In this week's video I'm going to be making some easy Halloween decor DIY. I figured that
Halloween is right around the corner so now's a good time as any to start putting up some
Halloween decorations. I know that technically we're still in August but honestly I'm ready
to celebrate fall in all of it's gory. Soon all of the crickets will DIE and it'll be
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For the first of my halloween decoration ideas I'm going to be making some floating ghosts.
*Awkward transition ghost: But you.. you said I was your one and only* For this you'll need
cheesecloth. Tela de gasaaa. Which you can get at Walmart if you don't have any. You'll
also need some glue or fabric stiffer, a water bottle, a balloon, and some metal wire or
a metal hanger. These floating ghosts are really just going to be meant for my room,
you can make them as big or as small as you want. It's whatever you prefer really. For
me personally, I'm just going to kinda keep them on my desk most of the time so I'm really
not going to make them that big. But I really like the look of the big cheesecloth ghosts
that people put in their backyards around halloween like these. I'm basically just going
to try and recreate those but just on a little bit of a smaller size so they can fit on my
desk. *Awkward transition ghost: Maybe one of them is a girl ghost, giggle* So first
thing's first, I'm going to blow up a balloon. Just let a little air escape. I want it to
be a decent size for the head but not too big or else it'll just fall lopsided when
I cover it with cheesecloth. I guess a lopsided ghost might be kinda cute, but that's not
the look I'm going for. It doesn't matter what type or color of balloon or water bottle
you use, we're going to take those out at the end so the ghosts can stand up on their
own. So once I've blown up the balloon I'm going to glue it to the top of a plastic bottle.
It doesn't have to necessarily be a plastic bottle, it could really be anything. I've
even seen some people use glass. Just be creative. If you wanted a taller ghost, you just have
to use a taller object for the body, obviously. For me, I'm just going to take this balloon
and glue it on top of this water bottle. You can see I just took some wire and poked it
through the bottle to make the little arms. Now I'm going to mix together a little water
and Elmers glue. I'll just be using a 50/50 mixture of water and glue. Some people did
use fabric stiffener for this, but I'm just going to try using glue since that works too
and it's what I had on hand. Oh jeez, ok, never mind. I tried the glue and it was pathetic.
It was hard to spread the cheesecloth over the balloon and water bottle. It just kinda
glooped together and kinda looked Dead. *sigh* Myeh. I'm gonna go grab some fabric stiffener
instead. BRB. I added some tin foil hands on my second attempt, just so that the cheesecloth
doesn't tear. This'll make my life a lot easier. I just sprayed a buttload of fabric stiffener.
I do want to give them a face and everything but I'm gonna wait until they're completely
dry. After it dried I popped the balloon and took out the contraption as gently as I possibly
could. I think I'll give em some little faces. Alrightttt I guess I gotta name these suckers
now. This is Bob, Fred and George. For my next halloween decor DIY I'm going to make
3 sock gnomes. They're really easy, no sewing required, and of course they're super adorable.
I also really like that you can customize them as much as you want. I'm going to be
making 2 witches and a wizard. So first you're going to need a sock. It can really be any
color, that doesn't matter. It can also be any material that you choose. Well except
like rocks or wood or something like that, obviously. There's going to be a good witch
named Helga and an EVIL witch named ...uhh.. Smelga. They're sisters but complete opposites.
I'm also going to give Smelga a boyfriend named Paul. Smelga and Paul are both goth.
She's always been a bit boy crazy while Helga's pretty much just forever single. I'm sure
you know how that feels. As for Paul, he's happy, he's always wanted a big witty goth
gf. Fuzzy. You have to add some filler into the sock just to bulk up the body. It kinda
looks like a potato but still cute. I'd rate it a solid 4 out of 5. You can pretty much
fill it with anything like beads or small pebbles. I just filled mine up with a big
rock at the bottom and some stuffing. You basically just want to give the gnome some
stability. I know a lot of us don't know what stability looks like or feels like but hey,
A for effort. For the nose I just stuffed a little styrofoam ball in there and then
I just tied a rubber band around it a few times. After the nose job I rubber banded
the top of the sock and cut the excess off. I did add another layer of black sock and
wrapped it around the nose and glued it down. This part is going to be covered with hair
and a sock hat so it'll start looking more put-together in a second. Paul has a majestic
beard. He has many wannabe hipster fans. He keeps his beard finely tailored. Smelga LOVES
his beard so much that sometimes she eats the cookie crumbs out of it. Hey, don't knock
it till you try it! This is a judgement free zone. You can often catch him twirling his
beard like a cartoon villain. He's just the coolest guy you'll ever meet, according to
Smelga. So yeah, take that with a grain of salt. So I'm gonna stick this styrofoam cone
onto his head. I just hollowed it out a little bit with some scissors so that it sits on
his lumpy head a bit better. Then I put a bunch of glue on the inside of the cone and
around the outside rim and I stuck it on. I don't know how they do it in other countries
but here in America when you're wearing a traffic cone on your head, it means it's your
birthday. Just another American tradition, don't question it. Not everything is supposed
to make sense. Now you stick a sock on it and bunch it up and slide it down on that
cone. It looks like a pointy beanie. He got it on sale at Hot Topic. Not sponsored. I'm
just gonna give Paul a little break while I work on the others. I do want to accessorize
all of them and make them look cooler but I'll do that at the end. Helga's the good
witch, she's a happy little hippie who likes collecting shiny rocks for absolutely no reason.
She has about 54 bowls of them around her house and she says that each rock has its
own individual energy, whatever that means. It works out though because I just give Helga
a shiny rock for her birthday and she's more than happy. *Ooo a rock, YASSSS* She also
collects countless books about herbs although she never gardens unless you count her mini
terrariums, which at this point I think might be fake. I haven't seen those succulents grow
even an inch. I bet she waters em just to act like she has a green thumb. Not all of
the books are about herbs though, she has a collection of everything from Edgar Alan
Poe to Shakespeare. Don't ask her to quote them though, she doesn't actually read em.
They're just part of the facade. She also gets a ton of herbal tea even though she hates
the stuff. I don't know, girls just don't make sense! I hope you're getting your fill
of gossip today Kunjal. She pours us both a cup whenever I go to visit her yet I've
never actually seen her take a single sip. That's ok, I haven't either. You can't trust
a gnome, even if she is the good witch. Making the body of the other gnomes is the same thing
as Paul's. Fuzzy. For Helga's hair I used the same kind of fur that I used for Paul's
beard, just a different color. I cut two strips of fur and glued em together for each of her
ponytails and then I glued them onto her face. I rubber banded the bottom of them to make
it more obvious that they're pony tails. Helga's hair is kinda poofy. This is what happens
when you spend too much time in the great outdoors and humidity strikes. How do I know
humidity struck? Because Helga will always mention how much of a mess her hair has become
because of the humid weather. Not that there's really much of a difference in how her hair
actually looks. It's just that she's really dramatic when it comes to her hair. Next up
is Smelga, the EVIL witch. Smelga was supposed to look all fancy and elegant but she looks
like she just crawled out of a dumpster. I've never braided hair before so just cut me some
slack. *What have I done?* She got a little disheveled while hanging out with Paul. She
leaves a path of chaos everywhere she goes. She doesn't even mean to most times. Careful
when you try to open up the door to Smelga's place, it's barricaded by a pile of trash
and clothes and everything in between. Not intentional, that's just how she lives. *This
is a judgement free zone*. She once found a rat living in one of the piles, she decided
to adopt it and name it Chucky. Please stop making eye contact with the rat Bloo, it's
self conscious. Smelga is head over heels for Paul, she talks about him ALL the time.
*Ooo I see you had some Oreos today, kissy kissy* *Editing Loon: I don't know if I should
leave this in so I'm just going to* They do argue a lot about pointless stuff. Trust me
Paul, when she says she's fine, she's not fine. I learned that the hard way. Now I'm
going to add some accessories. Paul's a pretty simple guy, I kept him kinda basic. He basically
just has a big silver chain wrapping around his hat. He's goth and he likes silver chains,
not much else to it. Helga the good witch likes to decorate her hat with flowers, feathers
and vines, really anything she finds on her driveway. She's going for that whole save
the planet vibe but I swear I once saw her throwing plastic in the garbage can. Each
of the gnome sisters have their own amulet. It's the source of their power. Smelga also
has a chain wrapping around her hat just like Paul, that's how you know they're a couple.
Oh and of course witches need their brooms. I found a few sticks in the yard and had these
little grass things so I just glued them together and wrapped some black wire around them. I
painted Smelga's broom black and I tried to make it look a little more banged up. Smelga's
not a bad driver, Paul's the one who crashed it. And now it's time for some blush. Just
using a paint brush to spread some blush on their nose to add a little bit of color. It's
hard to get Smelga and Helga in the same room, but I've managed to do it somehow. Here's
everybody. *Awkward transition ghost: Help me, help me! Fred's resume is pretty impressive.
I need you to like and comment or he might take my job. cries*