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Halloween brings out the crafter in us all.

Somehow October flew by me at unprecedented speeds, and because of this I didn’t have a lot of time to hype myself up for it. The pressure of trying to put together a costume and something to bring to the work bakesale probably helped me with my creativity. With no time to languish in creative-thinking hell, I set straight to it.

Firstly, my Halloween costume:

Rabbid & Manny Calavera

That is me as a Rabbid (from Rayman Raving Rabbids fame), and my boyfriend as Manny Calavera from Grim Fandango.  I wore this to work but did not win any costume prizes. However, I got some wonderful responses while out on the street and was in more than a few strangers photos! I’d love to see them, but have no way of finding them. If you were out near kensington in Toronto and took a pic of/with me I’d love to see it!

This is what I used to make the costume:

• Posterboard
• Felt
• Acrylic Paint
• Styrofoam balls
• leggings/leg warmers
• and old shirt
• papier mache (over a balloon)
• a lot of moxie (and tape)

Basically I created a large tube to sit on my shoulders out of the posterboard, cut out an area for the face and taped it up. Then I stuck an inflated balloon into the top and papier mache’d over it so the dome would be joined to the tube. I used sharpies and paint on the eyes, and the same for the mouth/face area.  It’s a bit hard to see but I did even have a plunger! Bwaaah!

The other craft item I made was the Pumpkin Cake:

Pumpkin-o-lantern Cake

It was made using 2 betty crocker cake mixes (French Vanilla for the Pumpkin, Chocolate for the dirt patch), home made cream cheese frosting + a can of store bought chocolate frosting, oreo cookie crumbs and fondant.

Using a sphere cake pan, we carved out the shape of a pumpkin, covered it with fondant and used the end of a knife to score the lines. We added the stem and the vine and put it on the the base, which was covered in oreo cookie crumbs for the ‘dirt’ effect. It was my first time covering a cake and fondant and I think it worked so well because pumpkins are lumpy by nature.

I’ve decided that I need to craft something once a month. Since there are no major holidays in November, I’m not sure where my inspiration will come from but hopefully I’ll find it.

Happy Halloween!

Lego Batman Video Game Cake!

Two posts in one day! This is important.

First there was Lego. Then there was Star Wars. Then there was the brilliance that was Lego Star Wars. Following that was the Genius that is Lego Star Wars the VIDEO GAME (See the trend here? Taking things Anitabot likes and combining them).  Seeing how well that did, Lego Indiana Jones was born, followed by probably the best of the series: Lego Batman the Video Game. (I’m playing it right now, I like it a lot). I didn’t think it could get any better than this, but then i find out (through JessPlease) that for the launch party of the game (to which I was somehow not invited to – must have gotten lost in the mail), Elissa Strauss (the writer of the “Confetti Cakes” book that I own and swear by) created a LEGO BATMAN VIDEO GAME CAKE.

That is just a series of words that are things I like:
Lego
Batman
Video Game
Cake

This is almost as awesome as when Aardman decided to make a Wallace & Gromit movie that featured BUNNIES.  (Awesomer than that would be a Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit video game cake). 

Anywho, Here is a picture I found from Elissa’s Confetti Cakes Blog. I can’t believe I didn’t find these earlier!

Click on the pic/links to go to her post

(all photos belong to the Confetti Cakes Blog)

Lego Batman Video Game Cake

Le Swoon!  I think I need to make a Lego Anitabot … and then game… followed by cake. with bunnies.

Tags: baking, batman, Bunnies, cake, lego, lego batman, video games

Maybe HUEY is the jerk?!

When does THIS:

Huey gets pets

turn into THIS:

Baron's Face after being Huey'd

The answer is when a slightly hyper bunny gets a bit of air blown in his face… He pounced on Aaron teeth first. Maybe HUEY was the one who just attacked an innocent Chompy? Maybe Huey is an ever bigger jerk. Dear lord – what have I gotten into?!?

PS, click on the FIRST picture to see Huey’s chomp bite, and click onthe second to see the gory details that is Aarons Huey-chomp.

PPS. I am working on a Friday Five List-o-Matic. Maybe I woudl have finished on time if you guys suggested topics! I kid dear reader, I love you – t’is not your fault! It will be a special Saturday edition. Ooh. Blood free too I think!

Tags: blood, Bunnies, bunny bites

Monty Python weren’t lying when they said “death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth”.

Fairly accurate depiction of a rabbit.

I’m useless in the mornings. I’m always rushing, forgetting things. Yesterday I forgot to shut the bedroom door. Chompy lives free-range in the bedroom. Normally this would be fine, as she rarely wants to leave the bedroom, but it wasn’t because yesterday Huey aka Houdini-Bunny escaped his pen AGAIN, and found his way into the bedroom. It really doesn’t sound like a big deal that they would hang out, but as they are not bonded, it is. Why?

RABBITS ARE FREAKIN’ VICIOUS.  Rabbits have sharp teeth. They use them… on each other… Baron came home to find clumps of fur EVERYWHERE, along with a bit of dried blood on a cardboard box. I was able to inspect Huey, and found no less than 4 bite marks, one on his back being quite bad.  I haven’t been able to touch Chompy to see if she has any – but I would expect at least some.  The bunnies are sepparated, Huey’s wounds cleaned and cage double reinforced, Chompy’s room door tightly shut.

This is going to set back their “bonding” process for a while… which means we’re going to have to keep them sepparated for even longer.  We also are going to have to watch these cuts closely to make sure they dont’ get infected, they could require stitches or some other reason to visit the vet

I shouldn’t be surprised – just because rabbits are cute, and totally innocent looking – I should remember the lessons of Monty Python… Rabbits are completley vicious, capable of tearing skin with razor sharp teeth. 

This isn’t the type of mid-week updated I wanted to make… and surely most of you don’t care… but I feel so bad that my little bit of carelessness resulted in some major harm to my babies!

Hopefully I’ll have better news for the next post!