i went casually strolling through the dank aisles of the dollar store i didn't run into
any screaming toddlers with space buns this time or any overly friendly dollar tree employees this
time it was just me walking around in sweet solitude with mild anxiety trying to find
cheap things to give a makeover to there's so many things at the dollar store but so many of them
just aren't viable options there's this one channel bargain bethany if you're into dollar
store stuff you probably already know about her she's been doing dollar tree stuff for
years and she comes up with these crazy creative ideas if i could just be half
as creative as she is i would be so happy i'm not anywhere near that level yet but you know
yeah so with my dollar tree haul i'm gonna be making some creepy cute things today and some
things that are just straight up adorable i know it's shocking anyways an effort was made so the
first thing i came across were these two giant dice at the dollar store they're for ages three
plus so clearly i'm the audience they're trying to directly target they thoughtfully wrapped these
up in plastic i guess to keep them in pristine condition but the dice do have a little bit of
damage some little scuff marks nothing too bad i picked these up because i thought they were kind
of fun one of the dice tells you what to do you just roll it and it tells you like scrub the floor
or clean the toilet or wash the dishes this blue dice likes to give you a good kick in the butt
when you're already down and the other one i'm guessing is like the answer dice it tells you
whether you have to do it or not i wasn't exactly sure if this was a thumbs up or thumbs down
i'm going with thumbs down to start off i'm painting the dice yellow they were surprisingly
very easy to paint it did take a few layers to get them to a solid yellow color i'm guessing
that's because the foam kind of sucks up some of the paint so here they are all painted i think
they look nice it's a good base to build off of i'm planning on turning this one into the zombie
bunny i thought it would be cool to have like little characters stuck in cubes i like the look
of them being geometrical geometry i like geometry i'm not recreating the whole character more just
the top half of him i guess i could have added his feet if i really wanted to i just didn't for the
brain i painted it on instead of puffy painting it this time the zombie bunny is probably one
of my top favorite squishies i've ever done i love the concept and i love how he turned out
i just love everything about him plus he has this zoned out zombie-like expression almost like he's
having an existential crisis and i find that relatable the zombie bunny has these like black
things on the sides of his face i have no idea what they're supposed to be i originally thought
about making them 3d on the dice maybe with like a spare squishy part i didn't have any squishy parts
that would work for them though so i just painted them on which i honestly don't mind it makes
the cubes look more dicey and i kinda like that adds character i gave him the same stitches the
same highlight since it is a dice i thought about leaving out the ears and keeping it just as a cube
but ultimately i decided the ears and carrot stab wound are necessary additions i cut the
ear out of felt and hot glued that on i also went around and added blood splatters with puffy paint
for the squishy version i had the carrot next to the ear it's kind of like two ears one of them is
just replaced with a carrot for the cube version the brain is off to the side so the placement
the proportions they're a little off i had to make some design choices based on his cube form
it's not the exact same as the squishy version but i think it's close enough the zombie bunny
was a character i've done in the past for this cube i've decided to make a new character she's
not necessarily evil more my derpy's silly style she's a chick inside of an egg and they're trapped
in cube form i started painting the chicks egg and posca i love poscas they're my go-to
but things were looking a bit streaky so here i am actively trying to hide the streakiness by
going over it in regular acrylic paint she's got some wonky eyeballs and an eyelid nothing says
lunatic like crazy ass oh hey the eggshell was looking too simple i wanted to add some
character to it so i added some blue dots it's not a typical chicken egg it's actually a dinosaur egg
how she ended up in a dinosaur egg is a mystery to me but here she is i hot glued a little poof
of hair up top to complete her look the next thing i picked up at the dollar store is this
speech bubble it's meant for decor it even has a little hook in the back in case you want to
hang it that's fancy and it comes with a very inspirational message monday should be optional
when you work from home you realize how blissful mondays are it's so quiet so nice on the weekend
this place is a mad house a lot of you guys have reassured me that pink is very evil as evil as
they come i don't know if i agree i'm still on the fence but for today baby pink is evil sure why not
oh hey i'm sketching out a little character on it it's a worm with big googly eyes that pop out of
his head the eyeballs are way oversized compared to him and his little teeny tiny arms he's a happy
little guy just slugging his way through life i wanted him to look absolutely adorable a super
cute pink slimy worm as he slides through life he leaves behind a trail of slime that's what this is
it almost looks like he's bleeding out it's a speech bubble so i figured it should say
something i promise i know how to spell i just wanted a text feel for this decor piece i based
this one off a shirt that joan and vasquez had some time back it was like a cute little whale
i think unfortunately i can't find that shirt anywhere so i decided to make my own version it's
very simple i realize that but i think sometimes things are best left simple i painted this music
jewelry box thing some time back and i made these really cool funky spiderwebs which i loved i then
stenciled on spiders which were a disaster of the highest magnitude i have so many regrets in life
someone mentioned it would have been better if i had left the spiders off completely and
i agree i just didn't want it to be left that simple because i was scared people would say
i didn't add enough to it so today i've decided to embrace simplicity i'm not just adding things
for the sake of adding things i also picked up mickey and minnie from the dollar store they're
little mini tsum tsums tombs i've been doing some plushy makeovers lately and luckily none of them
have been critical failures yet i don't have a ton of experience just a willingness to learn so today
i figured i'd try my luck with these tsum tsums they're mostly just their faces i mean i guess
they have a little butt as well but there's not a whole lot of surface area not too much to do
i mixed up some fabric paint i tried to get it as close to their face color as possible i
think that's close enough i covered the face with fabric paint it took a couple layers to completely
cover it but i got there eventually all right cool now i have a clean slate to make them as
evil as possible that's what i do i cleaned up the edges with posca tried to make things look
at least a little put together i'm trying to make mickey look greedy and unhinged like after
all those years of greeting screaming toddlers he's finally snapped happens to the best of us
corporate greed is the theme i'm going for maybe at one point mickey cared about his employees and
people in general but all the dark side of mickey cares about now is money just raking in that cash
money he doesn't have green teeth by the way that's just money thought i should clarify that
i did end up adding some eyebrows to him mickey mouse doesn't usually have eyebrows
i just i don't know i thought they might make him look a little more expressive really show
his greedy side i went around with puffy paint to accent his features first some drool to go around
because why not and some pearly whites he needed some teeth to hold on to his money since these
tsum tsums don't have any arms or legs or anything for that matter i went over the
eyebrows and nose with puffy paint as well i guess he was just looking too flat at first
so i wanted him to pop out more anyways moving on here's mini maps i didn't really make her look too
evil she looks more dumb and derpy she's not the evil mastermind she just kind of goes along with
whatever mickey does a very supportive girlfriend is she his girlfriend or what is she at this point
i haven't been keeping up with the tabloids minnie's probably my favorite character of
today i just love how dumb her face turned out there's just something so beautiful about it
you can be cool but never as cool as bucktooth mini i thought about adding some more accessories
to mickey and minnie like on the top of their head or something but ultimately i decided
against it i wanted them to still be stackable on top of each other after all their tombs
click on the next video if you don't want bucktooth mini to bite your esophagus
you