Realistic Zombie Cupcakes for your Halloween Treats

MMMM tasty!!! 
These morbidly, delectable cupcakes are a DIY treat from  Instructable user SemadarG. Using fondant for the teeth, gums and flesh, the realism comes to life more with some food coloring and an arrangement of extracts. I think I'd be more successful just slicing off my own face than trying to attempt this. Really looks disturbingly real. 

Puppy Dress Up

 If you don't pay attention to my twitter then you won't know why I haven't been the greatest blogger lately. I got a puppy!!! Dexter is taking up all my time being super cute and teething. He noms me to death, likes to pee on the floor, and little humping action happens from time to time. This MinPin is one crazy pup. 

Speaking of crazy, dressing up dogs is something people love to do. So if I am to ever do so I better do it with class. A zombie puppy costume for your puppy seems like a little redundant but still looks funny and adorable. 

If that wasn't enough, the zombie lawn gnomes can inspire a great look for your pooch. 


That pooch looks thrilled. 

Welcome to my World

Besides being a zombie enthusiast or a unicorn tamer, I am a Library Technician for one of the local school divisions in my city. Part of my job that I love being able to do is decorate our library and being involved with activities....and scaring children. JK!

Since I love me some zombies I have pushed the whole zombie awareness month to our students (come to the dark side!!) and so glad at the response and involvement! I want to share with you now some photos of displays, crafts, and my home away from home :)

 Today in fact we did a craft with the Grade 3-5s, some younger and older students as well, and the craft was to create zombie rocks. I got the idea here but with some collaboration came up with putting googly eyes on to speed up the process and all the rocks were painted ahead of time. Kids just had to pick a rock, draw on what they wanted it to look like, then glue some eyes and paint on some white.  The one to the left is my example kids had to follow.
I know...I'm a true Picasso.  

 Some of the wee ones were given the option to draw themselves as zombies from this template. I even provided a sample again. SO proud of how these turned out. 

 My lovely and most awesomest Teacher Librarian, friend, and co-worker pumped out these zombies shambling their way into our YA section. READ BOOKS! Creates good brains!

 I know it is all tiny but if you look close I added some cute zombies to my children's display. Nothing like zombies frolicking in the flowers and butterflies to bring a smile to your face.

 Our zombie rocks this afternoon are now displayed in the Zombie Awareness display. SO adorbs! Some kids got a little crazy with the white paint but truly impressed how these look.

Mine is in the middle facing out :)

This is just the display as a whole. To make kids really think about survival rather than brain eating corpses, I promoted the survivalist approach in the display and I'm hoping I didn't cause any nightmares this month, besides my own after seeing some of the kids' art.

I think it is really important to get kids talking about survival in any instant, to promote some crafting, get kids reading, use their imagination and to freakin have some fun in the whole process.

Mission complete.

YouTubers you should follow

WARNING: LONG POST

Now I may follow and subscribe to many YouTubers but the best ones that I go back to based on their zombieness are two lovely ladies that take major pride at being totally weird, gory, and being beautiful doing so (both inside and out). 


Madeyewlook became a fav of mine last summer and I have been a dedicated Lexbot since. Lex, a 21 y.o. licensed esthetician and self-taught make-up artist, likes to rock some nerdy and scary looks, showcasing the oddball she is and her creativity has blossomed more and more. Lex does not shy away from zombies either which is how I found her and one of the reason I come back to watch.

She has done:

• the walking dead valentine 

• Christmas zombie 
  
• bug zombie
  
• bite mark special FX
  
• AHS Tate Makeup/Zombie Boy
  

AND 

• a zombie sock
  

Lex has all kinds of tutorials for everyone that it is no surprise she has over 1 million followers. Take a look at one of her most resent posts. Follow her on basically all social media.

Mykie of Glam&Gore is also that mix of creepy beautiful that I cannot get enough of. Also she is cute and whacko! Love it! Mykie says:

"The swiss army knife of makeup tutorials. Beauty. Special Effects. Avant garde. Industry advice. Products. Foundational teaching. There is something here for everyone, and if you hate makeup, I invite you to at least laugh at my strange face."

I started following Mykie last summer as well and she is relatively new but making waves in the industry and her videos are something different. 
Both Mykie and Lex have awesome personalities and have a sense a humor, key to being likable in my books.  Mykie and Lew original and willing to inspire their looks for others. I enjoy Mykie a lot since she can take anything pretty and turn it into gore. Some of her zombie looks, which can all be found on her account, are:

• Pop Art Zombaes

• Lana Del Rey   (So entertaining)

• Speak No Evil

•  And my fav 2 things combined....

I highly suggest looking at both ladies works and following them. Their week to week updates will always give you a smile!

Home Improvement

This weekend I've got a room to paint from an ugly orange-yellow to something less resembling mustard or really dehydrated urine. Since I've got home styling on the mind I thought I'd share some home decor with you. 

From eBay.

 First set up your room with some zombie green slime paint and get this decal slopped on your wall.

Get a basic black couch and throw these throw pillows on like you just don't care. Cuz nobody got time for tidiness during the zombie apocalypse.  Both from Horror Decor.

eBay

Next put your survival handbook (the Max Brooks one) on this quaint side table. It is begging to be used.


And there you go!  

DIY missing eye: a crappy DIY

This is how "real" DIY zombie make-up is done:
1. Create a patch....with what??? My fellow Captain Hook friend?
2. Crying face...??? (why is this needed)
3. Attachment....with some kind of glue
4. This is what it.....what? Looks like? Smells like? 
5. Hide those edges!
6. Irritate your eye. I'm guessing with make-up and not chemicals.
7. Pure gore.  Thanks for skipping where this blood and gore came from. 
8. DONE!

Well thanks little zombie girl for showing us something cool and yet not showing us at all how to do it.

Flip me the bird. I'll just eat it.

I found an image about edible zombie fingers via Pinterest one day and recently found a video on how to make these yummy bits yourself! I must say, they look freakishly delectable. Watch the video below for the deets on these digits.

Zombie Make-Up Tutorial from Pintester!

Pintester and my fav YouTuber, Sonja Foust, did a DIY video back in October for Halloween. It involved TP, a hair dryer, and her famous swearing. Usually she does some drinking as well or setting things on fire in her other videos, "screwing up pins so we don't have to." Thanks! And if you are like WTF is Pinterest then you have been hiding under a rock and it better be a zombie apocalypse where you are. And here is how to blend in with those zombies.

FYI that is how my hair looks everyday.

Zombie Finger Puppets

Dream A Little Bigger 
has brought my life meaning with these simple paper finger puppets printable. Screw watching The Walking Dead*! I can make up my own show with these bad boys with the help of a printer and my two fingers. 

*Kidding. LOVE YOU!

I Love You For Your Brains

Click here to download these lovely V-day cards for that special someone.

DIY V-Day cards

With Valentine's day fast approaching,  Hailey's Daily brings us a DIY zombie valentine card that I would DIE if someone gave me one of these. Get some zombie toys from Wally World, grab the printable from Hailey's site (above), print on cardstock, cut, and wrap some dead figures to it. BAM! LOVE CARD COMPLETE! Now get out there this year and grab that Valentine.

Zom Shirt

Tried and True blogger Vanessa Brady has saved us all from splurging on zom merch by creating a zombie invasion t-shirt template.Click on the link above to start making yours today! Zombie away!