gourd art, with incredibly detailed carved pumpkins by renowned sand and pumpkin sculptor Ray Villafane. Click through to see some of our favorites of Villafane’s “gordgeous” carvings, and then be sure to head over to his website for even more.

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Waltzingmouse tutorial for a witches hat

Well, Halloween is fast approaching and there's lots to do so just incase anyone feels like making a witches hat like the one on top of my Witch Jar - here's the how-to. The pic should get bigger if you click on it.

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Free printables Halloween costumes - vintage kiddies

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Silky, spindly, spidery

A Spiders Web is made from silk. Spiders have seven pairs of silk spinning organs or glands called “spinnerets”. Each spinneret on the spider is different from the other and used for making several kinds of silk: attachment disk silk, a strong dragline or safety line silk, orb web spiral line, glue-like sticky catching silk, swathing silk, tangling cribellate silk and a protective egg sac silk (to keep baby spiders safe).

The silk that spiders produce are used for building webs, catching prey, storing food, escaping from danger, making egg sacs, sending and receiving vibrating signals and for transportation on silken ropes called “ballooning” as the spider floats through the air on the strand of silk. Some silk strands are stronger than steel strands of the same thickness. The silk of the Nephila spider is the strongest natural fiber known to man and is used to make tote bags and fish nets. In a specific species, spiders can use their web to capture an air bubble; with this bubble the spider can survive and hunt under water where other spiders and insectswould drown.

Black Orange Spiderweb Doily
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