And we are back for the remainder of 2018 after our usual summer break. It's almost (10 days left) to Halloween, and we spent some time setting up Halloween decorations in our book store. We'll be doing a bunch of posts leading up the big day, showing off all our seasonal decorations
But first, our store:
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| New books on the mantel, with Halloween paper sculptures |
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| The bulk of the books, vintage textbooks and modern YA fantasy |
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| Another fancy paper sculpture, next to an antique globe from a yard sale |
We've been collecting all sorts of cute things from going to garage sales this last year in Vermont. The globe was a find from last fall. But that's enough about the books. We'll cover our new books in detail later. Now for the glorious glorious candy store.
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| The owl is back to guarding the candy cart |
Just having chocolate frogs isn't enough anymore. We went all out in our candy collection this year.
We have the traditional candy, penny candy, chocolate bars, and all. And then we have the Honeydukes cart (with owl) and display case. For all of the candy. Ever.
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| Pies, pumpkin pasties, cauldron cakes, madelines, and more... |
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| Exploding bon bons, Bertie Botts Jelly beans, and butterfly wings |
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| Some fancy premium chocolates with envelope wrappers |
The final tally of Honeydukes cart and display is: 24 chocolate frogs (all with frogs inside), 12 boxes of sugared butterfly wings (6 with pretend candy, the rest stuffed with beads for weight), 4 boxes of cauldron cakes (each with a cake inside), 12 bags of peppermint toads (weighted with glass beads), 12 bags of fudge flies (more beads), 8 boxes of salt water taffy, 8 boxes of Drobble's bubble gum, 8 boxes of exploding bon-bons, 12 boxes of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and 6 boxes of black pepper imps (all weighed with glass beads, but otherwise the packaging is sealed). Oh, and 8 bars of Honeydukes branded chocolate (aluminum foil over craft foam, with a paper wrapper)
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| Want to guess how many individual pieces of candy are in this setup? |
And if you managed to stick around this long, we have a treat for you: the Halloween banner we're using to decorate our concession stand.
The original banner can be found HERE. (Yes, it's another papercraft from Canon Creative. The human loves their designs, and they always shrink down well.)
The resized version for doll is HERE.
Stay tuned over the next week for all of our Halloween goodies!
As usual Cassie your stuff is fantastic. I look forward to all your stuff as soon as it comes out.
ReplyDeleteAwesome as always!
ReplyDeleteCassie, when you print the Canon stuff. Do you print at 33% to get 18 inch doll size? I see a lot of their stuff on your shelves and since the dolls are 1:3 scale I think that's the right printing percentage.
ReplyDeleteI actually set the printer options to 'print 4 pages per sheet of paper' or 'print 2 pages per sheet of paper' depending on the complexity of the craft in question. For perfect scale, I set it to 'print 9 pages per sheet of paper', which is what I did for the banner. But a lot of the crafts are really too complex to scale down that small. 'Print 4 pages per sheet' works most of the time. 'Print 2 pages per sheet' is what I use for really complex projects. Keep in mind when you scale down, the thickness of the paper doesn't change, so you start running into problems at some point.
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