There is a serious sugar skull situation up in here.
Despite the fact that my co–worker declared my creations closer to Mexican wrestler than Mexican skeleton, I went and made some more.
Then I went and mixed them in with my Liberace pumpkins on a bookshelf. Now it looks like Liberace and Lucha Libre went to a Halloween party at that bilblioteca.
You see how I worked in my Spanish skillz there?
These skulls started out as $2 plastic decorations from Big Lots. Love me some Big Lots. I just scuffed them up, painted them white, the blobbed on some colors…some black outlines…some rhinestones. I didn’t buy anything for this project but the skulls. Just raided the junk drawer. This tells you something about the quality of craziness you will find in my junk drawers.
The lines on this one below look a little lighter because I used a permanent marker instead of black paint. The ink absorbed into the paint and faded quite a bit. Lesson learned. 
And here is the one I made last week on a paper mache mask.
Then, of course, right after I finished with these skulls on Friday, I was at Paper Source in Evanston with some friends on Saturday and what did I see? A sequin sugar skull coin purse. I mean.
It. Was. Mag. Nificent.
Twelve bucks. I didn’t buy it. Can you believe that? I may need to go back. We’ll see. In the meantime, I’m staring at this pictures and noticing how I could have done my skulls differently – a flower around one eye, a crown on the forehead, an inverted heart for a nose…and glitter. Well, not so much glitter as sequins. I need a skull of sequins. I need it bad.
Looks like someone will be making another trip to Big Lots…
Love these! I finished making my sugar skulls last week, now to decorate them. Over the weekend I baked my Pan De Muertos. Getting ready for the best holiday ever! Dia De Los Muertos
It is a fun holiday indeed. I might be more excited about De Los Muertos than Halloween this year. This is a first!
That is one impressive display there! Even though you have your books color coded.
Ha! Each shelf has it’s own general grouping and color grading…it’s surprisingly easy to find things.
Also, did you notice the glass balls hanging off the chandelier? Wonder where those could have come from? Hmmm….
Somebody color-betizes their books!
I know. Don’t judge. It’s better this way than the milk crate under the bed method I was using before.
I love the look of colourful painted things with sharpie marker dots, dashes, outlines, and stuff. Here is a good way to get great results without losing the look of the sharpie (I feel that you can get more stuff drawn with a sharpie and more clear instead of black paint)….. paint your skull with your acrylics, then mod podge over it to seal it. THEN add your sharpie bits all over. You can either leave it like that and add bling, or you can podge it again and add the bling. Either way will work fine. You dont have to podge over sharpie because it’s permanent like on a CD. But you get good lines and good clean work that way. Love Rook
That’s a great idea, thanks!
Your skulls are awesome……….jealous!!
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these look awesome 🙂 i love the colors and the bling combo!
Fabulous job! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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These are great skulls……do you think there is a way to apply “something” to make them look like they were made of sugar ??