First of all, Happy Birthday to Bill (My Brother)

  If  imitation is the sincerest form of flattery the John at Pumpkinrot.com has to be one of the most flattered prop builders.  Hopefully my version will be just as complimentary...we'll soon find out.

Where do you get a cauldron to use as the head in May?  Why at a garage sale where else.   Thanks to the Stromville Fleamarket's giant sized version of a garage sale, I was able to pick one up along with some other items.  Even though Mrs Unpleasant is actually the Christmas Queen, she certainly has an eye for spotting the Halloween essentials that I need to create props.  So, a great big hug and thank you to her for all of her loving support.

Since it was fresh on my mind, I decide to start the PumpkinRot while I had some down-time from working on the witch project.  Here it is in it's humble beginnings

I don't know if you can see all the variation of faces I drew on the cauldron before I did any cutting.  It's important to get just the look and equally as import to measure twice cut once (ex-carpenter here after all).  You'd better believe that there are an equal amount of face attempts on the other side of the cauldron as well.  NOTE -  I HIGHLY reccommend the use of tin shears to cut the cauldron, I tried a few other techniques before these and nothing compared to the ease of cut of the shears.