Cute Marshmallow Plushies(Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatball's 2 inspired)

Aren't they freaking cute??? This is what happens at far too late oclock.... gonna make more tomorrow! These are kind of a prep for an upcoming cosplay I have planned and I wanted to share these cute little fellows with all of you!

Should I make a diy for these guys? Let me know on here or on Facebook, which is where you can see most stuff before it makes its debut here!

~Lulu

Diy a messy dirty look for post apocalyptic cosplays

So today we had an awesomely fun time doing construction for the Left For Dead 2 cmv we are doing at the end of this month(aka next week).

We Quickly ran into the need to dirty up all of the costumes since, lets face it, a survivor will not be beautiful. I had once seen the suggestion of rubbing coffee grinds on people to achieve the look. 

Now confession time, it works but not very well by itself. You get very light dirt marks using the cheap coffee grinds. 

With a little problem solving RB and i came up with a way around that. Solution???? Just add water, well get your fingers wet for sure and then smear away. This is sticky and it is messy so fair warning, do not do this on your friends carpet. Take this process outside. RB also mixed gatorade in at some point because we needed to finish like 2 full bottles of it.

Now this isn't even the dirtiest we were able to get her shirt. We added a lot more and then blood so you just have to keep adding!

BTW made the shirt design myself (RB in about a 5 minutes from the good ref)

Now don't forget to do the back and the bottom of the jeans as well as any visible skin like the neck and what not. 

(Edit by RB) No pics of the finished results but they basically lookd like this. On clothes.

Gatorade is good for really sticky dirt because of the sugar content but water and this work pretty much the same. WHy Coffee though? Well you might not have some fresh dirt around say in the drier parts of the earth. And it smells much better

~ Lulu/RB

DIY fake cigarettes using......STRAWS

This is R.B. again. Today we will be discussing those tiny details that can sometimes pull a concept together nicely, or atleast cut off the dead ends of music video prop making

Now that sounds pretentious BUT I do take pride in this one creation.

FAKE CIGARETTES. -sorry no pictures of the final product as that was two months ago-

(I lulu kept one) 

BUT I have no common sense and I consider this idiot proof.

Materials:
-plastic straws, opaque white ones w/ or w/o fun stripes but mainly opaque white is recommended
-white acrylic paint, rec craft as it is very opaque
-goldish orange paint ^ same brand^
-toilet paper
-pencil
-scissors
-water
-dark brown paint, any kind will actually but for quick dry time do acrylic
-small paint brush I prefer flat brushes close to a perfect square

Step one.

Cut your straws into smaller pieces. I chose straws because they're easy to get and are very close in diameter to a real cigarette. If you're making many and used ones get a variety of sizes. For used ones try and cut at an angle to get those burned edges. You can gestimate on sizes really because some brands can be very long while others are much shorter.

Step two.

Get your plastic straws and paint them white. You might have to layer the paint to get the most opaque solid color but be patient. It shouldn't take more than 10-15 mins really unless that's a life time for you. Do at least two layers for each cigarette

Step three. (If you are going filterless skip this step)

Once they are completely dry paint one end of each with your goldish orange paint. Try to make it opaque again by layering it twice. Get the lines straight showing where the filter ends and the actual paper starts. But still don't get anal if you want to get a variety of sizes. For the butts you still have to show a filter because, for all the non smokers confused, you put your mouth on the filter and it doesn't get burned off when left behind. If you're trying to make a new pack it's time to develop OCD. Let the paint dry and move on

Step four.

This I think is the fun part, filling them up so no light can show through. because face it if you are making lots you are probably not going to get super solid painting. It also gives them some weight to get a better feel for your nicotine addicted character. AND when you turn it the camera won't see a gaping hole through it showing it's a painted straw. And you won't be called a poser smoker.

So get your pencil and a toilet paper. Take off some SMALL strands of teepee AT A TIME. Roll them up pretty small and just stuff them through the straws entirely. Don't get super tight in them, it's better to actually spread the tp out thinly through out the tube so you can spare using an entire roll of angel soft charmin. Because that will not be fun when you get yelled at about it by room mates on wasting tp.

It is important to fill the whole tube though as a cigarette is filled all the way for extra lung cancer. You'll want a bit of tuff filling out of the non filtered end to look like the rolled tobacco.

Step five.

Last step is to get your brown paint and water it down slightly. Just dab both ends till no white of the tp is visible. You'll want the paint to be kind of thick so it will clump the tp into a rough bump texture. Don't be afraid to get some of the ends a bit splattered. As we should all know cigarettes are filthy.

And there you have it. This is not a strict tutorial, just my own method made at 1 am. Be prepared to experiment for your own desired result. And if you want to reject this reality please substitute it for your own!

-I will update with pictures when we make some more- 

I got ya covered RB! ~ Lulu

GOOD LUCK CANCER MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN

~ RB Simms