Wait. What I meant to say was the ugliest doll in the world. Not the most beautiful baby. Sorry. My mistake.
He/she looks quite disturbing. I am disturbed.
I was in my local thrift store looking for glass eyes for a Halloween project I'm working on and came across this gal. She's/he's a beaut, isn't she/he?
Plus she (we're gonna go with she from here on in) has a stretchy head.
The doll had the eyes I was looking for, but smaller than I wanted. I plunked down the change and took her anyway. I figured I could do something with her.
Something like this ...
Which left me with this ...
Which with the addition of a glow stick inside ... gave me this.
Onto the bookshelf she will go until Halloween night when she'll be set somewhere in the grass just off the path to my front door.
The lesson here ... I started out with one idea, and ended up with something entirely different. Quite frankly ... something better. Probably 2 of the creepiest Halloween decorations I've ever come up with.
So if you ever find yourself in a similar situation where you can't quite get what you want ... don't worry ... something better really will come along. You may not be as lucky as me ... finding a grungy, broken, hideous doll ... but something equally good will come to you.
I got the idea for glowing eyes from a glow stick off the same post on the Internet many of you have probably seen. It involves a toilet paper roll, cutting eyes out of it and setting a glow stick inside.
As far as I can tell the idea originated here.
I of course had to take it one step further.
One step closer to disturbed.
Suanne
FREAKY! Now, I'm dying to find out about the glass eyeball project you mentioned.
Karen Boreham
I am sorry that was just is sick and demented and I love it so much.
Erica Filpi
Karen, I love it.
Moe
They're both pretty disturbing.. but cool.
I don't think I want to come to your house on Halloween.. I'm not a fan of being scared and I'm sure I'd be scared sh*tless.
Thank goodness I live a few provinces away. I'm getting shivers just thinking about it.
My Halloween decorations are boring by comparison. Jack O Lanterns... and that's it. lol
kathryn
brilliant. just brilliant.
Elle
Indeed very creepy! I'd love to see pictures of your house with all the Halloween decoratios in place!
MJ
Why oh why didn't I wait until morning to look at this post?
SK Farm Girl
OMG that thing in the yard would cause me to first off, pee my pants with fright, make me sleep with one eye open and pray to god that it doesn't "mysteriously" appear in my bed staring at me!!! Shivers and hee-bee-jee-bees just ran up my spine. Have to go to the bed with all the lights on sleep with covers over my head and radio on - boowaah!!! 'nite all, except you Chucky you can go do hell and STAY there . . .
Jo
Freakin' genius!!
Diane T.
"one step closer to disturbed"? I don't think so...I think you pretty much totally NAILED that entire "disturbed" thing,
So tell me..ya get a lot of small children trick or treating at YOUR house????
Betsy C
As a weird technical thing, when I have your blog open the past few days, the tab is blank. It used to have the title of the post or "The Art of Doing Stuff" (I can't remember), but now it is completely blank.
Karen
Betsy C - I've had that happen a few times myself. I think it's just a glitch. I'll ask my smarter person than me about it. (WayLay Design) ~ karen!
Betsy C
This thing is horrifying! Definitely achieved the creepy, icky, shiver vibe. Well done.
jen
i. am. never. sleeping. again.
Leena
It's horrible!
Nikki F.
Awesome and disturbing at the same time. You officially nailed it!
Amber E.
Hooooly crap. Does that thing take batteries? It should. It's fantastic either way. Now it needs some kind of creeptastical clothes!
Kristina
love creepy!! love Halloweeeen!! Zombie baby head is great!!
Jamieson
You are weirder than shark porn.
amyfaith
Yeah, but Karen's GOOD weird, not weird weird like 'dragons having sex with cars' porn. THAT's some seriously weird sh*t.
(did you ever notice that, after awhile, if you see a word repeated often it starts to look like gibberish. weird.)
Sarah
Love. Love. Love.
candace
Oh my dear god, this is horrifying. Good work!