Covered in Glitter and Screaming

I shaved my head for charity two years ago. For a small number of donors I offered thanks in the form of a mystery gift, built around a theme of their choosing. This person's theme was a Misfits album cover, essentially encompassing both music and horror across media platforms. I started with words, and wrote the ABCs of Horror and Punk. But what do do with it? Make it a book. Actually, let's make a pop up book, I've wanted to make one for years. Many thanks to the Pop Up Channel for all the tutorials! Wonderfully helpful and easy to follow. Process photos (and there are a lot of them) can be found in this Imgur gallery . Finished spreads: Once all the pages were done, I followed SeaLemon's YouTube tutorial for making a DIY book press so the glued pages would be flat. Then I followed her video about hardcover bookbinding , mixed a bit with this Sketch blog post about binding specifically for pop up books. All the pages were glued together,...

Making a BoJack costume is easy*: horse head mask, blue sweater with Xs and lines drawn on, gray sports coat, jeans, red converse. Princess Carolyn  looks simple, but took a bit more effort. The hardest part was finding a dress with the right cut in the right color. *I know the mane and face colors aren't exact, if this were going to be a con costume instead of just Halloween we'd put more effort into making it accurate. Costume base: green sheath dress (aimed for teal, but everything I found had the wrong cut or more embellishments) Then I used the Cricut to make a bunch of fish out of heat transfer vinyl and ironed them on. Add on a yellow cardigan (minus the cuffs) and red pumps, and we have the basics. The necklace was made out of craft foam painted gold with a dot of red glitter glue in the center. Bubblegum pink spray for the hair, pink clip-on ears, and cat makeup. I wish I'd taken more pictures of the hair and make...