i love going to the dollar store i've been there a lot it's affordable it's a very casual affair
there's walmart and then there's the dollar store
so the first thing i'm going to be customizing from the dollar store is this board i think it's
like a mini charcuterie chartreuse charcuterie board someone help me i don't know how to
pronounce things and no one around me knows how to pronounce things so i just never learn
it says today's menu eat it or starve it's not made of wood it's like chipboard or whatever i
mean it was only like a dollar you gotta bring your expectations down from walmart to dollar
store it's faux wood they even pasted this faux wood background on it to really sell the look
i'm sold the background is already starting to lift up i did notice that when i was in the
store i figured since i'm giving it a makeover anyways it doesn't really matter too much i
tried just tearing off the background it didn't come off so easily i even used some acetone to
try to rub it off you probably could get this paper off if you really wanted to but i'm sleep
deprived so i just got it as smooth as i could and then covered it up with some paint you can
probably see a little bit of texture if you're looking closely stop looking so closely thank you
but if you turn it around all the texture disappears it's magic i covered up the whole thing
in several layers of black and now i've ended up with this a nice clean slate i'm gonna do a little
rough sketch here in some white colored pencil i'm drawing a chef he's a well-known chef on the dark
side a five michelin star chef whatever that means i affectionately refer to him as the cannibal pig
he also goes by butcher pig they're the same guy he's a pig and he likes to eat little cute
chubby piglets gruesome stuff i know it's not the darkness and chaos you expected but the cannibal
pig sounds pretty evil to me since a chartreuse board how do you say it i'm just gonna look it up
a charcuterie board is usually in the kitchen so i just thought a chef would be a natural fit
he roasted up a fat little piglet for dinner that he's presenting on a nice big platter
painting the piglet on a flat surface is a lot easier than trying to recreate it on a squishy
it still kinda looks like a blob though i wanted to add like a shadow behind the piglet
the dark pink was supposed to add depth that was the intention i really liked the message
on the board that it originally came with so i decided to keep that eat it or starve
what a beautiful message so beautiful to make sure this piece lives on forever i varnished it with
some glossy varnish i don't have any cheese or grapes but here's some leftover dominoes
same vibe i wouldn't actually recommend eating off this board i don't know if that's sanitary or
legal it's more for decor moving on i also picked up some frogs at the dollar store
they're not just any frogs though they're friends forever frogs a lot of you guys really liked the
plushie makeover i did in my five below video so i've decided to make over some more little stuffed
characters this time around i'm gonna be a little more brave and actually add some paint on the
frogs i am a little scared to paint directly on them but i figured it's fine since they were only
a dollar 25. the thing about painting plushies is that once you get some paint on there there's no
going back i wanted him to have an open mouth so i tried making that but it's not easy painting on
plushies it's almost as though they're not meant to be painted on i added in some teeth frogs don't
actually have teeth he's an original one of a kind not bound by the rules of society or biology
for that matter i'm not painting over the whole frog i want to keep their soul
intact just add a few changes to make them more silly more my style his eyes were looking too
normal so i upped the level of freak on him by adding some bushes untamed bushy eyebrows
lovely i used slick paint to add in a thick tongue and also some drool i do have a lot more i want to
add to him but first i'm gonna work on the girl frog she looks similar same bushy eyebrows they
look identical but there's no relation the fact that they're so similar is merely a coincidence
unlike the guy frog she's actually wearing some makeup she's keeping it simple for today other
times she goes all out i just didn't want to scare you guys this time her makeup is a little smudged
but i think she still pulls off the look give her a break i'm going for a good versus evil
theme with these frogs i took some felt and cut it out into the shape of wings these are for the girl
she's the good frog the sparkle bug an angel with wings oh my god i hot glued her wings onto the
back she has a shiny little halo that i shaped out of a pipe cleaner i also added in some floral wire
around the halo i wanted the halo to look like it's floating then i started stabbing the sparkle
butt just creating a head wound for her halo to fit into wouldn't want that slipping off i tried
pushing the halo in but i wasn't sure if it would stay so i added some hot glue and then stabbed
it back in hopefully that'll keep it in place she's also holding some lettuce or bok choy or
celery or whatever this is i called it lettuce in a previous video and everyone started freaking out
apparently it's not lettuce but there wasn't really a general consensus as to what it is
so i'm not exactly sure what to call it now it's whatever you want it to be art is subjective it's
open to interpretation look at it here's lettuce here's bok choy here's celery i fail to see the
difference but anyways she's holding some veggies because she's a vegetarian she's the good frog
she wouldn't hurt a fly alright back to the dark side this guy has some devil horns delicately
hot glued onto his head he also has a little devil's tail poking out of his butt whenever
i cut something off a squishy i usually keep the scraps just in case i ever need him again i picked
out this little squishy part to turn into a fly unlike his goody two-shoes counterpart the evil
frog has no problem whatsoever devouring some protein he's managed to catch an unsuspecting
fly on his tongue i couldn't find any squishy parts that would work for the wings so i just
made them out of felt i kept the little fly pretty simple and derpy looking they're very
different but also very similar that's why they're friends forever and ever how beautiful
i'm getting emotional now let's move on we can all move on
the next thing i picked up at the dollar store is this love meter i guess this is
how you're supposed to tell people how much you love them on a scale of i prefer my pets
i guess you'll do it's not gonna stay a love meter i'm giving it a makeover that's what this channel
is about that's what i do so to paint it i mixed up four shades of red three of which look like
they're the same shade but they're not there's a red a lighter red and even lighter red and pink i
unscrewed the arrow i'm going to keep the essence of this thing the same it's still going to be a
meter but now it's going to be used to gauge how evil a person is i chose this color range because
i guess i thought it was a good variation of good to evil i can't make a straight line so i pulled
out a ruler i wanted everything to look nice and centered things still turned out slightly
off-center but that's okay i painted over the love meter signage at the bottom too i'm sketching out
some characters on it frogs they're the frogs i just gave a makeover to the friends forever frogs
i made the eyes on this handsome devil look a bit more deranged than his original design
he still has a yellow belly she still has um a pink belly everything's the same well except for
this little spelling error that was that was an oversight how embarrassing i did eventually get
around to fixing my little mistake don't talk about it whenever i use mod podge or liquid
varnish a lot of the time it smudges the paint no matter how long i let it dry this thing was drying
for like two days so that's kind of a bummer plus it always leaves like a sticky residue that's why
lately i prefer using mr super clear or spray varnish it works a lot better in my opinion you
have to wear a mask and stuff and obviously do it outside but i feel like that's worth it this honey
and boo boo laptop desk that i painted for my fiance i originally had sealed with liquid varnish
when she used it the paint actually chipped off a bit here i then went back and sealed it all again
with mr super clear and that's been working a lot better so yeah gold star to mr super clear
i think the friends forever frogs look really cool together and even cooler next to their evil
meter for those of you wondering the cannibal pig falls into the sprinkle spice category
sprinkle spices are a scary bunch i'm looking at you sprinkle spices i know who you are
click to watch more or get your sparkly butt out of here you