Ghost Containment System

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Capturing Ghosts using the GCS

(Ghost Containment System)

I told you I still had another little spirit flying around the house.

I created this little ghost containment system to capture him yesterday.

It turned out so well. 

I am on the look out to find other things to make into more containers.

I've had this odd glass cylinder with wood lid and base for quite awhile.

I was just waiting for inspiration to hit.

The other day I decided it was just the thing to capture a ghost in.

But it needed sprucing up first.

I purchased the wood finial at Michael's and glued it to the top with wood glue.

Then all I had to do was spray paint it silver.

At that point, it looked really nice...but I wanted it to sparkle as much as my mercury glass collection.

So out came the Martha Stewart glitter and a little spray adhesive.

I've been using this combo on pumpkins with great success.

I'll show a project soon.

That Martha, she knows her glitter. Her glitter really is the best. 

So after the sliver spray paint dried for a couple of hours. 

(Metallic spray paint always takes longer than regular spray paint to dry.)

I sprayed the whole thing with the spray adhesive.

I let it dry a minute or so. So that it is not wet but just tacky.

Then, I began alternating sprinkles of Martha Stewart silver and smoky quartz glitter 

till the entire piece was covered. 

(I mixed the two colors to get a slightly tarnished silver shade that went perfectly with my mercury glass)

I rubbed it in with my hands till every bit of it was covered. 

The resulting finish is surprisingly smooth.

Not like what you normally think of for something covered in glitter. 

It's almost like silver leaf.

I love the effect and can't wait to try it on something else.

I'm seriously thinking about doing this to a piece of furniture.

It's sparkly enough to hold it's own against the mercury glass. 

To read about the other little ghosts that I captured a few days ago...read this post.

I had originally thought I'd do this in black...but I love silver and I can use it at Christmas too. 

And surprisingly, silver works quite well for Halloween. 

Especially if it's tarnished but seems even if it's not...it works.

I'm linking up at

My Painted Halloween Challenge

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Little Ghosts All Around

I am the Ghost Whisperer

I spent the day with my little ghostie friends.

Communicating with the never dead.

You have to keep these little spirits contained or they get into mischief.

Seems they do like to have their picture taken.

I'm busy making more containers to trap these little beings in. 

These little spirits are of course super easy to create. I've made them in years past out of tissue paper but 

this year I decided to make them a little more stable and made them out of Interfacing. 

Actually, the tissue paper ones had lasted a couple of years...but I'm always afraid they will tear. 

So I made these new ones that I don't have to worry about.

To make them, just draw a free form ghost on a piece of paper to the approximate size needed 

for the container.

You can hold up the drawing to the container to make sure it looks like it will fit. The tippy top of the 

ghost needs to touch the roof of the container and the bottom of the ghost need to touch the bottom 

of the container. Then just cut it out and hold it to the interfacing and draw around with an ink pen. 

Give yourself a little room around the pattern...adding a little all away around because when you cut 

them out, you don't want to cut on the line you've drawn but instead inside the line so that your ink line 

does not show. And be sure to give yourself plenty of a tip at the top of his head to tape to. You'll put 

scotch tape at the very tippy top of his head and tape to the inside of your ghost container.

The great thing about using interfacing is...you only have to put a little tape at the top and the weight 

of the fabric makes it hang straight. When I've used tissue paper...I've had to tape the bottom too 

which is tricky.

I used a medium weight interfacing...one slightly see through but not as thin as some.

These make me ghoulishly happy. I have one flying around the house free now...because I'm making 

him a container to trap him in. I'll show soon. I can't decide if I should make the container black or silver. 

I'm really into silver this Halloween. I would have done all silver and white pumpkins but the budget 

does not allow. I probably would have painted my existing pumpkins but all my pumpkins are the kind 

with glass beads and glitter which I love....but not paintable. 

Let me know if you do any ghost whispering.

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