Crafting Halloween Decors for the Balcony and Windows-French Apartment

Today I invite you to join me to create some simple decors for the windows and the balcony using leftovers, paper and fabric but not buying anything. And I wanted to create some silhouettes inspired by the Denis Severs house in London that I adore and I always love these silhouettes through the windows and I wanted to try to to create a variation of that for my own windows and here I started to create the silhouette of a witch using some wire and fabric simply because I didn't have a large enough cardboard or foam board at home and I only wanted to use the supplies materials I had so I thought I have a lot of wire I'm going to use that to create the silhouette then I covered the silhouette sewing some black fabric I had to the witch needed a companion so i created a little witch cat in foam board and covering it with paper black paper and painting it in black so it's not extremely um perfectly made it's really made to be seen through the windows it's of course not the same amount of care and attention i usually have for my own creations and for the workshops and anything i create in the studio here it is just for fun and something which has to be quickly done so it didn't take me a very long time to do all that and I'm really pleased with the result. As I mentioned many many times, I adore the Denis Severs house in London. I know most of you know know this house. I adore these silhouettes on the on the windows. I wanted to try to do something like that for a very long time, both for Christmas and Halloween and I'm experiencing something for the first time for this Halloween season. I will definitely do something for Christmas. I live in the first floor of my building so I'm very close from the street and children and people who come by they can see my windows very very easily and very well and it's just fun to surprise them. And another source of inspiration for the balcony was the tea room in Besançon, Bêtise et Volupté which I've already showed in a video two years ago. I adore this tea room and I adore the balcony which is really a source of inspiration for me. Unfortunately this summer has been so dry that a lot of my flowers, plants have dried or really struggled so I don't have really a luxurious balcony just like here. In the meantime I wanted to imitate the clock, the clock that you can see which at some point I hope to to make one in wood but for now I'm going to use my foam board and a bit of paper to quickly create a clock for the balcony. So for the clock I used some foam board, I did some paper on it and painted a dark undercoat then once dry I dry brush some lighter tones to give a nice old vintage look to my clock and you might think there is not really a big connection between a clock and Halloween and it's true that a clock could also work for Wonderland theme or for many other theme but I thought the clock is the time and autumn is the season when we remember our relatives, our loved ones who are gone, past centuries, our ancestors. So for me a clock at this moment of the year is very appropriate not really only for Halloween but for autumn. Also adding here some glue varnish to hopefully protect it a bit from the humidity and rain and the clock is going to be hung just under a cage so hopefully it's going to work a bit like roof and protect it for most of the rain we will see what it can endure I don't mind if it's really damaged in one year or in a few months I plan to have one in wood at some point so it's a test and we will see how it evolved throughout the mountain with the different weather we have the forgotten deer can't go on the balcony I try to have it for a few days but it's a bit too dangerous I prefer to have it just next to the window indoors in the dry temperature and not under the rain so he's going to sit just next to the window and of course I needed a ghost to be inspired by the tea room and the ghost here has a little skeleton made of various thing I had as a bit of wire a branch and another piece of wood I had and I put everything together and then it's going to be covered with some old linen and I will sew two black eyes cut in a piece of ribbon so it is the result I'm very pleased of how it looks like it could be even more spectacular I could have two or three ghosts but well for now I have one the left window I think I will have to work a little more on it because well I don't have white curtain to hide and to to serve a bit as a screen so we can't you can't see the the bats very well there are some bats on this one and I will probably try to have some fairy lights as we are getting closer to Halloween and to put the fairy lights under the ghost and in the bedroom the only Halloween touch is given by the 18th century wig with the bug on it which comes from the 18th century Halloween workshop and I think well I don't like too dark decors in the bedroom so it's a little more natural but there is still a little touch of Halloween. As I mentioned a little earlier I will have to film videos for a few weeks with my old camera which is almost a twin of this one while the new lens which was bought in June is going to be repaired, shipped, repaired and come back after replacing the other one which was only one year old so a lot of technical problems this year really a lot and I wish I could have a magic one to fix all that so quickly with a nice efficient spell unfortunately it doesn't work totally like that and i will have to be patient so it won't have an impact on the videos on YouTube and of course on the workshops i continue to work on all my mountain of work with this one which still works on it has just a slightly lower quality than of course the newest one but after all it is there and working so i'm going to take advantage of it i don't know how to use my smartphone which I as you know I don't use it's in a box and especially I don't have a lens I like to use a lens and to do some adjustments all of that I'm used to it so it's very frustrating to have a something to film but you can't do anything you are used to do so this one is the twin of the other one but in an older version so I'm going to work with that so I hope my video has inspired you maybe you are inspired to do something for your windows for your balcony if you have one for your garden let me know what do you do if you do something yourself handmade in fabric or paper or cardboard or whatever you are doing to decorate your outside the outside of your home maybe your door or things from nature too by the way some vegetables of course pumpkins but maybe other things I would love to know what you do specifically for that and for the windows it's not so easy to have ideas for the windows which are elegant and pretty not like disgusting blood or all of that I also wanted to show you what some apprentice magicians have recently accomplished who joined some Halloween workshops so they didn't join this year they joined the previous year last year and they recently finished or started unfinished the course so there is Jesse who finished his witch toad he joined last year the workshop but he worked on his toad at the end of the summer and finished it in September and I think he did a really fun job and was pretty efficient with his toad and there is Helen who has finished a beautiful birdcage I like how she has done her cage and she has done beautiful birds inside one bird had a big tail so she had to keep the door a little open so the tail would work but you can see she has done a really beautiful cage I don't know where she put it in her home I like to see sometimes where you put things in your home how it comes to put some fantasy or fun in your home Jessie and Helen they can't compete in the contest because they joined last year of course and you have all the details about the Halloween contest below the video you need to join our Halloween workshop this year before of course the end of October and you need to complete a decor before October 28 and send me a photo so you have all the details of that under this video if you are curious and interested and you can join all the Halloween workshops of course till the end of October including the deer I'm glad I put the deer here now I can't have him outside of course I would love to have him outside but I could have it for a few days when the weather is dry but it's just risky I don't want him to get damaged it's still paper well paper is fragile of course so he's there he's with the other decors and I like his decayed aspect so I keep him next to the window and for now I will leave you here I thank you very much for joining me today for spending this time with me and don't forget to subscribe if you don't want to miss all the nice videos coming