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I’m going to be creating three dolls starting this week and needed an armature stand to do them. They will be in a sitting position so I needed them to be supported while I worked on and posed them.

I found an armature stand How-to on Noadi’s site on Squidoo.

Here is a link to the How-to in .PDF format, there is a link to the video on the .PDF if you are more of a visual learner like I am. The How-to was posted from iSculpt.org which has much useful info on Sculpting.

The stand took me roughly 20 minutes to build, not including the few minutes it took me to cut the hinge with my Dremel, sparks pretty. I bought the threaded rods in the sizes I needed so I didn’t have to cut them.

Here is my finished product…

I ran across these how-to’s over on Pumpkin Rots blog a while ago and decided I had to have a few of these. I’ve started the heads, which I’m not going to leave as just wig heads. Plus, I’m going to make a few that look like they are coming out of a wall, so some will have 1/2 bodies, some 1/4 bodies, etc.

Here is the link to the how to at www.Oct31st.org.

So I decided to go a’searching for some Halloween crafting ideas and decided to start over at PumpkinRot’s blog. After all I had to see what he has masterfully created lately right?

So check out what I found and absolutely love.

Click on image to go directly to the Witch Jar blog entry.

For those of you that live in the world of paper mache creation, also known as paper mache that has driven you to insanity, there is a video that will drive you to green eyed monster jealousy. Why? You ask. Well…if your like me your one hatred of paper mache would be the patience it takes between layers…. the waiting and waiting. Watch the video and you will see my point.

P.S. I thank Jillian for gifting me by pointing me towards the video.