These festive Day of the Dead Heads are easy to make. They take one day to make if you make the plaster heads up in the morning and decorate at night, or two days if you make the heads a day early, which is advisable, since it guarantees the heads will be dry enough to decorate and display. You need:
WORKSPACE
For head manufacture, a large table covered with many layers of newspaper, or, if the table is nice wood, a plastic tablecloth
For drying space, a basement clothesline, with newspaper laid on the surface under it to catch drips
INFRASTRUCTURE
Small (1-foot diameter) balloons, any color
Big paper clips bent into hooks
A cheap paint brush
Fishing line or other invisible string
Poles, wooden sticks, tree-branches (cut or still on the tree), or in-ground sunflower stalks or cornstalks for mounting the heads Continue reading
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Fellow author Deborah J. Ross interviews Book View Cafe member and New York Times bestselling author Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, About THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER, one of three stories she’s penned about diminutive PI Gina “Tinkerbell” Miyoko. In the novel, Gina goes undercover in the Mexican jungle to hunt down a ring of thieves responsible for looting pre-Columbian archaeology sites. Here DeborahI chats with Maya about her book, now out in trade paperback and eBook from Pegasus Crime:
