Wonderland Expedition

Having admired and enjoyed Alex CF's cryptozoological specimens, I was elated to find an Alice in Wonderland Prop that a fan (absinthetic) of his work had made. My girlfriend loves Alice in Wonderland and I had just finished making my Vampire Killing Kit, so I figured I could use some of the knowledge I'd gathered on previous projects to make her an amazing gift!

I wanted to combine a handmade box and an Alice in Wonderland theme to house all the trophies that had been recovered from an expedition there, so I started thinking about what I liked from Alice in Wonderland and I always remember the crazy tile floor right after she fell down the rabbit hole, so I decided to incorporate that into my lid design! I made the box out of Maple, Purple Heart and Jatoba.

Inside the box there was an assortment of artifacts lifted from the pages of Carrol's novel. The contents included a sample of water from the Pool of Tears, Eat Me/Drink Me bottles, a singing sunflower, multiple roses that were in the process of being painted red, a key, and two card specimens: one painter and one guard. 

Here is a video of the box in action! I put a switch in the lid so it would play music when the lid is opened!

Arrr! X marks the spot, Matey!

I designed a Code of Brethren book to house a bottle of Rum for a teacher I had enjoyed taking several English classes with, and it was a running joke throughout the semester that I was a pirate because of my Pirate of the Caribbean belt buckle! Any kind of project or paper, I'd try and throw in a couple of nautical terms just for laughs. I had been watching Pirates of the Caribean at Worlds End, and I loved the over sized "code" book, so I based my project loosely on that. I always liked the look of the cursed Aztec gold coins, so I cut one out of craft foam using several layers. I also was privy to an awesome tutorial that made this project possible! Creepy old book making, by Dave Lowe! I probably would not have tackled this project without remembering this awesome tutorial! I happened to pickup several fake books from Michaels, so I used that as the framework! I redesigned a Jack Daniels label and put a bottle inside the book because that happened to be my instructors drink of choice! The book also played music when it opened!

Here is a video of the finished book and part of my Final project. 

I also decided to add a little soundtrack to my Scary Terry bucky! Yo Ho Yo Ho! =) 

Vampire Killing Kit

Inspiration for this project began when I saw a frame/shadowbox that had several stakes, cloves of garlic, and vials of holy water and it said break in case of vampire. I decided to make a box lined in velvet that would contain all the articles needed for killing the un-dead!

Ouija Board

Designed my own Ouija board using Adobe Illustrator. Font is Adams Family ( I believe ) and I used the original Ouija board design for the corners. Printed design out onto paper and traced the image with carbon paper and then painted using Paint Markers.