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:

I was putting the legs near my doorbell and thought I just could not pass up the pun!

Here they are again:  I love them!!!

Linking here:
Sunday:
http://iheartnaptime.blogspot.com/, http://niftythriftythings.blogspot.com/
Monday:
http://craftomaniac.blogspot.com/, http://makingtheworldcuter.blogspot.com/, http://diyhshp.blogspot.com/, http://www.skiptomylou.org/, http://sumossweetstuff.blogspot.com/, http://marvelouslymessy.blogspot.com/, http://www.creatingreallyawesomefreethings.com/
Tuesday:
http://todayscreativeblog.net/, http://ladybug-blessings.com/, http://tipjunkie.com/, http://www.sugarbeecrafts.com/, 
Wednesday:
http://somedaycrafts.blogspot.com/, http://www.bluecricketdesign.net/, http://www.mybackyardeden.com/, http://reasonstoskipthehousework.blogspot.com/
Thursday:
http://www.momnivores-dilemma.com/,  http://www.houseofhepworths.com/, http://nightowlcrafting.blogspot.com/
Friday:
http://www.whipperberry.com/ , http://sassysites.blogspot.com/, http://shabbynest.blogspot.com/, http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/, http://www.tidymom.net/,  http://www.findingfabulousblog.com/
Saturday:
http://www.bedifferentactnormal.com, http://www.itsybitsypaperblog.com/

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