Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Monday, November 5, 2012

Weeping Angels are Scary...

I'm sure you're well aware that I'm kind of a nerd.  If not, I suggest that you take a peek at the title of this blog.  It's easy to read since I still haven't gotten around to 'Shopping a nifty header for it, so the name looks all boring.

Anyway, I'm pretty obsessed with Doctor Who, so I decided that I wanted to make a Who-themed pumpkin for Halloween.  But what to make?  I saw some TARDIS templates online, but I like making faces on pumpkins.  That's when I realized that there's nothing scarier than a Weeping Angel.  I don't know why, but they creep me out more than any other Who monster.  They're terrifying.  I found a couple of templates, but I didn't think I had quite enough pumpkin carving talent to pull them off.  Plus, my printer was out of ink.  I decided to free-hand a template of my own.  This was a major accomplishment for someone like me who never quite progressed beyond the ability to draw stick figures.  This is what it looked like:


Then I taped it to my hollowed out pumpkin and traced it with a poking stick (I'm assuming this has a technical name, but I have no idea what it is.) so that I could carve along the dotted lines.


This was the final result.  It's pretty scary if I do say so myself.  DON'T BLINK!


Oh, and since I'm such a huge nerd, I decided that it would be fun to dress up as the Tenth Doctor.  A perfectly timed gust of wind helped my hair live up to Ten's awesomeness in this picture.


Don't even blink.  No seriously, don't do it.