brecho cheapchic: Ding Dong the Witch is Dead! (or smooshed witched legs on my front porch for Halloween!)

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead! (or smooshed witched legs on my front porch for Halloween!)

My front porch is officially looking pretty spooky! Eek! Is that a ghost??!!

Okay, okay, I know I'm a dork and I had a little too much fun with the editing this morning! But I do want to show you the "Wicked Witch of the East" legs and sign I made for my Halloween porch decorations.

It all started with a bit of inspiration. First of all, the movie, duh. But mostly the ubiquity of cute witch leg crafts I started seeing last fall and have lasted through many a Wizard of Oz themed party blog post. Like this one:

credit: Diary of a Crafty Lady

And then I heard Krylon had this new amazing glitter spray and I had to try it! (It's that compulsive craft addiction! Do they have rehab for this???)

I had a pair of pointy patent leather black heels that were getting too hammered to keep wearing so they found a new use:

disclaimer: patent leather is NOT a good vehicle for this spray. It works, but it bubbles and slips and looks very amateurish. Good enough for one side to show on my porch, mostly in dusky light. I would choose spray adhesive and straight up glitter next time if I was using patent leather.

Then I stuffed striped tights (children's from after Halloween clearance last year) with polyfill and hot-glued the feet into the heels. And I used glue dots to shove the top of the tights into the wedge of patio/wall. We'll see how well that holds through the season...

There they are on the right side! I wanted you to see the full effect minus the special effects:

I made this sign to hang with it on picnik:

If you want to use it, you can. I just saved the image onto my computer, then inserted it into a word document and printed it on scrapbook paper so I wouldn't use up tons of ink: