UPDATED Oct 2011

 

dress up store bought plastic skeletons in (old clothes you no longer wear) add hats & jewelry!

next, attach them securely to small chairs & put them in a real great place!

spray paint old tea cups (black) make your own tea bag labels (use a light colored table cloth so tea cups will show up.)

and have a scary tea party!

idea from Lady Michaela

 

at halloween buy up all the fabrics you like and cut out squares to make a quilt

gothic colored quilts - Lady Michaela

 

a new how-to project: HOW TO MAKE A PARASOL FROM AN UMBRELLA

 

 

 

my friend dani made a doll of 'yours truly'  - Lady Michaela

 

Give your gothic friends their gifts in coffin shaped boxes.    - Lady Michaela

This idea can only be done if you own your own property (LOL.) Every Halloween,

 I buy the best faux tombstones I can find, for the purpose of adding to my year-round backyard cemetery. ~ Lady Michaela

 

 

 Goth Craft Idea in Pictures  thanks Lady Evyan!

Danisa:  This is just something I thought of when I looked at the cake. For people who don't have a heart-shaped cake pan, they can use a square pan and a circular pan and bake two cakes, and cut the circle cake in half. It makes a great heart.

 

This is the Jack Skeleton birthday cake my friends made me for my 16th birthday.

 It's a chocolate-coated vanilla cake with some powdered sugar on top (Jack's face drawn with fingers :P)   --from Debbie

Yummy Ice Cream cone Cupcakes you can find black icing with the "over the hill" stuff just scrap off 'over the hill" and you can have tombstone on your cupcake!! along with the black icing and black sprinkles   ~ from PetuniasOwner

Lady Michaela: I made this birthday cake for my friend Phil. It has a scarey tree with skulls hanging from it. Black icing. Halloween bat garland at the base.   - Lady Michaela

here is a doll costume i made of my friend phil, the doll looks just like him - (i got the doll on ebay) - Lady Michaela

 

October decorative table wear for a gothic is ok to use all year long    - Lady Michaela

 

Make your own table center piece with black silk roses (easily found on ebay.)    - Lady Michaela

or your own special occasion bouquets     - Lady Michaela

 

When someone special to you likes something you don't, give the gift of both worlds.  My husband likes Disney world,

so I bought a Minnie Mouse doll & made her gothic then gave him the doll for Valentine's Day.  - Lady Michaela

not really being a big fan of betty boop (above), I bought her anyway & altered her...I don't think Betty ever looked better.  - Lady Michaela

bat dolls!!   - Lady Michaela

 

display all your goth treasures in one area of your home, this is my breakfast nook.   - Lady Michaela

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 Family Bat Tree idea from Beth of Maryland

with a complete direction guide on how to make the bats if you click the tree!

 

* Jennifer from: The Fabrics Network, Inc.   says: Wash black items with Ivory Snow liquid for less fading!!  Wash in cold water also.  

* The best black dye is the industrial dye available from www.dharmatrading.com. Super easy to use & quite effective. All you do is put the packet of dye into the washer in a hot load & let it run about 20 min.  (I re-run the wash cycle five times) Search for industrial dyes at dharma.   - Lady Michaela

use this dye:  http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/1765-AA.shtml?lnav=dyes.html


I made dolls of Frankenstein and his bride for my boyfriend and I.  The angle of the bride isn't great and you can't really see Frakenstein's bolts very well, but they were fun to make.  I hope I made Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester proud.   -Hannah

 

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