I really love papier-mache.   I’m doing some Halloween crafting this year and am making treat containers. The pumpkin with the cat mask in the photo above is my inspiration, or one of them at least.  Being able to flip through a binder of Halloween themed magazine pages for inspiration makes it worth the ordeal of organizing them, let me tell you.

I have cut the eyes out and am using paper clay to build up my features and then I will follow with more layers of newspaper.  I am a little (okay, a lot) unhappy with the oval shaped they have dried into and am trying to talk myself into being okay with it by saying things like “They look homemade!” and “Real pumpkins are shaped funny too!”

Ill let you know how that works out.

Anyway…as much a I love this part of the process, I can tell you that I am really looking forward to the glittering. I don’t glitter as much as I should, really.