Creepy and Fascinatng Ideas

Edible EYEBALLS are always good for a Creepy Halloween thrill:

Or, go for table decor. 

 It's a kinder, gentler,but less filling -effect:

NEXT, For your more, ah, advanced DIY consideration...

...Here's a rather COMPLICATED D-I-Y from 1870,

 which came about as result of 

the plague 400 years earlier:

 Known at the time as  

"The Great Mortality", "The Black Death" and "The Great Pestilence",

 the 14th century Plague led to ... an overabundance of bones.

They had to be stored in All Saints' Chapel

 after the local monastery's graveyard began to overflow .   

40,000 skeletons;

 Frantisek Rint arranged the  bones...

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 The chandelier is made with at least one of every bone in the human body. 

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Some of the skulls are resting on the knees of trumpet-playing angels...

Doesn't that make you HUNGRY?!?

TRY THIS Crazy-Snake CHEESE CALZONE:

Okay, creepy crafting,  gross eating, now it's time for  Cranial Costuming:

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A very cool DIY Tirck or Treat costume!

~the how-to is here~

The rest is up to you.

Happy Halloween Time!

xo

Valerie

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Amazing, Out-of-This-World Lighting

I found some unusual lighting today. Some of it is just beautiful, some of it really challenged me. Each fixture seems to suffer from some sort of Identity Crisis. That is my professional opinion....... I have some to show you.


The secret to this pendant's inability to appropriately connect is here:

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This clever lamp below, by Paul Cocksedge, thinks it is a vase that holds real flowers. Actually, I should say that it insists that it is a flower vase. The lamp goes OFF when the flower dies, and will not turn on again until you put in another fresh flower! Very stubborn lamp...and lovely.

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This next pair just cracked me up!

I found these lamps today via Bizzotto...statues of men and women with lampshades instead of heads.

My first thought: Creepy!

My second thought: well, if no young children are around, it's a fun, funny conversation piece. Still creepy...
Does anyone have any ideas on this?!

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This  Beau et Bien Ombrella  lamp thinks it is an umbrella. It works indoors and out, actually does provide shade, AND it's very pretty!

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This is a 1953 sconce by William Hanes that you may have seen. I absolutely LOVE it! :

The next two, huge chandeliers by David Dimpiero,
remind me of  graceful, modern, elongated flowers.
Beautiful!

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                   --detail--

And here is a " Chandelier Shower", by Bisazza Bagno. This is an over-the-top but wonderfully fun working shower head inside a glamorous array of crystals.

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These pendants, painstakingly made of handblown glass with small shards of blue, resemble planets.  via:  

 

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This triangular "suspension" is composed of 5  low-voltage halogen bulbs,
 " meant to focus light on a lnear work surface."

And below is a Ceramic Washbasin/Lamp.
Fascinating.

I guess it should go in the bathroom with the showerhead/chandelier!

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And here are some odd ones, Mannequin Lamps, that are sort of charming. Much better than the statues, huh?

My daughter would LOVE these:

      Such personality!

    This is the" Ra"  desk lamp, designed by Ettore Cimimi of Lumina Italia..
 A single bulb is in the base and the light travels up and out, onto the desk.
                                                               Hmm. Looks like a rattlesnake. S-S-S

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And then we have under-cabinet teacups...
not odd enough for THIS post...

and, uh, a cow abduction lamp by designer Lasse Klein. ha ha!

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And, thanks to the website of Technabob.com,  I found my all-time favorite. Kozo is the name of the line of these Faucet-and-Pipe lamps. The design is practical, sturdy, it has personality, it is not your average lamp, and, after looking over an Awful lot of Awful, it is very pleasing to this battered Eye:

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And the baby brother:

As the days grow shorter, I must go get a supply of full-spectrum bulbs...

                                                                           
                                                                                   ~vbk~