Animal Sculptures, Paper Mache Recipes and Projects

Paper Mache Shrunken Head

This post should be filed under the “I can’t believe I spent three days making this thing!” category. I don’t really need a shrunken head. But it’s Halloween… I can remember seeing some real shrunken heads (or fake ones, I hope) when our family visited the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle when I was [...]

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Paper Mache Masks from Cory and his 8th grade class

You will all remember Cory and his students from his previous guest posts, so no introduction is needed. Fabulous masks – what a great art class! Here’s the email Cory sent in with the photos: Jonni, It’s Cory from Royal Valley Middle School again (we made the panther and the the Sarcophagus). I thought that [...]

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Genivieve’s Demonic Wraith Mask

Genivieve submitted her mask, titled “Demonic Wraith,” to our online Halloween Mask Party. I love the subtle way the wraith’s skull is painted. (That reflection through the eye socket – it looks almost alive, doesn’t it?) Here’s a photo of the mask before painting: Thanks, Genivieve, for sharing this wonderful mask.

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Quick Post – Jessie’s Having a Benefit Auction for Every Mother Counts

This is going to be a fast post. We have another mask post coming this afternoon, I think, but I wanted to make sure nobody missed Jessie’s benefit auction. Jessie will donate 100% of the final bid to the charity Every Mother Counts. (Check out the movie on the site to see why this is [...]

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Scorpiumpkin – A Paper Mache Monster

Wow – yesterday “Skwirl” sent us her submission for the Halloween Mask Party. Not a mask, certainly, but definitely creepy! What an imagination! In a comment Skwirl sent in recently, she called this creature a “paper mache pumpkin scorpion thingy.” It now has an official name – Scorpiumpkin. (You can see more of that deadly [...]

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The New Community Blog is Ready for Your Ideas

This is going to be a fast post today. I have no new artwork to share, and we haven’t received any new masks lately (the ghosts will be arriving any day now, folks – time’s flying by fast. Submit your Halloween-related items here and show them off to the world.) But I did manage to [...]

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How to Make a Simple Paper Mache Mask

Monica Franco sent us some excellent instructions for making a simple paper mache mask. Thanks, Monica, for submitting your guest post for our online Halloween Mask Party! And now, here’s Monica: I made a simple wearable mask by 1) cutting cardboard into the rough shape of a head 2) build up the facial features (use [...]

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Full-Sized Paper Mache Elephant Created for High School Opera Performance

Back in May Dianna Duffy left this comment on our blog: Our high school was fortunate to receive the first license in the state of Mississippi this year (and across an 8 state area) to perform the Phantom of the Opera after being released to the public. After performing 5 nights locally to more than [...]

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Need Help Naming a New Website about Intentional Communities…

UPDATE: a name has been chosen. Thanks to everyone who submitted suggestions, even if I didn’t use your idea for the name of the new site. Now I hope you’ll all start thinking about how you would describe your ideal community – your ideas will be the core of the new site. Original post: While [...]