{"id":627,"date":"2015-07-14T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/?p=627"},"modified":"2017-11-08T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:12:37","slug":"sunken-ship-halloween-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/sunken-ship-halloween-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunken ship Halloween party aboard the RMS Albatross!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was my Halloween party theme in 2011! Halloween in a sunken cruise ship! Basically an underwater Titanic-type thing. Our color scheme for this party was blue and green, and we made tons of decorations to go with the theme of a formal ball underwater. <a href=\"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/halloween-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the animated invitation I made.<\/a> (It has audio, and it&#8217;s made with Flash, so it won&#8217;t work on an iPhone\/iPad.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/halloween-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/halloween-2011.gif\" alt=\"Halloween 2011 party invitation\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <div class=\"ad-300x250 ad-float-right\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MMS 300x250 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5009313124668288\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3616150394\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here are some of the decorations we made:<\/p>\n<p><b>Paper fish<\/b> &mdash; I printed out tons of photos of fish on blue and green paper; I arranged them in Photoshop so they&#8217;d be double sided and mirrored so I could cut them out, fold them up, and staple them closed. I stuffed a tiny bit of bubble wrap into each one to give them a little bit of volume, and then I hung them up all over the ceiling with tape and fishing line and thumbtacks. I think I made about fifty of them! I also took a few of them and taped them on the walls in the stairwell of our builing, in a line leading people right to our door. Oh yeah, I also draped a big net over our bathroom mirror and stuck a bunch of the fish in there, like they&#8217;d just been caught.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Paper fish and other underwater Halloween decorations\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Seaweed<\/b> &mdash; We made seaweed buy taking green <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=crepe+paper+ribbon&#038;rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS438US438&#038;es_sm=93&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIwZLfiePaxgIVizc-Ch1EJAk6&#038;biw=1920&#038;bih=955\" target=\"_blank\">crepe paper ribbon<\/a> and crumpling it up by hand. We hung this stuff everywhere; in doorways, over the curtain rods, taped to the ceiling, etc. The seaweed and the fake fishes hanging everywhere created a really neat feeling of being underwater. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-made DIY seaweed!\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Inflatable shark<\/b> &mdash; I broke a rule of mine by using a store-bought decoration, but this thing was too good to resist! I hung this seven-foot long shark on the ceiling with fishing line and three of those little screw-in hook things. This was way before I was addicted to doing big paper mach\u00e9 projects, so if I had it to do all over again I would try making my own paper mach\u00e9 shark. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/7.jpg\" alt=\"Inflatable shark Halloween party decoration\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Lighting<\/b> &mdash; I replaced all the light bulbs in the apartment with blue and green fluorescent party bulbs. I also bought a great (but expensive!) lighting effect: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-H2O-Water-Effect-Light\/dp\/B002YKXIZS\" target=\"_blank\">American Dj H2O Led Water Effect Light<\/a>. This thing projects an animated image of rippling water on your walls and\/or ceiling, and you can set the color to whatever you want, or set it to rotate through all colors in a sequence. I set the color wheel to the spot just between blue and green, and projected it onto the walls and ceiling of the whole dining room and living room area. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10.jpg\" alt=\"Spooky underwater Halloween party lighting\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Wallpaper<\/b> &mdash; My biggest challenge with decoration for Halloween parties is: what to do with all these big plain white walls? White walls in a modern apartment are the least spooky thing in the world. I&#8217;m always looking for a way to transform our space into something darker and spookier. This year, since I was going for a very old-timey feel, I decided to try to make old-timey wallpaper! I used rolls of brown wrapping paper and I made my own stamp out of foam board using an X-acto knife. I found an old wallpaper pattern online and modified it to include a skull and some seahorses, printed it out, traced it onto foam board, and cut it out. I glued that onto another piece of foam board, and that was my stamp. I boguht a huge bottle of cheap black tempera paint, painted it onto the stamp with a wide paintbrush, and pressed that onto the paper. It worked great! The end result is definitely a little imperfect and sloppy, but this is a haunted ship, so who cares?! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wallpaper-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wallpaper-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-made wallpaper using a foam board stamp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: I put the wallpaper pattern onto the paper while it was laid out on the floor, and then hung up the paper when it was dry. I wouldn&#8217;t risk applying the stamp with the paint directly to paper that&#8217;s already on the walls; too risky, you never know if the paint might seep through and stain the wall. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wallpaper-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wallpaper-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ghostly portraits<\/b> &mdash; We have a lot of black picture frames on our living room wall, and I usually design images in Photoshop to print out and put in &#8217;em for every year&#8217;s Halloween party theme. This year I did nautical-themed pictures using a combination of photos of our invitees as well as the hosts (and our bunnies!), mashed up with old-timey nautical pics. I put together a whole post with all of them <a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/halloween-portraits-for-my-sunken-ship-party\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/halloween-portraits-for-my-sunken-ship-party\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/portraits.jpg\" alt=\"Ghostly nautical portraits\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Costumes<\/b> &mdash; I don&#8217;t have any great pictures of our costumes, but my fianc\u00e9e and I were both dressed in old-fashioned formalwear and made up like drowned zombies. I drew on a pencil-thin mustache, slicked my hair back, and I had a plastic fish in the front pocket of my jacket. Fun! <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/drowned-zombie.jpg\" alt=\"Drowned zombie Halloween costume\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it! I loved exploring this theme and coming up with all these decorations. I&#8217;d love to do another sunken ship party down the line, but instead of Titanic-era, make it all about pirates and mermaids! <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/4.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween guests\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween underwater zombie costume\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my Halloween party theme in 2011! Halloween in a sunken cruise ship! Basically an underwater Titanic-type thing. Our color scheme for this party was blue and green, and we made tons of decorations to go with the theme of a formal ball underwater. Here&#8217;s the animated invitation I made. 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