A tale of 2 bellies, a halloween costume for the extremely pregnant

Sit right down and read a tale, a tale of a fateful... oops wait.. Never mind... As many of you know, we do a big haunted house each year, this year 2 of my main helpers (daughters) are pregnant, one is due in november. She had seen a prosthetic she liked of a baby bursting out of the belly but it was expensive for a one time use so we decided to see what we could come up with. The 1st attempt while not a total failure didn't work as well as we hoped, the 2nd version, using different materials is much better and lighter. The following 2 tales will take you thru the construction of both belly busters.. after all I had taken the pics to share on here so why waste them....

Step 1 Belly 1, the beginning

We originally wanted to do a baby head and hands but they were to heavy and cumbersome, you'll also see tubes of acrylic latex bathroom calk (you never know what yoru going to find tucked away) and a beachball type pool toy wrapped in kitchen wrap. We decided on using a partial skull I made a number of years ago out of tissue and glue

Comments

[tinker234]

very scary

[l8nite]

the complete costume got a lot of comments, if you look at my other "ibles" you can see the same technique has many uses from making masks to entire walls

[indomitable]

hee hee! this is too cute, worn under a t shirt would definitely make people double take. great idea!

[l8nite]

Thanks for the comment ! We're pretty happy with the way it turned out. I understand she's going to wear a button down shirt, with just the top couple buttons buttoned, and go zombie but Ive been cut off from the rest of the creative process and have to wait myself to see the finished results ! = (

[MalmeyStudios]

This is delightfully disturbing!!!