Halloween Props

So, it may be a tad early, but I've already gotten my Halloween costume...and hat...and props all set up.

...What?

I'll be a witch this year, for anyone who cares to know, cause I've never been a witch before. I may dress up my garage too, though I'm not sure yet.

But anyway.

I wanted to share my homemade props, I'm quite proud of them.

See? See? SEE!? I made those! And the bag to cram them all in.

That was made of cardboard, fabric, and loads of ductape and tacky glue.  The vials all came from Ben Frankin's in Monroe. The vials are filled with all kinds of things I mixed together, some...okay, most were inspired by Harry Potter and various tutorials online.

My first HP inspired potion, and the most poisionus. Seriously, don't drink it, it's made from dark green paint, dishsoap, and a little cornstarch. Microwaved for 30 seconds, then refridgerated for 2 hours. Bon appitete!

A bodywash called Caress. Not as complex as the Polyjuice Potion, but you'd still be better off not digesting it. Curiously, it smells like cherries to me, lotus blossoms to my mom, and just regular soap to my little brother.

This one actually is edible, as it's just Diet Sprite! Though I'm sure it's rather flat by now.

This was the first one I made, so I'm not quite sure what all I put in it, but it mainly consits of cornstarch, water, and food coloring microwaved for 55 seconds.

I used Caress, from the Amortentia bottle for this, but mixed it with water and food coloring until I liked what I saw.

I found this tip in a tutorial somewhere, and if I ever find it, I'll link it back here. But basically, I tore out rope fibers from a rope we had out in the garage and stuffed them in the vial.

Bottled By Chalrie Weasley himself, folks! Or, yarn and cotton ball fuzz stuffed into a tiny glass vial...that works too.

This was an inside joke between some family members, but all I used was some ash we got from Mount Saint Helens...though I'm sure ashes from the fireplace would've worked just as well.

One of my favorites, all this is is corn syrup and red food dye. I also added some blue to give it a more realistic look. And, it tastes delicious! But be warned! Corn syrup is exceptionally sugary, so watch how much you feed to little kids.

My cat donated his fur for this one...not much more to say about it, is there?

All the labels were made with the help of bannerfans.com and their free banner maker, then were copy/pasted into word and resized to fit the vials. To age them, I mixed tan acrylic paint with a little water, coated them, and let them dry in the sun. I tried both hot glue and tacky glue to paste them on the vials, and found tacky glue worked best. If you want to see how the hot glue looked, scroll back up to the Mermaid Hair, as that is the only one I used it on.

I've also been thinking of making a spell book, what do you think? Too much?