Illuminated Monster Eyes for Do It Yourself Halloween Decor

"Illuminated Eyes"

You may be familiar with our “TerrorEyes”  I & II DVDs which allow you to put animated, moving eyes with soundtracks into your windows. If you want to add many windows with stagnant yet scary eyes, we’ve provided high resolution images of all of our TerrorEyes for a free download at: http://booityourself.com/HalloweenEyes/
At this page, you will see nine different eyes that you can download:

Each of the eyes is in an 8.5x11 inch (standard letter size) pdf file. Note that some images are vertical and others horizontal, but they ALL will print out in standard profile mode. You do NOT need to change the print to landscape mode. Following this project’s instructions, we’ve placed two eye prints for your immediate convenience.

You can make your very own creepy illuminated eyes to peep out of your windows
for Halloween...or any time of the year if you really want to keep your neighbors
up all night throughout the year!

Basically, you're going to print out 2 copies of any of the nine Halloween EYE images provided at http://booityourself.com/HalloweenEyes/

You'll then either allow your ambient room lighting to illuminate the peepers or make a simple light-box for each.

STEP 0) PRINT
Use a color ink-jet or laser printer to print out one or two or however many you wish to have in your various windows. If your printer allows you to print boarder-less, then go boarder-less!!

There's two ways to use your Eyes. If you simply want to use a nearby room lamp to illuminate those babies, then you will merely need to surround the eyes with opaque blackness to seal the window off so that nothing other than the eye can be seen from outside

METHOD A – Using Ambient room lighting:

METHOD A STEP 1) Get Material
You can either get some black poster board or, my favorite and least expensive, just get a large black trash bag. Unless you have a really thick bag, most bags are not completely opaque, so leave the bag in-tact (doubled-up).

METHOD A STEPs 2 & 3) Trace and Cut
Lay out either the poster board or plastic. Cut the piece so that it fits your window. Then
locate where in the frame of the window you want your eyes. Then cut out holes to tape your eyes into. The holes can either fit the eye perfectly, or you can cut out approximately a 7.5 inch by 9.5 inch square to accommodate the 8.5 x 11 inch eye print. Make sure the black poster board or plastic bag covers any white boarder on the print if your printer left one on the image.

METHOD A STEP 4) TAPE Simply tape the eye prints onto the plastic or poster board.

METHOD A STEP 5) Hang the whole thing in your window. Be sure to cover up any other windows nearby.

METHOD A STEP 6) Finally, make sure you have a room light or nearby lamp on to illuminate your Eyes. Always play it safe and NEVER put a hot lamp too close to the plastic or poster board or paper images. Keep at least two feet away.

METHOD B: Using home-made Light Boxes:

METHOD B STEP 1) Now, if you want to make your own light boxes for the eyes, you'll need a small cardboard box for each eye. Shirt-boxes or shipping boxes work great. If you have a used United States Postal Shipping Box or FedEx Box, these are ideal!

METHOD B STEP 2)  CUT out the square or round hole for the eye prints.

METHOD B STEP 3)  PAINT You may want to spray paint the outside of the box black.

METHOD B STEP 4) Hole for plug
Cut a small hole on the side to pull the plug and cord through the box.

METHOD B STEP 5) Light it up
Once you have the image taped to the box, get some of your white Christmas lights out of storage. If they’re all tangled up like mine are every year, that's perfect. Just shove 'em into the box and make sure they're spread out somewhat evenly. Get an extension cord to plug them in.

METHOD B STEP 6) TAPE the print to the box.

METHOD B STEP 7) TAPE the contraption to the window using packing tape.

If you want an EXTRA BIG effect, separate the eyes across two nearby windows.

Remember, you can do this trick with different pairs of eyes in many different windows or doors or any location throughout your house or yard!

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Halloween Lighting Done Right!

Halloween Lighting That accents and shows Off Your Decorations from Bill Lae on Vimeo.

Boo-It-Yourself!

I can't tell you how many people's yards scare me these days....and NOT in a good way. They have cool decorations, but then they use big old white flood lights and wash the whole place out! REAL SCARY folks. The christmas crowd is usually the worst!
Here's a few simple tips:
1) USE Color spot or flood lights. GREEN is a perfect color for Halloween
2) If you can find 'em, choose a SPOT LIGHT rather than a FLOOD
light. The box will say what it is. Believe ir or not, they are different.
Flood lights will FLOOD the area with light whereas spot lights will direct the beam towards whatever you want to be illuminated. That way you can still keep other areas dark...and the contrast in the yard
will be spooktacular!

The Best Decoration for Halloween is Free - Tree Limbs

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Welcome to the Frightly Evening News--I'm Justin Grave, and I'm thrilled to report that  there's one totally free no-cost, stupendous Halloween decoration that everyone should have, and very few do.
Dead Tree branches! Use small ones inside to add to centerpieces and arrangements, but also get some larger branches to tie up outside around your entry ways. The size is only limited by your strength and the size of your car. Scout out the streets...you'll suddenly be amazed at how many are lying around dead out there! Here' a tip...bring along a portable battery saw or hacksaw. You can do some on-the-scene chopping and hacking to make sure your limbs fit in the car or truck...the tree limbs too!..ha..I kill me! Anyways... Once at home in arrangements or fastened to outdoor fixtures,' you can add spider webbing for even more Halloween Decoration Fun. decorating trees does not have to be just for Christmas!
Go out on a limb this Halloween! (Who writes this stuff?)

Using Tulle in Halloween Decorating

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Ghoul evening everyone! Use TUL for Halloween...no not t o o l...t u l l e ...it's that white netting used mostly for bridal veils and gowns. It's that whispy white stuff. It typically is reactive to black light....so it's great to use for glowing tricks. Get a bolt of it. Shred it, tear it, rip it. Hang it across windows for curtains, put it in doorways. If it's in the windows or archways....tuck a fan away near-by to make it BLOW in the wind. TULLE--it's not just for weddings anymore!

Huge Cheap Spider Web for Halloween Decoration

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If you're using blacklight, this is an awesome trick. If you aren't, it's still a cool Halloween decoration:
Get some cheap masking tape and "spin" a giant web.

Most white masking tape is reactive to black light so it will glow. If you're not using blacklight...it's still a super cheap and BIG decoration. Just make the
web across windows or archways...wherever people will not be crossing! It's a Halloween mask of a whole different dimension!

Making Edible Fake Dirt For Halloween Decorations and Games

 

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We seldom get all oooey gooey here and we leave the food stuff up to the home-maker types...but...we want to mention how to make edible dirt! We've done fake blood...so let's dig into some
fake dirt! If you want a base for some cool centerpiece graveyards on the table, or on a cake...or you want to make DIRT CUPS for the kiddies, just get either OREOS or hard chocolate cookies or chocolate graham crackers...and CRUSH THEM...I mean really lay into them..get a roller. smash them! ...Now that's edible dirt. If you do the cup thing...get clear plastic cups and be sure to bury some gummy worms or other assorted treats in there. Better yet...for a great party game....provide 0the kids with the sutff and let them dig their own grave...i mean fill their own party treat cups! It's a dirty trick, but someone's got to do it!

Dress Up or Pimp Out Your Pumpkin

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Costumes aren't just for people anymore....they're for pumpkins too! Why not use them as props in your pumpkin decorating? Add an eye patch, an earing, or a witch hat! Also "pimp out" the pumpkin with "bling." We've pretty much seen it all in carvings, so this will give new life to this age-old tradition. 

And another thing! TRY THIS!---Turn your pumpkin on its side and use the stem for a nose!!!

Back-O-Lantern: Carving the rear of Your Pumpkin for Effect!

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This Obvious Halloween Trick is missed my almost everyone! Make your pumpkin "two faced" ---- what I mean by that is...if it's going to be against a wall, carve eyes or a design in the back of it as well! This way....it will cast a eery projection BEHIND the pumpkin!
It's scarific! So just CUT IT OUT already!


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How To do Halloween Black Light Glowing for Less Bucks

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One of the coolest Halloween decorations you can do is to use ultraviolet light (also known as BLACK LIGHT) to make fluorescent objects glow.
You can buy blacklights at party or Halloween stores....but they'll charge you an arm and a leg...and you're going to need those arms and legs for your own decorations.
The least expensive route is to go to a home center buy a shop light for 8 to 9 bucks.
Buy one or two 40" black light tubes for 10-12 bucks.
One light is enough for a good 8 square feet. You only need to use one of the shop-light sockets.
Once you hang your blacklights with bungee cords,
get a bunch of fluorescent or neon decorations to hang for your Glowing hallway of Halloween Amazement. You can buy regular props and spray paint them with fluorescent spray paint.
I'm just a glow with the possibilities!
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