Kmart's Ready!

I made a trip to Kmart yesterday couldn't resist snapping a shot of the lovely view below :)  BOXES of Halloween merch just waiting to be put out :)  I will surely be checking back daily.  They have the best foam skulls!

The Best Cup of Coffee Ever!

Found this picture while searching Google for Pumpkin Spice coffee syrup :)  What a way to start the day!

Schedule Review

I'm now ending the 3rd week of my project schedule, and I'm not doing too bad =)  Here's where I wanted to be and where I'm at:

Week 1 - Aug. 1 - 6: Complete Stingy Jack's neck and face reconstruction (all PM/clay/paint). Complete Shakespeare tombstone. - Jack's neck and face are completed!  The Shakespeare stone is ready for aging and paint, but I think I'm going to wait till I have all of my stones at that point to paint them all in one day.

Week 2 - Aug. 7 - 13: Complete Jack's hand sculpt & buy more foam for MORE tombstones. - One hand is  ready for final touches. The other is going to take a little more planning b/c it will end up being part of more support for Jack. No new foam yet.

Week 3 - Aug. 14 - 20: Paint and finalize Jack's hands. Carve new Halloween countdown stone. - Going to buy new foam today or tomorrow for count down stone =)

Week 4 - Aug. 21 - 27: Complete Countdown stone & paint Edward Goery urn ;) - I'll be able to print the lettering for the countdown stone during the week.  I also have some new plans for the Goery urn, so I'll have to work those in.  It'll require more time than I originally thought, but it's going to be worth it.

Week 5 - Aug. 31 - Sept. 5/6 (extended 5 day weekend): Complete Goery urn and begin and complete new stained glass window project. - I think that at this point, I should be caught up :)  We'll see!!!!


So, all in all, not too bad.  I'm off by a bit and I've gone a little out of order and started on some other things, but I think, that I will end up completing everything at the end of week 5 that I wanted to complete plus some things that I hadn't originally planned on ;)

Jack's Neck

He has really come a long way since last year ;)

It's amazing what some eyebrows, a neck, new hat and a little paint can do for a prop ;)

Weekend Progress

I'm getting there ;) I'm trying not to let other potential projects distract me, but I'm easily distracted by fun, creepy projects ;) I'll show and tell about that one in an up-coming post.

For now, Jack's neck is completely sculpted. Now he just needs paint. Also, one hand is mostly sculpted; I just need to add detail, then it's on to the 2nd. Not doing too bad and not too far off schedule :)

Motivated

I couldn't think of a better way to start a day of prop building :)

Overly Ambitious?

So, maybe I was a little ambitious with my schedule :) A dreamer can dream, right? I've hit a few snags, things that I wasn't planning on and things that I forgot to allow time for.

Take Jack's repairs:

His neck requires a little piece of chest to be added, so that he doesn't have a gapping hole showing when he's dressed.

Also, on his hand construction, each finger has to be constructed and then allowed to dry before the next one can be done. It's a bit of a tedious process, but I think that the results will be well worth it.

Then there's the Shakespeare stone. I need to shave down the edges to blend the layers of foam. Well, first I need to find a mask that makes the cut in keeping the foam particles out of my lungs :)

Oh, Jack also got eyebrows today =)

So, I'm glad that I allowed the extra 4 weeks. I'm happy that I'm getting things going though. I'm happiest when I'm working on my projects, even when they take longer than I expected ;)