Altered Halloween House

Our miniature club- Ketchup Club- is currently working on making an altered Halloween House. Using the basic instructions and dimensions from the “America’s House” (May post).

We all have the same acrylic case for display, the only rule is that anything we build has to fit within the cube- we are using basic boxes as the structure and after that- anything goes.

Susie is making a castle. She used plaster wrap for texture on the bottom, she has a moat with an alligator. The top is painted and the top built from a toilet paper roll (or a paper towel roll).

Lorene’s is bright and light. Currently the house is not haunted- she is advertising.

Karla’s is also bright and cheery; one of her boxes has a decorated exterior door. When we left for the day, she was thinking about making a lower level…to place her house on.

Barbara’s house is black and bare. She used “blue tac” to stick her rooms together until she came up with a configuration she liked. Then she used white paint to outline the edges to assist with room placement. She is also using fabric scanned into her computer for wallpaper.

My house is also black, but by the end of our day, I had papered the interior of 6 rooms.
I used “post-it” stickers with numbers for room placement. I plan on using the “Betterley’s” Halloween furniture kits inside my rooms. The papers I am using are purposely on the quiet side- but once everything is in – it will pop.

Making simple boxes ended up being more challenging then we thought. Once you make all of the boxes you want then you work on placement- the real challenge is finding the shape you want then take it apart- wallpaper it and then put it back together again in the shape you decided on.

We have used digital camera, notes, markers to help with placement… part of the fun is letting the structure build itself.

I have started a new Yahoo group, “Altered Miniatures”. I just posted a challenge for others to join us in making a structure. It does not have to be Halloween theme-

Would you like to join us?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alteredminiatures/