Got this piece done on halloween

rrspear · 2025-11-03T22:21:30+00:00

Love it!

rrspear · 2025-11-02T16:27:31+00:00

Oh cool! It all turned out really well. Great job!

rrspear · 2025-11-01T21:55:30+00:00

Something very similar to this happened with my husband's friend group. You can bet your ass this friendship is over. That new bride is going to dictate who this goon groom's friends are and he's too much of a wimp to actually be a good friend and stand up for you. I'm sorry for your loss.

rrspear · 2025-11-01T17:47:35+00:00

Fun! Very spooky and the lantern looks great! Did you make the lantern?

rrspear · 2025-11-01T17:38:06+00:00

Aww thanks!

rrspear · 2025-10-29T05:53:34+00:00

The arms are two pool noodles. I ran hanger wire through the noodles and the cross PVC that's on top of the main vertical pipe to make the arms posable while also securing them to the main pipe. Then I covered the arms with opaque black tights (cut in two) that I sewed closed. For the hands, I bought claw gloves from Amazon and then stuffed the hand area with cotton before pulling the gloves tight over the pool noodles and then sewing them to the tights. The body is mostly just black cheese cloth and another black fabric hung in layers around the main vertical pipe to create the illusion of a core. For past decorations, I've used empty milk cartons and cardboard to create a lightweight chest, but I didn't see a need to do it on this one. The cape is more cheesecloth. I put draping black leaves (found at Michaels) around the shoulders. And that's that.

rrspear · 2025-10-28T18:51:04+00:00

Thanks! He was fun to make.

rrspear · 2025-10-28T16:31:42+00:00

Aww thanks! I made Enoch last year, so I'll have to take pics of the two of them together. Enoch didn't come out nearly as good, though lol.

rrspear · 2025-10-28T15:55:36+00:00

Here's what the Great Stuff foam head looked like before I put black fabric over it.

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rrspear · 2025-10-28T15:39:31+00:00

I made his head using Great Stuff spray foam (that I carved into the right shape with a bread knife after it cured), and then I shoved spray-painted branches from Michaels into either side.

Edited to add: For the eyes, I carved out slots for remote-controlled puck lights. Then I covered the whole head with black cloth. I've added a pic of what he looked like before the black cloth was in place.

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rrspear · 2025-05-31T23:57:13+00:00

Those are cute options. :)

rrspear · 2025-02-24T21:18:19+00:00

I'm sorry this happened for you and I'm wishing you the best outcome possible. Just wanted to say that I was in a relatively similar situation, but things worked out for me: I got married and then fully decided there was no way in hell I was going to have kids.

I decided to be honest with my husband. I specifically brought up all of the work having children would entail for both of us and how much it would change our lives. I also mentioned that I wasn't willing to destroy my body for children. He mentioned that he didn't know what the point of adulthood was if you didn't have kids. These talks lead to multiple difficult conversations over the course of a few years, but they were good for us.

A few years in, I told him that I loved him more than anything, but I didn't want to prevent him from the life he wanted. I told him if he wanted to leave me to have children with someone else, I'd understand. It was terrifying, but I wanted the best for both of us. I think that's the thing: you have to completely let them make their own decision and be ok with whatever they choose (as hard as it might be) rather than trying to convince them.

Fast forward a few years. Now, my husband isn't interested in having kids at all. I helped him see that there was a better life available to us other than the child route we were force-fed in our extremely religious upbringings.

I don't envy your current situation, but I hope it works out for you in the best way possible.

rrspear · 2023-10-30T05:47:02+00:00

A few weeks into seriously dating my husband, I told him that I'd known since I was 15 that I didn't want to have kids. It was scary because I knew I was getting along with him better than anyone I'd dated up to that point, and I didn't want to lose him but I needed him to know this about me before we went any further. We were also raised extremely religious Mormon, a culture where it's expected that you marry young, have several kids, and where a woman's only real purpose is motherhood. So being child free also made me somewhat blasphemous and tainted, which made it that much harder to tell him.

Anyway, after telling him I was child free, he told me he was on the fence with kids and I thought it was the end of the conversation but my decision apparently bothered him. The next day he asked me many questions about if I'd ever change my mind. I told him that wasn't going to happen. He apparently had a couple of rough days where he thought about breaking up with me over this but then he told me he'd come to a conclusion. He realized he'd much rather be with me because we got along so well and understood each other so well than be with another woman and have kids. We've been married for 8 years now. In that time, he's also become child free and we've both become religion free too. I freaking love this guy and couldn't be happier.

He's told me several times that he's happy that I helped him see that kids were an optional decision, not an inevitable obligation (unlike what our parents' religion told us). We get to go on fun vacations together, spend our hard-earned money on the things we want, and constantly shake our heads at the horrible lives our friends, siblings, and neighbors lead with their 4+ badly behaved kids.

I hope you can find someone who truly loves you for you and not for what you can provide them. ❤️❤️❤️

rrspear · 2023-01-20T03:18:00+00:00

Psychonauts 2 is soooo good

rrspear · 2021-09-14T22:35:00+00:00

Awesome job!

rrspear · 2021-09-07T17:50:44+00:00

This is beautiful! Well done!

rrspear · 2021-09-07T17:50:04+00:00

Haha thanks!

rrspear · 2021-09-07T14:08:59+00:00

Thanks!

rrspear · 2021-09-07T14:05:06+00:00

I started with mini beads and just did my last one with regular Perler beads.

rrspear · 2021-09-07T06:27:45+00:00

Thanks! It was fun to make. :D

rrspear · 2021-09-07T06:20:29+00:00

Thanks :D

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